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Resignation isn’t the right answer to the BBC Jewish problem

Rabbi YY Rubinstein crossed a line in labelling any Jew who appears on the BBC as lacking pride in their Jewishness. The best way to counter BBC bias is by speaking on its programmes

By Melanie Phillips

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Resignation isn’t the right answer to the BBC Jewish problem

LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 12: Yorkshire's Azeem Rafiq looks on frustrated as his team struggle to make a break through during day one of the Specsavers County Championship Division One match between Surrey and Yorkshire at The Kia Oval on September 12, 2017 in London, England. (Photo by Charlie Crowhurst/Getty Images)

The shameful Rafiq affair is really about vile identity politics

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This new Holocaust memorial would be an awful desecration

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Members of the public queue outside to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a temporary Covid-19 vaccine centre at the Tate Modern in central London on July 16, 2021. (Photo by Tolga Akmen / AFP) (Photo by TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images)

Brits and Israelis are very different in how we respond to Covid

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The media is feeding the big lie that Israel is malign and wrong

Coverage of the recent Gaza hostilities credulously repeated fictitious civilian casualty figures for Palestinians. The truth was that the IDF was uniquely successful in its targeting

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July 1, 2021 14:46

BRADFORD, ENGLAND - APRIL 24: The Respect Party's George Galloway during election campaigning on April 24, 2015 in Bradford, England. Britain goes to the polls in a General Election on May 7. (Photo by Nigel Roddis/Getty Images)

Starmer and Labour are still yoked to a holy war on the Jews

It was Starmer’s words that were truly shocking, writes Melanie Phillips

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May 13, 2021 13:02

Starmer and Labour are still yoked to a holy war on the Jews

In Britain there is much antisemitism under the surface

Tuvia Tenenbom’s latest book couldn’t find a publisher in this country – which itself shows the truth of the central thesis of his latest book, that antisemitism is barely concealed, writes Melanie Phillips

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March 19, 2021 10:14

Israel born writer Tuvia Tenenbom addresses a press conference in Berlin on December 14, 2012. AFP PHOTO / JOHANNES EISELE (Photo by JOHANNES EISELE / AFP) (Photo by JOHANNES EISELE/AFP via Getty Images)

Why can those on the left never see their own antisemitism?

People who hold Marxist assumptions cannot cope with seeing Jewish achievement, says Melanie Phillips

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February 5, 2021 13:52

DARWEN, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 07: Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn gestures to photographers after giving a speech to supporters at an election campaign event at Darwen Library Theatre on November 07, 2019 in Darwen, England. Conservative held Darwen is the first stop for the Labour Party's 'battle bus'. Politicians have stepped up a gear in the election campaign, bidding to win the December 12 general election and put an end to the Brexit deadlock. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Let’s look forward with a Jewish spirit of hope

' Judaism is a religion that looks forward. It’s programmed to create one good thing after another. It is quintessentially a religion of hope.'

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December 24, 2020 09:32

Let’s look forward with a Jewish spirit of hope

A shameful day for the UK at the United Nations

'By supporting the verbal erasure of the Jews’ connection to Temple Mount, Boris Johnson’s government has crossed a new and still more shameful line.'

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November 12, 2020 13:26

A shameful day for the UK at the United Nations

Holocaust education can foster ignorance and hatred

'Of course people need to be taught about the Holocaust. But the greater need by far is to teach them about the Jewish people, their history in both the land of Israel and the diaspora and about Judaism’s unique characteristics and record of survival.'

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October 1, 2020 13:03

Holocaust education can foster ignorance and hatred

The gulf between Britain and Middle East reality

'There can be little doubt that the UAE agreement has confounded those who promote the myth that peace eludes the region because Israel refuses to accept the Palestinians’ demands.'

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August 26, 2020 18:26

The gulf between Britain and Middle East reality

Why Starmer can never succeed

'Among “progressives”, there’s a belief that their default animus against Israel constitutes not antisemitism but legitimate criticism'

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July 17, 2020 11:10

To put Israel’s points, first learn about the Brits

'Is the Israeli government reverting to its bad old ways by selecting the Likud politician Tzipi Hotovely as its ambassador to the United Kingdom?'

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June 4, 2020 13:29

To put Israel’s points, first learn about the Brits

What will our leaders do about Trevor Phillips?

'Has anybody yet heard community leaders springing to the defence of Trevor Phillips? Or are these leaders going to double down on condemning anyone who is denounced as an Islamophobe?'

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March 12, 2020 16:40

What will our leaders do about Trevor Phillips?

Connection with ghosts is all that some of us have

Tom Stoppard's new play draws on a culture that no longer exists, says Melanie Phillips

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January 30, 2020 14:31

Connection with ghosts is all that some of us have

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