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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.

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.
Such lethal myopia now stretches from Australia to a London theater.
Britain’s elites loathe Israel on a scale that just doesn’t exist in America.
American voters have been left ignorant of the peril posed by Biden’s two-faced approach to both Israel and Iran.
The war against the Jews is also the war against Western civilization.
Lapid’s support for a Palestinian state compounds a disastrous error.
The British fear that with the Queen’s death, a Britain of priceless values may also be passing.