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Melanie Phillips

Melanie Phillips, a British journalist, broadcaster and author, writes a weekly column for JNS. Currently a columnist for “The Times of London,” her personal and political memoir, “Guardian Angel,” has been published by Bombardier, which also published her first novel, “The Legacy,” in 2018. Go to melaniephillips.substack.com to access her work.

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Melanie PhillipsApril 8, 2021

Israel: The necessary superpower

Its legendary military and security derring-do derives from its culture of risk-taking, creativity and thinking out of the box—characteristics shared by no other country.

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Melanie PhillipsMarch 18, 2021

Jared Kushner’s curious change of heart

With the Biden administration having re-empowered Palestinian aggressors against Israel, Kushner has shown that he doesn’t grasp the significance of what he helped achieve with the Abraham Accords.

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Melanie PhillipsMarch 11, 2021

Meghan Markle and the Jewish question

This has become a terrifying looking-glass world where morality has been turned back to front. It’s where in the minds of millions—particularly, the young—venality, disloyalty and spite register as evidence of moral worth.

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Melanie PhillipsMarch 4, 2021

The brouhaha over defining Jews as an ethnic minority

The notion that Judaism is both religion and peoplehood feeds the paranoid suspicions of the anti-Semite that the Jews are slippery customers who change their shape at will and thus hide in plain sight.

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Melanie PhillipsFebruary 25, 2021

We recognize Haman. But where are Mordechai and Esther?

Today’s Persians running Iran’s Islamic revolutionary regime consistently declare their intention to annihilate Israel and are building the capacity for nuclear weapons to achieve that infernal aim. And then, there’s the Western media and academia …

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Melanie PhillipsFebruary 18, 2021

Christian leaders remain silent as the church recycles its oldest hatred

South African Rev. Frank Chikane, the moderator of the WCC’s Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, openly suggested that Israeli Jews were demonic.

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Melanie PhillipsFebruary 11, 2021

The absurd malevolence of the International Criminal Court

The legal and moral illiteracy of the ICC’s ruling is not a temporary blip. It follows from the campaign that lies at the very core of liberal universalist beliefs: to negate the authority of the sovereign nation Israel.

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Melanie PhillipsFebruary 4, 2021

Obama’s third term

Israel scarcely needs the absence of a phone call to tell it that it has a grave problem with the new occupant of the White House.

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Melanie PhillipsJanuary 28, 2021

The tragedy for haredim from COVID has created a crisis for Judaism itself

They fear that if they shut down their educational institutions, they will lose an entire generation of young men to Judaism. They believe that learning Talmud and Torah is more precious even than life itself.

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Melanie PhillipsJanuary 21, 2021

Will America stay the strong horse when it comes to Iran?

Mixed messages have been released from appointees of the new U.S. government as far as Mideast policies. Could the new Biden administration be floundering in incoherence and arguments between opposing factions?

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Melanie PhillipsJanuary 14, 2021

As America reels from political trauma, Jewish continuity points way to national unity

A covenant is a commitment going beyond mutual advantage, requiring instead joint obligations in a permanent, unconditional and unbreakable union.

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Melanie PhillipsJanuary 7, 2021

A disaster and a tragedy for America, Jews and decent people everywhere

Those trying to defend principles of law and constitutional order against the left have been grievously undermined.

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Melanie PhillipsDecember 31, 2020

Lessons from Britain’s Brexit breakthrough

What the United Kingdom has achieved provides an object lesson in strategy and diplomacy for every democratic nation, not least when it comes to dealing with the Middle East or threats from foreign aggressors.

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Melanie PhillipsDecember 24, 2020

The driving force behind the ban on kosher slaughtering

The West’s predominant ideology of moral and cultural relativism has propelled the rise of paganism, as well as the veneration of the animal and natural world, at the expense of humanity.

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Melanie PhillipsDecember 17, 2020

A mystery in its own right: The ‘anti-Semitism’ of John le Carré

He remains a product of his time and an enigma. Was he on the side of the Jewish people—or their enemies?

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