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.

Melanie Phillips: “Judaism without Zionism”: - the latest form of Jew-baiting

Time for a more muscular assertion of Jewish identity

The enemies of Israel and of the Jewish people, who infest social media, have developed a new meme. What’s needed, they assert, is “Judaism without Zionism”.

This is the next step up from their mantra that “anti-Zionism isn’t the same as antisemitism”. Both statements are designed to deny that hating Israel means they hate Jews — perish the thought!