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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.

Their unhinged obsession with the “two-state solution” threatens to incentivize Hamas.
UNRWA should be prosecuted for complicity with war crimes.
The distinction between Hamas and “ordinary” Palestinians is largely spurious.
Obsessional hostility has even infected counterterrorism experts.
In response to the genocidal Hamas agenda, churches have turned on its Jewish victims.
If the West wants a solution to the Middle East conflict, it must take a long look in the mirror.
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.