A Jewish professor at New York University 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 New York University’s Stern School of Business, expressed his opinion about the protests on MSNBC, saying he believes there is a “double standard.”
“I can tell you that if I went to NYU Plaza in a white hoodie and said ‘lynch the blacks or burn the gays,’ they would take my ID away that night,” Galloway said.
And I would never work in academia again. There would be no need for context or nuance of the words, he would not be protected by the first amendment or freedom of speech.’
A huge cohort of keffiyeh-clad New York University students and faculty filled Manhattan Park on Tuesday, echoing the pro-Gaza protests unfolding on Ivy League campuses across the country.
Scott Galloway, a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, expressed his opinion about the protests on MSNBC, saying he believes there is a “double standard.”
A huge cohort of keffiyeh-clad New York University students and faculty filled Washington Square Park on Tuesday to demand an “end to all war profiteering and investing in genocide.”
When asked why he believes there is a “double standard,” Galloway said, “It’s complicated.”
“I think, first of all, young people have a healthy gag reflex to what people our age think,” he told MSNBC reporter Willie Geist.
“Secondly, I don’t think Israel has enveloped themselves in glory in the last 20 or 30 years; they’ve gone from being a kind of David to being a kind of Goliath.”
Galloway said he also believes students on campus could “inappropriately conflate the civil rights movement” as chaos continues to unfold in Palestine.
He added that students have ‘wandered’ by identifying themselves as ‘oppressed and ‘oppressors’.
“And the easiest way to identify oppressors is how white and rich they are,” he said.
Amid backlash over the university’s handling of the crisis, Galloway criticized activists for being easily “manipulated” by anti-Israel TikTok creators.
“And if you look at TikTok, there are 52 pro-Hamas or pro-Palestine videos for every one posted about Israel,” Galloway added.
On Tuesday in Washington Square Park, an organizer who did not want to give her name told DailyMail.com that they had been “inspired” by the pro-Gaza camp at nearby Columbia University, where police arrested hundreds of people over the weekend. of week.
“We were inspired by our comrades at Columbia,” said the senior, covered in a black mask and a keffiyeh over her hair.
He said protesters were calling for New York University to “divest from companies that have interests in the Israeli occupation” and an “academic boycott of Israeli institutions.”
Large numbers of people flocked to the Manhattan park, and organizers presented demands that included “full amnesty for all students and teachers penalized for their pro-Palestinian activism.”
Leaflets shared by organizers during Tuesday’s protest laid out four demands for the movement, including an “end to all war profiteering and investing in genocide,” and providing “full amnesty to all students and teachers penalized for their activism.” pro-Palestine”.
Students chanted “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” and “NYU, go to hell, NYPD, go to hell” while beating drums and waving Palestinian flags.
Chants of “there is only one solution: the intifada revolution” were also heard at the demonstrations.
Other protesters whose faces were covered by keffiyehs – a monochromatic headscarf symbolizing Palestinian identity – refused to speak to the press while holding signs reading “be brave”.
The crowd ejected anyone seen filming their protest as they chanted “press back” and cheered as each cameraman walked away from the gathering.
The students said the protest was organized by the NYU Palestinian Solidarity Coalition.
As the protest unfolded at New York University, New York City Mayor Eric Adams was confronted by a passenger on a plane who accused him of “supporting genocide in Palestine.”
A video of the interaction was posted on X, as the person recording approached Adams, who was busy talking on the phone and sitting down.
The person filming says, ‘Are you Eric Adams?’ while the mayor looks up from his phone with his face a little blank.
‘Yeah, fuck you! You support genocide in Palestine! “There are homeless people all over New York,” says the angry passenger.
As she berates him, a man in a suit sitting next to Adams quickly gets up and tries to protect the mayor, who remains seated and looks at the woman.
Police officers in riot gear stormed the New York University campus in Greenwich Village on Monday night and were forced to use zip ties to detain protesters.
The protesters carried large signs to make their points.
“You’re always partying, you don’t really care about the citizens of New York,” he says.
He continues yelling and asking Adams why he’s in Miami, and brings up other pressing issues in the Big Apple, like homelessness, food costs, and “cutting the education budget to fund the police.”
The video ends with the girl walking away and walking toward the hallway as a woman tries to calm her down.
It comes a day after anti-Israel protesters armed with flares and Palestinian flags marched on NYPD headquarters just hours after officers in riot gear stormed a University ‘Gaza Solidarity’ protest camp of New York in Greenwich Village.
More than 150 students, staff and faculty were reportedly arrested by police on Monday night after ignoring warnings to vacate the campus plaza where the protest was taking place.
Just hours earlier, on the New York University campus in Greenwich Village, police officers in riot gear were forced to use zip ties to detain protesters and load them onto police buses after warnings that they They will leave the area.