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Melanie Phillips

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Melanie Phillips01.11.2018

Grappling with the roots of anti-Semitism after Pittsburgh

It is a tremendous mistake to assume that anti-Semitism arises from any political activity or ideology. It is a pathology based on the wish to exterminate the Jewish people—a moral and spiritual sickness unique in human history.

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Melanie Phillips18.10.2018

The story behind the story of Jamal Khashoggi

Whatever Khashoggi’s political views, it remains wrong to kill, muzzle or jail dissidents. Saudi Arabia remains a repressive tribal society and the original source of the Sunni Islamist extremism that now plagues the world.

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Melanie Phillips04.10.2018

The full-scale unraveling of Western cultural norms

Israel is falsely accused of crimes such as murderous aggression, colonialism and occupation of which it is not only innocent, but is in fact the victim or target. Those who call out such lies are themselves denounced as being beyond the pale for doing so.

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Melanie Phillips20.09.2018

The blood of slain Israelis stains many hands

Ari Fuld and the thousands of other Israeli victims of Arab attacks were murdered out of a fathomless hatred of Jews and Jewish nationhood, aided and abetted in the West by the ignorant, the ideological and the bigoted.

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Melanie Phillips06.09.2018

Why Jews now find themselves in the eye of the Western storm

Only when the enormity of the Holocaust was finally revealed after the war did hatred of Jews become unsayable. It went underground—until the left’s adoption of the Palestinian narrative made it sayable again.

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Melanie Phillips26.07.2018

Israel gets it right on the nation-state, while the West fumbles with identity

Jews are also commanded in the Torah not to wrong or oppress a stranger “for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.” But what if the strangers in question want to turn your own country into Egypt?

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Melanie Phillips12.07.2018

Britain’s Brexit betrayal may push Jewish problem into Downing Street

Most of the anti-Semitism on the left takes the form of obsessive and paranoid falsehoods, distortion and double standards directed at the behavior of the State of Israel, with much of this onslaught echoing the imagery and tropes of medieval and Nazi anti-Semitism.

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Melanie Phillips28.06.2018

Wishful thinking isn’t enough when it comes to Mideast peace

The key point that the West cannot grasp is that Palestinian rejectionism is at source a fanatical Islamic religious movement.

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Melanie Phillips14.06.2018

Heads turn away when it comes to the Islamization of Europe

In lockstep with a refusal to acknowledge that Islamic religious fanaticism is Islamic, anti-Semitism is once more openly stalking Britain and Europe.

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Melanie Phillips31.05.2018

Europe makes an about-face on Israel

So what’s changed? Well, first of all, the situation on the ground.

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Melanie Phillips17.05.2018

At the Israel border, pointing fingers at the wrong abuser

Why the refusal to acknowledge that Israel is the victim of Arab and Muslim exterminatory violence?

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Melanie Phillips03.05.2018

The Mossad’s stupendous achievement in Tehran

The Iranians now know that, in obtaining this most closely guarded information, the Mossad penetrated the innermost sanctums of the Iranian security apparatus.

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Melanie Phillips19.04.2018

An open letter to the Muslim world

If you finally were to decide to end your war against us in Israel, finally decide that you love your children more than you hate us, finally decide that instead of trying to destroy Israel you want it to help you accommodate to modernity, you will find our hands extended in friendship.

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Melanie Phillips04.04.2018

Labour as a party to the hard left

They are behaving as if this anti-Semitism thing has arrived like a thunderbolt out of a clear blue sky.

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Melanie Phillips22.03.2018

Globalism is not a Jewish concept

It is quite wrong to believe that attachment to the nation—and the desire to uphold and defend its values—is somehow inimical to a broad and generous view of the world.

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