Melanie Phillips

Melanie Phillips is a British journalist and author. She is best known for her controversial column about political and social issues which currently appears in the Daily Mail. Awarded the Orwell Prize for journalism in 1996, she is the author of All Must Have Prizes, an acclaimed study of Britain’s educational and moral crisis, which provoked the fury of educationists and the delight and relief of parents. Her ideas have influenced politicians in both government and opposition, who follow her battles in the culture wars with fascination. Styled a conservative by her opponents, she prefers to think of herself as defending authentic liberal values against the attempt to destroy western culture from within. cont'd...

The lethal pathology of the Jews
Jewish Chronicle, 4 February 2005

Last week I took part in an Intelligence Squared debate on Zionism. This was a more than usually disturbing experience. It wasn’t just that the motion, ‘Zionism today is the real enemy of the Jews’, blamed Jewish self-determination for the current threat to Jewish existence. It was that this profoundly anti-Jewish motion was proposed by three Jews — and (unsuccessfully) opposed by three Jews.

Thus we had the spectacle of Jews being forced to defend themselves against other Jews arguing that anti-Jewish hatred was the Jews’ own fault —the classic argument used by those who have hated Jews down the ages. cont'd...

The Reporting of Iraq and Israel: An Abuse of Media Power
Limmud conference talk, 27 December 2004.
A friend went into Blackwells university bookshop in Oxford and asked the counter clerk: 'Do you have a copy of Alan Dershowitz's The Case for Israel?' 'There is no case for Israel', the counter clerk replied. cont'd...