Melanie Phillips

Melanie Phillips

Columnist

British journalist, broadcaster and author

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Melanie Phillips:

The real lesson of the attack on Josh Shapiro

It’s not just the man suspected of setting fire to the Pennsylvania governor’s Harrisburg home who has lost his mind. The attack on Shapiro’s house is what “Globalize the intifada!” looks like. Opinion.

The real lesson of the attack on Josh Shapiro

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The real cause of the antisemitism tsunami

Fighting this global evil requires Jews to get out in front. Opinion.

The real cause of the antisemitism tsunami

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Israel's agonizing dilemma

Hamas left Israel no alternative but to resume the war and this second stage of the war is different from the first because Israel no longer has to fight America, too. Opinion.

Israel's agonizing dilemma

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The West is facing an Islamic holy war

Governments and the public alike persist in a state of lethal timidity and denial, but they must start connecting the dots. Opinion.

The West is facing an Islamic holy war

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The myth of Masafer Yatta

From Hollywood to the BBC, a genocidal narrative of lies is promoted as factually true. Opinion.

The myth of Masafer Yatta

A vile equivalence

Jews who support the Palestinian death cult pose the greatest danger to the Jewish people. Opinion.

A vile equivalence

Civilization weeps

The terrible fate of the Bibas family, and all of the other victims of Gazan Arab depravity, symbolizes the moral sickness of the West. Opinion.

Civilization weeps

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The dismantling of a malevolent empire

USAID is only one outpost of a corrupted humanitarian establishment. “Human rights” have been turned into the anvil upon which justice and conscience are being smashed. Opinion.

The dismantling of a malevolent empire

Netanyahu Derangement Syndrome

It’s not Israelis who are struggling with challenges to their values but Jews in the Diaspora. Opinion.

Netanyahu Derangement Syndrome

The art of the deal or the rout of the real?

The love-in with Qatar by Trump's Middle East enforcer is a troubling omen. Opinion.

The art of the deal or the rout of the real?

The devastating but ambiguous Musk effect

The owner of the X social-media platform shows what Israel’s defenders could achieve if they came off the back foot. Opinion.

The devastating but ambiguous Musk effect

America’s Islamist problem

The New Orleans attack is yet another wake-up call. Will it be heeded now that Americans have been brought up hard against the evidence that this is a homegrown problem as well? Opinion.

America’s Islamist problem

The real message of Hanukkah

To avoid both destruction and assimilation, Jews have to fight for who they are and what they stand for. Op-ed.

The real message of Hanukkah

The diplomatic crisis between Israel and Ireland

The venomous Irish campaign of demonization reserved uniquely for the Jewish state has long been on eye-watering display.

The diplomatic crisis between Israel and Ireland

The kaleidoscope is shaken

Israel's astounding military achievements have created an unprecedented opportunity for peace and a new world order. Opinion.

The kaleidoscope is shaken

The infernal Qatari strategy

While Donald Trump threatens the enemies of Israel and civilization, Britain licks their sandals. Opinion.

The infernal Qatari strategy

Dismantle the United Nations

The malice of the world body against Israel has twisted the Western mind. It has made the world sick. Opinion.

Dismantle the United Nations

The pope’s embrace of evil discourse

With his attack on Israel while the nation is fighting for its life, the pontiff has taken the Vatican backwards into a very dark past. For the head of the Catholic Church to show himself to be so morally twisted is shocking. Opinion.

The pope’s embrace of evil discourse

America’s electrifying counter-revolution

America is attempting to clean up its house. Europeans are burning theirs down. Whether Britain and Europe follow suit or give up the ghost, Jews there aren’t in for an easy ride. Opinion.

America’s electrifying counter-revolution

Israel dodges a bullet

Donald Trump is far from perfect. But at this moment, his election feels like deliverance. Opinion.

Israel dodges a bullet

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The UNRWA meltdown

How can a country under genocidal attack be expected to look after the welfare of its attackers? Op-ed.

The UNRWA meltdown

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The killing of Yahya Sinwar

The evil he represented has not died with him. Opinion.

The killing of Yahya Sinwar

The Jewish moment

We live in a world in which morality has been sickeningly turned on its head. On Yom Kippur we remember the high standards of morality Judaism sets for mankind.

The Jewish moment

Eye-witness to atrocity at Supernova

A vital, heart-breaking film stands against the insanity over Israel that has consumed the West. Op-ed.

Eye-witness to atrocity at Supernova

An explosive moment of clarification

Israel is leading the fight of good against evil while the so-called civilized world no longer knows what side it’s on. Op-ed.

An explosive moment of clarification

The Oslo effect

Israelis won’t forgive or forget the left’s weaponization of the hostages to do Hamas’s dirty work for it. It is a terrible betrayal. Opinion.

The Oslo effect

Israel's hostage agony

Netanyahu's dual pledge came cruelly apart, but the ensuing protests in Israel are evidence of suicidal stupidity and moral perversity on a very high level indeed. Op-ed.

Israel's hostage agony

The moral cowardice of European Christian leaders

While today’s Islamists are murdering Christians and Jews, trying to conquer the West and posing a terrifying threat to civilization itself, European Christian leaders have decided to dump their Jewish parent and embrace their Islamist assassin. Op-ed.

The moral cowardice of European Christian leaders

The anti-Jewish candidate

Kamala Harris has fueled the current tsunami of anti-Jewish hatred by recycling the lies and blood libels against Israel spread by Hamas and its Western stooges since Oct. 7. Opinion.

The anti-Jewish candidate

Israel’s treacherous frenemies

Professions of ironclad support by America and Britain at this dark hour for the Jewish state are humbug. Opinion.

Israel’s treacherous frenemies

Netanyahu’s hour

Congress cheered him to the echo, but that's not enough to save Israel, America and the West. Opinion.

Netanyahu’s hour

A fighting chance for the West

The attempted assassination of Donald Trump may have changed America and the world. Opinion.

A fighting chance for the West

The war against the Jews

In Britain, France and America, the left is on the wrong side. The Jews are in the middle because they don’t know who hates them more,” said Chief Rabbi Sebbag. Opinion.

The war against the Jews

Can Israel afford to stand up to America?

Netanyahu is addressing Congress because he has no other option. Op-ed.

Can Israel afford to stand up to America?

The driver of Western Jew-hatred

Well-meaning people supporting the Palestinian Arab cause are actually empowering Islamo-Nazis.

The driver of Western Jew-hatred

The looming choice for Diaspora Jews

Apart from any dangers, the political choices they face are likely to make for an uncomfortable ride. Opinion.

The looming choice for Diaspora Jews

The Middle East’s fateful moment

As northern Israel burns, America is leading the world into a terrible war. Opinion.

The Middle East’s fateful moment

How the Hamas pogrom galvanized Israel’s enemies

Hostility to the Jewish state goes wide and deep, apparently further than some thought before Oct. 7.

How the Hamas pogrom galvanized Israel’s enemies

Buried facts about the Gaza war

Connect the dots: It’s America and Iran against Israel. The American appeasement of Iran has left many people mystified. They should have been paying more attention. Opinion.

Buried facts about the Gaza war

Amichai Chikli’s rescue remedy

Diaspora Jews must put nation back into religion and Israeli Jews must put religion back into the nation.

Amichai Chikli’s rescue remedy