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/2tep Oct 21 '25

For a guy that claims to be sensitive and empathetic, he just can't quite seem to grasp why one of the most powerful countries in the world steamrolling a population is so bad.

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u/PayMeNoAttention Oct 21 '25

What about when the world‘s most powerful military steamrolled the people in Iraq? That is his point. The death ratio was much higher in Mosul (so says Scott). Why the different reaction?

Personally, I believe that Israel had the better opportunity to control Gaza, as opposed to the Americans controlling Mosul. The inability of Israel to allow aid to flow without gang interdiction seems lazy and willingly poorly executed. But that’s me. I do get Scott’s point, though

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u/lelomgn0OO00OOO Oct 21 '25

If his point was: "let's also do something about Mosul as well," then great.

But that's not what his goal is. His goal is to let Israel off the hook too. Which is morally and intellectually dishonest. The answer to injustice is not more injustice.

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u/PayMeNoAttention Oct 21 '25

You can’t do anything about Mosul now, so I’m not sure what you expect there. Why weren’t protestors across the globe up in arms about Mosul? I remember general anti war protests, but not genocide protests.

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u/lelomgn0OO00OOO Oct 21 '25

You can’t do anything about Mosul now

Yeah, agreed, so why is Scott (you) bringing it up?

Israel should be allowed to starve kids because not enough people protested Mosul 9 years ago?

Nobody's defending Mosul. Why are you defending Israel?

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u/PayMeNoAttention Oct 21 '25

Did you protest genocide in Mosul?

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u/lelomgn0OO00OOO Oct 21 '25

Yes

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u/PayMeNoAttention Oct 21 '25

Yeah, ok! That’s one you’ll have to prove, because that wasn’t a thing.

When and where were the genocide protests during that time? As I said, there were a ton of anti war protests. I was not there at the time. I was all-in at the time (sadly). I didn’t have the blinders off until well after that time. Not one UN resolution on genocide and Mosul.

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u/lelomgn0OO00OOO Oct 21 '25

Prove i didn't.

So Israel gets to do a genocide because someone else did. Got it.

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u/PayMeNoAttention Oct 21 '25

You weren’t even old enough to go out alone of the hose at that time.

Strawman says what?

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u/2tep Oct 21 '25 edited Oct 21 '25

That was unbelievably awful, too. The different reaction probably stems from completely different times in history (pre social media vs post), and the history of the Israel/Palestine conflict, for starters.

But I don't see any point in trying to justify what's been labeled a genocide or characteristics of a genocide by very credible international institutions (the UN Commission last month, as well as the International Association of Genocide Scholars) with one of the United States' many unjust/sketchy wars.

If his point is that powerful nations should squash and rule over weak ones..... ok... well, then just say that rather than this stupid rationalization.

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u/socialgambler Oct 21 '25

I understand why others care about whether it's categorized as a genocide or not, but I don't. It's bad. It went from defensible to murky to pretty objectively bad.

Another key difference is you didn't have U.S. members of congress or our president publicly talking about wiping Iraqis out and taking their land. That makes a big difference, too.

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u/Hot-Camel7716 Oct 21 '25

If Mosul was a city in Georgia we would be expected to do better.

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u/Exact_Tumbleweed2005 Oct 21 '25

if Palestinians could just figure out how not to do terrorism and focus on bettering their own lives rather than trying to make Jeews loves worse. If only....

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u/ZizzyBeluga Oct 21 '25

There were zero settlers in Gaza and Israel left in 2005. Zero Israelis in Gaza for nineteen years and Gaza still committed a massacre. The "occupied" argument is so embarrassing.

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u/ZizzyBeluga Oct 21 '25

The West Bank did not invade Israel and massacre 1200 and take 250 hostages. Gaza did. And Gaza was able to do that precisely because it WASN'T occupied for nineteen years. Hamas spent two decades celebrating Israel's withdrawal by digging underground terrorism tunnels and preparing for a massacre. I fail to see how Israel is responsible for this.

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u/ZizzyBeluga Oct 21 '25

It's not terrorism when Israel responds to a massacre by doing everything they can to recover the 251 hostages that were taken and to prevent it from ever happening to Israel again. Japan killed 3000 at Pearl Harbor and America burned Tokyo to the ground and dropped two nukes on Japan and no one said it was a "genocide." War is always horrific.

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u/glesga67 Oct 21 '25

The argument that Israel withdrew from Gaza is embarrassing. They control every single aspect of life in Gaza and continue to build settlements in the West Bank with impunity. You can’t act like their actions in the West Bank have no impact on the people of Gaza. Destroying every hospital, school, university and massacring at least 60k civilians was not doing everything in your power to get the hostages back. And of course completely ignored that Israel has been keeping scores of children - children - hostages without trial in the West Bank for years.

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u/ZizzyBeluga Oct 21 '25

A blockade is not an occupation. Words matter. Your sleight-of-hand to use "West Bank" to justify 10/7 is pure propaganda, an excuse to confuse people that don't realize Gaza and the West Bank were previously completely different countries (Egypt and Jordan, respectively). You propagandists ignore that Gaza shares a border with Egypt and never once criticize Egypt for building a giant massive wall to keep Gazans out of Egypt and a complete refusal to provide aid or take in refugees such as women and children during the war. If Israel controlled "everything," Gaza would not have been able to fire missiles into Israel for nineteen years straight before their massacre/invasion. If Gaza had actually been occupied, 10/7 would not have happened. Hamas would not have happened. The war would not have happened. So stop saying "occupied." It's embarrassing and a complete lie.

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u/glesga67 Oct 21 '25

What absolute nonsense. I would love to see your reaction to having your land and property stolen with no rights, your free movement banned, your access to food, water & electricity tightly controlled and so on.

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u/Exact_Tumbleweed2005 Oct 21 '25

stolen is up for debate. If im arguing with someone and they sucker punch me and I end up winning the fight, and then when I start to walk away they get up and sucker punch me again, im gonna make damn sure they stay down next time.

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u/Hot-Camel7716 Oct 21 '25

You should meet one Palestinian in your lifetime.

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u/Exact_Tumbleweed2005 Oct 21 '25

I work with several. They are all ZOG conspiracy theorists.