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Volume 4 No 1 - Journal for the Study of Antisemitism

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194 JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF ANTISEMITISM [ VOL. 4:191<br />

sectarianism. The very democratic process is at risk <strong>of</strong> being turned into a<br />

vehicle <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> promotion not just <strong>of</strong> religious bigotry but <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> destruction<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> West itself.<br />

As mainstream politics steadily disintegrates into incompetence, irrelevance,<br />

and public scorn, a lethal interloper is now poised to fill <strong>the</strong> vacuum.<br />

*Melanie Phillips is a British journalist and author, now a political and social issues<br />

columnist in <strong>the</strong> Daily Mail. She is <strong>the</strong> author <strong>of</strong> All Must Have Prizes, an<br />

acclaimed study <strong>of</strong> Britain’s educational and moral crisis; her latest book is The<br />

World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth and Power<br />

(Encounter, April 2010). Phillips blogs at http://melaniephillips.com/.

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