The Israeli canary in the West’s cultural coal mine
The attacks on Ben-Gvir’s Temple Mount excursion defy reason. Op-ed.
Melanie Phillips
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British journalist, broadcaster and author
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The religious culture war comes to Israel
Benjamin Netanyahu and King Charles turn out to have something in common, Op-ed.
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The European Union’s subversion of Israel
Israel’s controversial Maccabean Three may be channeling Jewish history all over again. Op-ed.
How the White House attempt to counter Jew-hatred undermines itself
Someone needs to teach the Biden administration just what antisemitism is. Op-ed.
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The Good Jew/Bad Jew demonization strategy
Hysteria over the new Israeli government will harm the wider Jewish world. Op-ed.
Diaspora Jews keep making the same mistake
Herzl would recognize all too well the tragic fantasy of assimilation. Op-ed.
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The humbug of the West over murdered Israelis
Through Palestinian propaganda, what was once confined to Nazi Germany has now poisoned much of the free world. Op-ed.
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Deep changes in American society are a security risk for Israel.
It’s time for Israel to untie the American apron strings. No need to cut them, however. Op-ed.
Dragons and dragon-slayers in Israel and America
Most Israeli Jews know which is which, most American Jews do not.Op-ed.
Israel joins the West’s culture wars
Those clutching their pearls over the “fascists” poised to join Israel’s new government should look in the mirror. Op-ed.
The unholy alliance between Republicans and Islamists
Conservative despair about the liberal erosion of the West is delivering it to its mortal foes. Op-ed.
The false distinction between anti-Semitism and Israel-bashing
Such lethal myopia now stretches from Australia to a London theater. Op-ed.
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Hysteria greets British PM Liz Truss’s embassy move proposal
Britain’s elites loathe Israel on a scale that just doesn’t exist in America. Op-ed.
Democracy’s watchdog has abandoned its role
American voters have been left ignorant of the peril posed by Biden's two-faced approach to both Israel and Iran. Op-ed.
Why social justice warriors can’t deal with anti-Semitism
The war against the Jews is also the war against Western civilization.Op-ed.
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The momentous task facing King Charles III
The British fear that with the Queen’s death, a Britain of priceless values may also be passing. Op-ed.
Tearing up the rules of engagement between Israel and America
The deepening row over the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh has exposed the excruciating error of Israeli strategy towards the Biden administrat
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The BBC’s perfectly sealed thought system
Complaints about its bias against Israel and its indulgence of Islamist extremism get nowhere. Op-ed.
Apoplexy greets Israel’s move against terror NGOs
How can governments maintain that they have seen no hard evidence? What they really mean is that they reject facts provided by Israel.Op-ed.
With al-Zawahiri’s assassination it's Groundhog Day for America (again)
The US has returned to where it all started: the axis between the Taliban and Al-Qaeda that led to 9/11 and troops in Afghanistan. Op-ed.
Israeli TV’s shallow, irresponsible stunt
Gil Tamary made clear he knew exactly what he was doing by referring to the site as “a place forbidden to non-Muslims.” Op-ed.
The urgent need for proper Jewish leadership
Core Jewish principles involve putting others’ interests before yours, respecting every human being, moral codes on right and wrong. Op-ed.
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POTUS: warm words and empty gestures
Despite the president’s genuine affection for Israel, his itinerary sent out baleful signals.
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The fall of Boris Johnson
The question for voters in the UK, US and Israel is whether a leader’s gifts are more important than character flaws, or vice versa.
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Licking Ben & Jerry’s
It shows what can be achieved when there’s a backlash against anti-Israel bigotry. Op-ed.
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The moral clarity of Nikki Haley
With Republicans lacking a vision for America to counter the disastrous Biden administration, her recent speech was rain in a desert.Op-ed.
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The EU’s Jerusalem charm offensive
Despite all the warm words in Jerusalem, there’s no sign that the longtime hostility towards Israel is about to ease.Op-ed.
The anti-Israel travesty of Pillay’s kangaroo court
The UN singles out Israel for condemnation as a human-rights abuser when it is in fact a democracy deeply commited to human rights.Op-ed.
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Biden administration won’t stop appeasing the Palestinian Arabs
A lethal refusal to face reality in the Middle East plagues American administrations, as well as Britain and Europe, for many decades.Op-ed
No rainbow’s end for the Jews of Oz
New Australian PM Anthony Albanese has called Israel an “oppressor” and accused it of collective punishment against Palestinian Arabs.Op-ed.
The ‘broken windows’ strategy for combating Israel demonization
A culture self-destructs if its people choose not to defend it. Bad people get away with bad stuff when everyone looks the other way.Op-ed
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How Western dupes help propagate murderous Palestinian lies
The media generally choose to believe the Palestinians, even though they routinely lie about Israel. Op-ed.
Why Russia has once again turned on the Jews
This reversal of truth and lies, victim and aggressor, right and wrong is the hallmark of Soviet propaganda.Opinion.
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The real reason for Blinken’s alarming warning about Iran
Perhaps the US secretary of state intended to frighten people so much that opposition to American concessions to Iran melted away. Op-ed.
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The key lesson from Ukraine for international order
Israel understands that the UN is a broken institution that helps sow terror and injustice - and it’s so often on the receiving end. Op-ed.
Blinken’s obscene Western ‘progressive’ agenda
Blinken showed what a Western progressive is: supporting murderers of Israelis and empowering others who want to wipe out Israel.Op-ed.
Why liberals fail to equate Israel and Ukraine
The reaction to aggression against each country plays very differently in the anti-Semitic West. Opinion.
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Biden’s unconscionable empowerment of both Russia and Iran
Biden is now accepting Putin—the man he calls a “war criminal” and who has threatened nuclear war - as Iran’s nuclear-weapons program. Op-ed
America hasn’t learned the grim truth of asymmetric warfare
The West’s nuclear knife is sheathed, but Putin is brandishing his Like Iran and the PA, disdain for human life lets fanatics succeed.Op-ed
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For the Jews, history repeats itself in Ukraine
It’s true that many Ukrainian nationalists welcomed the Germans as liberators during WWII, then suffered more than Russia from Nazism.Op-ed