Since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, the British-born writer Douglas Murray has been the man on the scene. For those who have closely followed Israel’s efforts to defeat Iran and its terrorist proxies on multiple fronts, Murray has practically become a feature of the war. He flew from his home in New York City to Israel soon after the invasion and has spent a good deal of time there ever since. He has embedded with the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza and Lebanon, spoken with Israeli leaders at every level of the military and government (including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu), and gotten to know the families of Hamas’s hostages and victims. Murray, raised an Anglican, has immersed himself in the life of the Jewish state — and argued for its war of survival — to such a degree that, in April 2024, Israeli President Isaac Herzog presented him with an honorary award for being a “friend to the Jewish people and fighting the resurgence of antisemitism.”
And he has been fighting it ceaselessly. On countless media platforms and in multiple newspapers, Murray has made the case for Israel’s just war and swatted down antisemites on the left and right.
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