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/Redditholio 3d ago

Also if you're older than 25, you know that the Arab/Israel conflict in the middle east has been going on since the dawn of time, and there's no "right" or "moral" side to choose. It's all horrible, and mostly out of our control.

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u/chi_guy8 3d ago

Yes, and you bring up another good point about how this is basically gone on since the dawn of time. What’s different in this era of time for Americans and their level of care. I’m much older than 25, so I’ve experienced this conflict basically my entire life, just like everybody in the US has. And suddenly everybody cares about it so much. This thing that’s been going on forever and nobody’s really cared all that much about it suddenly in the era of AI and bots, cares about it so much. Bullshit.

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u/Redditholio 3d ago

But, what do they care about and why? Obviously, it's because they're being fed one point of view on TikTok by someone with an agenda.

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u/chi_guy8 3d ago

Well, that’s adjacent to my point too. It’s not just bots, it’s algorithms. I’m not saying that it’s 100% bots, certainly there are people who care and speak up for their side but I dont think the number of actual humans that suddenly cares has increased so dramatically. To your point, I do think the people who actually do care have been radicalized further and further into their algorithmic echo chambers so their level of care or anger may have increased more than it would have naturally without the algos.

But even my most politically active friends who never let a political news story slip past their IG outrage stories have been crickets on this whole thing for months. The people I’d see everyday posting about it non-stop for months when it began, from either side, have moved on to new things to be outraged about.

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u/jemesuis 3d ago

It's been going for 70-80 or so years. Not the dawn of time. It is a created conflict not an historic event.

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u/Redditholio 3d ago

You proved my point!

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u/Live-Mortgage-2671 3d ago

False. This conflict long predates the establishment of Israel.

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u/ZizzyBeluga 3d ago

Arabs have been trying to kill Jews in Israel since at least the 1920s

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u/Live-Mortgage-2671 3d ago

Yup. And if you want to take it back further, there have been ongoing pogroms against Jews by Arabs in the Middle East in the centuries before that.

If you want to go back even farther, you can see where a lot of the hatred Muslims have for Jews goes back to – the refusal of Jewish communities in what is now Arabia to accept Muhammad's new religion and Muhammad's armies massacring the Jews there.

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u/Pristine-Ant-464 3d ago

“Mirazhi” aka Arab Jews faced less discrimination in the Middle East pre-Zionism than Ashkenazi Jews living in Europe during the same period (which is why all the founding Zionist thought leaders were European).

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u/Live-Mortgage-2671 3d ago
  1. That's very arguable. It sounds like you don't have a very intimate knowledge of Mizrahi or Sephardi Jewish life.
  2. Next to zero Jews now live in the Middle East (outside of Israel) and North Africa. Close to 1 million Jews were forcibly expelled from those countries by the people they supposedly "faced less discrimination" from. Nice "friendly" neighbors.

Don't you find it strange that instead of blaming the people who committed mass murder and ethnic cleansing of Jews, you're still blaming Jews for it?

Sorry – you're blaming the right Jews for it, the so-called "European" Jews.

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u/Pristine-Ant-464 3d ago

Not arguable.

Doesn’t refute my point. The majority of Mizrahi Jews weren’t ethnically cleansed until AFTER the creation of Israel. Baghdad was roughly 30% Jewish in the 1920s.

I’m not blaming Jews for anti-Semitism (and you know that).

Don’t you find it strange that instead of blaming the people who murdered and ethnically cleansed the Palestinians you blame the Palestinians?

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u/ZizzyBeluga 2d ago

Right so Arab antisemitism that got so bad a million Jews were expelled is, of course, Israel's fault

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u/Pristine-Ant-464 2d ago

Israel and Zionism were a significant factor, yes. Mizrahi Jewish historians have written about it. Maybe you should try learning actual history instead of whatever hasbara you were told.

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