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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.

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks during a joint news conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. Credit: ApostolisBril/Shutterstock.
Senior Contributor
How Biden has empowered evil in both Russia and Iran
The cause behind the administration’s extraordinarily perverse policy is the belief system fundamental to the West’s governing and intellectual classes, and which links their Iran strategy with their approach to Vladimir Putin — and also with their hostility towards Israel.
Feb. 24, 2022
Melanie Phillips
Russian President Vladimir Putin. Credit: Shutterstock.
Senior Contributor
The lethal miscalculations over Vladimir Putin
Countries that are now saying he is a gangster and a menace, and has to be stopped were until recently sucking up to him and seeking to use the “mafia state” he has created to enrich themselves.
Feb. 17, 2022
Melanie Phillips
American and Iranian Flags
Senior Contributor
How America is helping Iran get a nuclear arsenal
With the U.S. State Department’s sanctions waiver, Iran will be shored up in power, receive the resources to ratchet up its aggressive activities abroad and be confident that it can finish developing nuclear weapons with impunity.
Feb. 10, 2022
Melanie Phillips
Whoopi Goldberg. Credit: Ron Adar/Shutterstock.
Senior Contributor
Whoops, Whoopi: The Holocaust is all about race
The signature characteristic of German Nazism was that it set out to exterminate Jews as a race, identifying them as targets for annihilation on the basis of even a tenuous ancestral connection with Judaism.
Feb. 3, 2022
Melanie Phillips
Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, in Reykjavik, Iceland, on May 19, 2021. Credit: State Department photo by Ron Przysucha
Senior Contributor
How the West’s appeasement mentality brings not peace, but war
The Biden administration just can’t grasp the fact that tyrants and extremists regard compromise as proof of weakness and an incentive to redouble their aggression.
Jan. 27, 2022
Melanie Phillips
Malik Faisal Akram. Source: OurCalling Homeless Shelter Photo.
Senior Contributor
The unspoken truths behind the Texas synagogue attack
British intelligence has much to answer for. But there’s also the question of how Malik Faisal Akram was allowed into America in the first place.
Jan. 20, 2022
Melanie Phillips
A Bahraini chats with an Israeli at Jerusalem's Machane Yehuda market, October 2021. Photo by Josh Hasten.
Senior Contributor
The emergence of Arab Zionism?
As Arabs increasingly turn towards Israel and survival, the West continues in the opposite direction.
Jan. 13, 2022
Melanie Phillips
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid with Conference of Presidents CEO William Daroff. Source: Yair Lapid/Twitter.
Senior Contributor
The most important conversation the Jewish world needs to have
The entitlement of shared peoplehood does not negate the particular compact of citizenship made between Israel’s government and its citizens alone.
Jan. 6, 2022
Melanie Phillips
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the opening of the 40th session of the Human Rights Council, Palais des Nations, Feb. 25, 2019. Credit: U.N. Photo by Violaine Martin.
Senior Contributor
New Year’s resolution? Abolish the UN Human Rights Council
The new commission of inquiry led by the former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay is poised to accuse Israel of the purported crime of its very existence going back to its creation in 1948, as well as libel it with the false charge of “apartheid.”
Dec. 30, 2021
Melanie Phillips
Archbishop of Canterbury and head of the Church of England Justin Welby, center, visits the Dome of the Rock shrine in Jerusalem's Old City, on June 27, 2013. Photo by Sliman Khader / Flash90.
Senior Contributor
A Christmas crusade: Scapegoating the Jews
Anyone connected to reality would be perplexed by church leaders’ campaign to blame Israeli Jews for driving Christians out of Israel, as the country’s Christian population actually increased last year.
Dec. 23, 2021
Melanie Phillips
Trump, Netanyahu
Senior Contributor
Trump and Netanyahu: Allies no longer?
Political leaders should be neither blindly supported nor opposed. But it’s their deeds that matter, not their words.
Dec. 16, 2021
Melanie Phillips
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) speaking at the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), congressional reception for newly elected congressional representatives. Credit: Phil Pasquini/Shutterstock.
Senior Contributor
Double standard of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia
Claims of moral equivalency are bogus. Bigotry is based on falsehoods, not fact.
Dec. 9, 2021
Melanie Phillips
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