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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.

Human rights culture has mainstreamed Hamas lies.
Humanitarian aid has become the blood libel of the day.
The Oct. 7 atrocities produced a profound sense of disorientation for progressives because the Palestinian people whose cause they had promoted as the acme of conscience and enlightenment turned out to be savages.
Democratic procedures are being destroyed through anti-Israel mob intimidation.
In both Britain and America, politics is becoming increasingly distorted.
Instead of regarding Iran as the mortal enemy not just of Israel, but of America and the civilized world, the Biden administration is treating it as an asset that must be protected.
Their unhinged obsession with the “two-state solution” threatens to incentivize Hamas.
UNRWA should be prosecuted for complicity with war crimes.
The distinction between Hamas and “ordinary” Palestinians is largely spurious.
Obsessional hostility has even infected counterterrorism experts.
In response to the genocidal Hamas agenda, churches have turned on its Jewish victims.
If the West wants a solution to the Middle East conflict, it must take a long look in the mirror.