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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.

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.
Diaspora Jews must put the nation back into religion, and Israeli Jews must put religion back into the nation.
In the appalling scenes on campus, monstrous chickens are now coming home to roost.
As Israel braces for yet more horrors, the world has turned against it.
Britain and America are making the Jewish state their scapegoat.
The Jewish state swings in the wind because the genocidal Palestinians are said to have a case.
The suggestion that Israel is no better than Hamas is a pernicious lie spread by those who want Israel gone.