Douglas Murray & Co are no allies of Jews

Far-right figures are leeching off the Gaza war — some cosplaying as pro-Palestinian, some as pro-Israeli. Don't let them.

Dimi Reider

Sep 18, 2024

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By Dimi Reider

November 10 2023, 15.31pm

Dimi Reider

As if Palestinians and Israelis didn’t have enough of the usual conflict parasites to contend with, this week we were leeched onto by a new one: Douglas Murray. Clad in a kevlar vest and helmet, Murray materialised on the Israel-Gaza border to cosplay as war correspondent and defend collective punishm…

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Dimi Reider

Senior Fellow at the Othering and Belonging Institute, UC Berkeley. Co-founder +972 Magazine, founding editor at The Lead, occasional contributor at New Statesman. Bylines in NYT, LRB, NYRB, etc. Ex-Newsweek, ex-ECFR. Exploring journalism&trauma.