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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 four-year interlude under President Donald Trump is clearly viewed as an irritating setback that must now be reversed.
In a knockdown fight between good and evil, liberal universalists split the difference and call that justice.
A clear line connects the tribunal on Nazi atrocities to current anti-Semitism.
Saeb Erekat spoke honeyed words of peace to those in the West determined to ignore ineradicable Palestinian anti-Semitism and Israel-rejectionism. Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks chose to enlighten, inspire and console.
A seemingly unbridgeable cultural chasm now divides people in the West, including Diaspora Jews.
It identifies a culture “which, at best, did not do enough to prevent anti-Semitism and, at worst, could be seen to accept it.”
Despite his noxious and lethal legacy, the progressive establishment has failed to denounce him or treat him as a pariah. On the contrary, black celebrities, including sports stars and rappers, treat him as a prophet, praising him and echoing his anti-Semitic rhetoric.
For years, it has uncritically recycled Palestinian propaganda as innately credible and true, while treating demonstrably factual Israeli statements as mendacious propaganda.
As the West blows up its own moral values, Jews are at risk of becoming a speck amidst the rubble.
Trump is clearly not aiming to wipe out the Jews, nor create a totalitarian dictatorship, nor attempt the invasion and subjugation of the world.
Many have no awareness that the Jews are a historic nation, bound by their own system of law and a common language, history, institutions and culture, and that they are the only people for whom the land of Israel was ever their national kingdom.
Hitherto suppressed truths are now being told in the Arab world in a way that was previously unthinkable.