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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 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.
Britain may be an outlier for now, but America’s not far behind.
The radical candidate poised to become New York’s mayor embodies an alliance between reactionary Islamism and left- wing progressivism.
Israel’s war with Iran has given an ancient blood libel a new lease of life.
The West needs to shake off its conviction that Israel is the driving force in the region; it is Iran that is pushing it to war.
The Jewish people need to relearn a painful and essential lesson—that they are responsible for their own protection.
Israel’s defenders need to be smarter and more strategic, calling out the haters for being the very things that they purport to hate.