Adapted from Douglas Murray‘s speech Monday as he accepted the Alexander Hamilton Award.
I’ve never seen as much of the best and the worst of humankind as I have in the past six months in Israel and Gaza.
I was here in New York on the 7th of October, and on the 8th, I went down to Times Square.
And there were these men and women, waving signs, celebrating the massacre.
They were holding these signs in Times Square, “by any means necessary.”
At a time when we already knew what those means included.
I thought I had to get to Israel as soon as I could, that we were going to see a kind of Holocaust denialism in real time, and therefore I should see with my own eyes everything that had happened.
In Israel, I joined the pathologists in the morgues of Tel Aviv as they were trying to identify the dead.
An unbelievable task, which they do with extraordinary delicacy and religiosity.
I had the great opportunity to witness firsthand Israel’s response, because unlike some countries today, Israel doesn’t just sit back with equanimity when it’s attacked.
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Douglas Murray is a Senior Fellow at National Review Institute.
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