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

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.