News for Melanie Phillips 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. |
