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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.

Charitable organizations distribute hot meals to Palestinians in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip on April 18, 2025. Photo by Ali Hassan/Flash90

The indestructible myth of famine in Gaza

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Yet again, the myth has been revived that there is a famine in the Gaza Strip. This claim, which has done so much to incite attacks on Jews, has been promulgated repeatedly by mainstream Western...
Palestinians move from the Shujaiya neighborhood in the Gaza Strip after the Israeli army ordered its evacuation due to Hamas rocket fire, April 3, 2025. Photo by Ali Hassan/Flash90.

The Gazan revolt

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It is striking, if unsurprising, that the demonstrations against Hamas being mounted by thousands of Gazans have gone almost totally unremarked by the media and supposedly pro-Palestinian supporters in Britain and America. The protests have...

The West is facing an Islamic holy war

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A documentary film released this weekend in more than 100 movie theaters across America explores the processes by which antisemitism exploded across university campuses, in street demonstrations and on social media following the Hamas-led...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on Dec. 31, 2024. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

Netanyahu Derangement Syndrome

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At this intensely difficult time for Israel and the Jewish people, one might expect leading Jews to be throwing themselves into the fight against antisemitism and those who defame the State of Israel. As the forces...
Pope Francis with Italy's President Sergio Mattarella in 2022. Credit: Quirinale via Wikimedia Commons.

The pope’s embrace of evil discourse

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With just a few words, Pope Francis has plunged relations between Jews and Catholics into their worst crisis for decades and undone years of delicate rapprochement. In a new book published for the Catholic Church’s...
Anti-Israeli demonstrators march In support of Palestinians. Photo by Antony Jones/UK Press via Getty Images.

America’s electrifying counter-revolution

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America is attempting to clean up its house. Europeans are burning theirs down. Within hours of his re-election as president of the United States, Donald Trump started the process of rolling back the influence of...

The UNRWA meltdown

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If anything illuminates the insanity and moral bankruptcy of our times, it’s the reaction to Israel’s decision to act against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). Laws passed this week by the Israeli...
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...