Melanie Phillips
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.
The entrenchment of Western Jew-hatred
In Britain’s House of Commons this week, MP Kim Johnson launched an attack on the “fascist Israeli government” and its “apartheid” policies.
Johnson is a Labour Party MP. You know, the same Labour Party whose...
Diaspora Jews keep making the same mistake
A perverse feature of the Jewish people is that they make one particular mistake over and over again. They are persecuted. They frantically try to assimilate into their host community in the belief that...
With al-Zawahiri’s assassination, it’s Groundhog Day for America (again)
If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, both the Biden administration and the European Union are out to lunch.
Senior Iranian, U.S. and European officials arrived in...
The urgent need for proper Jewish leadership
Diaspora Jews worry about how to deal with the current tsunami of anti-Semitism that is washing through the world. They also worry about how to deal with the anti-Zionism and demonization of Israel that...
The fall of Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson’s decision to quit as prime minister of the United Kingdom followed unprecedented scenes in the British parliament this week, as he clung on to power despite the resignation of more than 50...
Biden administration won’t stop appeasing the Palestinians
The Biden administration’s obsession with boosting the Palestinian cause at the expense of Israel continues apace.
It was reported last week that the administration had reluctantly abandoned its proposal to reopen the Palestinian consulate in...
How Western dupes help propagate murderous Palestinian lies
A Palestinian Arab journalist with Al Jazeera, Shireen Abu Akleh, was shot dead this week in a firefight between Hamas and the Israelis in the West Bank city of Jenin.
Western news outlets initially reported uncritically the Hamas...
Why Russia has once again turned on the Jews
Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, caused outrage earlier this week after he was asked on Italian TV how Russia could claim to be “de-Nazifying” Ukraine when its president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is Jewish.
Lavrov replied: “I...
The key lesson from Ukraine for international order
It’s taken the horrors in Ukraine for people to begin to register that a central pillar of world affairs since the Second World War has crumbled. Even now, though, the full implications aren’t acknowledged.
As...
Why liberals fail to equate Israel and Ukraine
Two women and a rabbi were among four Israelis murdered in a terrorist attack this week in the southern Israeli city of Beersheva.
The terrorist, a Bedouin from a village of Houra, north of the...