Melanie Phillips

How Biden has empowered evil in both Russia and Iran

Behind the administration’s policy is the belief system fundamental to the West’s governing and intellectual classes. Op-ed.

The lethal miscalculations over Vladimir Putin

Countries saying he is a menace and has to be stopped were until recently using the “mafia state” he created to enrich themselves. Op-eds.

How America is helping Iran get a nuclear arsenal

With the U.S. State Department’s sanctions waiver, Iran will be confident that it can finish developing nuclear weapons with impunity.Op-ed/

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Whoops, Whoopi: The Holocaust is all about race

The signature characteristic of German Nazism was that it set out to exterminate Jews as a race. Op-ed.

How the West’s appeasement mentality brings not peace, but war

The US gov't doesn't grasp the fact that tyrants and extremists regard compromise as proof of weakness and an incentive for aggression.Op-ed

The unspoken truths behind the Texas synagogue attack

British intelligence has much to answer for. But there’s also the question of how Akram was allowed into America in the first place.Op-ed.

The emergence of Arab Zionism?

As Arabs increasingly turn towards Israel and survival, the West continues in the opposite direction. Op-ed.

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The most important conversation the Jewish world needs to have

Shared peoplehood does not negate the particular compact of citizenship between Israel’s government and its citizens alone. Op-ed.

New Year’s resolution? Abolish the UN Human Rights Council

The new UN commission of inquiry is poised to accuse Israel of purported crime of its very existence going back to its creation. Opinion.

A Christmas crusade: scapegoating the Jews

Church leaders blame Israel for driving Christians out of Israel, but the country’s Christian population actually increased last year.Op-ed.

Trump and Netanyahu: Allies no longer?

Political leaders should be neither blindly supported nor opposed. But it’s their deeds that matter, not their words.

Double standard of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia

Claims of moral equivalency are bogus. Bigotry is based on falsehoods, not fact.Opinion.

Imagine’ all those people …

Indifference or active opposition to border control, without which a nation ceases to exist, is an attitude of national self-hate. Op-ed.

Why Israel needs a strategy to shape the narrative

America and the West ignore the reality about Iran or the Palestinians or the Muslim Brotherhood. Opinion.

Keir Starmer’s Labour anti-Semitism problem

Like so many liberals, he selects aspects of issues that conform to his idealistic viewpoint, blanking out those that undermine it. Op-ed.

The most alarming threat of all to the Jewish people

Leaders fear that speaking the truth on Israel will cause them to lose access to the circles in which they think they are accepted. Op-ed.

The inconvenient truths behind the hysteria over climate change

Green ideology represents humanity as the enemy of sustainable life. Such priority for the inanimate and animal world is pagan.Op-ed..

The crucial but underrated gift of being ‘a people apart’

Many liberal Jews don’t want to know about Jewish exceptionalism because it runs smack into the cardinal precepts of iberal dogma. Op-ed.

The baleful consequences of failing to deal with Islamist extremism

The West is like the apocryphal frog being uncomprehendingly boiled in the pot. In Britain, France and America, the heat is rising. Op-ed.

The real reason for Western support of the Palestinian Arabs

What actually binds these groups together is an ultimately incomprehensible animus against Judaism and the Jewish people.Op-ed

Facing European hypocrisy, it's time for Israel supporters to remake the cultural weather

When it comes to the West, Israelis not only fail to grasp the depth and extent of Jew-hatred, they also don’t try to understand it.Op-ed.

The false accusation of ‘Israel apartheid’

The smear triggers emotions of deep anger and disgust among the ignorant whose knowledge of Israel is drawn from malicious propaganda.Op-ed

The baleful significance of the Democrats’ Iron Dome fiasco

Jewish defenders should target their enemies’ Achilles heel—their narcissism and belief in their own unimpeachable virtue.Op-ed.

The hate-fest that is Durban rears its ugly head again

The United Nations itself is allowing evil to triumph with the complicity of the West. Op-ed.

Two decades on, the West’s cultural fault line exposed by 9/11 remains

In the West there are no “forever wars.” Its wars are either won or lost. For Islamic extremists, war is forever; defeat is temporary. Op-ed

When anti-Semitic lunatics take control of the academic asylum

A new literary weapon by Andrew Pessin is a sparkling and savagely satirical novel about campus “cancel culture.” Op-ed.

When the Jew-bashers are Jews

Their values turn Jewish principles on their heads, and their Israel-bashing is a thin veneer for a hatred of Jews or Judaism itself. Op-ed.

Envoy will first need to root out anti-Semitism in the Democratic Party

A president who trivialized the Nazi regime to make a partisan political smear has appointed Lipstadt, who defended him for it. Op-ed.

The invisible victims of jihadi violence

Westerners don’t understand the threat to their own security because it doesn’t fit the liberal narrative about Muslims as victims. Op-ed

The real scoop? How Jews won’t lick the demonization of Israel

The point about Ben & Jerry’s, as with all boycotts of Israel, is that the main issue is not the boycott. It’s the thinking behind it.

The real challenge of reconciling Christians and Jews

Saying sorry for the past just isn’t enough. Addressing Christian anti-Semitism involves facing its anti-Israel element head-on.Op-ed.

Media malpractice in the West has caused permanent harm to Israel

The effect of media's invidious role fomenting rage against Israel and Jews, while sanitizing the Palestinian Arabs, is incalculable. Op-ed.

Donald Rumsfeld’s legacy: a warning against American retreat

Rumsfeld wanted to show unwavering resolve against the enemy. The Biden administration is learning this, or failing to, the hard way. Op-ed

The irrational faith in reason of the liberal intellectual

As enemies of the West ratchet up their aggression, the more determined the Biden administration becomes to appease them.Op-ed.

Palestinianism is opening up a posthumous Nazi front against Jews

In the UK cultural manipulation and intimidation pushes politicians into hostility to Israel, imperiling the security of British Jews.Op-ed

Meddling with Israel’s security, Biden is also dangerously interfering with UK governance

Such interference is based on an ignorant partisan view that, instead of advancing peace, is a powerful incentive to aggression. Op-ed.

Faced with a tsunami of anti-Semitism, Diaspora Jews still cling to their bubble

A neo-pogrom is being facilitated by Western elites who are piously wringing their hands but not taking the action to stop it. Op-ed.

Actions, not bromides, are how the West must confront rabid antisemitism

This madness must be fought by those who help make the cultural weather. Politicians' promises of support are not enough. Op-ed

The last, overlooked but still active front of World War II

The West needs the Jews to be proved bad people. Israel-haters are eager to yell “gotcha” and put the Jews into the public pillory.Op-ed

Might Biden be turning America into Israel’s foe?

When it comes to the Middle East, Biden's specialty is the “values-feint”— high-minded statements to disguise morally bankrupt action.Op-ed