Melanie Phillips, a British journalist, broadcaster and author, writes a weekly column for JNS. Currently a columnist for The Times of London, her personal and political memoir Guardian Angel has been published by Bombardier, which also published her first novel, The Legacy. Go to melaniephillips.substack.com to access her work.
The Oct. 7 attack fired a starting gun for what the Islamists believed was the final push to destroy not only Israel but the West itself.
It’s time for the United States and the Jewish world to start holding their supposed champions’ feet to the fire.
Hamas’s war against civilization pivots on its war against the Western and Israeli mind.
Journalistic fraud has been committed in the service of a very great evil.
An obsession with the Jewish state has replaced rationality by lethal propaganda.
Some people blamed Israel—the only country that went to their aid—for attacking Syria.
Policies concerning refugees, foreign aid and ceasefires must be informed by the reality that a large segment of Gaza’s population supports a terror group.
Horrifyingly, antisemitism has become a moral obligation for liberals.
Israelis are wondering whether they’ve escaped one nightmare to find themselves in another.
Far from protecting against rampant antisemitism, it has only fueled it.
