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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 Department of Homeland Security has internalized the Palestinian big lie.
The attacks on Ben-Gvir’s Temple Mount excursion defy reason.
Benjamin Netanyahu and King Charles turn out to have something in common.
Israel’s controversial Maccabean Three may be channeling Jewish history all over again.
Someone needs to teach the Biden administration just what antisemitism is.
Hysteria over the new Israeli government will harm the wider Jewish world.
Herzl would recognize all too well the tragic fantasy of assimilation.
Through Palestinian propaganda, what was once confined to Nazi Germany has now poisoned much of the free world.
Deep changes in American society are a security risk for Israel.
Most Israeli Jews know which is which, most American Jews do not.
Those clutching their pearls over the “fascists” poised to join Israel’s new government should look in the mirror.
Conservative despair about the liberal erosion of the West is delivering it to its mortal foes.