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| Born | Douglas Kear Murray (1979-07-16)16 July 1979 (age 46) Hammersmith, London, England |
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| Education | St Benedict's School Eton College |
| Alma mater | Magdalen College, Oxford |
| Period | 2000–present |
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Douglas Murray (born 16 July 1979[1]) is aBritish-American[2]conservativepolitical commentator,cultural critic,author, and journalist. He is currently an associate editor of the conservative British political and cultural magazineThe Spectator, and has been a regular contributor toThe Times,The Daily Telegraph,The Sun, theDaily Mail,New York Post,National Review,The Free Press, andUnHerd.[3]
His books includeNeoconservatism: Why We Need It (2006),The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam (2017),The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity (2019),The War on the West (2022), andOn Democracies and Death Cults: Israel, Hamas and the Future of the West (2025).[4]
Murray was the associate director of theHenry Jackson Society, a conservativethink tank, from 2011 to 2018.
Murray is a critic ofcurrent immigration into Europe and ofIslam.[5] He became more well-known internationally due to his advocacy for Israel after theOctober 7 attacks in 2023.[6][7][8]
Murray has been praised by conservatives and criticised by others.[9][10][11] Articles in the academic journalsEthnic and Racial Studies andNational Identities associate his views withIslamophobia[5][12] and he has been described as promoting far-right ideas such as theEurabia,Great Replacement, andCultural Marxismconspiracy theories.[13][14][15][16][17]
Murray was born inHammersmith, London, to anEnglish school teacher mother and a Scottish,Gaelic-speaking father who had been born on theIsle of Lewis and who worked as acivil servant. He has one elder brother.[18][19] In an interview withThe Herald, Murray stated that his father had intended to be in London temporarily but stayed after meeting his mother, and that they "encouraged a good discussion around the dinner table" when he was growing up but "neither are political."[20]
Murray was educated at his local state primary and secondary schools, before going to acomprehensive which had previously been agrammar school. Recalling this experience in 2011, he wrote, "My parents had been promised that the old grammar school standards and ethos remained, but none did. By the time I arrived, the school was what would now be described as 'an inner-city sink school', a war zone similar to those many of the children's parents had escaped from."[21] Murray's parents withdrew him from the school after a year. He wonscholarships toSt Benedict's School, Ealing, and subsequently toEton College,[18][19][21] taught briefly at a school near Aberdeen,[22] then took a degree in English atMagdalen College, Oxford.[18][19]
At age 19, while in his second year at the University of Oxford, Murray'sBosie: A Biography ofLord Alfred Douglas was published, whichChristopher Hitchens described as "masterly".[22][23][24]Bosie was awarded aLambda Award for gay biography in 2000.[25] After leaving Oxford, Murray wrote a play,Nightfall, about the Swedish diplomatRaoul Wallenberg, who rescued thousands of Jews from the Nazis.[26]
In 2006 Murray authored a defence ofneoconservatism – Neoconservatism: Why We Need It – and went on a speaking tour promoting the book in the United States.[26] The publication was subsequently reviewed in the Arabic newspaperAsharq Al-Awsat by the Iranian authorAmir Taheri: "Whether one agrees with him or not Murray has made a valuable contribution to the global battle of ideas."[27] In 2007, he assisted in the writing of theCenter for Strategic and International Studies's reportTowards a Grand Strategy for an Uncertain World: Renewing Transatlantic Partnership, written byKlaus Naumann,John Shalikashvili,Lord Inge,Jacques Lanxade, andHenk van den Breemen.[28] His bookBloody Sunday: Truths, Lies and The Saville Inquiry was (jointly) awarded the 2011–2012Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize[29] and longlisted for the 2012Orwell Book Prize.[30] In June 2013, Murray'sself-publishede-bookIslamophilia: a Very Metropolitan Malady was released.[31]
In 2017,Bloomsbury published Murray'sThe Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam, which spent almost 20 weeks onThe Sunday Times bestseller list and was a No. 1 bestseller in non-fiction. It has since been published in over 20 languages.[32] InThe Strange Death of Europe, Murray argued that Europe "is committing suicide" by allowing non-European immigration into its borders and losing its "faith in its beliefs".[33] The book received a polarised response from critics. Juliet Samuel ofThe Daily Telegraph praised Murray, saying that: "His overall thesis, that a guilt-driven and exhausted Europe is playing fast and loose with its precious modern values by embracing migration on such a scale, is hard to refute."[34] An academic review in theIsrael Journal of Foreign Affairs acclaimed the book as "explosive" and "an elegantly written, copiously documented exposé of Europe's suicidal hypocrisy".[35]Rod Liddle ofThe Sunday Times called the book "a brilliant, important and profoundly depressing book".[36]
