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Melanie Phillips is a British journalist, broadcaster, and best-selling author. Her personal and political memoir, “Guardian Angel,” was published last year. An expanded version of this op-ed can be found on JNS.org.
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More than 60 percent of Israeli Arabs turned out and returned 13 seats for the Joint Arab List, up from 10 at last April’s election.
In the wake of the national security advisor’s departure, members of the Trump administration have been at pains to stress that there will be no let-up in America’s policy of reimposing sanctions on Iran.
The West’s concept of reason actually comes from the Hebrew Bible. Ideas such as an orderly and rational universe structured on a linear concept of time were revolutionary concepts introduced in the book of Genesis.
There are many reasons why the Democrats and their Jewish supporters refuse to call out the anti-Jewish bigots on their own side and instead accuse President Trump, the most pro-Israel president in American history, of anti-Semitism.
Jewish lawyers, jurists and other activists sought to fashion international human-rights law into a defense mechanism to protect powerless minorities. The process through which it became a weapon to be used against the Jewish people is a tragic history.
Britain may be convulsed by Brexit, the issue that has brought buccaneering “Brexiteer Boris” to power. He has become prime minister, though, in the middle of a crisis over Iran.
The president wasn’t attacking the women’s color or ethnicity. He was attacking their disloyalty to America. Racism is picking on people for who they are; Trump attacked them for what they do.
The contemporary expression of the oldest hatred didn’t start with Jeremy Corbyn, and it won’t end with him. It has been around for decades and is endemic in progressive circles, not just in Britain but throughout the West.
Islamophobia, like much Muslim discourse, is based on an appropriation and inversion of Jewish experience and precepts.
To choose freedom, you have to have the courage to take risks.
People in the West are primed to believe that compromise is invariably the solution to conflict. But there are some issues where the agenda brooks no compromise because it is by definition non-negotiable, and where “compromise” is therefore a fig leaf for surrender.
Those with power can never be good; those without power can never be bad. Those who make money have power over those who don’t make money. Those who make money are bad; those without money are good. Jews make money. Therefore, Jews are powerful and bad.
Such falsifications are justified on the grounds that they illustrate a “broader truth.” But they are in fact lies.
Bibi's strategy is to turn the weapon of isolating Israel on its head by forging alliances wherever he can.
The default narrative on the left singles out Israel for demonization based on lies and distortions afforded to no other country, people or cause, and which has legitimized anti-Semitic tropes straight out of Nazi or medieval Christian playbooks.
Both these appearances were cameo performances that served to highlight, in very different ways, the alarming trend now accelerating across the West: the breakdown of respect for the rule of law and democratic institutions.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has gone out of his way to embrace leaders who, although some insist they are just conservative nationalists, are described by others as neo-fascists. However, Western liberals pose more of a threat to Jews than the fringe on the far-right.
Despite Tehran’s deranged, genocidal call to arms, European governments are still trying to circumvent U.S. policy against Iran in an attempt to keep the nuclear deal alive.
Progressive American Jews accuse =Trump of sowing social division, hatred and anti-Semitism. They can’t see that that they are themselves effectively enabling social division, hatred and anti-Semitism by their spurious equivalence, tunnel vision and outright double standards.
Ari Fuld and the thousands of other Israeli victims of Arab attacks were murdered out of a fathomless hatred of Jews and Jewish nationhood, aided and abetted in the West by the ignorant, the ideological and the bigoted.
Only when the enormity of the Holocaust was finally revealed after the war did hatred of Jews become unsayable. It thus went underground—until the left’s adoption of the Palestinian narrative made it sayable again.
Jews are also commanded in the Torah not to wrong or oppress a stranger “for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.” But what if the strangers in question want to turn your own country into Egypt?
Most of the anti-Semitism on the left takes the form of obsessive and paranoid falsehoods, distortion and double standards directed at the behavior of the State of Israel, with much of this onslaught echoing the imagery and tropes of medieval and Nazi anti-Semitism.
The key point that the West cannot grasp is that Palestinian rejectionism is at source a fanatical Islamic religious movement. No amount of Palestinian propaganda can change that truth.
The European Union is beginning to grasp that the implicit criticism of those who fail to join the United States in supporting Israel carries consequences.
The Iranians now know that, in obtaining this most closely guarded information, the Mossad penetrated the innermost sanctums of the Iranian security apparatus.
If you finally were to decide to end your war against us in Israel, finally decide that you love your children more than you hate us, you will find our hands extended in friendship.
Despite the current quagmires of the top U.S. and Israeli leaders, the public seems to be standing by them.
The campaign against Trump and Netanyahu signifies a cultural disorder in the West that borders on the pathological.
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