Melanie Phillips:
The West turns against Israel
The Jewish people need to relearn a painful and essential lesson—that they are responsible for their own protection. 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 Gazan revolt
Hatred of Hamas doesn’t alter the endemic hatred of Israel and the Jews. 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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How the West was won, and how it can be saved
As Israel is fighting for its very life, the entire world, in an Orwellian reversal of reality, believes that Israel is the aggressor and that the true victims are the members of an infidel-hating death-cult. Review.
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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.
The real message of Hanukkah
To avoid both destruction and assimilation, Jews have to fight for who they are and what they stand for. Op-ed.
The diplomatic crisis between Israel and Ireland
The venomous Irish campaign of demonization reserved uniquely for the Jewish state has long been on eye-watering display.
The kaleidoscope is shaken
Israel's astounding military achievements have created an unprecedented opportunity for peace and a new world order. Opinion.
The infernal Qatari strategy
While Donald Trump threatens the enemies of Israel and civilization, Britain licks their sandals. Opinion.
Dismantle the United Nations
The malice of the world body against Israel has twisted the Western mind. It has made the world sick. Opinion.
America’s electrifying counter-revolution
America is attempting to clean up its house. Europeans are burning theirs down. Whether Britain and Europe follow suit or give up the ghost, Jews there aren’t in for an easy ride. Opinion.
Israel dodges a bullet
Donald Trump is far from perfect. But at this moment, his election feels like deliverance. Opinion.
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The UNRWA meltdown
How can a country under genocidal attack be expected to look after the welfare of its attackers? Op-ed.
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The killing of Yahya Sinwar
The evil he represented has not died with him. Opinion.
The Jewish moment
We live in a world in which morality has been sickeningly turned on its head. On Yom Kippur we remember the high standards of morality Judaism sets for mankind.
Eye-witness to atrocity at Supernova
A vital, heart-breaking film stands against the insanity over Israel that has consumed the West. Op-ed.
An explosive moment of clarification
Israel is leading the fight of good against evil while the so-called civilized world no longer knows what side it’s on. Op-ed.
The media have blood on their hands
Partisan journalists may have subverted American democracy, but in their war against Israel, they have blood on their hands. Opinion.
The Oslo effect
Israelis won’t forgive or forget the left’s weaponization of the hostages to do Hamas’s dirty work for it. It is a terrible betrayal. Opinion.
Israel's hostage agony
Netanyahu's dual pledge came cruelly apart, but the ensuing protests in Israel are evidence of suicidal stupidity and moral perversity on a very high level indeed. Op-ed.
The moral cowardice of European Christian leaders
While today’s Islamists are murdering Christians and Jews, trying to conquer the West and posing a terrifying threat to civilization itself, European Christian leaders have decided to dump their Jewish parent and embrace their Islamist assassin. Op-ed.
The anti-Jewish candidate
Kamala Harris has fueled the current tsunami of anti-Jewish hatred by recycling the lies and blood libels against Israel spread by Hamas and its Western stooges since Oct. 7. Opinion.
Israel’s treacherous frenemies
Professions of ironclad support by America and Britain at this dark hour for the Jewish state are humbug. Opinion.
Netanyahu’s hour
Congress cheered him to the echo, but that's not enough to save Israel, America and the West. Opinion.
A fighting chance for the West
The attempted assassination of Donald Trump may have changed America and the world. Opinion.
The war against the Jews
In Britain, France and America, the left is on the wrong side. The Jews are in the middle because they don’t know who hates them more,” said Chief Rabbi Sebbag. Opinion.
Can Israel afford to stand up to America?
Netanyahu is addressing Congress because he has no other option. Op-ed.
The driver of Western Jew-hatred
Well-meaning people supporting the Palestinian Arab cause are actually empowering Islamo-Nazis.
The ‘Gaza famine’ myth
No facts can be allowed to disturb the blood libels against Israel.
The looming choice for Diaspora Jews
Apart from any dangers, the political choices they face are likely to make for an uncomfortable ride. Opinion.
The Middle East’s fateful moment
As northern Israel burns, America is leading the world into a terrible war. Opinion.
America’s double game on Iran
The Biden administration’s strategy endangers not just Israel but America and the free world. Op-ed.
How the Hamas pogrom galvanized Israel’s enemies
Hostility to the Jewish state goes wide and deep, apparently further than some thought before Oct. 7.
Buried facts about the Gaza war
Connect the dots: It’s America and Iran against Israel. The American appeasement of Iran has left many people mystified. They should have been paying more attention. Opinion.
Amichai Chikli’s rescue remedy
Diaspora Jews must put nation back into religion and Israeli Jews must put religion back into the nation.
The ivory tower jihad
In the appalling scenes on campus, monstrous chickens are now coming home to roost.
Strangling Israel slowly
A remarkable realignment may be under way: Israel and the Arabs v America and Iran. Opinion.
The surreal echo chamber of lies
As Israel braces for yet more horrors, the world has turned against it. Opinion.
The global onslaught against Israel
Britain and America are making the Jewish state their scapegoat. Opinion.
Israel’s Orwellian nightmare
The Jewish state swings in the wind because the genocidal Palestinians are said to have a case. Op-ed.
The American betrayal of Israel
The suggestion that Israel is no better than Hamas is a pernicious lie spread by those who want Israel gone. Opinion.
The West’s abandonment of the Jews
Human rights culture has mainstreamed Hamas lies while Western civilization is no longer civilized. Opinion.
The scapegoating of Israel
Humanitarian aid has become the blood libel of the day as wiith breathtaking arrogance and malice, Cameron presumed to dictate to Israel how to conduct this desperate war for its survival. Biden is the same. Opinion.
The terror of the right
The Oct. 7 atrocities produced a profound sense of disorientation for progressives because the Palestinian Arabs whose cause they had promoted as the acme of conscience and enlightenment turned out to be savages. Op-ed.
British MPs melt down over Gaza
Democratic procedures are being destroyed by anti-Israel mob intimidation. Those who attempt to destroy the Jews invariably destroy themselves. We are watching it happen to the West in real time. Op-ed.