Other reviews of the book were highly negative. InThe Guardian, the political journalistGaby Hinsliff describedStrange Death as "gentrifiedxenophobia" and "Chapter after chapter circles around the same repetitive themes: migrants raping and murdering and terrorising", also stating that Murray offers little definition of the European culture which he claims is under threat.[37] Writing inThe New York Times, Indian novelistPankaj Mishra described the book as "a handy digest of far-right clichés".[38] Mishra accused Murray of defendingPegida, of writing that theEnglish Defence League "had a point", and of describing Hungarian politicianViktor Orbán as a better sentinel of "European values" thanGeorge Soros.[38] Writing inThe Intercept, Murtaza Hussain criticised what he called the "relentlessly paranoid tenor" and "apocalyptic picture of Europe" portrayed in the book, while challenging the links Murray made between non-European immigration and large increases in crime.[39] InMiddle East Eye,Georgetown University in Qatar professorIan Almond called the book "a staggeringly one-sided flow of statistics, interviews and examples, reflecting a clear decision to make the book a rhetorical claim that Europe is doomed to self-destruction".[40]
Murray wrote aboutsocial justice andidentity politics in his 2019 bookThe Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity which became aSunday Times bestseller.[41][42] Murray's narration of the book was nominated as an audio book of the year for theBritish Book Awards.[43] In the book, Murray points to what he sees as a cultural shift, away from established modes of religion and political ideology, in which various forms of identity can provide markers of social status.[44] He divides his book into chapters dealing with four different identity groups: "Gay", "Women", "Race" and "Trans."[42] Murray criticises the work of French philosopherMichel Foucault for what he sees as a reduction of society to a system ofpower relations.[45] Murray's book drew polarised responses from critics. HistorianTim Stanley inThe Daily Telegraph praised the book, calling Murray "a superbly perceptive guide through the age of the social justice warrior".[46] Katie Law in theEvening Standard said that Murray "tackled another necessary and provocative subject with wit and bravery".[47] Conversely,William Davies gave a highly critical review of Murray's work inThe Guardian, describing the book as "the bizarre fantasies of a rightwing provocateur, blind to oppression".[48]
Murray's bookThe War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason was published in 2022 and debuted at number one onThe Bookseller's nonfiction bestseller list in the UK, having sold 11,673 copies in its first week.[49] It also reached theNew York Times bestseller list in the United States.[50] The book was characterised by columnistGerard Baker as an examination of attempts to destroyWestern civilisation from sources within.[51] Robert Colville, writing in theSunday Times, called it "a convincing and often terrifying case that the barbarians are at the gates", and that Murray argues in the book that “a cultural war . . . is being waged remorselessly against all the roots of the western tradition and against everything good that the western tradition has produced.”[52]
Murray founded theCentre for Social Cohesion in 2007, which became part of theHenry Jackson Society, where he was associate director from 2011 to 2018. During his time with the Henry Jackson Society, it was accused of pushing an anti-Muslim and anti-immigration agenda.[citation needed] The society refused to disclose its donors to theHouse of Commons’ standards watchdog.[53]
Murray is an associate editor ofThe Spectator.[54][55]
In 2016, Murray organised a competition throughThe Spectator in which entrants were invited to submit offensive poems about Turkish presidentRecep Tayyip Erdoğan, with a top prize of £1,000 donated by a reader.[56] This was in reaction to theBöhmermann affair, in which German satiristJan Böhmermann was prosecuted under theGerman penal code for such a poem.[57] Murray announced the winner of the poetry competition asConservative MPBoris Johnson (former editor of the magazine, and formerMayor of London, and later Prime Minister of the United Kingdom).[56]
In April 2019,New Statesman journalistGeorge Eaton published an article based on an interview withRoger Scruton, which attributed a number of controversial and racist statements to Scruton, who was publicly condemned by various members of Parliament and dismissed from his position as a government housing adviser as a result.
