The American betrayal of Israel
March 22, 2024 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
As some of us have long feared, and that has now become undeniable, Israel is fighting not one but two wars of defence against a malevolent foe. Read more
The West’s abandonment of the Jews
March 15, 2024 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
With every day that passes, it becomes ever clearer that Western civilization is no longer civilized. Read more
The scapegoating of Israel
March 8, 2024 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
The name of David Cameron, Britain’s foreign secretary, is on course to become a synonym for infamy in Britain’s Jewish community to rival that of Ernest Bevin. Read more
The terror of the right
March 1, 2024 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
There’s a fixed belief in progressive circles that if only Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, were to be removed from office, there would be at least a sporting chance of peace in the Middle East. Read more
The antisemitism crisis is out of control
February 16, 2024 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
The war in Gaza is prying open a potentially game-changing fissure in British politics that has wider implications for the Western world. Read more
America and Britain cross a treacherous red line
February 4, 2024 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
Fears that the Biden administration’s bear hug of embattled Israel is the prelude to eating it alive were dramatically enhanced this week. Read more
The West’s lethal error in the war against Israel
January 19, 2024 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
In the current war in the Middle East, it’s a given that a distinction must be drawn between Hamas and the “ordinary” Palestinian Arab residents of Gaza. Read more
The revival of an ancient calumny
December 22, 2023 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
There’s an unmistakable drumbeat to the antisemitism that’s erupted across the West in the wake of the Oct. 7 pogrom. In response to the genocidal Jew-hatred fuelling Hamas and the Palestinian Arabs, an even older form of the oldest hatred has surfaced—Christian hostility to the Jews. Read more
The persistent ‘two-state’ delusion
December 15, 2023 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
The simmering tensions between Israel and the Biden administration over the plan for post-war Gaza have now come to a boil. Read more
The devastating Hamas weapon of war
December 1, 2023 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
Hamas, the genocidal jihadi force responsible for the barbaric Oct. 7 pogrom in Israel, has a devastating weapon of war. That weapon is the Western media. Read more
The infernal choice behind the hostage deal
November 24, 2023 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
As if Israelis weren’t traumatized enough by the depraved Hamas pogrom on Oct. 7, the hostage deal concluded this week cruelly deepened their agony. Read more
Is Britain going wobbly on Israel?
November 19, 2023 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
After the Oct. 7 Hamas pogrom, Britain’s Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak came out in emotional support of Israel, stating that it had “an absolute right to defend itself.” Read more
Spitting in God’s eye
October 6, 2023 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
Earlier this week, ultra-Orthodox Jews parading through Jerusalem’s Old City passed a group of Christians bearing a large wooden cross. Some of the Jews spat on the ground in the Christians’ direction. Read more
Musk vs. Greenblatt is the unspeakable vs. the uneatable
September 8, 2023 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
The cage fight now taking place between the U.S. Anti-Defamation League and the world’s richest man Elon Musk is, as Oscar Wilde might have observed, a contest between the unspeakable and the uneatable. Read more
Israelophobia is the newest form of the oldest hatred
September 1, 2023 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
Antisemitism is a rotten term for the “longest hatred” that targets the Jewish people. For a start, there is no such thing as “semitism” to be “anti.” Read more
Why compromise is unlikely in Israel’s crisis
July 28, 2023 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
The night before Monday’s Knesset vote on the first of the government’s proposed judicial reforms, a video filmed on the escalators in Jerusalem’s central train station went viral on social media. Read more
Herzog’s lamentable performance
July 23, 2023 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
Far from the diplomatic triumph that some are making it out to be, Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s address to Congress this week left a bad taste in the mouth. Read more
The real crisis in the West
July 14, 2023 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
Over the past six months, the mass protests in Israel over judicial reform have elicited loud cries in the West that Israel is “in crisis.” Read more
It’s time to dismantle the United Nations
June 30, 2023 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
The malevolent scapegoating of Israel by the United Nations has long been a scandal.
Challenging the BBC on Israel
June 16, 2023 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
For decades, the Western media has acted as a malevolent echo chamber for the demonisation of Israel. Read more
The Biden administration’s anti-antisemitism travesty
June 4, 2023 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
What’s the use of the definition of antisemitism by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance? Read more
Jew-hatred struts the stage in Berlin
May 27, 2023 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
The unspeakable performance by Roger Waters in Berlin last week crossed a number of new red lines, even for him. Read more
The weaponisation of antisemitism against conservatives
May 19, 2023 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
A conference held in London this week was subjected to an extraordinary onslaught on social and mainstream media from people who weaponised antisemitism against it. Read more
The coronation of King Charles will be more than an amazing spectacle
May 5, 2023 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
On Saturday, Britain’s King Charles III will be crowned in London’s Westminster Abbey. Read more
The antisemitism that drives identity politics
April 28, 2023 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
A furore over a British Labour Party politician tells us a great deal about the tsunami of Jew-hatred rolling across Britain, America and the West. Read more
Israel’s post-democracy moment
March 24, 2023 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
The political crisis in Israel over the government’s judicial reforms has deepened. Read more
Israel’s two-faced allies
March 17, 2023 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
America and Britain claim to be allies of Israel. There is no gainsaying the deep links between them of military assistance, intelligence and trade. Israel is an invaluable strategic asset for America and Britain in the Middle East, a crucial bulwark in the defense of the West. Read more
The urgent need for Israeli electoral reform
March 10, 2023 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
Democracy is currently being undermined in many parts of the free world. Read more
The real threat to Israeli democracy
March 3, 2023 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
The huge demonstrations that continue in Israel and turned violent this week are fueled by the claim that the government’s judicial reform package spells the end of Israeli democracy. Read more
Biden’s less than ironclad commitment to Israel
February 24, 2023 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
Forget the bromides about America’s “unbreakable bond” with Israel and how the United States is Israel’s “greatest friend.” Over the past week, the Biden administration has crossed two ominous red lines. Read more