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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.

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.
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.