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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 rules-based global order has expired in disgrace.
The terrible fact is that conscience in the West has become harnessed to absolute evil.
The silence of mainstream conservatives over the antisemitism in their midst is lethal for the Republicans and America.
The time for platitudes is over. What’s needed is zero tolerance of Islamic extremism and anti-Zionism.
Mass murder has been branded as conscience to mess with people’s minds.
For “progressives,” including celebrities across the board, the Palestinian cause is their badge of conscience.
The twin causes of Palestinianism and human rights have destroyed the West’s moral compass.
Israel has allowed its enemies to defame victims of attack as perpetrators.
Fragmentation threatens to empower extremes on both the left and right of the political spectrum.
America must wake up. This is about more than one upstart revolutionary.
Appallingly, progressive Jews are supporting an unhinged Jew-hater because they define this stance as conscience.
Alarmingly, what U.S. President Donald Trump is helping Israel fight in the Middle East is rampant in his own backyard.