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The Palestinian laundromat

Melanie Phillips - JNS.org — Sun, 03 May 2026 08:10:41 +0000

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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The Islamist capture of New York

Melanie Phillips - JNS.org — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 06:16:35 +0000

The victory of New York state assemblyman Zohran Mamdani in the New York City mayoral election was long heralded by the opinion polls. Yet its effect upon America threatens to be nothing less than seismic. It’s not just that Mamdani may wreck the city through the expected multiple failures of his infantile magic money-tree wish […]

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Galloping Islamization in Britain and America

Melanie Phillips - JNS.org — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 23:13:39 +0000

In Britain and the United States, there are signs that creeping Islamization has now accelerated to a gallop. Until recently, America viewed the erosion of Western norms by Islam as a British and European problem from which America was largely immune. That is now far from the case. Last week, the 34-year-old Democratic Socialist Zohran […]

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Kamala Harris is the “pro-Jewish candidate” in this year’s U.S. presidential election

Menachem Rosensaft — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 06:40:50 +0000

Zealots — true believers — are far worse than merely dangerous. They can be, to seriously mix metaphors here, ideological pied pipers who lead gullible, not to say dumb, lemmings into the sea. Melanie Phillips is one such zealot. She worships seemingly breathlessly at the feet of Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu, JD Vance, and just […]

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Israel’s Orwellian nightmare

Melanie Phillips - JNS.org — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 03:55:34 +0000

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. Yet, instead of being supported in its attempt to prevent a second holocaust of […]

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Israelophobia is the newest form of the oldest hatred

Melanie Phillips - JNS.org — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 02:38:07 +0000

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.” The word “antisemitism” was invented by a 19th-century Jew-hater, Wilhelm Marr, who wanted to invest this prejudice with the spurious characteristic of race in order to appeal to […]

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The real crisis in the West

Melanie Phillips - JNS.org — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 06:48:44 +0000

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.” In its eagerness to identify such crises, however, the West looks everywhere but in the right direction. Three years ago, French President Emmanuel Macron said, “Islam is a religion that […]

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The urgent need for Israeli electoral reform

Melanie Phillips - JNS.org — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 05:19:55 +0000

Democracy is currently being undermined in many parts of the free world. In Israel, the threat is deeper and wider than either side will admit, given the near-civil war that has erupted over the government’s proposed judicial reforms. Enormous demonstrations against the reforms have been taking place in Tel Aviv and elsewhere over the past […]

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The real threat to Israeli democracy

Melanie Phillips - JNS.org — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 06:32:34 +0000

The huge demonstrations that continue in Israel and turned violent this week are fueled by the claim that the government’s judicial reform package spells the end of Israeli democracy. It is, of course, beyond nonsensical to try to bring down a democratically elected government with calls for “bloodshed on the streets” and “civil war” on […]

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Biden’s less than ironclad commitment to Israel

Melanie Phillips - JNS.org — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 05:05:30 +0000

Forget the bromides about America’s “unbreakable bond” with Israel and how the United States is Israel’s “greatest friend.” Over the past week, the Biden administration has crossed two ominous red lines. For the first time in six years, the U.S. enabled a vote against Israel at the United Nations, supporting a U.N. Security Council statement […]

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