Melanie Phillips

Those amazing and heroic Israelis

An averted catastrophe in the air shows how the Jewish state chooses life, while Britain and the West are embracing a culture of death.

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Why ‘Fauda’ has shocked the West

A TV show delivers truths that people don’t know have been so lethally denied. Opinion.

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The malignancy of the left

An astonishing ovation revealed the importance of anti-Zionist Israelis to the global campaign to destroy the Jewish state. Opinion.

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The ethnic cleansers of Whitehall

Britain’s “as-a-Jew" foreign secretary is a disgrace to his people. Opinion.

The new libel to destroy Israel

Anti-Israel libel of the month: Violence in the “West Bank" is being malevolently misrepresented. Opinion.

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Britain’s moral depravity

UK's campaign against the Israeli “settlers" amounts to racist ethnic cleansing and Burnham's threatened boycott would affect all Israeli products. Israel might now suggest politely that since the UK apparently hates the Jewish state so much, it surely won’t want to benefit any further from Israeli intelligence or arms. Opinion. supplies.Opinion.

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Wise up, America!

The war of conquest against the West involves both Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood. Opinion.

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Gaslighting on steroids

The libels against Israel are all falling apart. The libels are not acknowledged because they are driven by the incontrovertible antisemitic - if insane - belief that Israel is a unique force for evil in the world. Opinion.

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The suicidal significance of the Michigan Democratic primary

Anti-Zionism and hatred of Israel are a Trojan horse - the real goal is Islamization. Opinion.

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The tragic Israel wedge

Jewish leaders need to quickly close the gap that has opened up between Zionism and Judaism. Anti-Zionism, which would destroy the religion by detaching it from the land, is inescapably anti-Judaism. And Bret Stephens fell into the trap. Opinion.

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A tsunami of lies

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani should be held to account for libelous incitement against Israel and the Jews. Opinion.

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Scapegoating the Jews

Astoundingly, the demonization of Israel has become a key driver of Western politics. Vance, for example, has chosen to mask his humiliation at the hands of Iran by the time-dishonored ploy of dumping on the Jews.Opinion.

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The trillion-dollar campaign to conquer the West

The Islamists are playing the longest civilizational war game in the world. Opinion.

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The fateful question for Diaspora Jews

Anti-Zionism, wherever and whenever it appears, is an attack on Judaism itself. Antisemitism has been reframed as an attempt by Jews to mask their own conspiracy against the public good and to conceal the crimes of the State of Israel. Op-ed.

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Alarm bells go off in New York

Anti-Zionism is turning the Democratic Party into a mortal enemy of America. Opinion.

Melanie Phillips: Trump let Tehran dictate the deal

Speaking at the JNS summit, Melanie Phillips criticized President Trump's Iran ceasefire, arguing it handed Tehran the advantage and weakened the West.

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Trump’s surrender

Something darker is at work here than just a concern over rising fuel prices. Opinion.

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Trump’s civilizational moment

The Iranian regime remains a threat not because it’s strong, but because America is weak. Opinion.

President Trump: A second Obama?

For the Iranian regime, the purpose of negotiations is to force America to surrender. Opinion.

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War against Israel targets the British Museum

Historical truths backed up by ancient artifacts are now pitted against a lethal echo chamber. Opinion.

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A dangerous dividing line

Diaspora Jews cannot properly be defended if they do not or fail to comprehend the monstrosity of the scapegoating and demonization of Israel. Opinion.

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The anti-Jewish fever dream of ‘The New York Times’

We’re living through a throwback to murderous beliefs from before the age of reason. Opinion.

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The anti-Zionist contagion

Condemning Jew-hatred while simultaneously inciting it through incendiary distortions is the mind-twisting stock in trade of the anti-Israel left. Diaspora Jewish leaders should get up off their knees and start fighting it. Opinion.

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The Palestinian Arab laundromat

Shockingly, the West has framed antisemitism and anti-Zionism as conscience itself. Opinion.

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The dawn of a new world order

Israel is very concerned that it may be losing America. America should be no less concerned that it’s losing Israel. Opinion.

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An unholy silence

The pope’s genuflection to Islam spells disaster for Western civilization. Opinion.

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The West’s fifth column

It’s been chilling to witness a media and political class-mainly on the left, but also on the right-from the start, willing America and Israel to lose this war in which Iran used proxy armies to impose its murderous brand of Islam throughout the world. Opinion.

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Finish the job, Mr. President!

If the Iranian regime isn’t totally defanged but survives to recover and rearm, it will not only continue to menace the region. Such an outcome will also advertise that the leader of the free world is a paper tiger. Opinion.

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The ethnostate illusion

Jews should be aware of the cry of pain behind a resurrected antisemitic libel. Opinion.

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An alliance of light against darkness

The war against Iran may defeat the axis of evil-and put America and Israel at the head of a new world order. Opinion.

