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The blood of slain Israelis stains many hands

September 21, 2018 Melanie

It’s often claimed by Western enemies of Israel that the military actions of the Israel Defense Forces against Hamas in Gaza are disproportionate because such actions kill Arabs while Hamas attacks don’t kill Israelis. That’s apparently why the Western media ignore the thousands of rockets and aerial firebombs launched from Gaza to kill the residents of southern Israel, reporting instead IDF military action to stop such attacks as the wanton killing of civilians. When an Israeli actually is murdered by an Arab in cold blood, however, this isn’t reported as…

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Our crazy world: hate-ed at Tufts U, Trump and UNRWA

September 18, 2018September 18, 2018 Melanietrump, Tufts university, UNWRA

Please join me here as I discuss with Avi Abelow of Israel Unwired the new Israel-bashing course that has been introduced at Tufts university in the US, and the implications of President Trump’s latest moves towards UNRWA and the Palestinian Authority.

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A great and unspeakable evil

September 17, 2018September 18, 2018 MelanieAbbas, Ari Fuld, incitement

On Sunday, a man who devoted his existence to fighting hatred and genocidal mass murder lost his life to the very evil that he fought. Ari Fuld, a 45 year old father of four from the Israeli town of Efrat, was stabbed in the back outside a supermarket by an Arab teenager. Despite his wounds, Fuld chased and shot his attacker, thus preventing any more casualties. He was rushed to hospital where he was pronounced dead. This murder has hit Israelis hard. Ari Fuld was but the latest in the…

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Dual loyalty taunt? Israel slandered? So what’s new?

September 16, 2018September 16, 2018 Melanieantisemitism, dual loyalty, Israel, reason

Within hours of the Labour party giving its members wriggle room to defame Israel without any pushback, posters appeared on central London bus-shelters slandering Israel as a “a racist endeavour”. The virus of left-wing antisemitism is out of control. Why is anyone surprised? None of this is new. Jeremy Corbyn may have made the poison more toxic but he didn’t release it. He is rather its most malevolent symptom. I first experienced this in 1982. Colleagues implied that my real country wasn’t Britain but Israel. At the time, I’d never…

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Demonising Israel and the hijack of language

September 14, 2018 Melaniecolonialism, Israel, language, psychological warfare

If there’s one refrain which gets me chewing the carpet, it’s the plaintive question, “Why is Israel unable to get its message across?” The naivety behind this question is itself a large part of the answer. It’s not just the fact that – as has now become all too obvious – the demonization and delegitimization of Israel is inextricably linked to the ineradicable poison of antisemitism. More pertinently, Israel has been up against a black propaganda exercise which has inverted truth and lies with devastating effect. Its only equivalent in…

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The west’s antisemitism crisis

September 7, 2018September 7, 2018 Melanieantisemitism, Corbyn, Farrakhan, Sacks

Antisemitism is now a major issue in the West. In Britain, there are continuing convulsions over rampant antisemitism in the Labour Party. In America, there was outrage over the presence of the virulent Jew-hater Louis Farrakhan at Aretha Franklin’s funeral. In France and other European countries, Jews are under siege from violent Muslims. The really disturbing thing, though, is that so many are not outraged by this. For a troubling number of people, antisemitism is no longer considered a big deal. Either it is denied or minimized, as in Europe,…

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Intermission

August 7, 2018August 7, 2018 Melaniebreak

I’ll be taking a break from writing for a few weeks (well, that’s the aim, anyway) so posts here will be few and far between until around the end of the month. I hope everyone has a very good summer.

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Israel gets the nation-state right while the west fumbles with identity

July 27, 2018July 27, 2018 Melaniediaspora, Israel, jews, national identity

Two utterly fundamental and seismic issues are threatening to tear apart Britain, Europe and America. They are mass immigration and national identity. The majority of Jews in Britain and America are warmly disposed towards the former and terrified of the latter. They have got it precisely the wrong way round. Diaspora Jews have a Pavlovian response to immigration. This is entirely understandable: the vast majority, myself included, are the descendants of immigrants and refugees. Jews are also commanded in the Torah not to wrong or oppress a stranger “for you…

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The new antisemitism eats its own

July 25, 2018July 25, 2018 Melanieantisemitism, Corbyn, Hodge, Labour party

The British Labour party leadership will be hoping it has now parked its antisemitism crisis for the summer. MPs have gone on holiday, tempers will cool, the fury and uproar of the last few weeks over the party’s definition of antisemitism will now all die down. Or so the leadership is presumably telling itself. But this issue isn’t going away. Exchanges over the past few days have underscored the fact that it is still shockingly unresolved. Last week, the party was electrified by reports that its grandee Dame Margaret Hodge,…

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Institutionalising antisemitism in the British Labour party

July 20, 2018July 20, 2018 Melanieantisemitism, British Jews, IHRA, Labour party

Britain’s Labour Party has a major problem with rampant antisemitism. It knows it has to deal with it. So what has it done? Dug itself so much further into this particular hole that some in the party fear it has now dug its political grave. On Tuesday, the party’s governing National Executive Committee (NEC) redefined antisemitism in such a way that it has legitimized it within its own ranks. In its new code of conduct on antisemitism, it adopted a definition which significantly differed from the one created by the…