Melanie Phillips
@MelanieLatest · Public intellectuals, authors & commentators
Melanie Phillips is a British columnist and the author of Londonistan.
https://t.co/TiAu0mIMyJ? "My Oxford-educated wife, Lucy, and my British-educated daughters, Maia and Rina, were brutally murdered by Palestinian terrorists in the Jordan Valley in April 2023. Since their murders, the terrorists’ families have been eligible for payments from the Palestinian Authority under its notorious “pay-for-slay” system. The terrorist organisations responsible for so much bloodshed have also flourished in an environment sustained for decades by international funding, including British support for the PA and UNRWA. And now you propose boycotting products made by Jews living in the West Bank. You insist that you are not against Israelis. Yet you are prepared to single out Jewish Israelis like me for economic punishment." Message to Andy Burnham from "West Bank" resident Rabbi Leo Dee
https://t.co/NAq1eYhMcd There’s no coming back from this for the UK. Britain is Israel’s ally no longer. It has become an enemy of the Jewish people, a threat to the west and a menace to civilisation. https://t.co/sLxWDIZC15
"By adopting the Palestinian cause as standing for conscience and morality, the West has actively embraced evil. And if a civilisation adopts evil as its moral lodestar, it will die." https://t.co/8joLRlWrHh https://t.co/s6CAF0Cm2B
"Judaism, uniquely, consists of the people, the faith and the land. If you attack Zionism, the right of the Jewish people to live in that land, you are attacking Judaism itself." https://t.co/8joLRlWrHh https://t.co/wTHilQq7g9
https://t.co/L0GLb3scdw As every part of the “Gaza genocide” mass libel is exposed as a total fabrication, the new mass libel of “settler violence” has replaced it. https://t.co/NaFYFSJR1J
https://t.co/RkuQG32rDB Britain’s precious “two-state solution” is profoundly immoral. People who wage a 100-year campaign of mass murder to prevent and then exterminate a legitimate country, while turning down repeated offers of a state of their own because they want to murder yet more of those people and destroy that country, and who indoctrinate their own children to do so in perpetuity, deserve absolutely nothing. Those like the British government, who have spent the past century rewarding such a programme and are now punishing its intended victims, can be described in two words: morally depraved.
Of course you have omitted the context. My advice is how to fight back against a campaign of psychological warfare that demonises Israel and Jews with murderous lies about their behaviour; I advocate combating this with the weapon of truth. The Jewish people is being targeted for destruction by vicious people with twisted minds, as you have demonstrated.
Ah yes -- a factual explanation of Jewish identity, Israeli identity, British identity and the differences between them all is, in the minds of the bigot, "the most deranged Jewish supremacist rant imaginable". I absolutely love the way people like this haven't a clue that they are saying absolutely nothing about me and a very great deal about them, none of it good.
This is very muddled. British identity is civic and not ethnic. It is totally different from Jewish identity, which is ethnic, religious and cutural. Judaism is the unique fusion of a people, a faith and a land. That's why the Jewish people, as *a* people, is entitled to live in its ancestral homeland. This is different again from Israeli identlty. Arabs, Druze and others are also Israeli citizens with equal civic and religious rights. But (unless they convert to Judaism) they can't be Jews with their unique claim to self-determination in the land and their unique political right to a state of their own. Because of the unique and multi-faceted nature of Judaism, there's no crossover with British identity. But as I have written for decades, the British are not only entitled to but should promote and defend their historic nation, identity and its culture. There's no conflict between those two positions, and the suggestion that Jews want to deny to the British the self-determination that the Jews have fulfilled in the State of Israel is false and disgraceful. @AllisterHeath
Gaslighting on steroids In the Soviet-style war of defamation that’s been waged against Israel ever since the Hamas-led attacks on October 7, 2023, the Jewish people have been relentlessly gaslighted. Jews must fight back against verbal ethnic cleansing @dansenor
“The Arab population was small and limited until Jewish resettlement restored the barren lands and drew Arabs to it from neighboring countries. When organized Jewish colonization began in 1882, there were fewer than 150,000 Arabs in the land. The great majority of the Arab population in recent decades were comparative newcomers—either late immigrants or descendants of persons who had immigrated into Palestine in the previous 70 years”: Chairman of American Christian Palestine committee, 1953. “The Arabs have crowded into the country and multiplied …”Winston Churchill, 1939. "People used to come from all over the Middle East to work in Jaffa and the whole of Palestine. From Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Yemen, Hijaj, Marrakesh, from everywhere. Tens of thousands of workers”: Arab speaker, al Jazeera documentary. Encyclopaedia Britannia 1911 listed more than fifty languages being spoken in Palestine including Czech, Finnish, Hindustani, Hebrew, Arabic, Dutch, Kurdish, Russian, Serbian, Syrian and Turkish. “‘The people west of the Jordan are not Arabs, but only Arabic-speaking. The bulk of the population are fellahin.... In the Gaza district they are mostly of Egyptian origin; elsewhere they are of the most mixed race.”: UK government handbook 1920. Between 1922 and 1946 the Arab population of Palestine increased by 118 per cent. Roosevelt concluded in 1939 that “Arab immigration into Palestine since 1921 has vastly exceeded the total Jewish immigration during the whole period”. Your ignorance is painful.