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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.

Israelis cast their ballots at a voting station in Jerusalem during the third round of elections on March 2, 2020. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.
Senior Contributor
The real center ground: The only political show in town
The public has understood that for decades, they have been offered only one basic story: the progressive worldview that bears no relation to their own lives and aspirations, but which has become the default position of the entire political establishment across the now obsolete left-right divide.
Mar. 5, 2020
Melanie Phillips
A view of a parade float at the Carnival of Aalst in March 2019, featuring two Orthodox Jewish caricatures that were widely condemned as anti-Semitic. Source: Screenshot.
Senior Contributor
From Aalst to America: The post-modern, anti-Jewish reconfiguration of the West
The real cause of the descent into anti-Zionism and hatred of Jews is secular liberalism, and the cultural fissure that has opened up along fault lines going back to the 18th-century Enlightenment.
Feb. 27, 2020
Melanie Phillips
Billionaire George Soros in Washington, D.C. in 2017. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.
Senior Contributor
Sanitizing Soros through guilt by association
Just because George Soros is a magnet for anti-Semites does not mean there aren’t well-founded grounds for complaints against his behavior.
Feb. 20, 2020
Melanie Phillips
At the United Church of Christ (UCC) General Synod in Cleveland in 2017, Rev. Mitri Raheb, a Palestinian Christian and pastor of the evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land, called the UCC's resolution to divest from Israel "a strong signal that [Palestinians] are not alone, and that there are churches who still dare to speak truth to power and stand with the oppressed.” Credit: United Church of Christ/Flickr.
Senior Contributor
Denying their parent and embracing their assassin
Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Christians are safe. Yet some churches dump on the Jewish state, not only assisting the mortal threat it faces from Palestinian Muslims, but ignoring the threat those people pose to the church itself.
Feb. 13, 2020
Melanie Phillips
Palestinian demonstrators protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's Mideast peace plan in Hebron on Jan. 30, 2020. Photo by Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90.
Senior Contributor
Arabs are in an uproar (over the prospect of living in Palestine)
In no other conflict have aggressors been invited by their victims to remain citizens of the country they’ve been trying to wipe off the map.
Feb. 6, 2020
Melanie Phillips
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas (center) delivers a speech on the new Middle East peace plan at P.A. headquarters in Ramallah, Jan. 28, 2020. Photo by Flash90.
Senior Contributor
The Palestinians’ bluff has been called
U.S President Donald Trump is telling them to suck it up or lose because the Israelis are going to get what they need to survive.
Jan. 30, 2020
Melanie Phillips
Polish President Andrzej Duda speaks during a ceremony in the March of the Living at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp site in Poland, as Israel marks annual Holocaust Memorial Day, on April 12, 2018. Photo by Yossi Zeliger/Flash90.
Senior Contributor
A Polish-Russian row over commemoration of the Holocaust
Ever since the country was liberated from Communist oppression, it has tried to construct a national identity around its status as a victim of both Nazism and the Soviet Union.
Jan. 23, 2020
Melanie Phillips
Visitors seen at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem on April 28, 2019, ahead of Israeli National Holocaust Remembrance Day. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.
Senior Contributor
The West mourns the Jewish dead. But what about the living?
It’s clear that all this Holocaust memorializing and education hasn’t put anti-Semitism back in its putrid box.
Jan. 16, 2020
Melanie Phillips
Iranian Quds Force Commander Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Senior Contributor
The perverse Western mourning for Qassem Soleimani
In this upside-down moral universe, genocidal fanatics, whose dissembling enables liberals to take refuge in the fantasy of a trouble-free solution, must be negotiated with and appeased.
Jan. 9, 2020
Melanie Phillips
Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan
Senior Contributor
Anti-Semitism is the ultimate marker of cultural derangement
What’s shocking is that so many are shocked. What planet have they all been living on?
Jan. 2, 2020
Melanie Phillips
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson delivering his 2019 Hannukkah message. Source: Screenshot.
Senior Contributor
A Boris bear hug against British anti-Semitism
If Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson really wants to stand with the Jewish community against the forces of darkness, then he needs to start educating the public the truth about Israel and its enemies.
Dec. 26, 2019
Melanie Phillips
The leadership of the Board of Deputies of British Jewry. Source: Facebook.
Senior Contributor
Political auto-immune disease among Diaspora Jews
The Muslim world is deeply jealous of the singular status of Jew-hatred as the ultimate bigotry.
Dec. 19, 2019
Melanie Phillips
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