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ARTICLES BY: Melanie Phillips / JNS.org
Both Hero and Zero: Israel’s Strategic Incoherence
JNS.org - While Israelis are increasingly alarmed by the government’s loss of control over the coronavirus crisis, different events suggest that the country may have...
Is the EU Having Second Thoughts Over Its Hostility Toward the Jewish State?
JNS.org - Has the European Union reached a tipping point over Israel? Or to be more precise, is the Europeans’ bluff finally to be called...
British Jews Are Too Eager to Embrace Starmer’s Still Dubious Labour Party
JNS.org - In both Britain and America, the Jewish community is increasingly badly served by leaders who seem less and less able to distinguish between...
Arab Outrage (Over the Prospect of Living in Palestine)
JNS.org - Leave aside, for the moment, the deepening rows about Donald Trump’s “vision” for ending the Middle East conflict. Leave aside the question of whether...
The Palestinians’ Bluff Has Been Called
JNS.org - Donald Trump’s Middle East “deal of the century” offers the Palestinians a state. They have rejected it and threatened instead to ramp up...
A Polish-Russian Row Over Commemoration of the Holocaust
JNS.org - A profound and bitter battle between Israel and Poland has been brought to crisis point by the 75th anniversary of the liberation of...
The West Mourns the Jewish Dead. But What About the Living?
JNS.org - At Yad Vashem in Jerusalem on Jan. 23, some 46 political leaders and royals, including Britain’s Prince Charles, will be attending the fifth World Holocaust...
A Boris Bear Hug Against British Antisemitism
JNS.org - Is the British government beginning to change its century-old attitude of ambiguity towards Israel and come out instead as its unequivocal friend? Don’t...
From Congress to Classrooms: Reframing the Israel Narrative
JNS.org - Concern about resurgent antisemitism has been at a fever-pitch among Diaspora Jews for years. In Britain, the veteran Jewish Labour MP Dame Louise Ellman...
Boltonism Should Not Disappear
JNS.org - John Bolton’s departure from the Trump administration should have had the political left cheering from the rafters. Bolton has long been a bogeyman...
Puncturing the Lie of Palestinian Identity
JNS.org - Mahmoud Abbas, the head of the Palestinian Authority (PA), recently claimed that the Palestinians were the descendants of the Canaanites. “This land is...
Trump and Isolationists in America
JNS.org - Ever since Donald Trump astounded the world by announcing the withdrawal of US troops from Syria, commentators have been trying to work out...
The Lethal Error in Appeasing Iran
JNS.org – When the Obama-brokered Iran nuclear deal was signed in 2015, one of the many spurious reasons offered for that agreement was that it...
Why Jews Find Themselves in the Eye of the Storm
JNS.org - Antisemitism is now a major issue in the West. In Britain, there are continuing convulsions over rampant antisemitism in the Labour Party. In America, there...
New York Times Tilts Toward One-State Solution on Israel-Palestine
South African Song Paying Tribute to Jerusalem Sparks Viral Dance Challenge