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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.

The parting of the Red Sea. Credit: YouTube.
Senior Contributor
Leaving Egypt to cross the (metaphorical) seas
To choose freedom, you have to have the courage to take risks.
Apr. 19, 2019
Melanie Phillips
The Union Jack and the European Union Flag. Credit: Publicdomainpictures.net
Senior Contributor
Of compromise and betrayal: From the Golan to Brexit
People in the West are primed to believe that compromise is invariably the solution to conflict. But there are some issues where the agenda brooks no compromise because it is by definition non-negotiable, and where “compromise” is therefore a fig leaf for surrender.
Apr. 4, 2019
Melanie Phillips
Chelsea Clinton. Credit: Kyle Cassidy via Wikimedia Commons.
Senior Contributor
After the New Zealand mosque attacks, pointing fingers of blame
Much of this Orwellian frenzy is part of the campaign to silence all criticism of the Islamic world through character assassination of its legitimate and necessary critics.
Mar. 21, 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
How anti-Semitism became unleashed in the West
Those with power can never be good; those without power can never be bad. Those who make money have power over those who don’t make money. Those who make money are bad; those without money are good. Jews make money. Therefore, Jews are powerful and bad.
Mar. 7, 2019
Melanie Phillips
Thousands joined rallies in Paris and across France to oppose a rising wave of antisemitism in the country, Feb. 19, 2019. Source: Screenshot.
Senior Contributor
While hoaxes make headlines, real attacks on Jews keep happening
Such falsifications are justified on the grounds that they illustrate a “broader truth.” But they are in fact lies.
Feb. 21, 2019
Melanie Phillips
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán hold a joint press conference at the Parliament building in Budapest on July 18, 2017. Photo by Haim Zach/GPO.
Senior Contributor
Is Netanyahu making deals with the devil?
His strategy is to turn the weapon of isolating Israel on its head by forging alliances wherever he can.
Feb. 7, 2019
Melanie Phillips
BDS Protest
Senior Contributor
The dirty little secret of the ‘diversity’ agenda
The default narrative on the left singles out Israel for demonization based on lies and distortions afforded to no other country, people or cause, and which has legitimized anti-Semitic tropes straight out of Nazi or medieval Christian playbooks.
Jan. 24, 2019
Melanie Phillips
Trump, Netanyahu
Senior Contributor
Two national leaders, two TV addresses to fire up their base
Both these appearances were cameo performances that served to highlight, in very different ways, the alarming trend now accelerating across the West: the breakdown of respect for the rule of law and democratic institutions.
Jan. 10, 2019
Melanie Phillips
U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Nov. 14, 2018. Credit: Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian.
Senior Contributor
Who are the real isolationists in America?
What’s crucial is that any occupant of the White House understands that America is not a planet in another galaxy. What happens 5,000 miles away may well affect its own security and well-being.
Dec. 27, 2018
Melanie Phillips
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a joint press conference with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on July 19, 2018. Photo by Marc Israel Sellem/POOL.
Opinion
Is the State of Israel supping with the devil?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has gone out of his way to embrace leaders who, although some insist they are just conservative nationalists, are described by others as neo-fascists. However, Western liberals pose more of a threat to Jews than the fringe on the far-right.
Dec. 13, 2018
Melanie Phillips
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (right) and Federica Mogherini, the European Union’s high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, at a meeting on implementing the Iran nuclear deal Sept. 22, 2016, in New York. Credit: U.N. Photo/Amanda Voisard.
Senior Contributor
The lethal error in appeasing Iran
Despite Tehran’s deranged, genocidal call to arms, European governments are still trying to circumvent U.S. policy against Iran in an attempt to keep the nuclear deal alive.
Nov. 29, 2018
Melanie Phillips
U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Nov. 14, 2018. Credit: Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian.
Senior Contributor
The distracted obsessions of progressive American Jews
They accuse President Trump of sowing social division, hatred and anti-Semitism. They can’t see that that they are themselves effectively enabling social division, hatred and anti-Semitism by their spurious equivalence, tunnel vision and outright double standards.
Nov. 15, 2018
Melanie Phillips
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