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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.

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.
A vital, heart-breaking film stands against the insanity over Israel that has consumed the West.
Israel is leading the fight of good against evil while the so-called civilized world no longer knows what side it’s on.
Partisan journalists may have subverted American democracy, but over Israel, they have blood on their hands.
Israelis won’t forgive or forget the left’s weaponization of the hostages to do Hamas’s dirty work for it.
The pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury are accused of abandoning the defense of the Bible.
Kamala Harris has helped fuel the current tsunami of anti-Jewish hatred by recycling the lies and blood libels against Israel spread by Hamas and its Western stooges since Oct. 7.