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My speaking engagements in the US this month

November 4, 2019November 4, 2019 MelanieDC, Florida, lecture tour, Speaking engagements

I am delighted to let you know that later this month I will be in America on a lecture tour. Most of it is kindly being organised by CAMERA, the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, with my final talk in Florida being organised by the Gross Family Center for the Study of Antisemitism and the Holocaust. Here is a brief summary of the dates and places on my speaking schedule. MARYLAND: Wednesday, November 13 Woodmont Country Club, Maryland WASHINGTON DC: Thursday, November 14, 2019 Rayburn Office…

Israel USA

Elizabeth Warren and the destruction of the west’s moral compass

October 25, 2019 Melanieantisemitism, Elizabeth Warren, Israel, Palestinians

The Democratic presidential hopeful, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, has suggested that she would consider cutting military aid to Israel to force it to halt construction of settlements in the disputed territories. “It is the official policy of the United States of America to support a two-state solution, and if Israel is moving in the opposite direction then everything is on the table,” she said. To ensure that no one failed to understand her threat, she repeated her final phrase. Her comment furnished more evidence that Warren resembles British Labour Party…

Britain Israel USA

From Congress to classrooms: reframing the Israel narrative

October 18, 2019October 18, 2019 Melanieantisemitism, Democratic party, Labour party, schoolbooks

Concern about resurgent antisemitism has been at fever-pitch among Diaspora Jews for years. In Britain, the veteran Jewish Labour MP Dame Louise Ellman resigned this week from the party to which she has belonged for more than half a century. A leaked Labour headquarters report on her Liverpool Riverside constituency party showed that in 2017, there was a “worrying amount of antisemitism” and a “toxic atmosphere” with members fearing for their physical safety. If the far-left party leader Jeremy Corbyn became prime minister, says Ellman, he would be a danger…

Culture wars Global conflict USA

How black and white thinking clouds realpolitik

October 11, 2019 MelanieDonald Trump, George Soros, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Kurds

Black and white thinking, which divides the world into absolute camps of good and evil, is associated with religious fanaticism from medieval Christianity to the Islamic world. There are now troubling signs that a secular equivalent is contributing to our current political turmoil. There appears to be an increasing inability to grasp that people are capable of both good and bad acts. There is a corresponding failure to acknowledge that just because someone is the target of falsehoods or bigotry, that person may not always be in the right. Recent…

Global conflict USA

A mirror image?

October 7, 2019October 7, 2019 MelanieIsolationism, Kurds, President Trump, Syria

President Trump’s shock decision to pull US troops out of north-east Syria confirms a disastrous slide in American foreign policy. I warned here that Trump was trapped by his own contradictory character into making bad foreign policy mistakes — such as cancelling an airstrike on Iranian targets with only 10 minutes to spare. His previous plan last December to pull US troops out of Syria was deftly modified by his erstwhile National Security Adviser, John Bolton. Alas, Bolton has now departed. So now there’s no-one to corral this most erratic…

Global conflict USA

Boltonism must not be allowed to disappear

September 13, 2019September 13, 2019 Melanieappeasement, Donald Trump, Iran, John Bolton

John Bolton’s departure from the Trump administration should have had the left cheering from the rafters. Bolton has long been a bogeyman in liberal circles on account of his refusal to appease the enemies of America and the west, a disposition that the left regard as belligerent war-mongering. When Bolton was made National Security Advisor, his liberal foes behaved as if U.S. President Donald Trump had signed up in person one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Now that Bolton’s appointment has abruptly terminated, though, there’s been no rejoicing…

Britain USA

Don’t turn this whistleblower into a saint

September 3, 2019 MelanieKatharine Gun, Official Secrets, whistleblowers

A new heroine of the people has burst into celluloid existence as a fresh focus for cosily predictable outrage. Katharine Gun was a GCHQ translator who, in 2003, leaked classified information about the build-up to the Iraq war which was published by The Observer. At the weekend Official Secrets, a film about this episode, opened in the US. Already, Gun is being canonised in American media circles which ignored the story when it was published. A writer in Esquire gushes that she is “one of the most important political whistleblowers that most…

Israel USA

Getting to the bottom of a tragic “disloyalty”

August 23, 2019August 23, 2019 Melanieantisemitism, Democratic party, JNS, President Trump

There appears to be no limit to the sheer stupidity and reflexive malice with which people misrepresent what US President Donald Trump has just said. On Tuesday, he said: “I think Jewish people that vote for a Democrat — I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty.” Cue an instant storm of outrage by Jewish groups and commentators claiming that he had accused Jews of dual loyalty — one of the trademark libels of classical antisemitism. “This is yet another example of Donald Trump continuing…

Culture wars USA

The New York Times becomes an unambiguous engine of wickedness

August 21, 2019August 21, 2019 Melaniejournalism, New york Times, racism, trump

The New York Times has long been known for its routinely vicious anti-Israel propaganda and more occasional overt Jew-bashing. It has also been in the forefront of demonising President Donald Trump through its twisted reporting. Now, however, it has jumped the shark. It has repudiated journalism altogether by turning itself instead into a conduit for the denial of truth, the smearing of millions and the fabrication of history. It has become an unambiguous engine of wickedness. The first eye-popping evidence of this occurred ten days ago when the paper’s executive…

Culture wars USA

The real racism behind the Trump/Omar furore

July 19, 2019July 19, 2019 MelanieIlhan Omar, racism, trump

There’s always something ugly and disturbing about an enormous crowd being roused to mass emotion by the words of a charismatic orator. So it was when Americans chanted “lock her up” about Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential campaign in response to then candidate Donald Trump’s repeated claims that she had committed crimes for which she should be prosecuted. And so it was again during this week’s Trump rally in North Carolina when a section of the crowd started chanting “send her back” in response to President Trump’s attack on…