Murray condemned Eaton and theNew Statesman for "journalistic dishonesty"[58] and urged Eaton andNew Statesman editorJason Cowley to share the original recording of the interview.[59] When theNew Statesman initially refused, Murray acquired the original recording of the interview from unknown sources, which formed the basis of his article inThe Spectator titled "The Scruton Tapes: Anatomy of a Modern Hit Job" showing that Scruton's remarks had been taken out of context and misrepresented by Eaton.[59][60]
TheNew Statesman subsequently published an apology to Scruton for Eaton's misrepresentation of his words, and housing secretaryJames Brokenshire apologised to Scruton for his dismissal.[61] Shortly before he died in January 2020, Scruton wrote an article forThe Spectator in which he called Murray 'brave' and spoke of his gratitude for Murray's 'generous defence' of his reputation.[62]
Academic and journalistic sources have variously described Murray's ideology and political views asconservative,[63]neoconservative,[18][64][65]far-right,[66]alt-right[67][15] andIslamophobic.[5][12] British journalist and broadcasterPeter Oborne described Douglas Murray as ananti-Muslimpolemicist.[68] Murray has argued that there is an effort by the left to destroyWestern culture, and has argued that criticisms of Western leaders and philosophers are motivated by attempts to hurt the West.[69]
Murray has been accused of putting a socially acceptable face on far-right ideologies. British writerNafeez Ahmed argued inMiddle East Eye that Murray's support forfree speech in the wake of theCharlie Hebdo shooting and theJanuary 2015 Île-de-France attacks was "really just a ploy for far-rightentryism".[66] In 2019 an article inSocial Policy Review described Murray's views as a kind of "mainstreamist" ideology that defies easy categorisation as extremist while remaining "entangled with the far right".[70] Murray has also been described as promoting far-rightconspiracy theories, including theGreat Replacement theory,[71] theEurabia conspiracy theory[72][15] and thecultural Marxism conspiracy theory.[17]
PhilosopherBernard-Henri Lévy has said of Murray, "Whether one agrees with him or not" he is "one of the most important public intellectuals today".[20] WriterAyaan Hirsi Ali and columnistSohrab Ahmari have praised Murray's work and writing on Islam in Europe.[73][9]
In 2020 columnistBari Weiss placed Murray within theintellectual dark web, a loosely affiliated group of commentators, with whom she is largely sympathetic but also critical,[74] includingBret Weinstein,Dave Rubin,Joe Rogan, andSam Harris.[75] Murray has rejected his placement within this group.[76] After 2021 Murray has been working forWeiss'The Free Press, and Weiss described him as a friend.[77] Murray has also confronted Rogan over Rogan's platforming of people, such asDarryl Cooper andIan Carrol, who Murray sees as having dangerous and fringe views on topics such as Israel, Ukraine and World War II.[78]
Murray stated that he was anAnglican until his twenties.[19][26][79] Murray said he lost his faith due to him no longer believing in theVirgin birth and finding what Murray described as "repetitions, contradictions and absurdities" within theBible andQuran.[80] In a 2024 interview, he said that he now identifies asagnostic.[81]
Murray has since described himself as acultural Christian and aChristian atheist.[19][82] He has frequently praisedChristian values and has stressed the importance of Christianity's role in buildingWestern civilization saying "you cannot take Christianity out of the West and have anything that's recognizably the West".[83][84][85] He has also criticized Christian churches for breaking away from teaching their traditional beliefs and theGospels.[86][87]
In 2018, Murray engaged in series of discussions about religion withSam Harris andJordan Peterson.[88][89]
In a February 2006 speech to theDutch Parliament, Murray said "conditions for Muslims in Europe must be made harder across the board: Europe must look like a less attractive proposition."[90][91] and that "All immigration into Europe from Muslim countries must stop."[92][93][94][95] Murray's former coworker at the Centre for Social Cohesion, James Brandon, interpreted this speech as calling for thecollective punishment of Muslims.[96] After Murray refused politicianPaul Goodman's offer to disown these comments, theConservative Partyfrontbench severed formal relations with Murray and hisCentre for Social Cohesion.[97]
According to Brandon, Murray failed to distinguishIslam fromIslamism.[96] Brandon said he attempted to "de-radicalise" Murray to ensure that only Islamists were targeted and not "Muslims as a whole".[96] Brandon writes that Murray has privately retracted some of his comments.[96] In 2010, during anIntelligence Squared US debate titled "Is Islam a Religion of Peace?", Murray argued in his contribution against the motion on the grounds that "[Islamic Prophet]Muhammad was a bad man",[98][99] citing episodes from Muhammad's private life andhis beheading of Jews.[100]
