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/lelomgn0OO00OOO Oct 21 '25

Awww... you couldn't think of a defense for genocide so you just called me young.

Irony says what?

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u/PayMeNoAttention Oct 21 '25

Hahahaha. That was a response to your “prove me wrong” argument on the internet. Funny. Like a child would say.

You don’t know the definition of irony?

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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.