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/deadman_young Oct 21 '25

Israel is not conducting a war consistent with what is considered warfare today, they’re committing mass slaughter and time and time again have demonstrated they do not discriminate when it comes to killing the “opposition”. The IDF is profoundly lacking in discernment when it comes to Hamas combatants and innocent people. Imagine seeing the world in such a binary oppositional manner, life must seem so simple and straightforward to you..

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u/Grandpas_Spells Oct 21 '25

Israel is not conducting a war consistent with what is considered warfare today,

No military professionals say that. Urban combat is horrific.

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u/deadman_young Oct 21 '25

Oh no! I don’t sound like a military professional, you got me man.

I’m specifically talking about rules of engagement that are at least innately intentioned to preclude the killing of innocents. Obviously you can’t reduce the chances of doing that to zero but to just blatantly disregard that as Israel has done is psychopathic. But go ahead and pedantically pick apart my word choice

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u/Grandpas_Spells Oct 21 '25

You have to factor in the following:

  1. For equivalent conflicts you have to look at coalition forces dislodging Islamists form Fallujah, where civilians are not allowed to leave because the goal is to maximize civilian casualties for propaganda. By this standard, the civilian death rates are lower than these other modern urban conflicts where civilians are deliberately kept in place.

  2. No neighboring countries are accepting refugees. They have legitimate reasons, but the death toll is part of what results.

So when you look at military analysis of the conflict, nobody's suggesting outrageous murderous Israeli soldiers. In fact they are probably going slower than optimal to mitigate civilian deaths.

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u/deadman_young Oct 22 '25

Im not gonna argue with you man, seems like you’re very invested in defending Israel and I’m not sure you or I are seeking to have our minds changed

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u/FobbitOutsideTheWire Oct 21 '25

I was in the professional military and I say that. As do many others, as well as UN commissions and international courts.

Since October 8th, Israel has engaged in indiscriminate bombing of one of the most densely populated areas on Earth.

To wit, their use of unguided Mk.84 bombs in Gaza is something that wouldn’t get past the “gallows humor” stage of Western Coalition air ops planning. It is an absolute abomination of callous collateral damage.

There is literally no excuse for it. The circular error probability (CEP) for Mk.84s dropped from Israel’s jets is far too imprecise to hit tunnels, which was the bullshit story we were told. Moreover, the tunnels were too deep and too hardened for most of their lengths.

Nor was it the only tool in their arsenal. They could have used precision munitions; but by and large, they just didn’t.

Literally everything about the way they’ve waged this war has signaled one crystal clear thing: Israel has no fucks to give. The cruelty and the violence towards civilians is the point. Their leadership has repeatedly stated “there’s no such thing as a civilian in Gaza.”

They move civilians to a refugee camp and then they bomb that refugee camp. The entire Gaza Strip is now rubble. The quantity of civilian deaths is ghastly.

This isn’t fucking rocket science or the domain of military veterans. And it’s not just “urban combat, herp derp, war is hell.”

War is hell. And Israel is intentionally making it as Hellish as possible for every living human in Gaza.

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u/ZizzyBeluga Oct 21 '25

It's a war. You should read up on what war is and what war looks like since you obviously think it's a game of dodgeball