Jewish NYU professor lashes out at brainwashed student protesters: 'If I said ... trends now
A Jewish NYU professor lashed out at student protesters as they descended on Washington Square Park to demand a 'total academic boycott of Israel' on Tuesday.
Scott Galloway, a professor at NYU Stern School of Business expressed his views about the protests on MSNBC and said that he believes there is a 'double standard.'
'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,' Galloway said.
'And I would never work in academia again. There would be no need for the words context or nuance, I wouldn't be protected by the first amendment or free speech.'
A huge cohort of keffiyeh-clad NYU students and professors filled the Manhattan park on Tuesday, in echoes of pro-Gaza protests unfolding at Ivy League campuses across the country.
Scott Galloway, a professor at NYU Stern School of Business expressed his views about the protests on MSNBC and said that he believes there is a 'double standard.'
A huge cohort of keffiyeh-clad NYU students and professors filled Washington Square Park on Tuesday to demand the 'end of all war profiteering and investment in genocide'
When asked why he thinks there is a 'double standard,' Galloway said that 'it's complicated.'
'I think one, young people have a healthy gag reflex on what people our age think,' he told MSNBC reporter Willie Geist.
'Two, I don't think Israel has draped itself in glory the last 20 or 30 years, they've shifted from being kind of the David to the Goliath.'
Galloway said that he also thinks that students on campus could 'incorrectly conflate the civil rights movement' as chaos continues to unfold in Palestine.
He added that students have 'digressed' as they identify as the 'oppressed and 'oppressors.'
'And the easiest way to identify oppressors is how white and how rich they are,' he said.
Amid backlash over the university's handling of the crisis, Galloway slammed activists for being easily 'manipulated' by anti-Israel TikTok creators.
'And if you look at TikTok, there are 52 videos that are pro-Hamas or pro-Palestine for every one served on Israel,' Galloway added.
At Washington Square Park Tuesday, an organizer who would not give her name told DailyMail.com said they had been 'inspired' by the pro-Gaza encampment at nearby Columbia University where cops arrested hundreds of people over the weekend.
'We were inspired by our comrades at Columbia,' the senior student said, wearing a black face covering and a keffiyeh over her hair.
She said protesters were calling on NYU to 'divest from companies who have interests in the Israeli occupation' and an 'academic boycott of Israeli institutions.'
