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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 cannot properly be defended if they do not or fail to comprehend the monstrosity of the scapegoating and demonization of Israel.
We’re living through a throwback to murderous beliefs from before the age of reason.
Diaspora Jewish leaders should get up off their knees and start fighting it.
Shockingly, the West has framed antisemitism and anti-Zionism as conscience itself.
An increasingly hostile public in the United States has little idea of the necessity and importance of the war against Iran.
The pope’s genuflection to Islam spells disaster for Western civilization.
Iran has destabilized the entire region by using proxy armies to impose its murderous brand of Islam throughout the world.
The war with Iran is clarifying who is for civilization against barbarism—and who is not.
Jews should be aware of the cry of pain behind a resurrected antisemitic libel.
The war against Iran may defeat the axis of evil—and put America and Israel at the head of a new world order.
It seems, though, that nothing can be allowed to challenge the narrative of heartless Israelis and wretched Palestinians.