Douglas Murray popped up on Talk TV last night live from the Gaza border – and his head-to-head with Piers Morgan soon turned fiery. Morgan argued that Murray was wrong to suggest that all those taking to the streets of London to show their solidarity with Palestinians ‘are pro-Hamas’.
‘You don’t honestly think they’re all pro-Hamas, these people?,’ he asked Murray.
Murray shot back, ‘Well I think that anyone who, for instance, chants things like “from the river to the sea” is in fact what you describe or is criminally ignorant.’
Morgan insisted that not all protestors have been chanting such phrases. Then Murray pulled out his trump card: ‘Okay, well here’s a challenge Piers. If you decided to go on some kind of march and in week one you discovered that you had the BNP on your side calling, for instance, for the murder of all black people, would you not wonder whether or not you should go on week two? Would you not drop out by about week three? I’d have thought so – I would.
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