Biden’s unconscionable empowerment of both Russia and Iran
March 18, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
In his address to the U.S. Congress this week, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky told U.S. President Joe Biden in a plea for American air defences against Russian bombardment from the sky: “You are the leader of your great nation. I wish you to be the leader of the world.” Read more
For the Jews, history repeats itself in Ukraine
March 4, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
The onslaught against Ukraine by Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is a horrific tragedy for all Ukrainians as well as a crisis for Europe and the west in general. Nevertheless, for the Jewish people, it has special and deeply troubling resonance. Read more
How Biden has empowered evil in both Russia and Iran
February 25, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
The contrast could scarcely be more glaring. America’s strategy to deter Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aggression against Ukraine is to impose sanctions. But its strategy to deter aggression by the Iranian regime is to lift sanctions. Read more
The lethal miscalculations over Vladimir Putin
February 18, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
In the Middle East, where two earth tremors this week shook northern Israel and sounded an ominous warning of a major earthquake in the near future, the geopolitical tectonic plates also continue to shift in startling fashion. Read more
How America is helping Iran get a nuclear arsenal
February 11, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
As Iran reportedly reaches the brink of obtaining enough fissile material for a nuclear weapon, the Biden administration is now astoundingly colluding with this lethal rogue state against the interests of Israel and America’s allies in the region. Read more
Whoops, Whoopi: The Holocaust is all about race
February 4, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
Whoopi Goldberg has got herself into a terrible mess. She was suspended from her role as co-host of ABC’s “The View” talk show after saying that the Holocaust wasn’t about race. It was instead, she said, about “man’s inhumanity to man” involving “white people doing it to white people.” Read more
How the West’s appeasement mentality brings not peace, but war
January 28, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
As the Ukraine crisis continues, one question, in particular, poses itself: How can it be that having defeated the Soviet Union in the Cold War, the West is now unable to get the better of the leader of the bankrupt kleptocracy that replaced communism in Russia? Read more
The unspoken truths behind the Texas synagogue attack
January 21, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
The attack on Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, where the rabbi and three other Jews were taken hostage until they managed to escape unharmed, was shocking enough. Read more
The emergence of Arab Zionism?
January 14, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
While Western liberals and the U.N. Human Rights Council double down in their determination to demonize, delegitimize and destroy Israel, support for that beleaguered country is coming from a surprising direction. Read more
The most important conversation the Jewish world needs to have
January 7, 2022 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
Links between Israel and Diaspora Jews have been put under increased strain by the coronavirus pandemic. Read more
New Year’s resolution? Abolish the UN Human Rights Council
December 31, 2021 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
At the turn of a new year, people traditionally make resolutions to improve themselves. So, what is the United Nations setting itself to do better in 2022? Read more
A Christmas crusade: scapegoating the Jews
December 24, 2021 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
Christian churches, seemingly deaf to baleful historical and theological echoes, have decided to mark Christmas 2021 by scapegoating the Jews. Read more
Trump and Netanyahu: Allies no longer?
December 17, 2021 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
For both fans and foes of America’s former President Donald Trump and Israel’s former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the two leaders appeared to share certain features. Read more
Double standard of antisemitism and Islamophobia
December 10, 2021 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
One of the most obvious characteristics of antisemitism is the double standards it perpetrates, through which Jews are singled out for harmful assumptions and treatment directed against no other people in the world. Read more
‘Imagine’ all those people …
December 3, 2021 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
Diaspora Jews have a collective history of constant migration. Read more
Why Israel needs a strategy to shape the narrative
November 28, 2021 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
A fascinating BBC TV series has explored the way in which Britain’s former Labour prime ministers, Tony Blair and his successor Gordon Brown, revolutionized their party to create the election-winning machine of “New Labour.” Read more
Keir Starmer’s Labour antisemitism problem
November 19, 2021 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
The leader of Britain’s Labour Party, Sir Keir Starmer, was the guest of honour at this week’s annual Labour Friends of Israel lunch in London. Read more
The most alarming threat of all to the Jewish people
November 12, 2021 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
The violent scenes surrounding this week’s appearance by Israel’s ambassador to the United Kingdom, Tzipi Hotovely, at the London School of Economics shocked decent people in Britain. Read more
The inconvenient truths behind the hysteria over climate change
November 5, 2021 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, got himself into an unfortunate mess during this week’s COP26 conference on climate change held in Glasgow, Scotland. Read more
The crucial but underrated gift of being ‘a people apart’
October 29, 2021 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
Distressingly, more and more Jews are turning against Israel and recycling anti-Jewish narratives. Read more
The baleful consequences of failing to deal with Islamist extremism
October 22, 2021 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
On both sides of the English Channel, the failure to grasp the nettle of Islamist extremism and the frightening consequences of that failure are sounding an urgent alarm for the whole of Western society. Read more
The real reason for Western support of the Palestinians
October 15, 2021 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
Michael Oren, Israel’s former ambassador to the United States who is now a candidate to head the Jewish Agency, has rightly said that the decline in support for Israel among American Jews has reached a crisis point. Read more
In the face of European hypocrisy, time for Israel’s supporters to remake the cultural weather
October 8, 2021 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
The European Commission released on Tuesday its first official strategy on fighting antisemitism and promoting Jewish life. Read more
The false accusation of ‘Israel apartheid’
October 1, 2021 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
The campaign to demonize and delegitimize Israel has recently moved into a higher gear with the increased use of one particularly vicious falsehood. Read more
The baleful significance of the Democrats’ Iron Dome fiasco
September 24, 2021 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
According to House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, when the Democrats withdrew from their embattled spending bill $1 billion in emergency funding for Israel’s Iron Dome defence system, this was merely a “technicality” that would be reversed. Read more
The hate-fest that is Durban rears its ugly head again
September 16, 2021 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
Next week, the United Nations is set to reinforce infamy. In the wings of the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York, it is to hold a 20th anniversary summit of its so-called World Conference against Racism that took place in Durban, South Africa, four days before the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Read more
Two decades on, the West’s cultural fault line exposed by 9/11 remains
September 10, 2021 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
Few of us, if any, will ever forget those terrible images of the 9/11 attacks on America. Twenty years on, it’s painfully clear that many Westerners still don’t grasp the full nature and scope of what they witnessed when the twin towers of the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan fell. Read more
When the Jew-bashers are Jews
August 13, 2021 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
The latest move by President Joe Biden to appal many American Jews as an act of wanton hostility is his appointment of the progressive rabbi, Sharon Kleinbaum, to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. Read more
Envoy will first need to root out antisemitism in the Democratic Party
August 6, 2021 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
U.S. President Joe Biden’s choice of Emory Professor Deborah Lipstadt as America’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism has not been greeted with the unqualified approval that might have been expected for such an appointment. Read more
The invisible victims of jihadi violence
July 30, 2021 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
The death of Ruth Pearl at the age of 85 reminds us once again of the unspeakable horror that was visited upon Ruth and her family, and which served as a particularly dreadful wake-up call for the Western world. Read more