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The brain-frying insanity of the demonisation of Israel

November 23, 2018November 23, 2018 MelanieAirbnb, Israel, Quakers, Soviet Union

Brendan O’Neill asks the obvious question. Denouncing the boycott by Airbnb of Israeli properties in the disputed territories, he wonders at the extraordinary double standard under which Airbnb doesn’t similarly boycott properties in Tibet or northern Cyprus or Crimea which are occupied by China, Turkey and Russia. The same question can be asked of the British Quakers who have said they will no longer invest in any companies which profit from “the occupation of Palestine”, a move they offensively and misleadingly compare to their past protests against apartheid and the…

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The nation as an island: the source of Israel’s resilience

November 23, 2018 Melaniebritain, Israel, nation, nationalism

At this week’s annual dinner in London of the Anglo-Israel Association, which promotes understanding of Israel in the UK, the Israeli thinker Daniel Gordis poignantly described Israel as an island surrounded by enemies. This image of Israel under siege is currently all too apposite. With Iran’s regime now entrenched through its proxies in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza, Israel now faces a genocidal enemy on three simultaneous fronts. In the face of these dangers, not to mention the recent mini-war when thousands of rockets from Gaza rained down on southern Israel,…

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So how would England react to genocidal rocket barrages?

November 13, 2018November 14, 2018 Melaniegaza, Hamas, Israel, rockets

Here’s a thought experiment for British readers. Suppose Scotland and Wales were not part of the United Kingdom. Suppose Scotland was effectively controlled by… oooh, I dunno, let’s say, Russia, which had installed underneath residential buildings throughout southern Scotland 120,000 missiles pointing at England which Russia repeatedly threatened, in the most demented and blood-curdling terms, to annihilate. What do you think the English government would do? What do you think NATO might say or do? Now suppose that Wales, which for decades had been inhabited by people who had long…

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My upcoming speaking engagements

November 4, 2018 MelanieFlorida, Los Angeles, Speaking engagements

LOS ANGELES, NOVEMBER 11 On Sunday November 11, I’ll be speaking at a CAMERA “unity brunch” in Los Angeles. In the wake of the Tree of Light synagogue atrocity, my topic will be: “Understanding the Pittsburgh attack – Lessons from Britain and Europe”. For reservations, go to LAcameraBRUNCH.eventbrite.com or contact Tracey Miller: Tracey@CAMERA.org or call on +1 617 377 6898. FLORIDA, NOVEMBER 15-18 On November 15-17 I shall be in Palm Beach, Florida attending the David Horowitz Centre’s Restoration Weekend where I shall be speaking. On Sunday November 18 at…

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After Pittsburgh: the true significance of antisemitism

November 2, 2018 Melanieantisemitism, far right, jews, Pittsburgh

As Jews around the world grieve for those who were slaughtered in the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre, the reaction of many in both Jewish and non-Jewish circles has demonstrated a refusal to acknowledge the true significance of what happened. Unforgivably, the attack was immediately politicized by those whose hatred of President Donald Trump effaced both decency and reason. Through his rhetoric on illegal immigrants and nationalism, he was accused of creating the toxic narrative that inspired the suspect, Robert Bowers, to commit the atrocity. This says far more about those making…

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How the west has created antisemitism denial

October 25, 2018 Melanieantisemitism, Corbyn, Democrats, Holocaust education

Acute concern continues to grow about the antisemitism and Nazi imagery now on such rampant and brazen display in the West. In America, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement has spawned anti-Israel incitement on dozens of campuses, involving repeated accusations of Nazism and fascism along with virtually every other crime against humanity. In Britain, some of the most egregious examples of this venom have surfaced in the Labour Party under the leadership of the ultra-leftist Jeremy Corbyn and his “Momentum” comrades. Last week, Momentum joined other far-left and pro-Palestinian activists…

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As Haley’s comet passes, the UN itself must now become a fallen star

October 12, 2018 MelanieHuman Rights Council, Israel, Nikki Haley, UN

The sudden announcement of Nikki Haley’s resignation from her post as America’s ambassador to the UN at the end of the year has dismayed Israel’s supporters, and with good reason. Her willingness to call out the despots and tyrants who have turned the UN into a theater of bigotry, injustice and hypocrisy against Israel has been an object lesson in principled and muscular diplomacy which displayed both high skill and charm. In a universe of western appeasers, she displayed something which that world has all but lost: the moral courage…

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My speaking engagements in Britain and America

October 11, 2018October 12, 2018 MelanieSpeaking engagements

Here for your diaries are my main speaking engagements over the next few weeks. LONDON On Sunday October 14 I shall be taking part in two sessions at the Battle of Ideas conference at the Barbican centre in London. The first, at 1030, is a discussion on “Understanding Antisemitism Today” with Richard Angell, Stephen Law, Brendan O’Neill and Julian Petley. You can read about it here. The second, at 1200, is a discussion on “How Free is the Media?” with Mick Hume, Elizabeth Pears, Emily Sheffield and Andrew Wilson. you…

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The full-scale unravelling of Western cultural norms

October 8, 2018October 8, 2018 Melanieauthoritarianism, Brett Kavanaugh, democracy, Israel

The Kavanaugh confirmation circus is not just a jaw-dropping and unedifying spectacle. It is a paradigm event in the unraveling of American and Western cultural norms. The allegations of sexual assault against the Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh have crumbled away under their own multiple contradictions, absence of corroboration and unsubstantiated claims. So have all those who instantly proclaimed Kavanaugh guilty as charged expressed contrition for this character assassination? On the contrary: They have merely shifted the goalposts to yet more spurious accusations. These include his alleged teenage drinking, lying…

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Two state solution? Actually, no: the true signature cause Labour cannot admit

September 26, 2018September 28, 2018 Melanieantisemitism, Corbyn, Labour conference, Palestinianism

The leader of Britain’s Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, has told his party’s annual conference that if he becomes Prime Minister he will immediately recognise a Palestinian state. Immediately. Why? What kind of priority is this for a British Prime Minister? Labour delegates also voted to condemn Israel’s use of force against violent riots on the Gaza border, urge more UK funding for UNWRA, the UN agency for Palestinians, and back a freeze on British arms sales to Israel. And in a veritable sea of hatred of the Jewish state, they…