Douglas Murray: So-called Israel-Hamas, Ukraine war experts spew false info on Joe Rogans podcast There has to be a standard

Last week I seemed to break the internet.I went back on the Joe Rogan podcast to talk about my new book “On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization,” Which is now available at all good book stores and on Audible, since you ask.I’ve been on Joe’s podcast a number of times before and have always enjoyed it.Joe is a master of his art.

A lot of people think they can talk casually but interestingly for hours.That’s mainly because Joe makes it look so easy.But this time I went on with a question.

Having not spoken to Joe since the wars in Ukraine and Israel started, I had become increasingly irked that the guests he has had on have been almost entirely anti-Ukraine and anti-Israel.Many of the latter in particular are not just vindictively and maliciously anti-Israel but have been spewing out claims that are demonstrably false.Many are also people who are simply in no way expert at what they are talking about.One of these is a comedian who goes by the name of Dave Smith.Claiming some Jewish ancestry, he has spent the 18 months since Oct.

7, 2023, being very unfunny indeed.Specifically he has decided to spend his time going around the podcast world sounding off about Israel.In the process he largely cites people like him — people who have many views but no obvious expertise.People like Darryl Cooper who both says he isn’t a historian yet has been invited onto some of the world’s biggest podcasts as “a historian.”One of Cooper’s many ahistorical claims is that Winston Churchill was the chief villain of World War II.

On these and many other occasions, Cooper has simply lied about history.When invited to debate the world’s foremost living expert on Churchill last year, he declined, saying that he didn’t know enough to go against such a figure.Yet still Cooper gets invited on show after show to throw out falsehoods which he can’t even back up.

And which his online interviewers seem happy not to challenge him on.Another...