How does Phillips advocate deligitimizing the deligitimizers? “This should be done by forcing them onto the defensive by attacking them,” she said. “And that includes Israel’s self-styled but treacherous friends. Like the Obama administration, which gives Mahmoud Abbas a free pass while falsely accusing Israel of jeopardizing the peace process. Like Britain, denouncing Israel’s ‘attack’ on the Turkish terrorist ship, the Mavi Marmara, and thus misrepresenting as aggression Israel’s right to defend itself against attack.

“Israel’s side should be asking Britain, the US and the Europeans very publicly why they are forcing it to negotiate with the Palestinian Authority while the PA repeats it will never accept Israel as a Jewish state.

“It should be asking why they continue to fund PA incitement to hate Jews and murder Israelis, and why they support the PA’s claims against Israel in the light of this racism. And it should call it ‘racism.’” After receiving more appreciation from the audience, some of whom stood up, she continued: Israel, she said, “should be asking very publicly why, in supporting the PA in its campaign for a Palestinian state in which it states no Israeli will be permitted to live, Britain, America and Europe are backing the racist ethnic cleansing of every Jew from such a future state of Palestine.

“It should be asking, very publicly, why Britain, the US and Europe persist in treating the UN as a legitimate global referee when it is dominated by tyrannies and rogue states.