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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. Her work can be found at: www.melaniephillips.com.

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Melanie PhillipsApril 2, 2020
For Israel, recognizing another enemy is second nature
It took a different approach to the coronavirus from the start because it’s a very different kind of society. Unlike the pampered West, Israel permanently lives in a state of potential emergency and existential threat.
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Melanie PhillipsMarch 26, 2020
How the virus exposes magical thinking and short-term greed
In the current crisis, the West is paying the price of pretending that China’s Communist regime does not represent a threat to other countries. COVID-19 has now shown the supreme folly of such an assumption.
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Melanie PhillipsMarch 19, 2020
Mining for hate in ‘The Plot Against America’
At times of apocalyptic dread, conspiracy theories invariably target the Jews.
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Melanie PhillipsMarch 12, 2020
Will a microbe seal the fate of Iran’s virulent regime?
At least 9,000 have been diagnosed with the coronavirus, and 429 have died. Unofficial estimates suggest a figure of 1 million who have been affected by it. And yet, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called the virus “a blessing.”
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Melanie PhillipsMarch 5, 2020
The real center ground: The only political show in town
The public has understood that for decades, they have been offered only one basic story: the progressive worldview that bears no relation to their own lives and aspirations, but which has become the default position of the entire political establishment across the now obsolete left-right divide.
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Melanie PhillipsFebruary 27, 2020
From Aalst to America: The post-modern, anti-Jewish reconfiguration of the West
The real cause of the descent into anti-Zionism and hatred of Jews is secular liberalism, and the cultural fissure that has opened up along fault lines going back to the 18th-century Enlightenment.
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Melanie PhillipsFebruary 20, 2020
Sanitizing Soros through guilt by association
Just because George Soros is a magnet for anti-Semites does not mean there aren’t well-founded grounds for complaints against his behavior.
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Melanie PhillipsFebruary 6, 2020
Arabs are in an uproar (over the prospect of living in Palestine)
In no other conflict have aggressors been invited by their victims to remain citizens of the country they’ve been trying to wipe off the map.
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Melanie PhillipsJanuary 30, 2020
The Palestinians’ bluff has been called
U.S President Donald Trump is telling them to suck it up or lose because the Israelis are going to get what they need to survive.
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Melanie PhillipsJanuary 16, 2020
The West mourns the Jewish dead. But what about the living?
It’s clear that all this Holocaust memorializing and education hasn’t put anti-Semitism back in its putrid box.
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Melanie PhillipsJanuary 9, 2020
The perverse Western mourning for Qassem Soleimani
In this upside-down moral universe, genocidal fanatics, whose dissembling enables liberals to take refuge in the fantasy of a trouble-free solution, must be negotiated with and appeased.
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Melanie PhillipsJanuary 2, 2020
Anti-Semitism is the ultimate marker of cultural derangement
What’s shocking is that so many are shocked. What planet have they all been living on?
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Melanie PhillipsDecember 26, 2019
A Boris bear hug against British anti-Semitism
If Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson really wants to stand with the Jewish community against the forces of darkness, then he needs to start educating the public the truth about Israel and its enemies.
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Melanie PhillipsDecember 19, 2019
Political auto-immune disease among Diaspora Jews
The Muslim world is deeply jealous of the singular status of Jew-hatred as the ultimate bigotry.
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Melanie PhillipsDecember 13, 2019
The British working class saves Britain … and its Jews
The stakes in this election were enormous—not just for the United Kingdom, but for the world.
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