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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.

Former Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom Jonathan Sacks. Credit: Office of Rabbi Sacks (rabbisacks.org/about-us/).
Senior Contributor
When rabbis should not keep quiet
They have a duty to speak up against any danger that threatens the Jewish community or the fundamental precepts of civilized life. What’s crucial, however, is that they make a correct judgment-call on such matters—one that reflects Jewish ethical principles of truth and justice.
Sep. 10, 2020
Melanie Phillips
Palestinian children hold posters with the picture of former Palestinian head Yasser Arafat and current Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas during a rally in Hebron marking the 12th anniversary of Arafat’s death Nov. 10, 2016. Credit: Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90.
Senior Contributor
The West turns a blind eye to Palestinian incitement in word and deed
The latest incompetence—reviewing the wrong textbook used for children—seems hard to believe. Why do people find it so difficult to acknowledge Palestinian violence and bigotry against Israel and the Jews?
Sep. 3, 2020
Melanie Phillips
The U.N. Security Council held an open videoconference to vote on a draft resolution on the arms embargo on Iran. The vote was two in favor, two against and 11 abstentions. The draft resolution was not adopted. Credit: U.N. Photo/Mark Garten.
Senior Contributor
The free world’s craven and hypocritical fifth column
Britain, France and Germany support Russia and China in shoring up Iran, a regime that has waged a 40-year war against the West, intends to wipe Israel off the map and seeks nuclear weapons.
Aug. 27, 2020
Melanie Phillips
A Black Lives Matter protest in Minneapolis. Credit: Andy Witchger via Wikimedia Commons.
Senior Contributor
Support for Black Lives Matter repeats a lethal error of history
Many Jews, particularly in Israel, are brown or black-skinned. Whiteness, though, is deemed to be less about pigment than power.
Aug. 20, 2020
Melanie Phillips
British rapper Wiley. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Senior Contributor
The progressive world: An antechamber to evil
The passivity that greeted British rapper Wiley’s brazen Jew-hatred has shocked many Jews into concluding that a line has now been crossed.
Jul. 30, 2020
Melanie Phillips
An artist’s rendering on the proposed Holocaust museum in London’s Victoria Tower Gardens. Credit: Adjaye Associates & Ron Arad Architects.
Senior Contributor
Betraying Jewish history by watering down the Holocaust
Memorials are increasingly being used to promote a self-congratulatory and sometimes self-exculpatory image of the country that erects them.
Jul. 23, 2020
Melanie Phillips
Senior Contributor
The Jewish surrender to the West’s eclipse of reason
Under no circumstances whatsoever should I mention President Donald Trump because people would walk out if I either supported or criticized him. And I shouldn’t mention abortion. Nor the Democratic Party. Nor, heaven forbid, the Israeli settlements …
Jul. 16, 2020
Melanie Phillips
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the weekly Cabinet meeting, at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem on July 5, 2020. Photo by Amit Shabi/POOL.
Senior Contributor
Both hero and zero: Israel’s strategic incoherence
As soon as the coronavirus threat was perceived to have retreated, its second-to-none security apparatus bowed out, and the civil infrastructure took over. The result was instant chaos.
Jul. 9, 2020
Melanie Phillips
Young Israelis gathered at the Rose Garden in front of the Knesset to mark the international '4:20' marijuana smoking day, in a demonstration to legalize the drug, in Jerusalem, on April 20, 2017. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90
Senior Contributor
Why is Israel going to pot?
One would think that with the COVID-19 outbreak now lurching out of control—not to mention never-ending security threats—a move to inflict upon itself the dire risks to public health and social order from normalizing cannabis use would be dismissed out of hand as crazy beyond belief.
Jul. 2, 2020
Melanie Phillips
A Black Lives Matter protest in Minneapolis. Credit: Andy Witchger via Wikimedia Commons.
Senior Contributor
Junking the Jews is behind our current Hobbesian nightmare
The very idea of “white privilege,” damning an entire ethnic group for its alleged evil behavior and attitudes, is racist.
Jun. 25, 2020
Melanie Phillips
A Yemenite family walks through the desert to a reception camp set up by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee near Aden. Nov. 1, 1949. Credit: Zoltan Kluger/Wikimedia Commons.
Senior Contributor
Don’t identify Jews with ‘white imperialism’
The left’s Orwellian race formula links even Mizrahi Jews and Israel with their toxic attack on the West.
Jun. 18, 2020
Melanie Phillips
A statue of Jefferson Davis in New Orleans and its pedestal were removed on May 11, 2017 (it was unveiled on Feb. 22, 1911). The next day, only the foundation remained. In the spring of 2020, the Black Lives Matter movement is urging the removal of Confederate statues, the changing of army-base names and more throughout America. Credit: Bart Everson via Wikimedia Commons.
Senior Contributor
The unmistakable echoes in the culture war against the West
Palestinianism is the poster cause of Western progressives. It is no coincidence that the tactics being used in the culture war against the West turn out to be the same tactics used against Israel.
Jun. 11, 2020
Melanie Phillips
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