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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 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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Melanie PhillipsDecember 3, 2020

The agenda that undermines America’s bond with the Jews

The four-year interlude under President Donald Trump is clearly viewed as an irritating setback that must now be reversed.

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Melanie PhillipsNovember 27, 2020

The prospective return of global appeasement

In a knockdown fight between good and evil, liberal universalists split the difference and call that justice.

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Melanie PhillipsNovember 19, 2020

How Nuremberg’s universalism undermined its noble aims

A clear line connects the tribunal on Nazi atrocities to current anti-Semitism.

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Melanie PhillipsNovember 12, 2020

Two public figures left the world: One despicable, one inspirational

Saeb Erekat spoke honeyed words of peace to those in the West determined to ignore ineradicable Palestinian anti-Semitism and Israel-rejectionism. Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks chose to enlighten, inspire and console.

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Melanie PhillipsNovember 5, 2020

Electing a president under an erupting cultural volcano

A seemingly unbridgeable cultural chasm now divides people in the West, including Diaspora Jews.

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Melanie PhillipsOctober 29, 2020

Why Britain’s Labour Party will struggle to erase its moral stain

It identifies a culture “which, at best, did not do enough to prevent anti-Semitism and, at worst, could be seen to accept it.”

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Melanie PhillipsOctober 22, 2020

What sanitizing Louis Farrakhan tells us about the West

Despite his noxious and lethal legacy, the progressive establishment has failed to denounce him or treat him as a pariah. On the contrary, black celebrities, including sports stars and rappers, treat him as a prophet, praising him and echoing his anti-Semitic rhetoric.

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Melanie PhillipsOctober 15, 2020

The BBC isn’t just too ‘woke’—over Israel, it incites baseless hatred

For years, it has uncritically recycled Palestinian propaganda as innately credible and true, while treating demonstrably factual Israeli statements as mendacious propaganda.

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Melanie PhillipsOctober 8, 2020

Turning Britain and America into Salem

As the West blows up its own moral values, Jews are at risk of becoming a speck amidst the rubble.

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Melanie PhillipsOctober 1, 2020

Trivializing the true evil of Nazism

Trump is clearly not aiming to wipe out the Jews, nor create a totalitarian dictatorship, nor attempt the invasion and subjugation of the world.

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