by Douglas Murray, New York Post
I’ll be launching my new book Friday afternoon at Columbia University. “On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization” will be available from all good bookshops on April 8 and is available for pre-order now.
I accepted the invitation from the good students of Columbia because it is at just such institutions that we have seen one of the most disturbing things to happen since the attacks of October 7, 2023.
You would have thought that when young women are raped by gangs of armed men, young Americans would not be on the side of the rapists.
When a party of young people at a dance rave in the early hours are attacked by truckloads of armed terrorists, you would think it would be an easy question to understand: Should you be on the side of the unarmed, terrified young people being hunted down in the woods and the fields, raped, shot and macheted in front of their friends?
Or should you be on the side of the monsters who committed those acts — the people who roamed among the piles of dead bodies to see who might still be alive, who could be kidnapped and stolen from their families?
One survivor of the Nova party told me of seeing a young woman on her knees in front of a gang of armed men. Her best friend had just been killed in front of her. The terrorists were debating whether to kill her or kidnap her.
“I don’t want to die,” she was screaming. The terrorists shot her in the face as she was screaming.
Is it hard to decide which side to be on after an atrocity like that? For me, it isn’t. For most Americans, it isn’t.
But an alarming number of people — especially the youngest and most privileged in our society — chose the other side. Instead of being on the side of the victims, they sided with the perpetrators.