CSS Weighs in on Israel-Gaza War, and Its Homefront in the West

War once again lit the dawn skies of Israel Saturday. As the first sirens rang out across south and central Israel, Iranian-backed Hamas terrorists climbed over barriers, descended from the air, and landed from the sea to launch the most indiscriminate slaughter of Jewish civilians the world has seen since the Holocaust.

The world watched as Israelis scrambled to save their neighbors, liberate their settlements, and defend their country, but in England and the United States, Common Sense Society staff, faculty, and scholars went to work, crafting early public opinion and what the West needed to do to aid its friend (and combat Hamas’s allies in our own streets and universities).

CSS fellow Douglas Murray began the week, reflecting in The Free Press on Sunday on how “a passage from the Bible reminds us that the line between peace and horror is alarmingly thin.”

Faculty member Walter Russell Mead joined him on Monday, writing on the test the war poses to U.S. President Joe Biden in The Wall Street Journal:

Faculty member Dr. Seth Cropsey wrote on the global strategic crisis now facing the United States in The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday:

That same day, amidst English citizens celebrating Hamas’s atrocities, Common Sense Society–United Kingdom director Emma Webb joined GB News to speak on the failure of British multiculturalism:

Back in the States, faculty member Dr. Juliana Geran Pilon wrote on the West’s war with itself in City Journal on Tuesday:

Douglas Murray wrote Wednesday’s cover of The Spectator on how to deal with Hamas supporters in England. “Take their passports,” he advised. “Strip their citizenship, forcibly remove them from this country.”

Murray followed up on his piece on Talk TV on Thursday, discussing the pro-genocide activists besetting Britain (and their allies in the BBC):

Murray was also invited to one of London’s main synagogues on Thursday, where he spoke on the Jewish community resisting Hamas supporters’ claims that it is acceptable to murder Jews.

This is far from an exhaustive list. As our John Quincy Adams fellowship begins in Washington, D.C., global thinkers including Dr. Joshua Mitchell, Dr. Seth Cropsey, Amb. John Negroponte, and Mr. Elbridge Colby join our fellows to craft the future of a West at war.

As Israel prepares its next move and the shadows of broader war stretch long across her northern border, our men and women around the world will continue to help guide the public and policy makers alike.

History is not done with us yet. We must learn from history if we are to have a better, more peaceful future.