Melanie Phillips is brilliant.
Listen to her address to the Australian equivalent of AIPAC. Its one half hour long but you won’t want to miss a word of it.
She was introduced by the same person who rejected Raphi Israeli. He used the opportunity to support his reasons. I found myself in complete disagreement with him
Melanie Philips is the kind of intelligent and well spoken person missing from Jewish advocacy groups in Canada and the USA. Instead of fearing the truth, Ms. Philips confronts it head on. Instead of engaging in political sycophancy and slavish adherence to a wholly Liberal or Conservative agenda, she has her sights on the facts. Instead of trying to gain favor with the multicultural advocates by dialoguing with Islamic groups that won’t even recognize the map of Israel or Israel’s right to exist, Ms. Philips defends Israel every step of the way. Instead of avoiding criticism against an Islamic world steeped in jihadist hate for their hosts and thriving on Jew hatred and terrorist goals, she makes it clear that the West is nurturing and feeding the fat, vicious pig of radical Islam. And the press and academics, she points out, are the first in line to parrot the views of wahhabis and Iranian fascists. Ms. Philips is a class act.