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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 Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland border sign on M1 motorway. Ireland. Credit: Remizov/Shutterstock.
Senior Contributor
Meddling with Israel’s security, Biden is also dangerously interfering with UK governance
Such interference is based on an ignorant and dangerously partisan view that, under the guise of advancing peace, is in fact a powerful incentive to further violence and aggression.
Jun. 10, 2021
Melanie Phillips
Pro-Palestinian Protesters in Dublin
Senior Contributor
Faced with a tsunami of anti-Semitism, Diaspora Jews still cling to their bubble
A neo-pogrom is being facilitated by Western elites who, if they aren’t taking part in this war against the Jewish people either on the streets or in the media, are piously wringing their hands but not taking the necessary action to stop it.
Jun. 3, 2021
Melanie Phillips
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on May 25, 2021. Credit: State Department Photo by Ron Przysucha.
Senior Contributor
Actions, not bromides, are how the West must confront rabid anti-Semitism
This madness urgently needs to be fought by those who help make the cultural weather. It’s not enough for politicians to promise support to a Jewish community that’s under siege.
May. 27, 2021
Melanie Phillips
Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini
Senior Contributor
The last, overlooked but still active front of World War II
There’s a profound need in the West for the Jews to be proved bad people. Among the Israel-haters is a breathless eagerness for the moment when they can shout “gotcha” and then put the Jews into the public pillory.
May. 20, 2021
Melanie Phillips
U.S. President Joe Biden. Credit: vasilis asvestas/Shutterstock.
Senior Contributor
Might Biden be turning America into Israel’s foe?
When it comes to the Middle East, the Biden administration’s specialty is what’s been called the “values-feint”—making high-minded statements to disguise its morally bankrupt actions.
May. 13, 2021
Melanie Phillips
Christian missionaries march on Jaffa Road with a sign saying “Repent Israel, Jesus Is Coming” in central Jerusalem on Oct. 5, 2016. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.
Senior Contributor
A complex relationship made in heaven
If Jews feel threatened by some Christians through conversion or assimilation, Christianity itself feels threatened by Judaism—specifically, by the fact that the links between the two religions are far more fundamental than many Christians like to acknowledge.
May. 6, 2021
Melanie Phillips
U.S. President Joe Biden participates in his first official press conference in the East Room of the White House on March 25, 2021. Credit: Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz.
Senior Contributor
How Biden is smashing America’s moral compass and dragging the West behind it
Former President Barack Obama repudiated the “Durban Declaration and Program of Action” on the grounds of its unjust demonization of Israel and the “hateful and anti-Semitic displays” around its creation. The Biden administration has embraced it.
Apr. 29, 2021
Melanie Phillips
A rally for slain French Jew Sarah Halimi in January 2020. Credit: Gerard Bottino/Shutterstock.
Senior Contributor
Anti-Semitism is a form of delirium, especially in France
Those in its grip believe that Jews possess diabolical powers, that they are a secret conspiracy to control global affairs in their own malign interests, that they are responsible for the ills in the world.
Apr. 22, 2021
Melanie Phillips
Isi Leibler. Credit: Courtesy.
Senior Contributor
The moral courage of Isi Leibler
The death in Jerusalem of the 86-year-old leader has robbed the Jewish world of one of its towering figures at a time when it is particularly ill-equipped for such a loss.
Apr. 15, 2021
Melanie Phillips
Watching the military airshow during Israel's 70th Independence Day celebrations in Jerusalem on April 19, 2018. Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Senior Contributor
Israel: The necessary superpower
Its legendary military and security derring-do derives from its culture of risk-taking, creativity and thinking out of the box—characteristics shared by no other country.
Apr. 8, 2021
Melanie Phillips
Jared Kushner, son-in-law and former senior adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump. Credit: Alexandros Michailidis/Shutterstock.
Senior Contributor
Jared Kushner’s curious change of heart
With the Biden administration having re-empowered Palestinian aggressors against Israel, Kushner has shown that he doesn’t grasp the significance of what he helped achieve with the Abraham Accords.
Mar. 18, 2021
Melanie Phillips
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Harry and Meghan Markle. Credit: ComposedPix/Shutterstock.
Senior Contributor
Meghan Markle and the Jewish question
This has become a terrifying looking-glass world where morality has been turned back to front. It’s where in the minds of millions—particularly, the young—venality, disloyalty and spite register as evidence of moral worth.
Mar. 11, 2021
Melanie Phillips
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