More
EN
Newsletter
More
Newsletter
EN
Support JNS
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.

British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, who was born Jewish but later converted to Christianity. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Senior Contributor
The brouhaha over defining Jews as an ethnic minority
The notion that Judaism is both religion and peoplehood feeds the paranoid suspicions of the anti-Semite that the Jews are slippery customers who change their shape at will and thus hide in plain sight.
Mar. 4, 2021
Melanie Phillips
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. Credit: Asatur Yesayants/Shutterstock.
Senior Contributor
We recognize Haman. But where are Mordechai and Esther?
Today’s Persians running Iran’s Islamic revolutionary regime consistently declare their intention to annihilate Israel and are building the capacity for nuclear weapons to achieve that infernal aim. And then, there’s the Western media and academia …
Feb. 25, 2021
Melanie Phillips
Rev. Frank Chikane of the World Council of Churches. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Senior Contributor
Christian leaders remain silent as the church recycles its oldest hatred
South African Rev. Frank Chikane, the moderator of the WCC’s Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, openly suggested that Israeli Jews were demonic.
Feb. 18, 2021
Melanie Phillips
The International Criminal Court
Senior Contributor
The absurd malevolence of the International Criminal Court
The legal and moral illiteracy of the ICC’s ruling is not a temporary blip. It follows from the campaign that lies at the very core of liberal universalist beliefs: to negate the authority of the sovereign nation Israel.
Feb. 11, 2021
Melanie Phillips
U.S. President Barack Obama with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the tarmac at Ben-Gurion International Airport in Israel, March 20, 2013. Credit: White House Photo by Pete Souza.
Senior Contributor
Obama’s third term
Israel scarcely needs the absence of a phone call to tell it that it has a grave problem with the new occupant of the White House.
Feb. 4, 2021
Melanie Phillips
Israeli police clash with haredi Jews during a protest against the police enforcement of lockdown orders due to the coronavirus, in the city of Bnei Brak on Jan. 24, 2021. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.
Senior Contributor
The tragedy for haredim from COVID has created a crisis for Judaism itself
They fear that if they shut down their educational institutions, they will lose an entire generation of young men to Judaism. They believe that learning Talmud and Torah is more precious even than life itself.
Jan. 28, 2021
Melanie Phillips
Antony Blinken, U.S. Secretary of State nominee, speaking alongside U.S. President Joe Biden. Credit: vasilis asvestas/Shutterstock.com
Senior Contributor
Will America stay the strong horse when it comes to Iran?
Mixed messages have been released from appointees of the new U.S. government as far as Mideast policies. Could the new Biden administration be floundering in incoherence and arguments between opposing factions?
Jan. 21, 2021
Melanie Phillips
U.S. House of Represenatives moving to impeach President Donald Trump for a second time on Jan. 14, 2020. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Senior Contributor
As America reels from political trauma, Jewish continuity points way to national unity
A covenant is a commitment going beyond mutual advantage, requiring instead joint obligations in a permanent, unconditional and unbreakable union.
Jan. 14, 2021
Melanie Phillips
Supporters of President Donald Trump at the U.S. Capitol, where hundreds smashed windows and broke into the building while protesting the results of the November elections, Jan. 6, 2021. Source: YouTube.
Senior Contributor
A disaster and a tragedy for America, Jews and decent people everywhere
Those trying to defend principles of law and constitutional order against the left have been grievously undermined.
Jan. 7, 2021
Melanie Phillips
The Union Jack and the European Union Flag. Credit: Publicdomainpictures.net
Senior Contributor
Lessons from Britain’s Brexit breakthrough
What the United Kingdom has achieved provides an object lesson in strategy and diplomacy for every democratic nation, not least when it comes to dealing with the Middle East or threats from foreign aggressors.
Dec. 31, 2020
Melanie Phillips
File photo: Rabbi Yitzchak Eliezer Yakav, chief slaughterer from the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, responsible for kosher slaughter of cattle imported to Israel from South America, on June 12, 2011. Photo by Kobi Gideon/Flash90.
Senior Contributor
The driving force behind the ban on kosher slaughtering
The West’s predominant ideology of moral and cultural relativism has propelled the rise of paganism, as well as the veneration of the animal and natural world, at the expense of humanity.
Dec. 24, 2020
Melanie Phillips
John le Carré giving a speech in 2017. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/German Embassy London.
Senior Contributor
A mystery in its own right: The ‘anti-Semitism’ of John le Carré
He remains a product of his time and an enigma. Was he on the side of the Jewish people—or their enemies?
Dec. 17, 2020
Melanie Phillips
Load More