Melanie Phillips

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

J'accuse: Britain's political and cultural establishment has blood on its hands today

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.

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The hypocrisy, double standards and malevolence are off the scale

The hypocrisy and double standards over the massacre of the Druze included those people who blamed Israel—the only country that went to their aid—for attacking Syria. Opinion.

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Nazi chic and soft-soaping the Jew-baiters

The current frenzy over Israel can be seen as the last remaining front of the Second World War. Opinion.

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The need to acknowledge Muslim antisemitism

Britain may be an outlier for now, but America’s not far behind. Opinion.

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The new populism of the Judeocidal left

The radical candidate poised to become New York’s mayor embodies an alliance between reactionary Islamism and left- wing progressivism. Opinion.

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The return of the neocon canard

Israel’s war with Iran has given an ancient blood libel a new lease of life. Opinion.

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Iran's nightmare has come to pass

The West needs to realize that Israel has changed the power structure in the Middle East. Opinion.

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Diaspora Jews under siege

Israel’s defenders need to be smarter and more strategic, calling out the haters for being the very things that they purport to hate. Opinion.

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Blood on their hands

Horrifyingly, antisemitism has become a moral obligation for liberals. Opinion.

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The gold-plated peacenik in the White House

Israelis are wondering whether they’ve escaped one nightmare to find themselves in another. Opinion.

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The indestructible myth of famine in Gaza

Universalism is a secular religion whose falsehoods are protected by a doctrine of infallibility. Opinion.

Today's antisemitism:

The fatal flaw in memorializing the Holocaust

Far from protecting against rampant antisemitism, it has only fueled it. Op-ed.

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King Abdullah and the Islamists

As the Arab Muslim world moves forward, the West is going backwards. Opinion.

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The real lesson of the attack on Josh Shapiro

It’s not just the man suspected of setting fire to the Pennsylvania governor’s Harrisburg home who has lost his mind. The attack on Shapiro’s house is what “Globalize the intifada!” looks like. Opinion.

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The real cause of the antisemitism tsunami

Fighting this global evil requires Jews to get out in front. Opinion.

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Israel's agonizing dilemma

Hamas left Israel no alternative but to resume the war and this second stage of the war is different from the first because Israel no longer has to fight America, too. Opinion.

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The West is facing an Islamic holy war

Governments and the public alike persist in a state of lethal timidity and denial, but they must start connecting the dots. Opinion.

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The myth of Masafer Yatta

From Hollywood to the BBC, a genocidal narrative of lies is promoted as factually true. Opinion.

A vile equivalence

Jews who support the Palestinian death cult pose the greatest danger to the Jewish people. Opinion.

Civilization weeps

The terrible fate of the Bibas family, and all of the other victims of Gazan Arab depravity, symbolizes the moral sickness of the West. Opinion.

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The dismantling of a malevolent empire

USAID is only one outpost of a corrupted humanitarian establishment. “Human rights” have been turned into the anvil upon which justice and conscience are being smashed. Opinion.

Netanyahu Derangement Syndrome

It’s not Israelis who are struggling with challenges to their values but Jews in the Diaspora. Opinion.

The art of the deal or the rout of the real?

The love-in with Qatar by Trump's Middle East enforcer is a troubling omen. Opinion.

The devastating but ambiguous Musk effect

The owner of the X social-media platform shows what Israel’s defenders could achieve if they came off the back foot. Opinion.

America’s Islamist problem

The New Orleans attack is yet another wake-up call. Will it be heeded now that Americans have been brought up hard against the evidence that this is a homegrown problem as well? Opinion.