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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.

If you finally were to decide to end your war against us in Israel, finally decide that you love your children more than you hate us, finally decide that instead of trying to destroy Israel you want it to help you accommodate to modernity, you will find our hands extended in friendship.
They are behaving as if this anti-Semitism thing has arrived like a thunderbolt out of a clear blue sky.
It is quite wrong to believe that attachment to the nation—and the desire to uphold and defend its values—is somehow inimical to a broad and generous view of the world.
Despite the current quagmires of the top U.S. and Israeli leaders, the public seems to be standing by them.
Western appeasement of Iranian aggression won’t deter its genocidal intentions.
The campaign against them signifies a cultural disorder in the West that borders on the pathological.
Britain’s failure to grasp its deep connection to the Jewish people is one reason why the U.K. is in such deep civilizational trouble. Trump, by contrast, has joined up the dots and reaffirmed the spiritual bond between America and the Jews.