Melanie Phillips: Israel is fighting evil

Israel is fighting for civilisation in a “seismic event” that will change both it and Jewish people in the diaspora, the journalist and author Melanie Phillips argued in London this week. “Israel will survive this. It will have changed,” she said in a panel discussion at JW3 on Monday night that featured leading JC columnists and was chaired by the newspaper’s editor, Jake Wallis Simons. But she added: “We cannot possibly say how it will have changed.” What Israel had been experiencing since the “terrible day” of Hamas’ attack was an example “of a sickness in the world that has infected[…] the West”, she said. “Israel is fighting for its survival. It is fighting for the life of its people. It is fighting for itself, but it is fighting an evil that has consumed much of the world.” The world’s oldest and most influential Jewish newspaper. Since 1841. Follow us on social media: