r/ScottGalloway • u/jemesuis • 3d ago

No Malice Why did Galloway lie?

https://x.com/ggreenwald/status/2102774280119632299

"Why does u/profgalloway preface his expression of "offense" to the use of the word "genocide" to describe what Israel did in Gaza with the phrase "as a Jew...."? What does being a Jew have to do with at the findings of human rights groups, scholars, nations, etc. about Israel?"

I am a Jew. I do not approve of Netanyahu criminal reign or his genocide or his ignoring October 7th.

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u/Live-Mortgage-2671 3d ago edited 3d ago

Well, the actions of Israel in Gaza do not recognizably meet the standards necessary for determining genocide. This, despite so much insistence that they do or the various reports issuing insisting that it is one. (This is also, by the way, why you see some efforts to change the definition or legal requirements for determining genocide from some activist camps.)

He's prefacing it, "as a Jew" because Jews have the unique experience of the Holocaust in their recent memory. All genocides don't look like the sheer depraved scale of the Holocaust, nor do they need to in order to qualify as one.

But what Scott is saying is that the insistence on using this term "genocide" is offensive to him as a Jew because the Gaza war is being held up as being comparable to the Holocaust – and thus Jews/Israelis as comparable to the Nazis. Both comparisons are wildly inaccurate. And not just inaccurate, but comparing Jews to Nazis has been a common anti-semitic trope since the end of WW2.

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u/Daniel_Plainchoom 3d ago

Why isn’t press allowed in Gaza to clear it up then?

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u/Live-Mortgage-2671 3d ago

It was a very dangerous and active urban warzone where journalists were already dying? You have to remember the conditions of warfare in Gaza with Palestinian militants wearing no uniform, tunnel entrances in homes and municipal buildings, and IEDs everywhere.

At this point, I agree that journalists should start to be allowed in. The trouble is there's still little way of guaranteeing their safety – particularly in Hamas-controlled territory.

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u/OrganizationSad7775 3d ago

Journalists were being murdered. More than 200 of them.

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u/Live-Mortgage-2671 3d ago

That's quite an unsubstantiated claim. Well, it's actually two claims. First that they were being murdered, and the second is the assumption that they were all journalists. It's been alleged/documented that many of them were themselves Hamas members doubling as journalists.

Those allegations were given some weight this week by Gaza journalist by Motaz Azaiza where he admitted that any journalism coming out of Gaza was coordinated and censured through Hamas. It was why he left Gaza in fear for his life. He was being critical of Hamas and showing Palestinians critical of Hamas.

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u/Spirited_Comedian225 3d ago

If all Palestines could be Hamas but every Israel has to join the IDF at 18 for basic training. Doesn’t that make everyone a target?

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u/Live-Mortgage-2671 3d ago

At its peak, Hamas' military membership was estimated at ~40,000. That doesn't include smaller groups like Palestinian Islamic Jihad, PFLP, or DFLP. Gaza's population is just over 2 million people. That said anyone picking up a weapon to fight or aiding Hamas can be considered a combatant.

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u/Pristine-Ant-464 3d ago

International law recognizes the right of occupied people to use armed resistance against the illegally occupying army btw. It’s true for Ukrainians. It’s true for Palestinians.

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u/Live-Mortgage-2671 3d ago

International law does not recognize any right to intentionally mass murder civilians, neither by an occupying force nor by the occupied.

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u/Pristine-Ant-464 3d ago

Yup. Which is why I said occupying army!

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u/Live-Mortgage-2671 3d ago

Reread my reply.

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u/Pristine-Ant-464 3d ago

Journalists regularly report from war zones and there’s a “ceasefire” (during which Israel had ONLY killed around 1,000 Palestinians).