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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 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.
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.