Melanie Phillips: Scapegoating the Jews

The demonisation of Israel has become a key driver of Western politics

Astonishingly, in America and Britain, the vilification and scapegoating of Israel through an agenda of malice and mendacity — and with undertones of something even darker — has become a key driver of political life.

US Vice President JD Vance has ramped up his attacks on Israel by channelling anti-Jewish tropes of covert manipulation and warmongering.

Melanie Phillips: An alliance of light against darkness

The war against Iran may put America and Israel at the head of a new world order

The war against Iran, in which America and Israel are rapidly degrading Tehran’s powers, doesn’t merely offer the hope of relief for the whole world by eradicating one of its most evil, murderous and far-reaching regimes.

We are also witnessing an even more momentous development — the likely birth of a new world order pivoted around that alliance between America and Israel.