Melanie Phillips: 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.
Jonathan S. Tobin: The British party’s drift towards antisemitism wasn’t inevitable; it was the result of a centrist collapse. While their situation is different, Democrats could face a similar dilemma.
Melanie Phillips: The contemporary expression of the oldest hatred didn’t start with Jeremy Corbyn, and it won’t end with him. It has been around for decades and is endemic in progressive circles, not just in Britain but throughout the West.
Melanie Phillips: Most of the antisemitism on the left takes the form of obsessive and paranoid falsehoods, distortion and double standards directed at the behavior of the State of Israel, with much of this onslaught echoing the imagery and tropes of medieval and Nazi antisemitism.
President-elect Donald Trump has lost no time in stressing his desire to end the Arab-Jewish conflict which has seen many proposals in the last 100 years fall by the wayside as a result of unrelenting Arab rejection to any Jewish State in former Palestine.
