He continues to identify as a committed evidence-based thinker free of dogma.
New York, May 7 – A man who prides himself on following the evidence, and only the evidence, in forming his assessment of the world, also swallows without question the slew of stories emerging from Hamas-controlled territory, of atrocities perpetrated by Israeli soldiers, all while he insists he harbors no animus toward Jews.
Self styled skeptic Ryan Greene has, over the last two and a half years, held forth at length on the extent and brutality of the IDF’s alleged genocide of Palestinians since the Palestinian invasion of southern Israel on October 7, 2023. He adduces as evidence AI videos, footage from other parts of the world, activist reports that redefine “genocide” to refer to anything the IDF does, and images of bombed-out buildings that he believes, or at least hopes his audience will believe, imply that untold numbers of Palestinian innocents died in said bombings, when in fact Israel made sure to warn occupants to evacuate beforehand.
His critical thinking comes into its sharpest use when someone invokes Palestinian terrorism or Israeli suffering: Hamas’s own videos of October 7 massacres, torture, rape, kidnapping, vandalism, and looting demand profound skepticism; IDF figures on Palestinian casualties deserve doubt, if not outright dismissal.
Greene, who describes himself as an atheist who cannot accept religious claims on faith, likewise applies that principle to Jewish history. The Jewish people’s documented presence in the land for over three millennia, supported by ancient texts, inscriptions, coins, and continuous communities through Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Crusader, Mamluk, and Ottoman eras, he dismisses as irrelevant mythology. No modern territorial rights can rest on such foundations, he explains. The same territory, he states plainly, belongs to the Palestinians as their ancestral and indigenous homeland. The 7th-century Muslim conquest and subsequent Arab settlement established permanent title, bolstered by Islamic interpretations of Islamic texts asserting divine sanction of the Holy land as an Islamic domain.
Greene maintains he is not antisemitic. His position addresses only the policies of the Jewish state and the Zionist idea that Jews constitute a people with the right to self-determination in their historic homeland, unlike Palestinians, whose claim to the land, based on insistence alone, remains unimpeachable.
United Nations bodies, affiliated agencies, and NGOs issue repeated condemnations and reports focused on Israel. Greene cites these regularly with minimal reference to voting blocs, biases, or institutional patterns. Data originating from Israeli sources or independent analysts who question Hamas statistics undergoes immediate and detailed cross-examination.
He continues to identify as a committed evidence-based thinker free of dogma.
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