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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 Oct. 7 attack fired a starting gun for what the Islamists believed was the final push to destroy not only Israel but the West itself.
It’s time for the United States and the Jewish world to start holding their supposed champions’ feet to the fire.
The West’s attack on Israel can only be explained by its assault on its own core values and identity.
The reaction by liberals to the murder of Conservative activist Charlie Kirk displays the same twisted thinking as their demonization of Israel.
Hamas’s war against civilization pivots on its war against the Western and Israeli mind.
Australia’s sudden realism concerning a malign Iran cannot repair the harm it is doing to Israel and the West.
The murderous lies about Israel’s behavior tap into the ancient and enduring Christian problem with the Jews.
Journalistic fraud has been committed in the service of a very great evil.
Hamas is now deploying its most powerful weapon of all—ignorant and credulous Western public opinion.
An obsession with the Jewish state has replaced rationality by lethal propaganda.
Some people blamed Israel—the only country that went to their aid—for attacking Syria.
The current frenzy over Israel can be seen as the last remaining front of the Second World War.