62: Melanie Phillips: “Israel is potentially the West’s last man standing”

My guest is journalist, author and social commentator, Melanie Phillips.

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Melanie Phillips was once a committed diaspora Jew, pledged to contributing to life and society in her native UK.

Moving to Israel was not on the radar; why would it be when she lived in the “goldener mediener” in Yiddish, a “golden country” where Jews could live and prosper.

Today she’s an arch-Zionist, living mostly in Jerusalem with her husband, the BBC’s former legal affairs correspondent Joshua Rozenberg.

This episode chronicles Melanie’s change of mindset, using her story to illustrate what’s been happening to Anglo Jewry since the end of World War II.

We also ponder the modern Conservative Party, why the BBC choose her as an interviewee when she believes they think she’s the “acceptable face and voice of lunacy” and whether zealotry can ever be a positive influence?