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Melanie Phillips, a British journalist, broadcaster and author, writes a column for JNS every two weeks. Currently a columnist for The Times of London, her personal and political memoir, “Guardian Angel,” has just been published by Bombardier. Her work can be found at her website, www.melaniephillips.com.

A home in Kibbutz Be'eri after Hamas terrorists attacked civilians of all ages, Oct. 25, 2023. Photo by Edi Israel/Flash90,

The moral collapse of the West

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The evidence is becoming overwhelming of a profound moral collapse in the West. Since the Oct. 7 Hamas pogrom in Israel, it’s been open season on Diaspora Jews with an enormous increase in antisemitic attacks. Students...
Close-up of the “BBC News” icon. Credit: Olga Ganovicheva/Shutterstock.

The devastating Hamas weapon of war

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Hamas, the genocidal jihadi force responsible for the barbaric Oct. 7 pogrom in Israel, has a devastating weapon of war. That weapon is the Western media. With some honorable exceptions, these media outlets have been...
The Orthodox Jewish group Rosh Yehudi sets up a gender divider amongst protests during a public prayer service at Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv on Yom Kippur, Sept. 24, 2023. Photo: Tomer Neuberg/Flash 90

Israel’s ‘democracy’ protesters destroy their own platform

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The shocking scenes in Tel Aviv on Yom Kippur not only destroyed the principal claim of Israel’s nine-months-old protest movement against the government. They also illuminated a fundamental and disturbing fault-line in the wider...
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas at a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Ramallah on May 25, 2021. Photo: Flash90

Abbas again voices his monstrous antisemitism

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Last month, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas came out with some ripe antisemitism. In a speech to the Fatah Revolutionary Council, he said that Hitler’s Nazis didn’t perpetrate the Holocaust because of hatred of...
Yoram Hazony, president of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem, speaking at the European National Conservatism Conference in March 2022. Credit: Courtesy.

The weaponization of antisemitism against conservatives

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A conference held in London this week was subjected to an extraordinary onslaught on social and mainstream media from people who weaponized antisemitism against it. The conference was on National Conservatism, a concept developed by...
A closeup of the BBC News website. Credit: Anton Garin/Shutterstock.

As Gaza’s rockets are fired at Israel, so are media missiles

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We know it’s coming. We can write the script in advance. Yet it never fails to sicken and to shock. This week, Israel was once again forced to take military action to defend itself against...
King Charles III, formerly the Prince of Wales, in Salisbury, Wiltshire, in the United Kingdom. Credit: Simon Ward Photography/Shutterstock.

The coronation of King Charles will be more than an amazing spectacle

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On Saturday, Britain’s King Charles III will be crowned in London’s Westminster Abbey. The coronation, which will be viewed by millions around the world, promises to be a spectacle of ceremony and magnificence for which...
Thousands of Israelis protest against judicial reform at the Azrieli junction in Tel Aviv, April 8, 2023. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.

Israel’s protests are now crossing sacred red lines

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Israel’s three-month-old protest movement, which has repeatedly brought tens of thousands into the streets, is now crossing an increasing number of red lines. There are serious anxieties that protests will disrupt next week’s Remembrance Day...
Marathon #TeamUK. Source: Twitter/British Consulate in Jerusalem.

Israel’s two-faced allies

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America and Britain claim to be allies of Israel. There is no gainsaying the deep links between them of military assistance, intelligence and trade. Israel is the invaluable strategic asset for America and Britain...
Israelis protest in Tel Aviv against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government, Feb. 4, 2023. Photo by Gili Yaari/Flash90.

The urgent need for Israeli electoral reform

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Democracy is currently being undermined in many parts of the free world. In Israel, the threat is deeper and wider than either side will admit, given the near-civil war that has erupted over the government’s...