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The dark shadow Iran is casting on the world

July 5, 2019 MelanieIran, Israel, North Korea, President Trump

In Israel, as the drumbeats of war grow ever louder, people are preparing with a mixture of dread, stoicism and determination for the long-feared, ultimate showdown with Iran. After reported Iranian attacks on two oil tankers last month near the Straits of Hormuz, Iran also shot down a U.S. military surveillance drone. Following this, U.S. President Donald Trump said he had cancelled an airstrike on Iranian targets with only 10 minutes to spare because of last-minute concerns that the likely number of casualties would be disproportionate. Earlier this week, Iran…

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The dangerous equation of Islamophobia with antisemitism

June 28, 2019June 28, 2019 Melanieantisemitism, Ilhan Omar, Islamophobia, UN

The Somali-born congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), who has made a number of antisemitic remarks, is currently embroiled in controversy over her marriage history. When claims against her of bigamy and immigration fraud first emerged in 2016, Omar accused the journalists involved of “Islamophobia.” Omar has also made a claim being heard more and more: that Muslims are called antisemites only because they are Muslim. In other words, anyone who calls out Muslim antisemitism is Islamophobic. This twisted claim is a way of making Muslim antisemitism unsayable. The claim is being…

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Find my writing now every week on jns.org

June 23, 2019June 23, 2019 MelanieJerusalem Post, Jewish News Syndicate

People have been asking why I have stopped writing for the Jerusalem Post, where my last column was published on Friday. You can read it here. I decided to stop writing for it entirely on my own initiative. My column there appeared every fortnight, and for the last 18 months I have been writing on alternate weeks for the Jewish News Syndicate. This has a website here, and it also syndicates its contributors’ columns to Jewish newspapers around the world. I am extremely impressed with the JNS, whose editorial intelligence…

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A week of Jew-baiting and Israel-bashing in Londonistan

June 21, 2019June 21, 2019 MelanieIntelligence Squared, Islamophobia, Londonistan, Mahathir Mohamad

Sometimes, a chilling reality is illuminated not so much by what someone says but by the laughter that it provokes. At the Cambridge Union debating society on Sunday, asked why he’d made a point of associating Jews with money, the Malaysian prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, replied: “I have some Jewish friends, very good friends. They are not like the other Jews, that’s why they are my friends.” At which a great gust of laughter swept across his audience. They thought this swipe at Jewish people was funny. In London this…

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Hezbollah UK terrorist plot kept secret as British continue appeasing rising Iran aggression

June 14, 2019June 14, 2019 Melaniebritain, Hezbollah, IAEA, Iran

A few days ago, Britain’s Daily Telegraph revealed that in 2015 the British authorities had uncovered a Hezbollah terrorist plot. The key point was that this had been kept secret until now. In a bomb factory on the outskirts of London, a total of three metric tonnes of ammonium nitrate was discovered — more than was used in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people — stashed in ice packs. This was apparently no rogue plot, but part of an international Hezbollah operation laying the groundwork for future…

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Still tyrannical? Barbaric? Yes; but in Saudi Arabia the tectonic plates are moving

May 24, 2019May 24, 2019 Melanieantisemitism, Khashoggi, MBS, Saudi Arabia

So how are our new best friends in Saudi Arabia doing these days? After last year’s grisly murder of the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, it looked like it might be curtains for Saudi’s reformist crown prince, Mohammad bin Salman, known as MBS, who was accused of ordering his killing. As I revealed last October, however, Khashoggi was no reformer but an Islamist extremist. A one-time friend of Osama bin Laden, he called on all Arabs to join the “resistance” against Israel; and he opposed…

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A brave and honest Muslim punctures lazy and lethal dishonesty

March 25, 2019March 25, 2019 MelanieIslamophobia, New Zealand mosque attacks

With the hysteria over “Islamophobia” having got totally out of control following the New Zealand mosque massacre, here’s a brave and honest Muslim who is saying what so badly needs to be said. He also says almost word for word what I wrote here about the “cycle of retaliatory violence”. Here’s an extract, but do please read it all. The targeting of Muslims at prayer in Christchurch comes after nearly two decades during which Islamist atrocities have been a pervasive feature of news bulletins around the world. The massacre in New Zealand…

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After the New Zealand mosque attacks, an Orwellian frenzy

March 22, 2019March 22, 2019 MelanieIslamophobia, New Zealand mosque attacks, terrorism, Twitter storm

It’s not often that I find myself in the same boat as Chelsea Clinton. At a vigil in New York for the 50 Muslims slaughtered by a gunman at two New Zealand mosques, Clinton was accused by students of being a cause of the massacre. The reason for this ludicrous charge was staggering. It was that she had criticized the antisemitic tweet by Rep. Ilhan Omar suggesting that Jews use their money to suborn American politicians in the interests of Israel. “Forty-nine people died because of the rhetoric you put…

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The New Zealand mosque attacks

March 15, 2019March 17, 2019 Melaniemosque attacks, New Zealand

The horrific terrorist attacks in New Zealand, in which at least 49 Muslims have been murdered after being gunned down at two Christchurch mosques, are appalling and frightening. One gunman, said to be an Australian who has been charged with murder, is reported to have written a manifesto ranting about “white genocide”, quoting Dylan Thomas and associating himself with recent white racist murderers, and declaring his aim to “create an atmosphere of fear” and to “incite violence” against Muslims. New Zealand police also reportedly defused “a number of IEDs (explosive…

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Who are the real isolationists in America?

December 28, 2018 MelanieIsolationism, Syria, trump, Yemen

Ever since President Donald Trump astounded the world by announcing the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria, commentators have been trying to work out the significance of this decision. Among those conservatives who believe America should make alliances against the enemies of the West and then stand by those allies, there has been shock and consternation. A number of Israeli analysts have expressed similar dismay. The cause of the concern is obvious. By withdrawing the 2,000 or so U.S. troops stationed in the border area between Iraq, Syria and Jordan,…