Melanie Phillips

Actions, not bromides, are how the West must meet 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

A complex relationship made in heaven

If Jews feel threatened by some Christians through conversion or assimilation, Christianity itself feels threatened by Judaism. Op-ed.

How Biden is smashing America’s moral compass

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

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

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

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.

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 …

Christian leaders silent as 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.

The haredi COVID tragedy 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..

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.

A disaster 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Betraying Jewish history by watering down the Holocaust

Unless the Holocaust is seen as it really was, the attempt to exterminate an entire people, it can be turned against the Jews. Op-ed.

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.

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

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.