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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.

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson. Credit: CelebWikiProfiles.
Senior Contributor
The British working class saves Britain ... and its Jews
The stakes in this election were enormous—not just for the United Kingdom, but for the world.
Dec. 13, 2019
Melanie Phillips
Thousands gather outside of Parliament in London to protest anti-Semitism in the British Labour Party, Sept. 3, 2018. Credit: Labour Against Anti-Semitism via Twitter.
Senior Contributor
The West’s lethal triple lock of Jewish hatred
Many think that anti-Semitism is a prejudice against Jews as people, whereas anti-Zionism and Israel-bashing are legitimate attacks on a political project.
Dec. 5, 2019
Melanie Phillips
An Israeli soldier stands guard at the site of a car-ramming attack in Elazar, Gush Etzion, Aug. 18, 2019. Photo by Gershon Elinson/Flash90.
Senior Contributor
The issue of settlements is more than a land dispute up for negotiation
The only way to end what is essentially an Arab war of extermination against Israel is to call out the Palestinians on their fundamental lies and to treat them not as statesmen-in-waiting, but as international pariahs.
Nov. 21, 2019
Melanie Phillips
A hearing inside the European Court of Justice. Source: European Court of Justice via Twitter.
Senior Contributor
‘Labeling’ Israel as an unequal player on the world stage
The European Court of Justice has discriminated against Jews by singling out Israeli businesses from Arab ones. Its ruling is deeply politicized and disreputable, owing everything to boilerplate European prejudice against Israel, and nothing to law and justice.
Nov. 14, 2019
Melanie Phillips
Attorney General William Barr at the University of Notre Dame on Oct. 21, 2019. Source: Screenshot.
Senior Contributor
The contemporary clash between faith and politics in the West
It has been driven by the combined forces of secularism and Marxist beliefs posing as liberalism, with the aim of creating a new world order in which God is dethroned by mankind, biblical morality is replaced by secular ideology, and truth is subordinated to power.
Nov. 7, 2019
Melanie Phillips
Flags and placards at the People's Vote March in London on March 23, 2019. Credit: Andrew Gray via Wikimedia Commons.
Senior Contributor
Britain, Brexit and the ripple effect on identity politics and anti-Semitism
This titanic three-year battle is of critical importance far beyond British shores. It’s the outrider of the fundamental issue splitting apart the Western world from the Beltway to Budapest to Berlin.
Oct. 31, 2019
Melanie Phillips
Sen. Elizabeth Warren
Senior Contributor
Warren, Palestinian Jew-hatred and the destruction of the West’s moral compass
Incendiary Jew-hatred has become the signature cause of “progressives,” who tell themselves that targeting Israeli settlements proves their own virtue by supporting a righteous cause.
Oct. 24, 2019
Melanie Phillips
Supporters of the BDS movement against Israel. Photo by Alex Christy/Flickr.
Senior Contributor
From Congress to classrooms: Reframing the Israel narrative
Support for the Palestinian cause is now the default position across the West’s progressive classes, including for many Jews.
Oct. 17, 2019
Melanie Phillips
Turkey has invaded northern Syria, threatening the Kurdish population following U.S. forces withdrawing from the area earlier this week. Source: Screenshot.
Senior Contributor
How black and white thinking clouds realpolitik
This frame of mind, which puts people into rival armies taking potshots at each other, is dangerously eroding intelligent debate.
Oct. 10, 2019
Melanie Phillips
The Union Jack and the European Union Flag. Credit: Publicdomainpictures.net
Senior Contributor
Labour’s anti-Israel fervor on full display as Brexit chaos intensifies
Its anti-Semitic obsession shares characteristics of Jew-hatred throughout the centuries, as the party obsesses over the Jewish state while ignoring countries that really are oppressive, dictatorial and racist.
Sep. 26, 2019
Melanie Phillips
Arab Israelis cast their ballots at a polling station in the town of Beit Safafa during the elections for the 20th Knesset, March 17, 2015. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.
Senior Contributor
In a deadlocked election, the real winners are Israeli Arabs
More than 60 percent of Israeli Arabs turned out and returned an estimated 13 seats for the Joint Arab List, up from 10 at last April’s election.
Sep. 19, 2019
Melanie Phillips
U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton speaks at a press conference in the David's Citadel Hotel in Jerusalem on June 25, 2019. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.
Senior Contributor
Boltonism must not be allowed to disappear
In the wake of the national security advisor’s departure, members of the Trump administration have been at pains to stress that there will be no let-up in America’s policy of reimposing sanctions on Iran.
Sep. 12, 2019
Melanie Phillips
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