Melanie Phillips / JNS.org
ARTICLES BY: Melanie Phillips / JNS.org
It’s Time for Israel to Untie the American Apron Strings
JNS.org - Can Israel break its dependency on the United States? The question has always been widely dismissed as unthinkable. But recent events are prompting it...
Israel Joins the West’s Culture Wars
JNS.org - With the result of its election this week, Israel has joined other Western countries in a notable current trend: A revolt by the...
The False Distinction Between Antisemitism and Israel-Bashing
JNS.org - Those trying to defend the Jewish people from the tsunami of Jew-hatred swamping the West often face an implacable refusal to acknowledge that...
Why Social Justice Warriors Can’t Deal With Antisemitism
JNS.org - Ruth Wisse, an emeritus professor of Yiddish literature at Harvard and an unfailingly impressive commentator on the Jewish world, has uttered a desperate...
Tearing Up the Rules of Engagement Between Israel and America
JNS.org - A key strategy of Israel’s push-me-pull-you prime ministers, Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid, has been to refrain from publicly criticizing America’s policies in...
The BBC’s Perfectly Sealed Thought System
JNS.org – After Sir Salman Rushdie was attacked in New York last month by a Muslim intent on fulfilling the murderous 1989 Iranian fatwa against...
Israeli TV’s Shallow, Irresponsible Stunt
JNS.org – We are accustomed to the concept of wars being waged in the name of religion. There’s less acknowledgment of the war being waged...
Biden Administration Won’t Stop Appeasing the Palestinians
JNS.org - 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...
The ‘Broken Windows’ Strategy for Combating Israel Demonization
JNS.org – The “broken windows” theory of policing, which was responsible for a stunning drop in crime in New York in the 1990s, was based...
Why Russia Has Once Again Turned on the Jews
JNS.org - Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, caused outrage earlier this week after he was asked on Italian TV how Russia could claim to be...
Why Liberals Fail to Equate Israel and Ukraine
JNS.org – Two women and a rabbi were among four Israelis murdered in a terrorist attack this week in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba. The...
Biden’s Unconscionable Empowerment of Both Russia and Iran
JNS.org – In his address to the US Congress this week, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky told US President Joe Biden in a plea for American...
America Hasn’t Learned the Grim Truth of Asymmetric Warfare
JNS.org – In an interview about the war against Ukraine, the former Soviet dissident turned Israeli public figure, Natan Sharansky, made a key observation. Commenting in...
For the Jews, History Repeats Itself in Ukraine
JNS.org - The onslaught against Ukraine by Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is a horrific tragedy for all Ukrainians as well as a crisis for Europe...
