Melanie Phillips
Melanie Phillips, a British journalist, broadcaster and author, writes a column for JNS every two weeks. Currently a columnist for The Times of London, her personal and political memoir, “Guardian Angel,” has just been published by Bombardier. Her work can be found at her website, www.melaniephillips.com.
The pope’s embrace of evil discourse
With just a few words, Pope Francis has plunged relations between Jews and Catholics into their worst crisis for decades and undone years of delicate rapprochement.
In a new book published for the Catholic Church’s...
America’s electrifying counter-revolution
America is attempting to clean up its house. Europeans are burning theirs down.
Within hours of his re-election as president of the United States, Donald Trump started the process of rolling back the influence of...
The UNRWA meltdown
If anything illuminates the insanity and moral bankruptcy of our times, it’s the reaction to Israel’s decision to act against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).
Laws passed this week by the Israeli...
The moral collapse of the West
The evidence is becoming overwhelming of a profound moral collapse in the West.
Since the Oct. 7 Hamas pogrom in Israel, it’s been open season on Diaspora Jews with an enormous increase in antisemitic attacks.
Students...
The devastating Hamas weapon of war
Hamas, the genocidal jihadi force responsible for the barbaric Oct. 7 pogrom in Israel, has a devastating weapon of war. That weapon is the Western media.
With some honorable exceptions, these media outlets have been...
Israel’s ‘democracy’ protesters destroy their own platform
The shocking scenes in Tel Aviv on Yom Kippur not only destroyed the principal claim of Israel’s nine-months-old protest movement against the government. They also illuminated a fundamental and disturbing fault-line in the wider...
Abbas again voices his monstrous antisemitism
Last month, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas came out with some ripe antisemitism. In a speech to the Fatah Revolutionary Council, he said that Hitler’s Nazis didn’t perpetrate the Holocaust because of hatred of...
The weaponization of antisemitism against conservatives
A conference held in London this week was subjected to an extraordinary onslaught on social and mainstream media from people who weaponized antisemitism against it.
The conference was on National Conservatism, a concept developed by...
As Gaza’s rockets are fired at Israel, so are media missiles
We know it’s coming. We can write the script in advance. Yet it never fails to sicken and to shock.
This week, Israel was once again forced to take military action to defend itself against...
The coronation of King Charles will be more than an amazing spectacle
On Saturday, Britain’s King Charles III will be crowned in London’s Westminster Abbey.
The coronation, which will be viewed by millions around the world, promises to be a spectacle of ceremony and magnificence for which...