In 2008 Murray listed the cases of 27 writers, activists, politicians, and artists — includingSalman Rushdie,Maryam Namazie, andAnwar Shaikh, all three of whom had receiveddeath threats due to theircriticism of Islam. Murray said that "Unless Muslims are allowed to discuss their religion without fear of attack there can be no chance of reform or genuine freedom of conscience within Islam."[101]
In 2009 Murray was prevented from chairing a debate at theLondon School of Economics between academicAlan Sked and philosopherHamza Tzortzis on the topic "Islam or Liberalism: Which is the Way Forward?", with the university citing security concerns following a week-long student protest against Israel's retaliation against Gaza. The debate took place without Murray chairing.[102] The move was criticised byThe Daily Telegraph andThe Spectator.[103][104][105]
In June 2009, Murray accepted an invitation to a debate with IslamistAnjem Choudary, leader of the banned militant groupAl-Muhajiroun, on the subject ofSharia law and British law atConway Hall. Members of Al-Muhajiroun acting as security guards tried to segregate men and women at the entrance of the event. Clashes broke out near the entrance between Choudary's and Murray's supporters, and Conway Hall cancelled the debate because of the attempted forced separation of men and women. Outside the building, a confrontation between Choudary and Murray over the cancellation of the event occurred.[106][107] Murray's Centre for Social Cohesion later published a study arguing that one-in-seven Islam-related terrorist cases in the UK could be linked to Al-Muhajiroun.[108]
In the wake of the2017 London Bridge attack, Murray called for "less Islam" and for reduced immigration.[109]
Murray is a vocal critic of mass immigration.[110][111] In March 2013, Murray said that London was a "foreign country" due to "white Britons" becoming a minority in 23 of the 33 London boroughs.[112][113] In Murray's bookThe Strange Death of Europe, he writes that Europe and its values are committing suicide due to mass immigration; in the opening pages, he calls for halting Muslim immigration. In the book, he also details crimes committed by immigrants in Europe and writes favourably of immigration hard-linerViktor Orbán.[114][39]
In 2018 Murray filmed a video forPragerU entitled "The Suicide of Europe". In the video, he condemned "The mass movement of peoples into Europe...from the Middle East, North Africa and East Asia," and criticisedEuropean multiculturalism.[115] Alex Kotch interviewed a senior editor at theAnti-Defamation League's Center on Extremism,Mark Pitcavage, who accused the video of being "filled with anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric".[115] Similarly, theSouthern Poverty Law Center claimed that the video was a "dog whistle to the extreme right".[116]
In September 2016, Murray supportedDonald Trump's proposal for awall along the southern border of the United States.[117] In January 2017, Murray defendedExecutive Order 13769, which banned entry to the U.S. by citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries.[118]
Murray is openlygay.[18] In his bookThe Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity, Murray said thathomophobia has mostly been vanquished in the West.[42][46]
Murray has said that it is a lie that a man can become a woman.[76]Media Matters for America reported that in September 2020, during an appearance onJoe Rogan's podcast, Murray paraphrasedCamille Paglia and said that "at the end of every empire, they get interested in sexual fluidity, hermaphroditism, and so on."[119] He has stated that he thinks there is no such thing asnon-binary gender.[120]
In September 2019, Murray said in an interview that women are held to a different standard than men when it comes to sexual behaviour, citing instances involvingDrew Barrymore,Jane Fonda, andMayim Bialik behaving sexually towards men without backlash from the media.[20]
In his bookNeoconservatism: Why We Need It, Murray argues thatneoconservatism is necessary for fighting against dictatorships and human rights abuses.[121] Murray wrote in support of theIraq War in 2004,[122] and defended the war against critics on multiple occasions.[69] He has called for continuing thewar on terror onIran,Syria, and any regime which supports terrorism.[93] In 2021, Murray chastised theBiden administration forwithdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan.[123]
In March 2018, Hungarian politician Viktor Orbán posted a photo on his officialFacebook account of himself reading the Hungarian-language edition ofThe Strange Death of Europe by Murray.[39] In May 2018, Murray was personally received by Orbán inBudapest as part of the "Future of Europe" conference, along with other conservative figures such as American political strategistSteve Bannon, and according to Hungarian state media had an individual discussion and photograph with Orbán.[124][125]
