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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.

Hatred of Hamas doesn’t alter the endemic hatred of Israel and the Jews.
Fighting this global evil requires Jews to get out in front.
Hamas left Israel no alternative but to resume the war.
Governments and the public alike persist in a state of lethal timidity and denial, but they must start connecting the dots.
From Hollywood to the BBC, a genocidal narrative of lies is promoted as factually true.
Jews who support the Palestinian death cult pose the greatest danger to the Jewish people.
The terrible fate of the Bibas family, and all of the other victims of Gazan Arab depravity, symbolizes the moral sickness of the West.
USAID is only one outpost of a corrupted humanitarian establishment.
It’s not Israelis who are struggling with challenges to their values but Jews in the Diaspora.
The love-in with Qatar by Trump’s Middle East enforcer is a troubling omen.
Why is any negotiation with Qatar taking place at all?
The owner of the X social-media platform shows what Israel’s defenders could achieve if they came off the back foot.