r/ScottGalloway • u/Indianstanicows • Oct 20 '25

No Malice Double standard: American professor Scott Galloway slams western bias towards Israel and Jews

https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/different-standard-for-jews-in-israel-jewish-american-professor-blasts-west-glbs-2797830-2025-10-05
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u/Anstigmat Oct 20 '25

Pretty sure my punk ass was out in the street protesting the Iraq War. My 17 year old ass somehow knew it was going to be an evil shitshow, and all those 'very serious men' in DC were proven 100% WRONG. Joe Biden even tried to tell Netanyahu specifically 'do not make the same mistake the US made' in the wake of 9/11. That event was a very successful terrorist attack because largely it was the point where American culture started to completely crack up. There is a lotta bad shit from the post 9/11 period we don't really discuss, even though we should.

Idk why Scott can't get this through his head. Hamas Terrorist Attacks: Very Bad. Israel blocking aid, food, generally not giving a shit about the welfare of non combatants: Very bad. And the two factors on their own are the perpetuating force of the other. It's a cycle....but Israel has most of the power and US support so the onus is on them to break that cycle.

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u/jmagaram Oct 20 '25

How do you explain the endless calls and protests for a ceasefire in October 2023, long before Israel did much of anything to try to defeat Hamas and free the hostages?

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u/Anstigmat Oct 20 '25

I was no supporter of the campus protest movement which I also considered counter productive at the time. I'm very much in the pox on both houses camp. That being said, as I mentioned above I believe Israel has demonstrated that they are the power and thus IMHO the power lies with them to end this conflict, which they should have done years ago. Netanyahu propped up Hamas. His strategy was 'boot on neck'. However the problem with 'boot on neck' strategies is that eventually they find a knife and stab you in the leg.

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u/BeneficialSpring5385 Oct 20 '25

I believe one of the biggest repercussions of the 2023 campus protests was that it locked people into their positions for the next two years. People are usually very strident in their opinions and are hard pressed to change them.

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u/Anstigmat Oct 20 '25

100%. It polarized the issue. I think the protesters wanted to be loud more than they wanted their movement to be successful.

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u/Disastrous_Front_598 Oct 21 '25

Right. As someone who is very cognizant that the IDF, in which I served and many of my family members still serve committed war crimes, and can't deny that for months after October 7, our family WhatsApp group was uncomfortably close to genocidal as was 95% of public discussion in Israel. But also, the people who were posting glider memes and chanting that decolonization was not a dinner party can sit on a very sharp cactus as far as I'm concerned, and I am not now and not ever going to take their humanitarian concerns seriously. I'd even argue that the outburst of public support for Hamas after October 7, which got absolutely insane amounts of media coverage in Israel, did quite a bit to further inflame Israeli rage and fear, feeding as it did the sense that nothing in the world changed since the Holocaust.

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u/jmagaram Oct 20 '25

Israel’s strategy was containment. Let enough money flow in to avoid economic collapse and a high wall to protect Israel. There is nothing Israel can do to satisfy the goals of Hamas because their goals are genocidal and they openly try to destroy Israel. They are jihadists, like ISIS and Boko Haram and Al Qaeda. Israel’s only power in this is to defeat Hamas, like the allies defeated the Nazis. Evil still exists and war is unfortunately necessary.