Author Douglas Murray has slammed university students calling for Intifada as “either sinister or silly”.

Mr Murray wrote a piece in the New York Post earlier this month called, ‘College idiots calling for ‘Intifada’ have no idea how many innocents have died from that word’.

“It’s extraordinary, isn’t it,” Mr Murray told Sky News host Rita Panahi.

“You effectively see, once again, something you and I have talked about in a number of contexts, which is people who must either be sinister or silly.

“The sinister ones know what they’re talking about when they chant for Intifada.

“The silly ones are chanting a slogan they clearly don’t understand.

“Let me speak to the second ones for a moment … if you call for Intifada, you should know what an Intifada is.

“There was an Intifada when I was growing up in the late '90s… but the Second Intifada included suicide bombings against Israelis of the most gruesome type.”