Melanie Phillips

Melanie Phillips

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British journalist, broadcaster and author

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How Biden is smashing America’s moral compass and dragging the West behind it

Obama repudiated the “Durban Declaration and Program of Action” for its demonization of Israel. Biden has embraced it. Op-ed

How Biden is smashing America’s moral compass and dragging the West behind it

Anti-Semitism is a form of delirium, especially in France

Those in its grip believe Jews have diabolical powers, have a secret conspiracy to control global affairs, cause all the world's ills. Op-ed

Anti-Semitism is a form of delirium, especially in France

Israel: The necessary superpower

Its legendary military and security derring-do derives from its unique culture of risk-taking, creativity and thinking out of the box. Op-ed

Israel: The necessary superpower

Jared Kushner’s curious change of heart

With the Biden administration re-empowering PA aggression, Kushner has shown he doesn’t grasp the significance of the Abraham Accords. Op-ed

Jared Kushner’s curious change of heart

Meghan Markle and the Jewish question

This has become a terrifying looking-glass world where morality has been turned back to front, disloyalty and spite have moral worth. Op-ed.

Meghan Markle and the Jewish question

The brouhaha over defining Jews as an ethnic minority

The idea that Judaism is both religion and peoplehood feeds the antisemitic paranoid suspicion that the Jews are slippery customers.Op-ed.

The brouhaha over defining Jews as an ethnic minority

We recogniize Haman, but where are Mordechai and Esther?

Today’s Persia declares its intention to annihilate Israel and works to achieve that infernal aim. And there’s Western media and academia …

We recogniize Haman, but where are Mordechai and Esther?

Christian leaders remain silent as the church recycles its oldest hatred

S. African Rev. Frank Chikane of the WCC’s Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, suggested Israeli Jews were demonic. Op-ed.

Christian leaders remain silent as the church recycles its oldest hatred

The absurd malevolence of the International Criminal Court

The legal and moral illiteracy of the ICC’s ruling is not a blip. It follows from the very core of liberal universalist beliefs. Op-ed.

The absurd malevolence of the International Criminal Court

Obama's third term

Israel scarcely needs the absence of a phone call to tell it that it has a grave problem with the new occupant of the White House. Opinion.

Obama's third term

Christian leaders remain silent as the church recycles its oldest hatred

Moderator of the WCC’s Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, openly suggested that Israeli Jews were demonic. Opinion.

Christian leaders remain silent as the church recycles its oldest hatred

The tragedy for haredim from COVID has created a crisis for Judaism itself

They fear that if they shut their schools, they will lose an entire generation that learning Torah is more precious than life. Op-ed..

The tragedy for haredim from COVID has created a crisis for Judaism itself

Will America stay the strong horse when it comes to Iran?

The Iran accord—whose limitations were a farce and allowed Tehran to lie and cheat as it always does—was rotten to its core. Opinion.

Will America stay the strong horse when it comes to Iran?

As America reels from political trauma, Jewish continuity points way to national unity

A covenant is a commitment going beyond mutual advantage, requiring joint obligations in an unconditional and unbreakable union. Opinion.

As America reels from political trauma, Jewish continuity points way to national unity

A disaster and a tragedy for America, Jews and decent people everywhere

Those trying to defend principles of law and constitutional order against the left have been grievously undermined. Opinion.

A disaster and a tragedy for America, Jews and decent people everywhere

Lessons from Britain’s Brexit breakthrough

The UK success provides an object lesson in strategy for democratic nations facing the Middle East or foreign aggressors' threats. Op-ed.

Lessons from Britain’s Brexit breakthrough

The driving force behind the ban on kosher slaughtering

This oppressive maneuver is supposedly motivated by concern for animal welfare, but exposes the court's lack of consistency or logic.Op-ed.

The driving force behind the ban on kosher slaughtering

The agenda that undermines America’s bond with the Jews

Instead of promoting his nation’s strength, Biden will advertise its weakness—and he will call this virtue.Opinion.

The agenda that undermines America’s bond with the Jews

The prospective return of global appeasement

A foreign policy delusion of 'appeasement' means that tyranny is incentivized and war more likely. But Biden seems to be going there.Op-ed.

The prospective return of global appeasement

Two public figures left the world: One inspirational, one despicable

The contrast is between those who choose life and those who inflict death those who promote love and those who incite hatred. Op-ed.

Two public figures left the world: One inspirational, one despicable

Electing a president under an erupting cultural volcano

There is a mighty cultural force field of "Trumpism" that brought even the Amish out to vote, and his foes cannot understand it. Op-ed.

Electing a president under an erupting cultural volcano

The BBC isn’t just too ‘woke’—over Israel, it incites baseless hatred

Boris Johnson reportedly intends to install a new chairman who will challenge BBC leftism, but what about its Israel-bashing? Op-ed.

The BBC isn’t just too ‘woke’—over Israel, it incites baseless hatred

Turning Britain and America into Salem

Critical race theory accuses all white people of abuse of power. Jews are seen as powerful, therefore they are oppressors. Op-ed.

Turning Britain and America into Salem

Trivializing the true evil of Nazism

Democrats, including Jewish ones, call Trump a Nazi, distorting the meaning of Nazism and turning it into an empty political smear. Op-ed.

Trivializing the true evil of Nazism

The West turns a blind eye to Palestinian incitement in word and deed

Liberal virtue signaling has led many in the West to completely ignore the Palestinian Authority's open incitement. Op-ed.

The West turns a blind eye to Palestinian incitement in word and deed

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The free world’s craven and hypocritical fifth column

It is time for a unified resolve to stop Iran's evil. But standing up for that are only the United States, Israel and the Gulf states. Op-ed

The free world’s craven and hypocritical fifth column

Support for Black Lives Matter repeats a lethal error of history

Many Jews, particularly in Israel, are brown or black-skinned. Whiteness, though, is deemed to be less about pigment than power. Op-ed.

Support for Black Lives Matter repeats a lethal error of history

The progressive world: An antechamber to evil

The passivity that greeted the British rapper’s brazen Jew-hatred shocked many Jews into concluding that a line has been crossed. Opinion.

The progressive world: An antechamber to evil

The Jewish surrender to the West’s eclipse of reason

Under no circumstances should I mention President Trump, abortion, the Democratic Party, or heaven forbid, the Israeli settlements. Opinion.

The Jewish surrender to the West’s eclipse of reason

Both hero and zero: Israel’s strategic incoherence

As Covid-19 threat was perceived to have retreated, its second-to-none security apparatus bowed out, civil infrastructure took over. Opinion

Both hero and zero: Israel’s strategic incoherence

Why is Israel going to pot?

With all the Covid and security threats, a move to risk public health by normalizing cannabis should be dismissed out of hand. Opinion.

Why is Israel going to pot?