In 2013, Murray condemned journalistOwen Jones for claiming that Israel had killed an 11-month old child in a military strike. Jones responded by criticising Murray for ignoring a UN report which said an Israel airstrike had killed numerous innocent civilians.[126] In 2014, Murray defended and supportedIsrael during the2014 Gaza War.[127] Murray also defended Israel's right to defend itself, saying, "If you don't believe that Israel has the right to stop a group that has proposed repeatedly since its existence that it wants to annihilate Israel, if you believe that Israel doesn't have the right to try and stop this enemy, then of course you don't believe Israel has theright to exist; you believe Israel has the right to die."[127] In private during the conflict Murray andDavid Frum helped write speeches for Israeli diplomatRon Prosor.[128][129] During a visit to Israel in 2019, Murray praised Israeli society's "attitude towardsnationalism", and lauded Israel's approach to border security.[130]
Starting in October 2023, Murray reported from Israel for six months following the October 7 attacks.[131] He visited the kibbutzim that were attacked in the October 7 war and interviewed Israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu.[6][132] Murray has been a supporter of Israel during the ongoingGaza war.[133][134] On 12 October 2023, after theHamas-ledOctober 7 attacks, he was invited to present a speech at theLauderdale Road Synagogue inLondon which defendedJews and theState of Israel, and which gathered almost one million views online.[135] Murray has been a supporter of Israel'smilitary response to the October 7 attacks. He spent around 6 months in Israel, visiting Gaza twice, and writing in defense of Israel's actions.[136] Murray has criticised anti-Israel protests and rhetoric in Western countries like Britain as being motivated byantisemitism and support for terrorism rather than genuine concern forPalestinians.[137][138][139] He has described some protests as "terrorist marches" and said they are organised by pro-Hamas factions aiming to spread disinformation.[140]
Murray has argued that much of thecriticism of Israel stems from either explicit antisemitism,anti-Western ideology, or ignorance about the realities of theIsraeli-Palestinian conflict being exploited by malicious actors.[141]
In April 2024, he received an honorary award fromPresident of IsraelIsaac Herzog andMinister of Diaspora AffairsAmichai Chikli for being a "friend to the Jewish people and fighting the resurgence of antisemitism" due to his coverage of the2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel and the resulting war.[136][142]
In December 2024, Murray accompanied actorKevin Spacey in his visit to theIsrael–Gaza border. They toured areas impacted by the October 7 attacks.[143][144]
On April 10, 2025, Murray appeared onThe Joe Rogan Experience alongsideDave Smith to debate theIsraeli–Palestinian conflict. During the podcast Smith accused Murray of "selective empathy" for the people of Israel and not the people of Gaza. Murray later criticised Rogan for platforming people who spread conspiracy theories and misinformation.[145][146] Although this was praised by various media outlets, Murray's conduct throughout the debate was criticised on social media.[147][148][149]
Murray is on the international advisory board ofNGO Monitor, a Jerusalem-based NGO described as pro-Israel and right-wing,[150] which was founded in 2001 by professorGerald M. Steinberg.[151][152][153][154] As of 2022[update], he was also one of the directors of theFree Speech Union, an organization established by British social commentatorToby Young in 2020 which advocates for freedom of speech, and criticisescancel culture.[155][156]
In March 2025, he won a libel suit againstGuardian Media Group as a result ofKenan Malik, a columnist forThe Observer, wrongly attributing comments Murray had made months previously tothe riots that erupted across Britain followingthe stabbing of three young girls in the UK in 2024. Murray received an "unreserved apology" and a "substantial" financial judgement.[157]
In August 2025, he won a libel suit that was brought against him by Muslim activistMohammed Hijab, because Murray said in 2022 that Hijab had inflamed racial tensions inLeicester during riots between Muslim and Hindu communities. The judge ruled that this was “substantially true”.[158][159]
Murray is gay.[18] He had a regular partner for 10 years up until 2018.[161]
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link){{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)And from our Oxford studio, Douglas Murray, Associate Editor ofThe Spectator
Important Islamophobic intellectuals are, among others, Melanie Phillips, Niall Ferguson, Oriana Fallaci (d. 2006), Diana West, Christopher Hitchens (d. 2011), Paul Berman, Frank Gaffney, Nick Cohen, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Douglas Murray (Kundnani 2012b, 2008; Carr 2006; Gardell 2010)
In the post‐Enoch Powell era, the UK has evolved a broad, cross‐party consensus that maintains that British citizenship and identity is not defined ethnically. The white nationalist right like Roger Scruton and Douglas Murray reject that.
