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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.

Much of the West believes the antisemitic lie that the Jews are responsible for their own destruction.
The moral corruption of this global body has knocked the free world off its compass.
If Netanyahu won’t alert Americans to their government’s abandonment of Israel, U.S. politicians must step up to the plate.
Finally, people are pushing back publicly against the outlet’s lethal distortions.
Conservatism and the nation need each other to survive.
The IHRA definition has led defenders of the Jewish people down a blind alley.
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.