If any book could open the eyes of clueless pro-Hamas student protesters, Douglas Murray’s On Democracies and Death Cults would likely be the one. Packed with eyewitness accounts of the horrific October 7 massacre and Israel’s subsequent response, only ideological intransigents would instinctively ignore the massive moral gulf separating Hamas from its Jewish enemies.
Far from a philosophical analysis, Murray addresses the Democracy–Death Cult clash by relating what he saw; what he gathered from interviews; and, incredibly, by what was available via phone messages, social media posts, and filming of the atrocities — much done by the terrorists themselves. “Using GoPro cameras and mobile phones the terrorists broadcast their acts of violence with pride. By late in the day on October 7, it was already clear that these acts included burning people alive, shooting innocent people, cutting off people’s heads, and raping men and women. Sometimes before killing them. Sometimes after.”
The account Murray provides of the attack is vivid and personal. Parents get messages of their children’s last desperate minutes while Hamas fighters, unlike the…
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