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Melanie Phillips is a British journalist, broadcaster, and best-selling author. Her personal and political memoir, “Guardian Angel,” was published last year. An expanded version of this op-ed can be found on JNS.org.
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Hamas left Israel no alternative but to resume the war.
Jews who support the Palestinian death cult pose the greatest danger to the Jewish people.
With his attack on Israel while the nation is fighting for its life, the pontiff has taken the Vatican backwards into a very dark past.
Whether Britain and Europe follow suit or give up the ghost, Jews there aren’t in for an easy ride.
A vital, heart-breaking film stands against the insanity over Israel that has consumed the West.
Kamala Harris has helped fuel the current tsunami of anti-Jewish hatred by recycling the lies and blood libels against Israel spread by Hamas and its Western stooges since Oct. 7.
Israelis won’t forgive or forget the left’s weaponization of the hostages to do Hamas’s dirty work for it.
Apart from any dangers, the political choices they face are likely to make for an uncomfortable ride.
The Jewish state swings in the wind because the genocidal Palestinians are said to have a case.
Human rights culture has mainstreamed Hamas lies.
The Oct. 7 atrocities produced a profound sense of disorientation for progressives because the Palestinian people whose cause they had promoted as the acme of conscience and enlightenment turned out to be savages.
Humanitarian aid has become the blood libel of the day.
In both Britain and America, politics is becoming increasingly distorted.
Instead of regarding Iran as the mortal enemy not just of Israel, but of America and the civilized world, the Biden administration is treating it as an asset that must be protected.
Their unhinged obsession with the “two-state solution” threatens to incentivize Hamas.
The distinction between Hamas and “ordinary” Palestinians is largely spurious.
Obsessional hostility has even infected counterterrorism experts.
The BBC and other Western media outlets are far more than mere useful idiots
Raisi’s triumphalism at the U.N. is a result of the West’s surrender
The distinction between hating Jews and hating Israel is bogus.
The moral corruption of this global body has knocked the free world off its compass.
If Netanyahu won’t alert Americans to their government’s abandonment of Israel, U.S. politicians must step up to the plate.
The West needs to grasp what it says about nation and religion.
For many in the West, Jew-hatred is invisible and grossly misunderstood.
The administration crosses two ominous red lines.
A new book is essential to understanding the current lunacy over Israel and the global jihad.
Israel’s political upheaval reflects partisan tunnel vision on all sides.
The shallowness of progressive Jews is creating a crisis for the Jewish world.
By delivering to the Palestinian Authority a 2,700-year-old spoon dating from the Assyrian empire, the department of Homeland Security has shown that it has internalized the Palestinian big lie
Benjamin Netanyahu and King Charles turn out to have something in common.
Israel’s controversial Maccabean Three may be channeling Jewish history all over again.
What's the definition of insanity?
Deep changes in American society are a security risk for Israel.
Most Israeli Jews know which is which, while most American Jews do not.
Britain’s elites loathe Israel on a scale that just doesn’t exist in America.
Lapid’s support for a Palestinian state compounds a disastrous error.
The deepening row over the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh has exposed the excruciating error of Israeli strategy towards the Biden administration.
Complaints about its bias against Israel and its indulgence of Islamist extremism get nowhere.
How can governments maintain that they have seen no evidence to support this claim? What they really mean is that they reject facts provided by the Jewish state.
The question for voters in Britain, America and Israel is whether a leader’s gifts are more important than his character flaws—or vice versa.
Or Offesve Charm? Despite all the warm words in Jerusalem, there’s no sign that the longtime hostility towards Israel is about to ease.
There is also a lethal refusal to face reality in the Middle East that has characterized American administrations, as well as governments in Britain and Europe, for many decades.
New Australian PM Anthony Albanese has called Israel an “oppressor” and accused it of collective punishment against the Palestinian Arabs.
A culture self-destructs if its people choose not to defend it. Bad people get away with really bad stuff when everyone else chooses to look the other way.
U.S. President Joe Biden is now accepting Russian President Vladimir Putin—the man he calls a “war criminal” and who has threatened nuclear war against the West—as the controller of Iran’s nuclear-weapons program.
The West’s nuclear knife is sheathed, but Russian President Vladimir Putin is brandishing his own in a menacing manner. As with Iran and the Palestinians, such disdain for human life gives fanatics the upper hand.
It’s true that many Ukrainian nationalists initially welcomed the German invaders as liberators during World War Two. But Ukraine suffered more than Russia from Nazism, with more of its population being killed during the war than any other country.
The Biden administration just can’t grasp the fact that tyrants and extremists regard compromise as proof of weakness and an incentive to redouble their aggression.
British intelligence has much to answer for. But there’s also the question of how Malik Faisal Akram was allowed into America in the first place.
As Arabs increasingly turn towards Israel and survival, the West continues in the opposite direction.
Anyone connected to reality would be perplexed by church leaders' campaign to blame Israeli Jews for driving Christians out of Israel, as the country's Christian population actually increased last year.
Political leaders should be neither blindly supported nor opposed. But it’s their deeds that matter, not their words.
Claims of moral equivalency are bogus. Bigotry is based on falsehoods, not fact.
Many leaders are terrified that speaking the truth about Israel will cause them to lose their access to the political and intellectual circles they prize so highly, and in which they pretend to themselves they are accepted as equals just like anyone else.
Green ideology represents humanity as the enemy of sustainable life—so much so that some people are choosing not to have children in order to “help the planet.” Such priority afforded to the inanimate and animal world is deeply pagan.
