Melanie Phillips

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Melanie PhillipsMarch 7, 2019

How anti-Semitism became unleashed in the West

Those with power can never be good; those without power can never be bad. Those who make money have power over those who don’t make money. Those who make money are bad; those without money are good. Jews make money. Therefore, Jews are powerful and bad.

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Melanie PhillipsFebruary 21, 2019

While hoaxes make headlines, real attacks on Jews keep happening

Such falsifications are justified on the grounds that they illustrate a “broader truth.” But they are in fact lies.

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Melanie PhillipsFebruary 7, 2019

Is Netanyahu making deals with the devil?

His strategy is to turn the weapon of isolating Israel on its head by forging alliances wherever he can.

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Melanie PhillipsJanuary 24, 2019

The dirty little secret of the ‘diversity’ agenda

The default narrative on the left singles out Israel for demonization based on lies and distortions afforded to no other country, people or cause, and which has legitimized anti-Semitic tropes straight out of Nazi or medieval Christian playbooks.

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Melanie PhillipsJanuary 10, 2019

Two national leaders, two TV addresses to fire up their base

Both these appearances were cameo performances that served to highlight, in very different ways, the alarming trend now accelerating across the West: the breakdown of respect for the rule of law and democratic institutions.

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Melanie PhillipsDecember 27, 2018

Who are the real isolationists in America?

What’s crucial is that any occupant of the White House understands that America is not a planet in another galaxy. What happens 5,000 miles away may well affect its own security and well-being.

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Melanie PhillipsDecember 13, 2018

Is the State of Israel supping with the devil?

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has gone out of his way to embrace leaders who, although some insist they are just conservative nationalists, are described by others as neo-fascists. However, Western liberals pose more of a threat to Jews than the fringe on the far-right.

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Melanie PhillipsNovember 29, 2018

The lethal error in appeasing Iran

Despite Tehran’s deranged, genocidal call to arms, European governments are still trying to circumvent U.S. policy against Iran in an attempt to keep the nuclear deal alive.

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Melanie PhillipsNovember 15, 2018

The distracted obsessions of progressive American Jews

They accuse President Trump of sowing social division, hatred and anti-Semitism. They can’t see that that they are themselves effectively enabling social division, hatred and anti-Semitism by their spurious equivalence, tunnel vision and outright double standards.

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Melanie PhillipsNovember 1, 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 PhillipsOctober 18, 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 PhillipsOctober 4, 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 PhillipsSeptember 20, 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 PhillipsSeptember 6, 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 PhillipsJuly 26, 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?