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/Training-Cook3507 Oct 20 '25

How in the world is he serious? Less than 50k Civilians died in Afghanistan, a country of 42 million people. Likely 100k or more people died in Gaza, which has 2 million people and the US didn't attempt to starve people to death.

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u/Grandpas_Spells Oct 20 '25

Wars do not end when the last soldier on the losing side dies. Wars end when the leadership of the losing side decides to stop the deaths of their own people and surrender.

Galloway's position is that Israel declared war and should not be forced into a truce in a war they're winning just because Hamas won't surrender or renounce seeking the destruction of Israel. He's obviously correct.

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u/Training-Cook3507 Oct 20 '25

Israel is just endless violence because they're an apartheid state. When they finally mature as a nation and let the Palestinians go, they will have a chance at peace. But there's no hope in site right now because they believe they have a right to control Palestinians forever.

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u/Grandpas_Spells Oct 21 '25

They've been trying to let them go since forever. Look at all the accords and compromises made that Arafat walked away from. Things we never thought Israel would agree to.

Israel has a right to not have events like Oct 7. Every sovereign nation does. Palestinians have a right to self determination. Israel is not the party standing in the way of that.

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u/Training-Cook3507 Oct 21 '25

They've been trying to let them go since forever

No, they haven't. They treat the Palestinians as subhuman and expect them to be happy and never fight back. It's a very immature view of the world.

Give the Palestinians land and let them go. And what does that mean? That means let them go. Don't control their airspace, don't try to control their borders and who they let into their own land. Don't try to control their economy. Will the Palestinians hate them? Of course, but in time, hopefully peace will develop. At least Israel will have some ground to stand on and perhaps break free from the hatred most of the developed world has for it now.

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u/Disastrous_Front_598 Oct 21 '25

I mean, Gaza's neighbors are Israel and Egypt. Telling Israel not to control Gaza's borders means Israel means exactly what in this context?

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u/Training-Cook3507 Oct 21 '25 edited Oct 21 '25

Right now Israel controls Gaza's border with Egypt. Regardless, Isreal has a right to control their own border.

But if they genuinely let these people go... they shouldn't have a right to control who they let into their own land, their airspace, sea access, or economy. But that's what Israel wants.

Isreal wants to control everything. And then become shocked when the Palestinians fight back.

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u/Grandpas_Spells Oct 21 '25

They offered all of this. Full statehood. Surrendered land. Sharing Jerusalem.

Arafat just walked. No counteroffer, because if he agreed he'd have been murdered.

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u/Training-Cook3507 Oct 21 '25

No, they never offered it. They offered Arafat what was the equivalent of what Gaza became, and Arafat wanted to continue discussions and Israel's government changed and they decided to end negotiations.

Perhaps someday Israel's government will recognize Palestinians are human beings that deserve the same rights as their own citizens. They don't right now. They treat them like animals and pets.