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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.

The obscene spectacle staged by musician Roger Waters exposes the moral vacuum in Holocaust memorializing.
A conference on how to save the West has been smeared by those out to destroy it.
Behind Western hostility to Israel and indifference towards Iran lies a baleful explanation.
The West needs to grasp what it says about nation and religion.
For many in the West, Jew-hatred is invisible and grossly misunderstood.
The battle is existential and reflects a similar struggle in the West.
U.S. Democrat administrations have continued to interfere in Ireland and Israel in ways that are deeply partisan, incentivize yet more terrorist violence and dump upon their purported allies.
The true agenda of Israel’s mass protests has been laid bare.
The massive protests rocking the country are about far more than judicial reform.
America and Britain undermine Israel’s security and defense against existential attack by sanitizing, promoting and funding Palestinian Arabs, whose active cause remains the destruction of the Jewish state.
While the West is increasingly alienated from democracy, Israel’s internal convulsions present terrifying dangers.
Universalism has undermined it from both inside and out.