Melanie Phillips - JNS.org, Author at J-Wire https://www.jwire.com.au/author/melanie-phillips-jns-org/ Australia, NZ and worldwide Jewish news that matters Sun, 03 May 2026 09:44:52 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 6446428 The Palestinian laundromat https://www.jwire.com.au/the-palestinian-laundromat/ https://www.jwire.com.au/the-palestinian-laundromat/#respond Sun, 03 May 2026 08:10:41 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=180515 In America and Britain, political violence and attacks on Jews are becoming normalised and even justified. Many have commented on the fact that Cole Tomas Allen, the 31-year-old shooter from California who allegedly set out to kill U.S. President Donald Trump and administration officials at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner last Saturday evening, parroted the […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/the-palestinian-laundromat/feed/ 0 180515 The dawn of a new world order https://www.jwire.com.au/the-dawn-of-a-new-world-order/ https://www.jwire.com.au/the-dawn-of-a-new-world-order/#respond Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:49:38 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=180127 Most people in America are against the war with Iran, as they are in Britain, too. Very few, however, actually understand why this war is as necessary as it is unavoidably complex. Few seem aware that Iran has been actively at war against America for the past 47 years. Few seem to grasp that Iran’s […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/the-dawn-of-a-new-world-order/feed/ 0 180127 An unholy silence https://www.jwire.com.au/an-unholy-silence/ https://www.jwire.com.au/an-unholy-silence/#comments Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:29:30 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=179891 When U.S. President Donald Trump sent Vice President JD Vance to negotiate with members of the Iranian regime in Islamabad, people initially thought that Vance—reportedly the most outspoken voice in the Trump administration against going to war with Iran—would be a soft touch. When the talks in Pakistan broke down, however, Vance’s position could hardly […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/an-unholy-silence/feed/ 1 179891 Finish the job, Mr. President! https://www.jwire.com.au/finish-the-job-mr-president/ https://www.jwire.com.au/finish-the-job-mr-president/#comments Fri, 27 Mar 2026 06:55:06 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=179252 As the clock ticks away toward U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest “negotiate or I unleash hell” deadline, the Iranian regime thinks that it’s winning.   In the West, the serried ranks of “experts” also think that America and Israel are heading either for a deepening quagmire or a humiliating retreat. It’s not possible to predict […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/finish-the-job-mr-president/feed/ 1 179252 Wimps and warriors https://www.jwire.com.au/wimps-and-warriors/ https://www.jwire.com.au/wimps-and-warriors/#respond Sun, 22 Mar 2026 07:04:38 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=178962 The war against Iran is having a most clarifying effect. It’s shining a light on those who are prepared to stand with civilisation against barbarism and flushing out those who are not. The usual suspects—those who hate Israel, despise America and stick pins into effigies of U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/wimps-and-warriors/feed/ 0 178962 The ethnostate illusion https://www.jwire.com.au/the-ethnostate-illusion/ https://www.jwire.com.au/the-ethnostate-illusion/#respond Fri, 13 Mar 2026 05:29:48 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=178661 There’s been growing concern in America over the increasingly mainstream belief that Israel drags it into foreign wars, a belief given rocket fuel by the war against Iran. This belief not only ignores demonstrable reality—the thousands of Americans who have been killed by Iranian-backed terrorists or militias for almost half a century; the accelerated progress […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/the-ethnostate-illusion/feed/ 0 178661 The crumbling wall of Hamas propaganda https://www.jwire.com.au/the-crumbling-wall-of-hamas-propaganda/ https://www.jwire.com.au/the-crumbling-wall-of-hamas-propaganda/#respond Fri, 27 Feb 2026 07:02:36 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=178085 Stone by stone, the wall of lies constructed in the West to defame, delegitimize and destroy Israel is crumbling away. Protests by Israel’s defenders that these lies constitute an agenda of unique malevolence have all been batted away as partisan Zionist lobbying. Not only are the perpetrators of this anti-Israel onslaught impervious to facts, truth […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/the-crumbling-wall-of-hamas-propaganda/feed/ 0 178085 Fight! Fight! Fight! https://www.jwire.com.au/fight-fight-fight/ https://www.jwire.com.au/fight-fight-fight/#respond Fri, 20 Feb 2026 07:03:59 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=177886 A lively debate is underway in the Jewish world about whether Jews are wise to present themselves as victims. In the Jewish Journal, Rabbi Amitai Fraiman has written that Jewish victimisation is now an outdated paradigm. Jews are no longer seen as vulnerable and marginal, but ever since Israel’s iconic victory in the 1967 Six-Day […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/fight-fight-fight/feed/ 0 177886 The deepening madness against the Jews https://www.jwire.com.au/the-deepening-madness-against-the-jews/ https://www.jwire.com.au/the-deepening-madness-against-the-jews/#comments Sun, 15 Feb 2026 07:29:11 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=177655 The tsunami of global antisemitism in the wake of the massacre of Israelis on Oct. 7, 2023, and during the Gaza war that followed, has caused as much bafflement as horror at the sheer perversity of this malevolence. It’s now become clear, however, that what we’re looking at is an even more sinister pattern of […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/the-deepening-madness-against-the-jews/feed/ 2 177655 The West’s pragmatic fallacy https://www.jwire.com.au/the-wests-pragmatic-fallacy/ https://www.jwire.com.au/the-wests-pragmatic-fallacy/#respond Sun, 08 Feb 2026 07:01:37 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=177444 When people are called pragmatic, it’s meant to imply reasonableness and the ability to compromise, occupying the sensible middle ground. That compliment may often be justified. However, as the obverse of principle, pragmatism has also been the West’s progressive undoing. U.S. President Donald Trump is an arch pragmatist. His “art of the deal” is based […]

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