Democracies vs. Death Cults | Hugh Hewitt with Douglas Murray - Part 1
Townhall Review | Conservative Commentary On Today's News
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4.7 • 697 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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In this episode, Hugh Hewitt and bestselling author Douglas Murray talks about Murray's latest book, On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization, which explores profound issues facing the West. Douglas Murray discusses the book's launch at Columbia University, the heroism and horrors of the October 7th attacks in Israel, and critiques the pervasive anti-Americanism and antisemitism among students, linking it to a broader ideological battle against death cults.
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks for listening to the Town Hall Review with Hugh Hewitt podcast, bringing to you the best voices on the stories and issues that matter. Here's another piece I'll trust you enjoy. |
| 0:09.8 | I want to talk with Douglas Murray, author of this brand new book on democracies and death cults. It's really quite profound. The subtitle tells you everything, Israel and the future of civilization. |
| 0:21.0 | Douglas Murray is a writer and an author for The New York Post and the free press, and he |
| 0:24.7 | joins me. Congratulations, Douglas. This is quite the book. I hope it's being received |
| 0:29.4 | well outside of the world of the fanatics and the killers who must not like it at all. |
| 0:36.2 | Well, it's very good to be with you, Hugh. |
| 0:38.1 | I'm a great admirer of the show and a great listener to you, and it's wonderful to be on. |
| 0:43.0 | Yes, I actually launched the book at Columbia University on Friday last week, and that was obviously |
| 0:50.7 | very deliberate and pointed, but it was actually a rather wonderful occasion. |
| 0:55.0 | As you know, President Trump has threatened to withdraw federal funding from colleges like Columbia, |
| 1:01.0 | which have allowed supporters of the death cults of Hamas to just parade around university freely for last 18 months, |
| 1:12.2 | chanting anti-Americanism, anti-Israel activity, |
| 1:16.9 | chasing Jewish students across campus and much more. |
| 1:20.2 | But it's rather wonderful, I have to say, |
| 1:21.6 | to speak some of the good students and professors at Columbia. |
| 1:26.1 | You'll notice, I'm sure, as I have, that in the last year and a half, |
| 1:30.4 | all the people in our country here in America who support Hamas simultaneously wear |
| 1:37.1 | kaffirs and other bits of Palestinian terrorist chic and also pretend to be very scared of the COVID-19 virus because they're always |
| 1:47.1 | masked up. They always hide themselves wherever they can. And that's because I think they know |
| 1:53.4 | that they're doing something deeply shameful. And then most of them are actually, to some extent, I think, embarrassed by it. |
| 2:02.7 | There are some fanatics who aren't, but there are many who realize that perhaps it's not |
| 2:07.2 | the best look to be on the side of rapists and murderers and beheaders and kidnappers and |
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