British columnist Melanie Phillips slammed for Palestinian 'final solution' comments | Middle East Eye

British columnist Melanie Phillips has been widely criticised for her comments on the inauguration of Palestine's embassy in London, describing it as an 'important moment in the UK's shameful connivance with the Palestinian Arabs' final solution'. Phillips, who writes for The Times, also referred to the Palestinian embassy as a 'non-embassy for a non-state for a non-people'. Scottish historian William Dalrymple responded by accusing Phillips of 'pure projection', stating that the Palestinians are the ones being ethnically cleansed and driven to the edge of extinction. Chris Doyle of the Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding (CAABU) denounced Phillips for what he called the 'racism of denying a people's very existence, their national rights and of apologising for a state, Israel, that is perpetrating a genocide right now and committing the crime of apartheid'.