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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.

Professions of ironclad support by America and Britain at this dark hour for the Jewish state are humbug.
Congress cheered him to the echo, but that’s not enough to save Israel, the United States and the West.
The attempted assassination of Donald Trump may have changed America and the world.
In Britain, France and America, the left is on the wrong side.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is addressing Congress because he has no other option.
Well-meaning people supporting the Palestinian cause are actually empowering Islamo-Nazis.
No facts can be allowed to disturb the blood libels against Israel.
Apart from any dangers, the political choices they face are likely to make for an uncomfortable ride.
As northern Israel burns, America is leading the world into a terrible war.
The Biden administration’s strategy endangers not just Israel but America and the free world.
Hostility to the Jewish state goes wide and deep, apparently further than some thought before Oct. 7.
Connect the dots: It’s America and Iran against Israel.