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Melanie Phillips

Melanie Phillips

Melanie Phillips, a British journalist, broadcaster and author, writes a weekly column for JNS. Currently a columnist for The Times of London, her new book, Fighting the Hate: A Handbook for Jews Under Siege, has just been published by Wicked Son. Her previous book, The Builder’s Stone: How Jews and Christians Built the West and Why Only They Can Save It, was published in 2025. Access her work at: melaniephillips.substack.com.

Refusing to distinguish between Hamas aggressors and their Israeli victims, liberals scream for a ceasefire. No one is calling for Hamas to surrender, which would stop all the killing immediately.
The BBC and other Western media outlets are far more than mere useful idiots.
Israel is in this terrible situation principally because of America.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been outmaneuvered by the poisonously anti-Israel liberal establishment.
Biden’s early support for Israel is turning into something more ominous.
Leftists are now crying because suddenly, they feel the hot breath of the Jew-haters on their own necks.
Liberal society contains the seeds of its own destruction.
Media outlets are enabling anti-Jewish evil in a time of war.
The depravity shown by Hamas has entered the collective mind of the West itself.
Increasing tensions between Christians and Jews in Israel are complicated and disturbing.
The mob attack in Tel Aviv on Yom Kippur has far wider resonance.
Raisi’s triumphalism at the U.N. is a result of the West’s surrender