News for Melanie Phillips 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 fiascoJewish 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 againThe 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 remainsIn 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 asylumA new literary weapon by Andrew Pessin is a sparkling and savagely satirical novel about campus “cancel culture.” Op-ed. When the Jew-bashers are JewsTheir 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 PartyA 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 violenceWesterners 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 IsraelThe 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 JewsSaying 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 IsraelThe 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 retreatRumsfeld wanted to show unwavering resolve against the enemy. The Biden administration is learning this, or failing to, the hard way. Op-ed Palestinianism is opening up a posthumous Nazi front against JewsIn 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 governanceSuch interference is based on an ignorant partisan view that, instead of advancing peace, is a powerful incentive to aggression. Op-ed. Actions, not bromides, are how the West must confront rabid antisemitismThis 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 IIThe 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 heavenIf 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 and dragging the West behind itObama 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 FranceThose 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 heartWith 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 minorityThe 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 remain silent as the church recycles its oldest hatredModerator of the WCC’s Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, openly suggested that Israeli Jews were demonic. Opinion. The tragedy for haredim from COVID has created a crisis for Judaism itselfThey 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 and a tragedy for America, Jews and decent people everywhereThose 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 JewsInstead of promoting his nation’s strength, Biden will advertise its weakness—and he will call this virtue.Opinion. The prospective return of global appeasementA 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 volcanoThere 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 SalemCritical 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 historyMany 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 evilThe 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 HolocaustUnless 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 reasonUnder 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 incoherenceAs 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. |
