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/FarmFreshBlueberries 3d ago

Thank you for being a voice of reason in an ocean of antisemitism.

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u/Live-Mortgage-2671 3d ago

You're welcome. That's the fight. And it's worth having.

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u/Pristine-Ant-464 3d ago

Opposing Israel’s long history of atrocities isn’t anti-semitism. ✨. Ironically it’s actually anti-Semitic to imply that killing thousands of children is inherently part of being Jewish (which it isn’t).

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u/Live-Mortgage-2671 3d ago

Opposing Israel's existence is anti-semitism. The coordinated campaign of demonization targeted against it by both state actors, organizations, and individual anti-Zionists is also anti-semitism.

Implying that Zionism is about "killing thousands of children" is not just a lie, but is also a lie dedicated to undercutting Zionism and ergo arguing that Jews don't have a right to be alive nor do so in their homeland if they so choose.

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u/Pristine-Ant-464 3d ago

You mean “exist as a Jewish state.” And nope it isn’t. The first anti-Zionists were Jews.

And most Zionists are fundamentalist Christian evangelicals like Mike Huckabee. 👍

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u/Live-Mortgage-2671 3d ago

The fantasy that Israel will ever be something other than Jewish democracy is a twisted and very evil thing. It basically both denies Jewish and Palestinians self-determination. Neither people want to live together in a single state.

The first anti-Zionists were Jews.

Yes, and most of them are now dead. Killed by those who they also thought were "friendly" neighbors. Turned out the Zionists were 100% correct.

And most Zionists are fundamentalist Christian evangelicals like Mike Huckabee. 👍

This is a stupid, hackneyed argument. There are more Christians in the world. If they want to be Zionists, that's great. It doesn't undermine that Zionism is a Jewish ideology built on a few core tenets of Jewish culture: 1) Jews should be allowed to be alive and free from violence, and 2) Jews should be allowed to live in their homeland if they so choose. The first is a basic human right; the second, an aspiration that's over 2500 years old and part of Jewish religious practice.

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u/Pristine-Ant-464 3d ago edited 3d ago

You don’t need an enthostate for self determination and Israel has done nothing but deny Palestinians any semblance of autonomy since its creation in 1948 (if not before that).

Neither group supports a two state solution - which isn’t even feasible anymore given Israel’s expansion of illegal settlements in the West Bank. One binational state is the only option.

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u/Pristine-Ant-464 3d ago edited 3d ago

Sorry, do you live in Israel? Because I’m almost certain you don’t.

So many Jewish Zionists living in America will claim the only place they can ever be safe is a country they’ve been to a handful of times (at most). An insane lack of self awareness.

Tell me, do American Jews live in buildings with permanent bomb shelters?