‘Double standard’ for hate vs. Jews

A Jewish NYU professor tore into anti-Israel student protesters, calling out the “double standard” that allows them to spread antisemitism when hate spread about other groups would never be tolerated.

“I can tell you, if I went into the NYU square with a white hood on and said, ‘Lynch the blacks’ or ‘Burn the gays,’ my ID would be shut off by that night,” Scott Galloway, an NYU Stern School of Business professor, told MSNBC Tuesday.

“I would never work in academia again,” he added. “There would be no need for the words ‘context’ or ‘nuance,’ I wouldn’t be protected by the First Amendment or free speech.”

His commentary comes as anti-Israel protests continue to roil college campuses across the nation, disrupting classes with clashes between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel students and leading to the arrests of more than 130 NYU students Monday.

Galloway attributed this tolerance for antisemitism to several factors — including students being too easily “manipulated” by anti-Israel content on TikTok.

“If you look at TikTok, there are 52 videos that are pro-Hamas or pro-Palestine for every one served on Israel,” he said. “I think that we are being manipulated. I think Americans are easier fooled and they’ve been fooled.”

Galloway said he also thinks students on campus are incorrectly conflating the civil rights movement with the war in Gaza. He noted students may have “digressed” because of a theory promoted by NYU professors that “the easiest way to identify oppressors is how white and how rich they are.”

“Fairly or unfairly, Israel is seen as ground zero for whiteness and how wealthy they are,” he said.