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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 New Orleans attack is yet another wake-up call. Will it be heeded?
To avoid both destruction and assimilation, Jews have to fight for who they are and what they stand for.
The venomous Irish campaign of demonization reserved uniquely for the Jewish state has long been on eye-watering display.
Israel’s astounding military achievements have created an unprecedented opportunity for peace and a new world order.
While Donald Trump threatens the enemies of Israel and civilization, Britain licks their sandals.
The malice of the world body against Israel has twisted the Western mind.
With his attack on Israel while the nation is fighting for its life, the pontiff has taken the Vatican backwards into a very dark past.
Whether Britain and Europe follow suit or give up the ghost, Jews there aren’t in for an easy ride.
Donald Trump is far from perfect. But at this moment, his election feels like deliverance.
How can a country under genocidal attack be expected to look after the welfare of its attackers?
The evil he represented has not died with him.
We live in a world in which morality has been sickeningly turned on its head.