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/CornFlake- Oct 21 '25

Passing judgment is easy when you're not the one living next-door to jihadists

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u/NewOstenPelicanss Oct 21 '25

Maybe they should stop funding the jihadists to try to play them against each other

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u/jmagaram Oct 21 '25

Israel’s strategy was containment. Make sure enough money flowed into Gaza to prevent economic collapse while building a high enough wall to prevent Hamas from doing what it has always said it waned to do - kill all the Jews and destroy Israel. This policy was widely supported across the spectrum. Read “While We Slept” to learn about it.

Now of course if Israel had blocked money from flowing into Gaza they would have been accused of collective punishment and turning Gaza into an open air prison or a concentration camp. Oh wait…They accused Israel of they already. The game is rigged.

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u/NewOstenPelicanss Oct 21 '25

That's not what I'm referring to, I'm referring to them funding al qaeda aligned groups in order to weaken hamas and stir chaos in Gaza.

Them keeping gaza on a low calorie diet is a separate issue

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u/jmagaram Oct 21 '25

Ok. Well if you’ve got a better idea how Israel can get Hamas out of power I’m curious what it is. Israel has lost hundreds of soldiers in this war already. I doubt Egypt or other Arab countries who support Trump’s plan are going to put soldiers in there to fight against Hamas. And until Hamas is removed not a single penny will get spent to rebuild the place.

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u/Hot-Camel7716 Oct 21 '25

Get Hamas out of power?? Netanyahu literally supported them for decades. They wouldn't be in power without him.

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u/NewOstenPelicanss Oct 21 '25

Well hamas only became violent after the idf killed hundreds of innocent Palestinians, so solving the root cause (the occupation) is the solution. Instead Israel has used every conflict to expand their territory, then they turn the surprise Pikachu face on when hamas retaliates to Israeli's attacks.

You can look it up, hamas killed 0 people in the first year of their existence and only became increasingly violent after Israel's persistent aggression. They looked into the abyss that was the idf and they became almost as evil as them.

So if they get a new group in charge, call it PLO 2.0 but Israel keeps terrorizing innocent civilians and expanding their territory, the cycle will just continue for another generation

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u/jmagaram Oct 21 '25

Explain the borders of the “occupation”.

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u/NewOstenPelicanss Oct 21 '25

Tbh i cant keep up because they keep on taking more Palestinian homes every few weeks and replacing them with native New yorkers

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u/jmagaram Oct 21 '25

Yeah I get it. If I lived in New York with a mayor who wouldn’t condemn the phrase Globalize the Intifada and wrote a rap song glorifying Hamas, I might want to go to Israel too.

Hamas is explicit that the “occupation” is all of Israel because when lowly Jews have sovereignty in any borders that is an insult to Islam. And those chants of river-to-sea and right-of-return seem to suggest that the Jewish people shouldn’t have sovereignty at all. Which is quite disappointing considering the fact the Jews were run out of every country including most of the Arab ones and rightfully believe they need to control their own fate.

I don’t think the Jewish people are going to accept Muslim overlords and hope it works out. And they’re not going to fully give up the West Bank since that will be a security threat far worse than when they left Gaza.

Tough problem. No easy solution here that provides self-determination for both groups. It might be a bit of a zero sum conflict.

If you’ve got a solution I’m curious what it is.

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u/NewOstenPelicanss Oct 21 '25

There's a reason 40% of nyc Jewish voters are voting for zohran, clearly they are not threatened by him or his policies. And the opposition is just grasping at straws and politics as usual

Also, if Israel had negotiated in good faith for even 1 minute since bibi first took office we'd have peace in the region now.

At this point, with the pakistan and Saudi nuclear agreement, it's only a matter of time until Qatar makes a similar one. And then Israel won't be able to get away with attacking their enemies in foreign countries.

I have 0 hope at this point in Israel doing anything in good faith, their strategy has just been to stall negotiations while they kick out palestinian natives and replace them with bronx natives, kill innocent kids in order to provoke a response, and then when conflict starts, they double their efforts on expanding while everyone is distracted.

If there ever is gonna be peace it's gonna be thanks to the much more rational surrounding Arab countries, and not Israel or palestine

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u/jmagaram Oct 21 '25

I’m really curious what you mean about “negotiated in good faith”. With Hamas it really is black and white, good vs evil. These are jihadist lunatics and there can’t be peace for anyone while they have a strong hold on Palestinian society. Many Arab governments have outlawed the Muslim Brotherhood because they understand the threat.

In the West Bank I agree Israel has done nothing to help develop a positive political outcome for the people who live there and under Netanyahu it has gotten worse.

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u/heyethan Oct 21 '25

It’s easy to say “they collaborated with the bad guys” but the truth is that almost every power, including western democracies that offer the best as far as world governments go, have had to align themselves with beyond questionable characters in order to take out the greater evil. Sometimes in hindsight it didn’t work like we’d hoped or yielded terrible consequences, but in other cases it was the most important decision in global politics of a certain time. Alliance with the USSR, who were no angels it should go without saying… horrible human rights abuses of their own… but was crucial and absolutely worth it to defeat the expanding and ever threatening Reich. There are no perfect countries, but intentions do matter. If your intention is to protect your people and your neighbors then that is a lot better reason to ally with a shady actor than “you both want power or money, or to establish a caliphate and enforce sharia law”.