Douglas Murray
British author and political commentator
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| 2025 | Published 'On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel, Hamas and the Future of the West'. |
| April 11 2025 | Received a presidential endorsement from Donald Trump for his latest book, highlighting his political influence. |
| April 10 2025 | Appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast with Dave Smith, discussing topics including Winston Churchill, the Russia-Ukraine war, and the Gaza war. Challenged Rogan about platform guests and was critiqued for 'selective empathy' towards Israel. |
| March 2025 | Won a defamation suit against The Observer (part of the Guardian Media Group) and received a substantial settlement. |
| 2024 | In an interview, Murray stated that he now identifies as agnostic. |
| 2024 | Douglas Murray was awarded the Alexander Hamilton Award by the Manhattan Institute. |
| April 2024 | Murray received an honorary award from President of Israel Isaac Herzog and Minister of Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli for his advocacy for the Jewish people and his efforts against the resurgence of antisemitism. |
| October 2023 | Murray reported from Israel for six months following the October 7 attacks, visiting attacked kibbutzim and interviewing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. |
| October 12 2023 | Murray gave a speech at the Lauderdale Road Synagogue in London defending Jews and the State of Israel, following the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, which garnered almost one million views online. |
| 2022 | He published 'The War on the West'. |
| 2021 | Murray published 'The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason', which examined the attempts to undermine Western civilization. |
| 2021 | Murray chastised the Biden administration for the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. |
| 2020 | Murray was appointed as one of the directors of the Free Speech Union, an organization established by British social commentator Toby Young to advocate for freedom of speech and criticize cancel culture. |
| 2020 | Columnist Bari Weiss categorized Douglas Murray within the intellectual dark web, a collection of commentators that includes notable figures such as Bret Weinstein, Dave Rubin, Joe Rogan, and Sam Harris; however, Murray has rejected this classification. |
| September 2020 | In September 2020, during an appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast, Douglas Murray paraphrased Camille Paglia, stating that at the end of every empire, there is an interest in sexual fluidity and hermaphroditism, and he expressed his belief that there is no such thing as non-binary gender. |
| 2019 | During a visit to Israel, Murray praised the society's attitude towards nationalism and lauded the country's restrictive approach to immigration. |
| 2019 | Murray released his book 'The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity'. |
| 2019 | An article in Social Policy Review discussed Douglas Murray's views, characterizing them as a 'mainstreamist' ideology, which, while difficult to classify as extremist, still remains entangled with far-right beliefs. |
| September 2019 | In September 2019, Douglas Murray asserted in an interview that women are held to a different standard than men regarding sexual behavior, using the examples of Drew Barrymore, Jane Fonda, and Mayim Bialik to illustrate his point. |
| April 2019 | Murray pressured New Statesman journalist George Eaton to release the original recording of an interview with Roger Scruton, which led to an article in The Spectator defending Scruton and resulted in an apology from the New Statesman for misrepresentation. |
| 2018 | Douglas Murray ended a long-term relationship with his partner after 10 years. |
| 2018 | Murray concluded his role as associate director of the Henry Jackson Society. |
| 2018 | Murray filmed a video for PragerU entitled 'The Suicide of Europe', where he condemned the mass movement of peoples into Europe and criticized European multiculturalism. |
| May 2018 | Murray was personally received by Viktor Orbán in Budapest during the 'Future of Europe' conference, where he had an individual discussion and photograph with Orbán. |
| March 2018 | Hungarian politician Viktor Orbán posted a photo on his Facebook account of himself reading the Hungarian-language edition of Murray's book The Strange Death of Europe. |
| 2017 | In response to the London Bridge attack, Murray publicly blamed Islam as a religion and advocated for stricter immigration policies. |
| 2017 | Murray reiterated his identification as a cultural Christian and a Christian atheist. |
| 2017 | He published 'The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam'. |
| January 2017 | Murray defended Executive Order 13769, which banned entry to the U.S. by citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries. |
| 2016 | Murray organized a poetry competition through The Spectator, inviting submissions of offensive poems about Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, with a top prize of £1,000. |
| 2016 | Murray announced Conservative MP Boris Johnson as the winner of the poetry competition organized in reaction to the Böhmermann affair. |
| September 2016 | Murray supported Donald Trump's proposal for a wall along the southern border of the United States. |
| 2015 | Murray described himself as a cultural Christian and a Christian atheist, while having been an Anglican until his twenties. |
| January 2015 | Douglas Murray supported free speech in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo shooting and the January 2015 Île-de-France attacks, which led to accusations that his stance served as a means for far-right ideologies to gain acceptance. |
| 2014 | Murray defended and supported Israel during the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict, asserting Israel's right to defend itself against threats. |
| 2013 | Douglas Murray condemned journalist Owen Jones for claiming that Israel had killed an 11-month old child in a military strike. |
| June 2013 | Murray published his e-book 'Islamophilia: a Very Metropolitan Malady'. |
| March 2013 | Douglas Murray claimed that London was a 'foreign country' due to 'white Britons' becoming a minority in 23 of the 33 London boroughs. |
| 2012 | Murray's book Bloody Sunday: Truths, Lies and The Saville Inquiry was longlisted for the Orwell Book Prize. |
| 2011 | Douglas Murray became the associate director of the Henry Jackson Society. |
| 2011 | Murray's book 'Bloody Sunday' was jointly awarded the 2011–2012 Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize. |
| 2010 | During an Intelligence Squared US debate titled 'Is Islam a Religion of Peace?', Murray argued against the motion, claiming that 'Muhammad was a bad man' and citing events from Muhammad's life. |
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