Although this interview was recorded earlier this year, the questions raised — about terrorism, antisemitism, moral clarity, and how democratic societies respond to violence — are now unmistakably current.

Speaking directly to an Australian audience, Douglas Murray challenges a mindset common across the West: the belief that terrorism is always “somewhere else’s problem.” He asks a stark but necessary question — what if the kind of violence we so often contextualize, excuse, or distance ourselves from happened here?

Drawing on firsthand reporting from Israel after the October 7 attacks, Murray explains why nations cannot simply “absorb” terror, why calls for ceasefires without accountability fail to stop violence, and why free societies struggle to confront extremist ideologies that openly celebrate death. He explores how antisemitism increasingly disguises itself as moral neutrality, selective outrage, or misplaced empathy — and why Jews so often become the exception to universal standards of compassion.