Ye'Or's Eurabia: the Euro-Arab Axis (2005) is the canonical work of the genre (Bangstad 2013; Larsson 2012), but extemporizations on her basic theme can be found in the work of many conservative writers during the late 2000s and 2010s, such as Melanie Phillips, Mark Steyn, Bruce Bawer, Christopher Caldwell, Douglas Murray and, more recently, Alt-Right-linked figures such as Lauren Southern and Raheem Kassam. The conclusive differentiator between counter-jihadist and more mainstream conservative laments about Western decline is the former's decidedly conspiratorial framing...
It is not only far-right political parties and 'alt-right' blogs that are fueling the fire of xenophobia. In our century, be it theFinancial Times columnist Christopher Caldwell'sReflections on a Revolution in Europe (2009) that recapitulates the idea of a slow-moving Muslim barbarian invasion, along with the Muslim 'disorder, penury and crime', or the works by Douglas Murray and Thilo Sarrazin ..., a number of European and American best sellers have supplied the emotional force to the Eurabia conspiracy in particular and the alt-right in general.
This Great Replacement motif articulated by Murray, Camus and other prominent conservative intellectuals has been weaponised as a rallying cry for white supremacists around the world, including Robert Bowers, who killed 11 worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue in October 2018 and Tarrant, the Christchurch attacker, whose own manifesto posted online is called 'The Great Replacement'.
Acclaim for Murray's thought has been widespread, and ranges from liberal French public intellectual Bernard Henri-Levy, who claimed him to be 'one of the most important public intellectuals today', to authoritarian anti-immigrant hardliners such as Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who went so far as to promoteThe Strange Death of Europe on his Facebook page in Spring 2018... Murray's book [The Madness of Crowds] remodels a much older theory of so-called 'cultural Marxism', which has long history in far-right thought.
Murray's screed against the free speech of those asking questions about the intelligence services is ironic given that in a separateWall Street Journal comment, he laments that the attacks in Paris and Copenhagen prove the West is losing the war on 'free speech' being waged by Islamists. But Murray's concerns about free speech are really just a ploy for far-right entryism.
Prager says he disavows the alt-right ideology that has gained ground in the Trump era, but the online lessons often echo some of the movement's talking points. A video of Dinesh D'Souza, the right-wing author, opining on why Western cultures are superior to others has been viewed 4.7 million times, for example. Another, featuring Douglas Murray, the British author of several books about Europe and immigration, laments that North African and Middle Eastern immigrants have been permitted to destroy European culture by refusing to assimilate. It has 6.7 million views
Media pundit, journalist, and conspiracy entrepreneur Douglas Murray is a prime example of illustrating the influence of an 'organic intellectual'. Murray has written passionately in support of British fascist Tommy Robinson (Murray, 2018) and describes Islam as an "opportunistic infection" (Hasan, 2013) linked to the "strange death of Europe" (Murray, 2017a). Murray's ideas are not only entangled with the far-right (working class or otherwise), but with wider social connections.
Joe Rogan faced a rare role reversal on The Joe Rogan Experience as guest Douglas Murray, a conservative British journalist, called him out directly for routinely platforming "fringe" commentators to speak about ongoing conflicts involving Israel and Ukraine during Thursday's episode.
'Europe is committing suicide', says British author Douglas Murray in a video published by the far-right educational nonprofit Prager University. The cause? 'The mass movement of peoples into Europe…from the Middle East, North Africa and East Asia' who allegedly made Europe lose faith in its beliefs and traditions
Transnational NGOs usually do not become a conflict party and are less likely to be associated with one of the conflict parties-although, to pick but two examples, as the campaign of the right-wing NGO Monitor in Israel against the involvement of "external actors"
Several other right-wing Israeli NGOs follow the same approach, including NGO Monitor
Popular commentators and public figures among the [EDL] activists that I have met include Geert Wilders, Robert Spencer, Melanie Philips, Andrew Gilligan, Douglas Murray, Pat Condell, and some of the commentators who contribute to forums like Alan Lake's Four Freedoms website.
