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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.

An open Torah Scroll. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Senior Contributor
Darwinism, Judaism and the clash between science and religion
The West’s concept of reason actually comes from the Hebrew Bible. Ideas such as an orderly and rational universe structured on a linear concept of time were revolutionary concepts introduced in the book of Genesis.
Sep. 5, 2019
Melanie Phillips
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas (center) delivers a statement at a conference in Ramallah on Oct. 18, 2014. Photo by Flash90.
Senior Contributor
Puncturing the big lie of Palestinian identity
Their claim to be the rightful inheritors of the land represents one of the most successful, if fiendish, propaganda achievements ever to have been pulled off—to have persuaded millions of people that this ludicrous falsehood is an unchallengeable truth.
Aug. 29, 2019
Melanie Phillips
Trump
Senior Contributor
Getting to the bottom of a tragic ‘disloyalty’
Jewish Democrats are supporting a party that is tacitly enabling the expression of potentially murderous anti-Semitism. Yet they have the gall to attack as an anti-Semite the man who is calling out the party for way it is progressively throwing Israel and the Jews under the bus.
Aug. 22, 2019
Melanie Phillips
A view of the U.N. General Assembly Hall. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Senior Contributor
The incendiary balloon of international law
In the 20th century, Jewish lawyers, jurists and other activists sought to fashion international human-rights law into a defense mechanism to protect powerless minorities. The process through which it became a weapon to be used against the Jewish people is a tragic history.
Aug. 1, 2019
Melanie Phillips
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Credit: Flickr.
Senior Contributor
Is Boris Johnson good for the Jews?
Britain may be convulsed by Brexit, the issue that has brought buccaneering “Brexiteer Boris” to power. He has become prime minister, though, in the middle of a crisis over Iran.
Jul. 25, 2019
Melanie Phillips
From left: Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) address U.S. President Donald Trump's remarks on Capitol Hill. Source: Screenshot.
Senior Contributor
In Trump vs. ‘the Squad,’ American Jews have picked the wrong target
The president wasn’t attacking the women’s color or ethnicity. He was attacking their disloyalty to America. Racism is picking on people for who they are; Trump attacked them for what they do.
Jul. 18, 2019
Melanie Phillips
Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the British Labour Party, with Parliament member Andrew Gwynne. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Senior Contributor
What to do about the ‘fangs’ of anti-Semitism in Britain’s Labour Party?
The contemporary expression of the oldest hatred didn’t start with Jeremy Corbyn, and it won’t end with him. It has been around for decades and is endemic in progressive circles, not just in Britain but throughout the West.
Jul. 11, 2019
Melanie Phillips
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (left) with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Senior Contributor
The dark shadow Iran is casting on the world
The twin issues of Iran and North Korea illustrate how the isolationist right and the universalist left march hand in hand.
Jul. 4, 2019
Melanie Phillips
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). Credit: Leopaltik1242/Wikimedia Commons.
Senior Contributor
The dangerous drive to correlate Islamophobia with anti-Semitism
Islamophobia, like much Muslim discourse, is based on an appropriation and inversion of Jewish experience and precepts.
Jun. 27, 2019
Melanie Phillips
IRGC
Senior Contributor
Nuclear secrets and terror links uncovered, Tehran ramps up aggression
It’s hard to see how the Iranian regime can be stopped without some kind of military action being taken against it. Those who believe that is unthinkable and can best be avoided by the 2015 deal are wrong.
Jun. 13, 2019
Melanie Phillips
E.U. flags in front of the European Commission building in Brussels. Credit: Amio Cajander via Wikimedia Commons.
Senior Contributor
Europe starts to fray at the seams
No one can tell how this great battle for national identity and culture will end, though Jewish populations are likely to find themselves in the firing line from all sides.
May. 30, 2019
Melanie Phillips
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.). Credit: YouTube.
Senior Contributor
Tlaib strives to alter narrative of hate fomented by Arabs
Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib deceptively presents Palestinian Arabs as victims of the Holocaust’s victims. The reality was that those Arabs were hopeful ancillaries to the Nazi genocide of the Jews.
May. 16, 2019
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