Melanie Phillips

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Why the west has swooned over a blood-soaked jihadi

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Melanie Phillips
Jul 18, 2025
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UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy with Syrian president Abu Mohammed al Julani in London

The hypocrisy, double standards and malevolence are off the scale.

Syrian government forces carried out a four-day massacre this week of the Druze minority in Suweida, a Druze town in southern Syria. An estimated 300 Druze were slaughtered in a series of barbaric atroc…

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