“A bruising blow in the cause of liberty, tolerance and good sense. Thank God he is on our side” – Jake Wallis Simons, editor, Jewish Chronicle

“A brutally honest analysis of how the world failed the test of Hamas’s brutality” – Eylon Levy, former Israeli government spokesman

After the Pogrom: 7 October, Israel and the Crisis of Civilisation is the explosive new book from celebrated columnist and author Brendan O’Neill.

It is an unflinching account of how the West failed the moral test of 7 October. It documents, in chilling detail, how the West’s academics, activists and commentariat ended up making excuses for Hamas’s pogrom – the worst act of violence against the Jews since the Holocaust.

On university campuses, on our streets and in the press, people took the side not of the Jews, but of their murderous persecutors. We even witnessed the return of the twisted ideology of atrocity denial, as the activist class accused the Jewish State of exaggerating or even inventing the events of 7 October.

How did this happen? Why did so many in our educated elites shrug their shoulders over the worst anti-Semitic pogrom in almost 80 years? Why did “anti-fascists” cosy up to the fascists of Hamas?

This book is an unsparing examination of the moral disorder of the 21st-century West. Frank, fearless and incisive, it argues that our moral failures after 7 October exposed just how far we have drifted from Enlightenment values. It is a must-read for everyone concerned about the safety of the Jews and the future of the West.