Jewish NYU professor sounds off on double standard for anti-Israel protesters [Video]

Jewish New York University professor Scott Galloway criticized anti-Israel protesters and antisemitism on college campuses, arguing there was a double standard when it came to hate speech directed at Jewish people. 

“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 Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “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.”

Anti-Israel demonstrations have taken hold at several elite colleges and universities across the U.S., including at Columbia, Yale, NYU and the University of California, Berkley, as students protest the Israel-Hamas war and America’s involvement. Some protests have resulted in arrests and student suspensions. 

Galloway said the double standard was complicated, but part of it was because Israel hasn’t “draped itself …