Melanie Phillips

Melanie Phillips

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British journalist, broadcaster and author

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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

The ivory tower jihad

In the appalling scenes on campus, monstrous chickens are now coming home to roost.

The ivory tower jihad

Strangling Israel slowly

A remarkable realignment may be under way: Israel and the Arabs v America and Iran. Opinion.

Strangling Israel slowly

The surreal echo chamber of lies

As Israel braces for yet more horrors, the world has turned against it. Opinion.

The surreal echo chamber of lies

The global onslaught against Israel

Britain and America are making the Jewish state their scapegoat. Opinion.

The global onslaught against Israel

Israel’s Orwellian nightmare

The Jewish state swings in the wind because the genocidal Palestinians are said to have a case. Op-ed.

Israel’s Orwellian nightmare

The American betrayal of Israel

The suggestion that Israel is no better than Hamas is a pernicious lie spread by those who want Israel gone. Opinion.

The American betrayal of Israel

The West’s abandonment of the Jews

Human rights culture has mainstreamed Hamas lies while Western civilization is no longer civilized. Opinion.

The West’s abandonment of the Jews

The scapegoating of Israel

Humanitarian aid has become the blood libel of the day as wiith breathtaking arrogance and malice, Cameron presumed to dictate to Israel how to conduct this desperate war for its survival. Biden is the same. Opinion.

The scapegoating of Israel

The terror of the right

The Oct. 7 atrocities produced a profound sense of disorientation for progressives because the Palestinian Arabs whose cause they had promoted as the acme of conscience and enlightenment turned out to be savages. Op-ed.

The terror of the right

British MPs melt down over Gaza

Democratic procedures are being destroyed by anti-Israel mob intimidation. Those who attempt to destroy the Jews invariably destroy themselves. We are watching it happen to the West in real time. Op-ed.

British MPs melt down over Gaza

The antisemitism crisis is out of control

In both Britain and America, politics is becoming increasingly distorted. Opinion.

The antisemitism crisis is out of control

Israel’s American frenemy

Some Bidenites subscribe to the fantasy that all conflict can be ended by negotiated compromise based on self-interest. Others are viscerally hostile to Israel and some have had links to Iran. Opinion.

Israel’s American frenemy

America and Britain - blind stupidity or malevolence?

America and Britain have crossed. a treacherous red line. Their unhinged obsession with the “two-state solution” threatens to incentivize Hamas. Opinion.

America and Britain - blind stupidity or malevolence?

"Choose life, and fight for it"

Something of priceless value is emerging on the battlefields of Gaza. Opinion.

"Choose life, and fight for it"