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

by Douglas Murray

This and much more data suggest that young people in the West have a historically low view of the virtues of their own country. A generation has come up that has been taught that by dint of being born into the West, they have been born into countries built on ethnic cleansing and genocide, founded by people who are settler-colonialist racists, and that their societies perpetuate these evils right to this very day. Perhaps the vast rise in antagonism toward Israel is a manifestation of what psychologists would call “projection.” How does Grossman’s law apply to these people then? Perhaps all that is required is a slight twist to his phrase: “Tell me what you accuse the Jews of—I’ll tell you what you believe you are guilty of.”