Melanie Phillips

Starmer’s moral clarity on Ukraine is absent when it comes to the Jewish state

Judaism taught the West to think – now it must teach it how to survive

In extracts from her new book, The Builder’s Stone, Melanie Phillips explains how Jewish nationhood, education and morality can play a vital role in shaping the future

The truth of the Palestinian cause

As Jews are targeted, thousands in the West are parroting falsehoods about Israel

A new Israeli nation is arising from the smoke of battle

Rabbi Captain Avi Goldberg was a warrior rabbi fighting for the nation, the first for centuries to have taken this dual military leadership role so familiar to us from the Hebrew bible

The choice is between civilisation and barbarism

The West has not chosen to defend civilisation. But iron has entered the Israeli soul

What do dumbed-down diplomats know about Israel?

The ‘camel corps’ has been superseded by a new breed of ‘progressive’ leftists who fetishise transnational courts, where international law is used as a weapon of Israel’s destruction

The only question is how bad Labour will be for the Jews

Starmer is a human rights lawyer – and human rights law has been turned into a global weapon in the armoury of those intent upon the destruction of Israel, which spells trouble

Israel is caught between terrorists, brainwashed mobs and ‘human rights’ lawfare

The ICC move plays into a global push to destroy Israel

Israel has become the Gideon Falter of the whole world

Just like the campaigner, the Jewish state is victim blamed

When we appease antisemitism, this is shameful result

British authorities have ignored, excused or tried to appease Islamist extremism and the demonisation of Israel, all of which has been sanitised and applauded by progressive circles

The demonisation of Israel has destabilised British politics

The insanity in Britain over Israel has metastasised into parliamentary meltdown

We need to face up to the scale of the axis against Israel

There is onslaught against Israel and the Jews from an unholy alliance between extremist Muslims, the left and the political class, and we need to start taking the fight to them