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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.

Clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security forces in the village of Kfar Qaddum, near Nablus, on Feb. 11, 2022. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90.     
Senior Contributor
Biden administration won’t stop appeasing the Palestinians
There is also a lethal refusal to face reality in the Middle East that has characterized American administrations, as well as governments in Britain and Europe, for many decades.
Jun. 2, 2022
Melanie Phillips
Anthony Albanese. Credit: Wikipedia.
Senior Contributor
No rainbow’s end for the Jews of Oz
New Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has called Israel an “oppressor” and accused it of collective punishment against the Palestinian Arabs.
May. 26, 2022
Melanie Phillips
Broken window. Credit: Pixabay.
Senior Contributor
The ‘broken windows’ strategy for combating Israel demonization
A culture self-destructs if its people choose not to defend it. Bad people get away with really bad stuff when everyone else chooses to look the other way.
May. 19, 2022
Melanie Phillips
Palestinian journalists take part in a candlelight vigil in the Gaza Strip in memory of Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed in Jenin during a firefight between terrorists and IDF soldiers. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
Senior Contributor
How Western dupes help propagate murderous Palestinian lies
The mainstream media generally choose to believe the Palestinians, even though they routinely lie about Israel. These lies are weapons of war, deployed to incite violence and mass murder.
May. 12, 2022
Melanie Phillips
Image of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Credit: TPYXA_ILLUSTRATION/Shutterstock.
Senior Contributor
Why Russia has once again turned on the Jews
This reversal of truth and lies, victim and aggressor, right and wrong is the hallmark of Soviet propaganda.
May. 5, 2022
Melanie Phillips
A view of nuclear centrifuges at the Iran nuclear energy exhibition at the Islamic Revolution & Holy Defense Museum in 2018. Credit: Inspired by Maps/Shutterstock.
Senior Contributor
The real reason for Blinken’s alarming warning about Iran
It’s possible that the U.S. secretary of state intended to frighten people so much that opposition to American concessions to Iran to seal the deal just melted away.
Apr. 28, 2022
Melanie Phillips
The U.N. General Assembly adopts a resolution on suspension of the rights of the membership of the Russian Federation in the Human Rights Council during the 10th plenary meeting of the General Assembly Eleventh Emergency Special Session on Ukraine. The resolution was adopted with 93 votes in favor, 24 against and 58 abstentions. Credit: U.N. Photo/Manuel Elías.
Senior Contributor
The key lesson from Ukraine for international order
Israel understands that the United Nations is a broken institution that helps sow chaos, terror and injustice. It knows that because it’s so often on the receiving end.
Apr. 7, 2022
Melanie Phillips
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken at David Ben-Gurion Memorial National Park in Sde Boker, Israel, with Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid on March 28, 2022. Credit: U.S. State Department Photo by Freddie Everett.
Senior Contributor
Blinken’s obscene Western ‘progressive’ agenda
At the Negev Summit, the U.S. Secretary of State demonstrated what it currently means to be a Western progressive: supporting people who murder Israelis and empowering others who want to wipe out Israel.
Mar. 31, 2022
Melanie Phillips
An illustration of Israeli and Ukrainian flags. Credit: ruskpp/Shutterstock.
Senior Contributor
Why liberals fail to equate Israel and Ukraine
The reaction to aggression against each country plays very differently in the anti-Semitic West.
Mar. 24, 2022
Melanie Phillips
Putin, Khamenei
Senior Contributor
Biden’s unconscionable empowerment of both Russia and Iran
U.S. President Joe Biden is now accepting Russian President Vladimir Putin—the man he calls a “war criminal” and who has threatened nuclear war against the West—as the controller of Iran’s nuclear-weapons program.
Mar. 17, 2022
Melanie Phillips
A residential building damaged by Russian aircraft in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. Credit: Drop of Light/Shutterstock.
Senior Contributor
America hasn’t learned the grim truth of asymmetric warfare
The West’s nuclear knife is sheathed, but Russian President Vladimir Putin is brandishing his own in a menacing manner. As with Iran and the Palestinians, such disdain for human life gives fanatics the upper hand.
Mar. 10, 2022
Melanie Phillips
A Russian military strike on a TV tower in Kiev, Ukraine, on March 1, 2022. Source: Twitter.
Senior Contributor
For the Jews, history repeats itself in Ukraine
It’s true that many Ukrainian nationalists initially welcomed the German invaders as liberators during World War Two. But Ukraine suffered more than Russia from Nazism, with more of its population being killed during the war than any other country.
Mar. 3, 2022
Melanie Phillips
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