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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 United Nations itself is allowing evil to triumph with the complicity of the West.
For the West, there are no “forever wars.” Its wars are either won or lost; there are victors and vanquished. For Islamic extremists, war is indeed forever; defeat is only temporary.
A new literary weapon by Andrew Pessin is a sparkling and savagely satirical novel about campus “cancel culture.”
Their values turn Jewish principles of justice and truth on their heads, and their Israel-bashing is but a thin veneer for a hatred of other Jews or Judaism itself.
There is a glaring problem with Joe Biden’s choice of Deborah Lipstadt: A president who has himself trivialized the Nazi regime to make a partisan political smear appoints as his anti-Semitism envoy the person who defended him in making the repugnant comment.
Westerners don’t understand the threat to their own security. That’s because it doesn’t fit the liberal narrative—that Muslims are the victims of Western colonialist oppression. Therefore, their violence is a kind of justified resistance, at least in its aims if not its methods.
The point about the attack by Ben & Jerry’s, as with all boycotts of Israel, is that the main issue is not the boycott. It’s the thinking behind it.
Saying sorry for the past just isn’t enough. Addressing Christian anti-Semitism involves facing its anti-Israel element head-on.
The effect of the invidious role played in helping foment murderous rage against the Jewish state and the Jewish people, while sanitizing the behavior of the Palestinians, is incalculable.
The late defense secretary understood the need to display unwavering resolve against the enemy. Today, the Biden administration is learning this—or failing to learn it—the hard way.
As enemies of the West ratchet up their aggression, the more determined the Biden administration becomes to appease them.
In the United Kingdom, a strategy of cultural manipulation and intimidation threatens to push politicians into hostility towards Israel, and it is actively imperiling the security of British Jews.