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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 deepening row over the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh has exposed the excruciating error of Israeli strategy towards the Biden administration.
Complaints about its bias against Israel and its indulgence of Islamist extremism get nowhere.
How can governments maintain that they have seen no evidence to support this claim? What they really mean is that they reject facts provided by the Jewish state.
The United States has now returned to the point at which it all started: the axis between the Taliban and Al-Qaeda that led to 9/11 and put troops into Afghanistan in the first place.
Gil Tamary made clear he knew exactly what he was doing by referring to the site as “a place forbidden to non-Muslims,” and boasting, “I am the first Israeli journalist on the spot to broadcast these images and in Hebrew.”
Core Jewish principles involve putting others’ interests before your own, respecting every human being and observing moral codes based on right and wrong.
Despite the president’s genuine affection for Israel, his itinerary sent out baleful signals.
The question for voters in Britain, America and Israel is whether a leader’s gifts are more important than his character flaws—or vice versa.
It shows what can be achieved when there’s a backlash against anti-Israel bigotry.
With her fellow Republicans seemingly unable to produce a coherent vision for America to counter the disaster of the Biden administration, a recent speech was pitch-perfect and received by her conservative London audience like rain in a desert.
Despite all the warm words in Jerusalem, there’s no sign that the longtime hostility towards Israel is about to ease.
The fact that the United Nations singles out Israel for condemnation as a human-rights abuser when it is in fact the sole democracy in the Middle East and deeply committed to human rights is a travesty.