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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.

Jewish victimization should not be dismissed as unbeatable. It must be fought harder and better.
The proper response to this war against a people is not to deflect it, but to fight it better.
Qatar represents the Jeffrey Epstein of world politics.
The world hasn’t learned the key point—that it was a uniquely monstrous crime aimed specifically at the extermination of the Jewish people.
The old world order is dead because Western universalists destroyed it.
Ending the Islamic regime in Tehran would help reset the West’s moral compass.
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.