Author: Melanie Phillips/JNS.org

Editors Explainer: The Jewish Diaspora refers The Jewish Diaspora refers to the dispersion of Jewish people from their ancestral homeland (the Land of Israel/Judea) and their subsequent settlement in communities all over the world OPINION: Melanie Phillips. Diaspora Jews cannot properly be defended if they do not or fail to comprehend the monstrosity of the scapegoating and demonization of Israel. Attacks on Diaspora Jews are spiraling out of control. In the early hours of Tuesday morning, a young Israeli man was beaten and kicked “like an animal” when he stepped outside his apartment in London’s heavily Jewish area of Golders…

By Melanie Phillips/JNS.og Shockingly, the West has framed antisemitism and anti-Zionism as conscience itself. In America and Britain, political violence and attacks on Jews are becoming normalized and even justified. Many have commented on the fact that Cole Tomas Allen, the 31-year-old shooter from California who allegedly set out to kill U.S. President Donald Trump and administration officials at the White House correspondents’ dinner last Saturday evening, parroted the same demonization of opponents and calls for violence against Trump and his supporters that incessantly emanate from the Democratic Party. In videoed street interviews in New York after the attack by…

By Melanie Phillips/JNS.org. Most people in America are against the war with Iran, as they are in Britain, too. Very few, however, actually understand why this war is as necessary as it is unavoidably complex. Few seem aware that Iran has been actively at war against America for the past 47 years. Few seem to grasp that Iran’s fanatical Islamic regime has killed hundreds of U.S. servicemen, perpetrated numerous attacks on U.S. bases, committed countless terrorist atrocities and taken Americans hostage. Few grasp that U.S. and Israeli intelligence had discovered that Iran was poised to create both a nuclear bomb…

OPINION: Melanie Phillips. Most people in America are against the war with Iran, as they are in Britain, too. Very few, however, actually understand why this war is as necessary as it is unavoidably complex. Few seem aware that Iran has been actively at war against America for the past 47 years. Few seem to grasp that Iran’s fanatical Islamic regime has killed hundreds of U.S. servicemen, perpetrated numerous attacks on U.S. bases, committed countless terrorist atrocities and taken Americans hostage. Few grasp that U.S. and Israeli intelligence had discovered that Iran was poised to create both a nuclear bomb…

By Melanie Phillips. As the clock ticks away toward U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest “negotiate or I unleash hell” deadline, the Iranian regime thinks that it’s winning. In the West, the serried ranks of “experts” also think that America and Israel are heading either for a deepening quagmire or a humiliating retreat. It’s not possible to predict how the war against Iran will end—or even what the next day will bring. But on the face of it, Tehran’s claim that it has the upper hand—echoed by Western commentators who said before the war even started that it would be a…

Jewish victimization should not be dismissed as unbeatable. It must be fought harder and better. A lively debate is underway in the Jewish world about whether Jews are wise to present themselves as victims. In the Jewish Journal, Rabbi Amitai Fraiman has written that Jewish victimization is now an outdated paradigm. Jews are no longer seen as vulnerable and marginal, but ever since Israel’s iconic victory in the 1967 Six-Day War, they’ve been associated with force, power and agency. The Hamas-led atrocities in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, may have slaughtered innocent people, says Fraiman, but this was met by a “ferocious…