Melanie Phillips: Gaslighting on steroids

Jews must fight back against verbal ethnic cleansing

One of the most pernicious effects of the Soviet system of mind control was what’s called today “gaslighting,” the belief that you are guilty of the insanely preposterous things of which you are being accused but of which you are in fact innocent.

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.

Ashley Church: Are the Palestinians the ‘real Jews’?

What defines an ancient identity?

Back in June I wrote an article pointing out the inconvenient fact that there has never, at any time in history, been a sovereign Palestinian state and that reference to one is an invented modern fiction.

Antisemitic commentators responded immediately.

Unable to challenge the core of my argument (because history is history) they changed tack and latched on to an old conspiracy theory: that the Palestinians and the Jews are genetically related and that, therefore, the Palestinians are the ‘real Jews’ while the people we now call Jews are outsiders.

Ashley Church: Why I support Israel and the Jews

Remaining silent is no longer an option

Why would anybody stick their neck out and support Israel and the Jewish people in today’s toxic environment?

Who, in their right mind, would associate themselves with one of the most controversial and divisive issues of our time by putting themselves in the firing line over a tiny country on the other side of the world and a people to whom most of us have no direct connection?

Ani O'Brien: AUT’s Little Manifesto of Hatred

My literary and moral review of the worst poetry I have ever read

READ THE LITERARY ABOMINATION ONLINE HERE. It was published in the most recent edition of Debate magazine which is the student magazine at AUT.

Dane Giraud: Chloe Swarbrick and her politics of desecration

French existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, whose insights on antisemitism shared in a collection of essays entitled Réflexions sur la question juive (1946) remain chillingly prescient. “If the Jew did not exist, the antisemite would invent him.” Is a formulation that could account for the chic moral contortions of our own time, especially on the far Left, the political home (or inner-city villa) of our most affluent, and batty citizens and their obnoxious offspring.

Brendan O'Neill: How Western governments are funding the persecution of Jews

We know UNRWA has intimate links with Hamas, so why are we giving it money?

The British government helped to fund the persecution of a British Jew. That’s the takeaway from Emily Damari’s revelation that she was held in an UNRWA facility for some of the hellish time she spent in Hamas captivity. Keir Starmer’s Labour government pumps millions of pounds into UNRWA.