Can Israel afford to stand up to America?
July 5, 2024 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
There’s no denying the severe tensions between the Biden administration and the Israeli government over the war being waged against Israel by Iran and its proxies. Read more
The driver of Western Jew-hatred
June 28, 2024 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
Jew-hatred in the Diaspora is out of control and escalating. Read more
The ‘Gaza famine’ myth
June 21, 2024 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
It’s now quite clear that there are simply no facts at all—none—that will alter the fixed narrative of lies, distortions and blood libels with which the liberal internationalist order is demonizing and delegitimizing Israel. Read more
The looming choice for Diaspora Jews
June 14, 2024 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
Is it time for the Jews of Britain, Europe and America to leave? Read more
The Middle East’s fateful moment
June 7, 2024 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
If people think the war in Gaza is intolerable, they should buckle up for what may now be coming. Read more
Buried facts about the Gaza war
May 19, 2024 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
The extent to which the political class and the media are burying facts that undermine their poisonous narrative in order to defame and undermine Israel’s war of survival has become simply jaw-dropping. Read more
Buried facts about the Gaza war
May 17, 2024 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
The extent to which the political class and the media are burying facts that undermine their poisonous narrative in order to defame and undermine Israel’s war of survival has become simply jaw-dropping. Read more
The ivory tower jihad
May 3, 2024 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
The shocking scenes on campus over the past few days are far more significant than mere student demonstrations getting out of hand. Read more
The surreal echo chamber of lies
April 12, 2024 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
Deeply traumatised by the Oct. 7 massacre, the unthinkable plight of the hostages and the relentless uptick of dead and wounded soldiers in this seemingly endless war, Israelis are bracing themselves for even worse. Read more
The global onslaught against Israel
April 5, 2024 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
As Israel battles for survival against Iran and its proxies, it is being subjected to a virtual auto-da-fé by its supposed allies. Read more
Israel’s Orwellian nightmare
March 29, 2024 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
For the Jewish world, these are nightmarish, hallucinatory times. Israel is fighting a hydra-headed genocidal enemy that not only slaughtered 1,200 women, children and men and took more than 240 hostages but intends to repeat such atrocities until Israel is destroyed. Read more
The American betrayal of Israel
March 22, 2024 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
As some of us have long feared, and that has now become undeniable, Israel is fighting not one but two wars of defence against a malevolent foe. Read more
The West’s abandonment of the Jews
March 15, 2024 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
With every day that passes, it becomes ever clearer that Western civilization is no longer civilized. Read more
The scapegoating of Israel
March 8, 2024 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
The name of David Cameron, Britain’s foreign secretary, is on course to become a synonym for infamy in Britain’s Jewish community to rival that of Ernest Bevin. Read more
The terror of the right
March 1, 2024 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
There’s a fixed belief in progressive circles that if only Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, were to be removed from office, there would be at least a sporting chance of peace in the Middle East. Read more
The antisemitism crisis is out of control
February 16, 2024 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
The war in Gaza is prying open a potentially game-changing fissure in British politics that has wider implications for the Western world. Read more
America and Britain cross a treacherous red line
February 4, 2024 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
Fears that the Biden administration’s bear hug of embattled Israel is the prelude to eating it alive were dramatically enhanced this week. Read more
The West’s lethal error in the war against Israel
January 19, 2024 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
In the current war in the Middle East, it’s a given that a distinction must be drawn between Hamas and the “ordinary” Palestinian Arab residents of Gaza. Read more
The revival of an ancient calumny
December 22, 2023 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
There’s an unmistakable drumbeat to the antisemitism that’s erupted across the West in the wake of the Oct. 7 pogrom. In response to the genocidal Jew-hatred fuelling Hamas and the Palestinian Arabs, an even older form of the oldest hatred has surfaced—Christian hostility to the Jews. Read more
The persistent ‘two-state’ delusion
December 15, 2023 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
The simmering tensions between Israel and the Biden administration over the plan for post-war Gaza have now come to a boil. Read more
The devastating Hamas weapon of war
December 1, 2023 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
Hamas, the genocidal jihadi force responsible for the barbaric Oct. 7 pogrom in Israel, has a devastating weapon of war. That weapon is the Western media. Read more
The infernal choice behind the hostage deal
November 24, 2023 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
As if Israelis weren’t traumatized enough by the depraved Hamas pogrom on Oct. 7, the hostage deal concluded this week cruelly deepened their agony. Read more
Is Britain going wobbly on Israel?
November 19, 2023 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
After the Oct. 7 Hamas pogrom, Britain’s Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak came out in emotional support of Israel, stating that it had “an absolute right to defend itself.” Read more
Spitting in God’s eye
October 6, 2023 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
Earlier this week, ultra-Orthodox Jews parading through Jerusalem’s Old City passed a group of Christians bearing a large wooden cross. Some of the Jews spat on the ground in the Christians’ direction. Read more
Musk vs. Greenblatt is the unspeakable vs. the uneatable
September 8, 2023 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
The cage fight now taking place between the U.S. Anti-Defamation League and the world’s richest man Elon Musk is, as Oscar Wilde might have observed, a contest between the unspeakable and the uneatable. Read more
Israelophobia is the newest form of the oldest hatred
September 1, 2023 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
Antisemitism is a rotten term for the “longest hatred” that targets the Jewish people. For a start, there is no such thing as “semitism” to be “anti.” Read more
Why compromise is unlikely in Israel’s crisis
July 28, 2023 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
The night before Monday’s Knesset vote on the first of the government’s proposed judicial reforms, a video filmed on the escalators in Jerusalem’s central train station went viral on social media. Read more
Herzog’s lamentable performance
July 23, 2023 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
Far from the diplomatic triumph that some are making it out to be, Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s address to Congress this week left a bad taste in the mouth. Read more
The real crisis in the West
July 14, 2023 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
Over the past six months, the mass protests in Israel over judicial reform have elicited loud cries in the West that Israel is “in crisis.” Read more
It’s time to dismantle the United Nations
June 30, 2023 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
The malevolent scapegoating of Israel by the United Nations has long been a scandal.