The religious culture war comes to Israel
December 30, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
At the root of the convulsions over Israel’s new government lies the secular world’s hatred and terror of religion. Read more
The European Union’s subversion of Israel
December 23, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
Liberal Jews in both the Diaspora and Israel have been hyperventilating over the “extremist” ministers in the incoming government headed by Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu. Read more
How the White House attempt to counter Jew-hatred undermines itself
December 16, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
The Biden administration has announced the establishment of an interagency group that will coordinate U.S. government efforts “to counter antisemitism.” Read more
The Good Jew/Bad Jew demonization strategy
December 9, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
One of the favourite strategies deployed by Jew-baiters is to divide the community into Good Jews and Bad Jews. Read more
Diaspora Jews keep making the same mistake
December 2, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
A perverse feature of the Jewish people is that they make one particular mistake over and over again. They are persecuted. They frantically try to assimilate into their host community in the belief that this will avert future persecution. They are persecuted again. They frantically assimilate again. Read more
The humbug of the West over murdered Israelis
November 25, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
It’s been another epic week for Western hypocrisy. And it’s been another epic week for indifference or worse towards Israel. The two are, of course, intimately connected. Read more
Israel joins the West’s culture wars
November 4, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
With the result of its election this week, Israel has joined other Western countries in a notable current trend: A revolt by the public against the political establishment. Read more
The false distinction between anti-Semitism and Israel-bashing
October 21, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
Those trying to defend the Jewish people from the tsunami of Jew-hatred swamping the West often face an implacable refusal to acknowledge that anti-Israel or anti-Zionist attitudes are the modern iteration of anti-Semitism. Read more
Hysteria greets British PM Liz Truss’s embassy move proposal
October 14, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
In Britain, it’s diplomatic Groundhog Day all over again. Read more
Why social justice warriors can’t deal with anti-Semitism
September 30, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
Ruth Wisse, an emeritus professor of Yiddish literature at Harvard and an unfailingly impressive commentator on the Jewish world, has uttered a desperate cry about the moral and spiritual state of American Jews. Read more
The real reason for the war against Israel and the West
September 23, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
As soon as it emerged that Israel’s acting Prime Minister Yair Lapid would tell the United Nations General Assembly this week that he supports the establishment of a Palestinian state, he was engulfed by outrage, incredulity and dismay. Read more
The momentous task facing King Charles III
September 18, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
For the past week, normal life in Britain has effectively been put on hold as the country has undergone an astonishing catharsis. Read more
Tearing up the rules of engagement between Israel and America
September 9, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
A key strategy of Israel’s push-me-pull-you prime ministers, Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid, has been to refrain from publicly criticising America’s policies in the Middle East. Read more
The BBC’s perfectly sealed thought system
September 2, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
After Sir Salman Rushdie was attacked in New York last month by a Muslim intent on fulfilling the murderous 1989 Iranian fatwa against him, the BBC’s Dateline London program ran an interview with the Palestinian commentator Abdel Bari Atwan. Read more
Apoplexy greets Israel’s move against terror NGOs
August 26, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
When Israeli security forces raided the offices of several NGOs in Ramallah last week and closed them down, they lifted a stone to reveal a buzzing nest of Israel’s enemies. Read more
With al-Zawahiri’s assassination, it’s Groundhog Day for America (again)
August 7, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, both the Biden administration and the European Union are out to lunch. Read more
Israeli TV’s shallow, irresponsible stunt
July 31, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
We are accustomed to the concept of wars being waged in the name of religion. There’s less acknowledgment of the war being waged upon religion and on the religious mindset by Western secularists. Read more
The urgent need for proper Jewish leadership
July 24, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
Diaspora Jews worry about how to deal with the current tsunami of anti-Semitism that is washing through the world. Read more
The fall of Boris Johnson
July 8, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
Boris Johnson’s decision to quit as prime minister of the United Kingdom followed unprecedented scenes in the British parliament this week, as he clung on to power despite the resignation of more than 50 of his ministers in an attempt to force him out. Read more
Licking Ben & Jerry’s
July 1, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
A great victory has been declared over BDS, the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement whose aim is the destruction of Israel. Read more
The moral clarity of Nikki Haley
June 26, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
U.S. President Joe Biden is about to travel to the Middle East in an attempt to alleviate the mess created by his own ineptitude. Read more
The EU’s Jerusalem charm offensive
June 17, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
People dining this week on the charming terrace at Jerusalem’s King David Hotel were surprised to find at the next table Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission. Read more
Biden administration won’t stop appeasing the Palestinians
June 7, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
The Biden administration’s obsession with boosting the Palestinian cause at the expense of Israel continues apace.
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No rainbow’s end for the Jews of Oz
May 27, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
Australian Jews woke up this week to a new and unsettling reality. Scott Morrison’s conservative, pro-Israel Liberal Party government was defeated, and the new prime minister is the Labor Party leader, Anthony Albanese. Read more
The ‘broken windows’ strategy for combating Israel demonisation
May 20, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
The “broken windows” theory of policing, responsible for a stunning drop in crime in New York in the 1990s, was based on a simple proposition. Bad people are encouraged to commit serious crimes if lesser social nuisances such as litter, vandalism or fare evasion are ignored. Read more
How Western dupes help propagate murderous Palestinian lies
May 13, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
A Palestinian Arab journalist with Al Jazeera, Shireen Abu Akleh, was shot dead this week in a firefight between Hamas and the Israelis in the West Bank city of Jenin. Read more
Why Russia has once again turned on the Jews
May 6, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, caused outrage earlier this week after he was asked on Italian TV how Russia could claim to be “de-Nazifying” Ukraine when its president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is Jewish. Read more
The key lesson from Ukraine for international order
April 8, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
It’s taken the horrors in Ukraine for people to begin to register that a central pillar of world affairs since the Second World War has crumbled. Even now, though, the full implications aren’t acknowledged. Read more
Blinken’s obscene Western ‘progressive’ agenda
April 1, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
When an Arab terrorist murdered five Israelis in Bnei Brak this week by opening fire indiscriminately with an M-16 rifle, Palestinian Arabs in the Gaza Strip and the “West Bank” handed out sweets in celebration and held jubilant rallies. Read more
Why liberals fail to equate Israel and Ukraine
March 25, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
Two women and a rabbi were among four Israelis murdered in a terrorist attack this week in the southern Israeli city of Beersheva. Read more