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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.

HIAS at Immigration Rally
Senior Contributor
‘Imagine’ all those people …
Indifference or active opposition to effective border control, without which a nation ceases to exist, is an attitude of destructive national self-loathing.
Dec. 2, 2021
Melanie Phillips
U.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair shake hands after their press conference in the East Room of the White House on Nov. 12, 2004. Credit: White House Photo by Paul Morse.
Senior Contributor
Why Israel needs a strategy to shape the narrative
America and the West ignore the reality about Iran or the Palestinians or the Muslim Brotherhood because they take refuge in the fantasy that the world is shaped in their own image.
Nov. 26, 2021
Melanie Phillips
British Labour Party leader Keir Starmer. Credit: Rupert Rivett/Shutterstock.
Senior Contributor
Keir Starmer’s Labour anti-Semitism problem
Like so many liberals in Britain, America and elsewhere, he selects aspects of an issue that conform to his idealistic viewpoint while blanking out those that undermine it.
Nov. 18, 2021
Melanie Phillips
London School of Economics Old Building in central London. Credit: Willy Barton/Shutterstock.
Senior Contributor
The most alarming threat of all to the Jewish people
Many leaders are terrified that speaking the truth about Israel will cause them to lose their access to the political and intellectual circles they prize so highly, and in which they pretend to themselves they are accepted as equals just like anyone else.
Nov. 11, 2021
Melanie Phillips
Biden, Boris Johnson
Senior Contributor
The inconvenient truths behind the hysteria over climate change
Green ideology represents humanity as the enemy of sustainable life—so much so that some people are choosing not to have children in order to “help the planet.” Such priority afforded to the inanimate and animal world is deeply pagan.
Nov. 4, 2021
Melanie Phillips
A Star of David pointer over the first word of the book of Genesis. Credit: Odelia Cohen/Shutterstock.
Senior Contributor
The crucial but underrated gift of being ‘a people apart’
Many liberal Jews don’t want to know about Jewish exceptionalism because it runs smack into the cardinal precepts of liberal dogma—universalism, the rejection of cultural singularity and the eradication of difference as “discrimination.”
Oct. 28, 2021
Melanie Phillips
A rally for slain French Jew Sarah Halimi in January 2020. Credit: Gerard Bottino/Shutterstock.
Senior Contributor
The baleful consequences of failing to deal with Islamist extremism
The West is like the apocryphal frog being uncomprehendingly boiled in the pot. In Britain, the pot is being heated very slowly; in France, it has reached boiling point; and in America, it has boiled over with Jews actually helping turn up the heat.
Oct. 21, 2021
Melanie Phillips
Blinken Abbas
Senior Contributor
The real reason for Western support of the Palestinians
What actually binds these groups together is an ultimately incomprehensible animus against Judaism and the Jewish people.
Oct. 14, 2021
Melanie Phillips
The European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, March 20, 2013. Photo by Botond Horvath/Shutterstock.
Senior Contributor
In the face of European hypocrisy, time for Israel’s supporters to remake the cultural weather
When it comes to the West, the Israelis not only fail to grasp the eye-watering depth and extent of Jew-hatred, they also don’t try to understand it.
Oct. 7, 2021
Melanie Phillips
A sign for "Israeli Apartheid Week," the annual international anti-Israel showcase, on the campus of the University of California, Irvine, in May 2010. Credit: AMCHA Initiative.
Senior Contributor
The false accusation of ‘Israel apartheid’
The smear triggers emotions of deep anger and disgust among the shallow and ignorant, whose knowledge of the Jewish state is entirely drawn from malicious propaganda that misrepresents Israel’s defensive measures as racist aggression.
Sep. 30, 2021
Melanie Phillips
An Iron Dome air-defense battery set near the southern Israeli city of Ashdod fires an intercepting missile on July 14, 2014. Photo by David Buimovitch/Flash90.
Senior Contributor
The baleful significance of the Democrats’ Iron Dome fiasco
Jewish defenders should target their enemies’ Achilles heel—their narcissism and belief in their own unimpeachable virtue.
Sep. 23, 2021
Melanie Phillips
Secretary-General Kofi Annan (right, at podium) speaking at the opening of the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance in Durban, September 2001. Credit: U.N. Photo/Evan Schneider.
Senior Contributor
The hate-fest that is Durban rears its ugly head again
The United Nations itself is allowing evil to triumph with the complicity of the West.
Sep. 15, 2021
Melanie Phillips
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