Melanie Phillips

Columnist

British journalist, broadcaster and author

The Biden administration’s anti-antisemitism travesty

The IHRA definition has led defenders of the Jewish people down a blind alley.Op-ed.

Jew-hatred struts the stage in Berlin

The obscene spectacle staged by musician Roger Waters exposes the moral vacuum in Holocaust memorializing. Op-ed.

As Gaza’s rockets are fired at Israel, so are media missiles

Behind Western hostility to Israel and indifference towards Iran lies a baleful explanation. Op-ed.

The antisemitism that drives identity politics

For many in the West, Jew-hatred is invisible and grossly misunderstood.Op-ed.

Israel’s protests are now crossing sacred red lines

The battle is existential and reflects a similar struggle in the West.Op-ed.

The real lesson for Israel from Northern Ireland’s Good Friday Agreement

U.S. Democrat administrations have continued to interfere in Ireland in deeply partisan ways, incentivizing terrorist violence Op-ed.

The true agenda of Israel’s mass protests has been laid bare

That agenda includes America's outrageous attack on Netanyahu's right to govern. Op-ed.

Israel’s post-democracy moment

The massive protests rocking Israel are about far more than judicial reform. What is striking is the irrationality at their core Op-ed.

Israel’s two-faced allies

The UK and US undermine Israel’s security by sanitizing, promoting and funding Palestinian Arabs, who wish to destroy the Jewish state.Op-ed

The urgent need for Israeli electoral reform

While the West is increasingly alienated from democracy, Israel’s internal convulsions present terrifying dangers.

Biden’s less than ironclad commitment to Israel

The administration crosses two ominous red lines.Op-ed.

Can the whole world be wrong?

A new book is essential to understanding the lunacy over Israel and the global jihad.Op-ed.

The entrenchment of Western Jew-hatred

As the culture hurtles towards the precipice, Diaspora Jews are like rabbits caught in the headlights. Op-ed.

Netanyahu at bay, but what about the facts?

Israel’s political upheaval reflects partisan tunnel vision on all sides. Op-ed.

An ancient spoon stirs American mischief against Israel

The Department of Homeland Security has internalized the Palestinian Arab big lie. It is all utter garbage. Op-ed.

The Israeli canary in the West’s cultural coal mine

The attacks on Ben-Gvir’s Temple Mount excursion defy reason. Op-ed.

The religious culture war comes to Israel

Benjamin Netanyahu and King Charles turn out to have something in common, Op-ed.

The European Union’s subversion of Israel

Israel’s controversial Maccabean Three may be channeling Jewish history all over again. Op-ed.

How the White House attempt to counter Jew-hatred undermines itself

Someone needs to teach the Biden administration just what antisemitism is. Op-ed.

The Good Jew/Bad Jew demonization strategy

Hysteria over the new Israeli government will harm the wider Jewish world. Op-ed.

Diaspora Jews keep making the same mistake

Herzl would recognize all too well the tragic fantasy of assimilation. Op-ed.

The humbug of the West over murdered Israelis

Through Palestinian propaganda, what was once confined to Nazi Germany has now poisoned much of the free world. Op-ed.

Deep changes in American society are a security risk for Israel.

It’s time for Israel to untie the American apron strings. No need to cut them, however. Op-ed.

Dragons and dragon-slayers in Israel and America

Most Israeli Jews know which is which, most American Jews do not.Op-ed.

Israel joins the West’s culture wars

Those clutching their pearls over the “fascists” poised to join Israel’s new government should look in the mirror. Op-ed.

The unholy alliance between Republicans and Islamists

Conservative despair about the liberal erosion of the West is delivering it to its mortal foes. Op-ed.

The false distinction between anti-Semitism and Israel-bashing

Such lethal myopia now stretches from Australia to a London theater. Op-ed.

Hysteria greets British PM Liz Truss’s embassy move proposal

Britain’s elites loathe Israel on a scale that just doesn’t exist in America. Op-ed.

Democracy’s watchdog has abandoned its role

American voters have been left ignorant of the peril posed by Biden's two-faced approach to both Israel and Iran. Op-ed.

Why social justice warriors can’t deal with anti-Semitism

The war against the Jews is also the war against Western civilization.Op-ed.

The momentous task facing King Charles III

The British fear that with the Queen’s death, a Britain of priceless values may also be passing. Op-ed.

Tearing up the rules of engagement between Israel and America

The deepening row over the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh has exposed the excruciating error of Israeli strategy towards the Biden administrat

The BBC’s perfectly sealed thought system

Complaints about its bias against Israel and its indulgence of Islamist extremism get nowhere. Op-ed.

Apoplexy greets Israel’s move against terror NGOs

How can governments maintain that they have seen no hard evidence? What they really mean is that they reject facts provided by Israel.Op-ed.

With al-Zawahiri’s assassination it's Groundhog Day for America (again)

The US has returned to where it all started: the axis between the Taliban and Al-Qaeda that led to 9/11 and troops in Afghanistan. Op-ed.

Israeli TV’s shallow, irresponsible stunt

Gil Tamary made clear he knew exactly what he was doing by referring to the site as “a place forbidden to non-Muslims.” Op-ed.

The urgent need for proper Jewish leadership

Core Jewish principles involve putting others’ interests before yours, respecting every human being, moral codes on right and wrong. Op-ed.

POTUS: warm words and empty gestures

Despite the president’s genuine affection for Israel, his itinerary sent out baleful signals.

The fall of Boris Johnson

The question for voters in the UK, US and Israel is whether a leader’s gifts are more important than character flaws, or vice versa.

Licking Ben & Jerry’s

It shows what can be achieved when there’s a backlash against anti-Israel bigotry. Op-ed.