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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 twin causes of Palestinianism and human rights have destroyed the West’s moral compass.
Israel has allowed its enemies to defame victims of attack as perpetrators.
Fragmentation threatens to empower extremes on both the left and right of the political spectrum.
America must wake up. This is about more than one upstart revolutionary.
Appallingly, progressive Jews are supporting an unhinged Jew-hater because they define this stance as conscience.
Alarmingly, what U.S. President Donald Trump is helping Israel fight in the Middle East is rampant in his own backyard.
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.