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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.

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.
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.