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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.

Graffiti on a Los Angeles synagogue. Source: Screenshot.
Senior Contributor
Victim culture tears up Jewish moral norms
Western civilization is hanging in the balance. Don’t support the twisted, amoral thinking of those who are on the way to destroying it.
Jun. 4, 2020
Melanie Phillips
The European Parliament. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Senior Contributor
Is the EU having second thoughts over its hostility towards the Jewish state?
The widespread fury over the proposed extension of Israeli sovereignty constitutes merely shadow-boxing.
May. 28, 2020
Melanie Phillips
Tlaib
Senior Contributor
Israel-bashers fail to see the Arab train leaving the station
Even some new television shows are trial balloons designed to test public opinion over normalizing relations with Israel.
May. 21, 2020
Melanie Phillips
Betsy Berns Korn
Senior Contributor
A muffled consensus serves not Israel but her enemies
If silence ensues, nothing will combat the lie that Israel is a rogue state that illegally steals another people’s land. Not only does this lie drive hatred of Israel in the West, it also foments attacks on Diaspora Jews who are held responsible for Israel’s actions.
May. 14, 2020
Melanie Phillips
A member of the medical team in the coronavirus unit at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv on May 4, 2020. Photo by Yossi Aloni/Flash90.
Senior Contributor
Israel still suffers virus of hate even as it saves Arab lives
The hope that such medical equipment and know-how—and maybe even the development of a vaccine—will transmute anti-Israel hostility into friendship may be stretching optimism too far.
May. 7, 2020
Melanie Phillips
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Senior Contributor
British Jews are too eager to embrace Starmer’s still dubious Labour Party
Although he has rid his shadow ministerial team of most of Jeremy Corbyn’s far-left faction, he has still appointed some Labour MPs with backgrounds of deeply problematic views about Israel and the Jewish people.
Apr. 30, 2020
Melanie Phillips
Delegates to the San Remo Conference in Italy on April 25, 1920. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Senior Contributor
From San Remo to its 72nd birthday, Israel survives the virus of political and moral collapse
Unlike Israel, its Middle Eastern neighbors were artificial creations through which the model of the nation-state was imposed upon unruly tribal areas in the hope and expectation that this would give them order, stability and prosperity.
Apr. 23, 2020
Melanie Phillips
A Passover Haggadah on the eve of the Jewish holiday of Passover, April 22, 2016. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.
Senior Contributor
The story that Jews repeat on Passover is the secret of their survival
Jews don’t need a crisis to tell them who or what they are. For Jews, the sense of who and what they are is what sustains them through such crises.
Apr. 7, 2020
Melanie Phillips
Israel's Magen David Adom national emergency service drive-through complex in Ashdod allows people to get tested while still sitting in their cars, April 1, 2020. Photo by Flash90.
Senior Contributor
For Israel, recognizing another enemy is second nature
It took a different approach to the coronavirus from the start because it’s a very different kind of society. Unlike the pampered West, Israel permanently lives in a state of potential emergency and existential threat.
Apr. 2, 2020
Melanie Phillips
President of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping. Source: Kremlin.ru.
Senior Contributor
How the virus exposes magical thinking and short-term greed
In the current crisis, the West is paying the price of pretending that China’s Communist regime does not represent a threat to other countries. COVID-19 has now shown the supreme folly of such an assumption.
Mar. 26, 2020
Melanie Phillips
“The Plot Against America.” Courtesy: HBO.
Senior Contributor
Mining for hate in ‘The Plot Against America’
At times of apocalyptic dread, conspiracy theories invariably target the Jews.
Mar. 19, 2020
Melanie Phillips
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (left) with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Senior Contributor
Will a microbe seal the fate of Iran’s virulent regime?
At least 9,000 have been diagnosed with the coronavirus, and 429 have died. Unofficial estimates suggest a figure of 1 million who have been affected by it. And yet, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called the virus “a blessing.”
Mar. 12, 2020
Melanie Phillips
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