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 Islamist capture of New York
The victory of New York state assemblyman Zohran Mamdani in the New York City mayoral election was long heralded by the opinion polls. Yet its effect upon America threatens to be nothing less than...
The fantasy state of ‘Palestine’
or accept a ceasefire.”
The unilateral Palestine recognition stunt was led by France and Britain, who thus ripped up the 1993 Oslo Accords, which required a negotiated settlement to the Israel-Palestinian issue.
Recognition, which, as the...
Gaslighting is not a Jewish value
Who would have thought that hundreds of rabbis would endorse vicious blood libels against the Jews? And worse still, call this a Jewish moral response?
An open letter signed by more than 400 rabbis from...
The indestructible myth of famine in Gaza
Yet again, the myth has been revived that there is a famine in the Gaza Strip.
This claim, which has done so much to incite attacks on Jews, has been promulgated repeatedly by mainstream Western...
The Gazan revolt
It is striking, if unsurprising, that the demonstrations against Hamas being mounted by thousands of Gazans have gone almost totally unremarked by the media and supposedly pro-Palestinian supporters in Britain and America.
The protests have...
The West is facing an Islamic holy war
A documentary film released this weekend in more than 100 movie theaters across America explores the processes by which antisemitism exploded across university campuses, in street demonstrations and on social media following the Hamas-led...
Netanyahu Derangement Syndrome
At this intensely difficult time for Israel and the Jewish people, one might expect leading Jews to be throwing themselves into the fight against antisemitism and those who defame the State of Israel.
As the forces...
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...