Many liberal Jews don’t want to know about Jewish exceptionalism because it runs smack into the cardinal precepts of liberal dogma—universalism, the rejection of cultural singularity and the eradication of difference as “discrimination.”
What actually binds these groups together is an ultimately incomprehensible animus against Judaism and the Jewish people.
When it comes to the West, the Israelis not only fail to grasp the eye-watering depth and extent of Jew-hatred and European hypocrisy,, they also don’t try to understand it.
Jewish defenders should target their enemies’ Achilles heel—their narcissism and belief in their own unimpeachable virtue.
The vicious doctrine of "intersectionality," which links different categories of "victims" together and demonizes their purported "oppressors" such as white people, men or those who believe in biological differences between men and women, also targets Zionism and the Jews.
Their values turn Jewish principles of justice and truth on their heads, and their Israel-bashing is but a thin veneer for a hatred of other Jews or Judaism itself.
There is a glaring problem with Joe Biden’s choice of Deborah Lipstadt: A president who has himself trivialized the Nazi regime to make a partisan political smear appoints as his anti-Semitism envoy the person who defended him in making the repugnant comment.
The late defense secretary understood the need to display unwavering resolve against the enemy. Today, the Biden administration is learning this — or failing to learn it — the hard way.
As enemies of the West ratchet up their aggression, the more determined the Biden administration becomes to appease them.
In the United Kingdom, a strategy of cultural manipulation and intimidation threatens to push politicians into hostility towards Israel, and it is actively imperiling the security of British Jews.
While the scale and ferocity of the antisemitism now on display are indeed shocking, how can Jews possibly be surprised? The libelous demonization of Israel and the consequent rise in attacks on Diaspora Jews have been going on for decades.
There’s a profound need in the West for the Jews to be proved bad people. Among the Israel-haters is a breathless eagerness for the moment when they can shout “gotcha” and then put the Jews into the public pillory.
If Jews feel threatened by some Christians through conversion or assimilation, Christianity itself feels threatened by Judaism—specifically, by the fact that the links between the two religions are far more fundamental than many Christians like to acknowledge.
Those in its grip believe that Jews possess diabolical powers, that they are a secret conspiracy to control global affairs in their own malign interests, that they are responsible for the ills in the world.
The death in Jerusalem of the 86-year-old leader has robbed the Jewish world of one of its towering figures at a time when it is particularly ill-equipped for such a loss.
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.
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.
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.
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 …
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.
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?
A covenant is a commitment going beyond mutual advantage, requiring instead joint obligations in a permanent, unconditional and unbreakable union.
Those trying to defend principles of law and constitutional order against the left have been grievously undermined.
He remains a product of his time and an enigma. Was he on the side of the Jewish people—or their enemies?
In a knockdown fight between good and evil, liberal universalists split the difference and call that justice.
As the West blows up its own moral values, Jews are at risk of becoming a speck amidst the rubble.
Hitherto suppressed truths are now being told in the Arab world in a way that was previously unthinkable.
They have a duty to speak up against any danger that threatens the Jewish community or the fundamental precepts of civilized life. What’s crucial, however, is that they make a correct judgment-call on such matters—one that reflects Jewish ethical principles of truth and justice.
Britain, France and Germany support Russia and China in shoring up Iran, a regime that has waged a 40-year war against the West, intends to wipe Israel off the map and seeks nuclear weapons.
Western civilization is hanging in the balance. Don’t support the twisted, amoral thinking of those who are on the way to destroying it.
If silence ensues, nothing will combat the lie that Israel is a rogue state that illegally steals another people’s land. Not only does this lie drive hatred of Israel in the West, it also foments attacks on Diaspora Jews who are held responsible for Israel’s actions.
Unlike Israel, its Middle Eastern neighbors were artificial creations through which the model of the nation-state was imposed upon unruly tribal areas in the hope and expectation that this would give them order, stability and prosperity.
Jews don’t need a crisis to tell them who or what they are. For Jews, the sense of who and what they are is what sustains them through such crises.
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.
Just because George Soros is a magnet for anti-Semites does not mean there aren’t well-founded grounds for complaints against his behavior.
Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Christians are safe. Yet some churches dump on the Jewish state, not only assisting the mortal threat it faces from Palestinian Muslims, but ignoring the threat those people pose to the church itself.
{Originally posted to the JNS website} Leave aside, for the moment, the deepening rows about U.S. President Donald Trump’s “vision” for ending the Middle East conflict. Leave aside the question whether the plan’s lead author, Jared Kushner, and the U.S. ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, backtracked on an “immediate” Israeli declaration of sovereignty over the […]
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.
It’s clear that all this Holocaust memorializing and education hasn’t put anti-Semitism back in its putrid box.
The Muslim world is deeply jealous of the singular status of Jew-hatred as the ultimate bigotry.
The stakes in this election were enormous—not just for the United Kingdom, but for the world.
Many think that anti-Semitism is a prejudice against Jews as people, whereas anti-Zionism and Israel-bashing are legitimate attacks on a political project.
The European Court of Justice has discriminated against Jews by singling out Israeli businesses from Arab ones. Its ruling is deeply politicized and disreputable, owing everything to boilerplate European prejudice against Israel, and nothing to law and justice.
Incendiary Jew-hatred has become the signature cause of “progressives,” who tell themselves that targeting Israeli settlements proves their own virtue by supporting a righteous cause.
June 26, 2026 
