On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization

by Douglas Murray

In 1948, the year of Israel’s independence, the non-Jewish population of Israel was 156,000. By 1970 the non-Jewish population of Israel (mainly Arab Muslims, Arab Christians, and Druze) had almost tripled. By 2000 it had reached 1,413,900. By 2015 the non-Jewish population was 2,078,000. In 2024, amid Israel’s supposed genocidal war, the non-Jewish population of Israel was 2,653,000. In other words, from 1948 to 2024 the non-Jewish population of Israel had grown almost exactly seventeen-fold.5 While the government in Tehran and the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah consistently claimed that the Israelis were “ethnically cleansing” Jerusalem of non-Jews, the same pattern emerged. In 1948 the Muslim population of Jerusalem was 40,000 people. By 2022 the Muslim population of Jerusalem had grown by over nine times, to 371,400.6 Some genocide. Some ethnic cleansing.