High-profile journalist Douglas Murray joins New York’s Yeshiva University

Douglas Murray, a prominent, pro-Israel journalist, joins New York City’s Yeshiva University, the university says in a statement.

Murray, who is British, is a regular commentator on Israel in international media, and his joining the university is a high-profile acquisition for the school.

Murray is appointed as Yeshiva University’s inaugural President’s Professor of Practice. The university says the position “recognizes leaders who have shaped public discourse and invites them to contribute that perspective to university life.”

Murray will deliver lectures in an honors course on poetry called “The Values of Verse: Sacred and Secular Perspectives.”

“Great poetry is not an ornament of civilization,” Murray says in a statement. “It is one of the ways civilizations think, remember and endure.”

“I’m honored to join Yeshiva University in a setting where those questions are taken seriously and explored with intellectual rigor,” says Murray, who is not Jewish.

Yeshiva University, in Manhattan, is a flagship institution in the US Orthodox community.

The university has previously honored other non-Jewish pro-Israel figures, such as Sen. John Fetterman and Rep. Elise Stefanik.