Melanie Phillips
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The ‘camel corps’ has been superseded by a new breed of ‘progressive’ leftists who fetishise transnational courts, where international law is used as a weapon of Israel’s destruction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
Even now, the threat to British Jews is not being taken seriously
Marching against antisemitism is great, but it needs to be backed by action
The Hamas pogrom is the result of the West's refusal to accept the idea of evil
Every aggressive cause is thought to be amenable to compromise
Israel’s protesters are the real threat to its democracy now
Ignore the misleading, boilerplate columns, the protests are part of a manipulative, aggressive plot
There are no good reasons to oppose the boycott bill
A dismaying number of Conservative MPs opposed it in the Commons — and Labour’s opposition was a wake up call to those who think that everything is now fine with the party
BBC's 'disinformation' reporter should look at the way it covers Israel
The Corporation is fixated on the view that Israeli aggression drives the action in the Middle East conflict
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