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The crumbling wall of Hamas propaganda

It seems, though, that nothing can be allowed to challenge the narrative of heartless Israelis and wretched Palestinian Arabs. Opinion.

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Fight! Fight! Fight!

Jewish victimization should not be dismissed as unbeatable. It must be fought harder and better. Op-ed.

Antisemitism: Melanie Phillips

Bret Stephens is wrong. Jews can’t just ignore antisemitism

We have a moral obligation to fight for our survival. We should be saying that Zionism is an inseparable part of Judaism, and so antizionism is an attempt to destroy not just Israel but Judaism itself

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The deepening madness against the Jews

Jew-haters think their time has come. The proper response to this war against the Jewsh people is not to deflect it, but to fight it better. Opinion

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The West’s pragmatic fallacy

Qatar represents the Jeffrey Epstein of world politics. Opinion.

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The emergence of Holocaust erasure

The world is missing the key point-that it was a uniquely monstrous crime aimed specifically at the extermination of the Jewish people. Opinion.

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A Caesar in the White House

The old world order is dead because Western universalists destroyed it. Opinion.

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The high stakes in Iran

Ending the Islamic regime in Tehran would help reset the West’s moral compass. Opinion.

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How international law has been weaponized against Israel

The rules-based global order has expired in disgrace. Opinion.

A shield for antisemites:

“Judaism Without Zionism"

Don’t be misled: it’s time for us to all put our heads above the parapet and be vocally proud of the world’s only Jewish state. Opinion.

American conservatism and ‘the Jewish Question’

The silence of mainstream conservatives over the antisemitism in their midst is lethal for the Republicans and America. Opinion.

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The global intifada

The time for platitudes is over. What’s needed is zero tolerance of Islamic extremism and anti-Zionism. Opinion.

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The humanitarian front against Israel

Mass murder has been branded as conscience to mess with people’s minds. Regarding UNRWA, a U.S. State Department official called it a “corrupt organization with a proven track record of aiding and abetting terrorists.” Not so the UK. Opinion.

The canonization of Marwan Barghouti

For “progressives,” including celebrities across the board, the Palestinian cause is their badge of conscience. Opinion.

The Islamists’ Trojan horse

The twin causes of Arab Palestinianism and human rights have destroyed the West’s moral compass. Opinion.

The muddled morass of ‘settler violence’

Israel has allowed its enemies to defame victims of attack as perpetrators. Opinion.

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The mainstreaming of Jew-hatred

Fragmentation threatens to empower extremes on both the left and right of the political spectrum. Opinion.

The Islamist capture of New York

America must wake up. This is about more than one upstart revolutionary. Opinion.

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New York holds its breath

Appallingly, progressive Jews are supporting an unhinged Jew-hater because they define this stance as conscience. Opinion.

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Galloping Islamization in Britain and America

Alarmingly, what U.S. President Donald Trump is helping Israel fight in the Middle East is rampant in his own backyard. Opinion.

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The war is far from over - Israel is only the beginning

The Oct. 7 attack fired a starting gun for what the Islamists believed was the final push to destroy not only Israel but the West itself. Opinion.

J'accuse

UK's political and cultural establishment has blood on its hands

This situation just isn’t normal. This hysteria which has infected so many people who are apparently quite normal, decent people. This hysteria about Israel based on absolute lies and incitement isn’t normal. It’s a sick pathology to which Starmer and his Labour government have been totally silent. Opinion.

The fantasy state of ‘Palestine’

It’s time for the United States and the Jewish world to start holding their supposed champions’ feet to the fire. Recognition of "Palestine" constitutes the British and French governments' rejection of civilization for barbarism. Opinion.

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Open season against the Jews

The West’s attack on Israel can only be explained by its assault on its own core values and identity.

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An alternative universe

Hamas’s war against civilization pivots on its war against the Western and Israeli mind. Hamas and its Iranian patron have understood that the West no longer has the intellectual wherewithal to recognize the lies in the anti-Israel psyop warfare. Opinion.

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Australia: One eye and four blindfolds

Australia’s sudden realism concerning a malign Iran cannot repair the harm it is doing to Israel and the West. Opinion.

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The Madonna of Gaza

The murderous lies about Israel’s behavior tap into the ancient and enduring Christian problem with the Jews. Opinion.

The media front in the war against civilization

Journalistic fraud has been committed in the service of a very great evil. The mainstream media is itself an active enemy in this war, a crucial weapon being wielded by the Islamic world against Israel through Hamas, the Palestinian Authority, Qatar and Iran. Op-ed.

To the 400 blood-libelling rabbis:

Gaslighting is not a Jewish value

Hamas is now deploying its most powerful weapon of all—ignorant and credulous Western public opinion, including virtue-signalling Jewish clergy. Opinion.

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The worldwide frenzy against Israel

An obsession with the Jewish state has replaced rationality by using lethal propaganda. Opinion.