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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.

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.
Horrifyingly, antisemitism has become a moral obligation for liberals.
Israelis are wondering whether they’ve escaped one nightmare to find themselves in another.
Universalism is a secular religion whose falsehoods are protected by a doctrine of infallibility.
Far from protecting against rampant antisemitism, it has only fueled it.
As the Arab Muslim world moves forward, the West is going backwards.
It’s not just the man suspected of setting fire to the Pennsylvania governor’s Harrisburg home who has lost his mind.