Melanie Phillips

For Jewish students, Leeds university has for some time been a source of growing concern.

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The launch of ‘Independent Jewish Voices’ has sent a shudder through the mainstream Jewish community in Britain. Let’s leave to one side how independent or how Jewish they are. Let’s just look at how they want to use their voices.

They have told us what they speak against.

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Not long ago, I had an animated discussion with a government minister. He was suggesting that in certain circumstances – not now, mind, but if there were a bit of give and take – Britain might think about talking to Hamas.

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While the rulers of Iran hold a conference to deny the Shoah as a prelude to the second Holocaust they threaten daily to perpetrate, the Jewish world is being subjected to intellectual terrorism on both sides of the Atlantic.

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The unholy alliance between left-wingers and Islamic fascists — ‘We are all Hezbollah now’ — has been much discussed.

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The shift in Tory thinking about Israel, signalled by remarks made by the party’s foreign affairs spokesman William Hague during the Lebanon war, has claimed its first political casualty.

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Throughout last month, what was that deafening sound emanating from Britain’s Jewish community as the world convulsed over the Lebanon war? Silence.

Six weeks ago, I wrote on this page about the failure of British Jews to rebut the wholly unwarranted charge of Israel’s ‘disproportionate’ response to the attac

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So where is everyone?

Throughout the US and in countries around the world, Jews have been holding demonstrations and making public statements to express their solidarity with Israel at this heart-stopping time.

At last, this weekend the Board of Deputies is finally holding a rally in support of Israel.

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Three years ago, I wrote a proposal for a book about the alarming resurgence of anti-Jewish feeling in Britain, the way this had been taken up by the left and the fact that this was undermining Britain's ability to defend itself against global Islamist terrorism.

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Ms Hirsi Ali is the Somalian-born Dutch MP who now lives under round-the-clock police protection, because her uncompromising opposition to Islamist fascism has resulted in a death sentence upon her by the people whose monstrosities she has devoted her life to defeating.

The daughter of a Muslim intellectual, she fled an

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It is always exciting when a spymaster emerges from the shadows. A buzz is created from our vicarious entry to a glamorous secret world of privileged confidences and derring-do.

But whenever they do thus emerge, the sense of anticipation is almost invariably disappointed.

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What a right old muddle we've got ourselves into over freedom of speech. Among other recent excitements we've had the fight over the religious hatred bill, the uproar over the Danish cartoons, the jailing of David Irving and the suspension of London's Mayor Ken Livingstone over insulting a Jewish journalist, Oliver Finegold.

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In his characteristically thoughtful piece last week about the film 'Munich', Jonathan Freedland sympathised with the plight of director Steven Spielberg who, despite his patent commitment to the Jewish people, had been branded a traitor by those who saw the film as a propaganda gift for its enemies.

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When, back in the mists of time, I first started writing controversially about family breakdown (the world fell in on me because I thought children were best served by being brought up by their father and mother) there was one particular insult that was hurled my way which stood out from all the others.

'You're just an

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Britain's state of denial continues to deepen. We saw it after 9/11, when people said America had brought the atrocity upon itself - mainly through its 'uncritical' support for Israel.

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We were in Israel listening to an address by an Israeli Arab, a man who happens to run a project promoting reconciliation between Arabs and Jews.

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For many of a secular bent, espousing religious belief is tantamount to evidence of fascism or insanity or both. Israelis in particular often display such an attitude. I often find that when secular Israelis discover that I keep kosher and even attend synagogue they regard me with a new wariness.

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One of the most distressing features of the current hostility towards Israel is the part being played by Jews themselves, both in Britain and in Israel.

Many struggle to explain why they choose to disseminate lies and libels about Israel, thus lining themselves up squarely alongside those who hate the Jewish people.

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It's the church's AUT moment. The endorsement by the Anglican Consultative Council of divestment from companies supporting Israeli policies echoes the boycott debate among university lecturers and plunges Jewish-Christian relations into a crisis.

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Osama bin Laden's nemesis is small and female, with spiky orange-tipped hair and an unshakeable Muslim faith which equips her to declare that the mullahs have no clothes.

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