The double standard forced on Israel

The death of more than 34,000 Gazans, mostly civilians, has enraged much of the world, especially college campuses.

That is understandable.

The lack of context is not. That has not been widely offered — until now.

Scott Galloway, a prolific, liberal professor of marketing at New York University, has just done that. He briefly touched on it in a long essay examining the outlooks of different age cohorts, along with the real threat TikTok presents to democracy.

He shows support for Israel is directly proportional to the age of Americans. The older you are, the more likely you strongly support Israel. And the younger, the less support, as can be easily seen in this chart that shows a majority of Gen Z actually supports terror attacks, such as the Oct. 7 massacre.

A lot of Gen Z beliefs are fostered on TikTok, which is overwhelmingly anti-Israel.

Not for nothing, Gen Z is the most gender confused, intolerant of free speech, and getting less sex than their older peers. No wonder they are angry.

In an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Galloway got more specific, revealing the double standard imposed on Israel by the West.

He noted that civilian deaths as a ratio of all deaths caused by the U.S. was much higher in Mosul, or Japan, than Gaza, yet no one accused the U.S. of genocide.

The genocide charge I have explained before is particularly sinister and false.

To Gen Z, which no doubt lacks historical and geographical perspective, Israel is Goliath. In reality, Israel in the area of the Mideast is like a box of Wheaties on a football field.

Is Israel’s military mighty?

Yes, because without it, there would be no Israel.

Gen Z doesn’t know that when the UN divided Palestine into Jewish and Arab parts in 1948, the Jews attacked the desert and built a democracy. 

The Arabs attacked Israel, to destroy it, and have not stopped since. In Israel’s 75 years, she has never known a moment of peace, a moment to relax.

When she has — as in 1973, and precisely 50 years later, on Oct. 7 — she has been viciously attacked.

Gen Z is too young and ignorant to know that Israel voluntarily left Gaza in 2005, leaving the area for Gazans to run for themselves. In 2006, Gazans elected the terrorist group Hamas to govern them. In 2007, Hamas drove out Fatah, the PLO’s opposition party. 

Students chant “Free Palestine!” Do they know there has been no free elections in Gaza since 2006, but since then Hamas has kept up a steady stream of rocket and other attacks on Israel, which Israel tolerated as a cost of doing business.

Oct. 7 changed that, when Hamas broke a cease fire to stage a massacre. That was too much to accept, and Israel vowed to destroy Hamas.

As the U.S. vowed to destroy Imperial Japan, Nazi Germany, al Qaeda and ISIS.

Anyone with a sense of moral equilibrium knows terror must be destroyed.