Melanie Phillips

Columnist

British journalist, broadcaster and author

A Christmas crusade: scapegoating the Jews

Church leaders blame Israel for driving Christians out of Israel, but the country’s Christian population actually increased last year.Op-ed.

Trump and Netanyahu: Allies no longer?

Political leaders should be neither blindly supported nor opposed. But it’s their deeds that matter, not their words.

Double standard of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia

Claims of moral equivalency are bogus. Bigotry is based on falsehoods, not fact.Opinion.

Imagine’ all those people …

Indifference or active opposition to border control, without which a nation ceases to exist, is an attitude of national self-hate. Op-ed.

Why Israel needs a strategy to shape the narrative

America and the West ignore the reality about Iran or the Palestinians or the Muslim Brotherhood. Opinion.

Keir Starmer’s Labour anti-Semitism problem

Like so many liberals, he selects aspects of issues that conform to his idealistic viewpoint, blanking out those that undermine it. Op-ed.

The most alarming threat of all to the Jewish people

Leaders fear that speaking the truth on Israel will cause them to lose access to the circles in which they think they are accepted. Op-ed.

The inconvenient truths behind the hysteria over climate change

Green ideology represents humanity as the enemy of sustainable life. Such priority for the inanimate and animal world is pagan.Op-ed..

The crucial but underrated gift of being ‘a people apart’

Many liberal Jews don’t want to know about Jewish exceptionalism because it runs smack into the cardinal precepts of iberal dogma. Op-ed.

The baleful consequences of failing to deal with Islamist extremism

The West is like the apocryphal frog being uncomprehendingly boiled in the pot. In Britain, France and America, the heat is rising. Op-ed.

The real reason for Western support of the Palestinian Arabs

What actually binds these groups together is an ultimately incomprehensible animus against Judaism and the Jewish people.Op-ed

Facing European hypocrisy, it's time for Israel supporters to remake the cultural weather

When it comes to the West, Israelis not only fail to grasp the depth and extent of Jew-hatred, they also don’t try to understand it.Op-ed.

The false accusation of ‘Israel apartheid’

The smear triggers emotions of deep anger and disgust among the ignorant whose knowledge of Israel is drawn from malicious propaganda.Op-ed

The baleful significance of the Democrats’ Iron Dome fiasco

Jewish defenders should target their enemies’ Achilles heel—their narcissism and belief in their own unimpeachable virtue.Op-ed.

The hate-fest that is Durban rears its ugly head again

The United Nations itself is allowing evil to triumph with the complicity of the West. Op-ed.

Two decades on, the West’s cultural fault line exposed by 9/11 remains

In the West there are no “forever wars.” Its wars are either won or lost. For Islamic extremists, war is forever; defeat is temporary. Op-ed

When anti-Semitic lunatics take control of the academic asylum

A new literary weapon by Andrew Pessin is a sparkling and savagely satirical novel about campus “cancel culture.” Op-ed.

When the Jew-bashers are Jews

Their values turn Jewish principles on their heads, and their Israel-bashing is a thin veneer for a hatred of Jews or Judaism itself. Op-ed.

Envoy will first need to root out anti-Semitism in the Democratic Party

A president who trivialized the Nazi regime to make a partisan political smear has appointed Lipstadt, who defended him for it. Op-ed.

The invisible victims of jihadi violence

Westerners don’t understand the threat to their own security because it doesn’t fit the liberal narrative about Muslims as victims. Op-ed

The real scoop? How Jews won’t lick the demonization of Israel

The point about Ben & Jerry’s, as with all boycotts of Israel, is that the main issue is not the boycott. It’s the thinking behind it.

The real challenge of reconciling Christians and Jews

Saying sorry for the past just isn’t enough. Addressing Christian anti-Semitism involves facing its anti-Israel element head-on.Op-ed.

Media malpractice in the West has caused permanent harm to Israel

The effect of media's invidious role fomenting rage against Israel and Jews, while sanitizing the Palestinian Arabs, is incalculable. Op-ed.

Donald Rumsfeld’s legacy: a warning against American retreat

Rumsfeld wanted to show unwavering resolve against the enemy. The Biden administration is learning this, or failing to, the hard way. Op-ed

The irrational faith in reason of the liberal intellectual

As enemies of the West ratchet up their aggression, the more determined the Biden administration becomes to appease them.Op-ed.

Palestinianism is opening up a posthumous Nazi front against Jews

In the UK cultural manipulation and intimidation pushes politicians into hostility to Israel, imperiling the security of British Jews.Op-ed

Meddling with Israel’s security, Biden is also dangerously interfering with UK governance

Such interference is based on an ignorant partisan view that, instead of advancing peace, is a powerful incentive to aggression. Op-ed.

Faced with a tsunami of anti-Semitism, Diaspora Jews still cling to their bubble

A neo-pogrom is being facilitated by Western elites who are piously wringing their hands but not taking the action to stop it. Op-ed.

Actions, not bromides, are how the West must confront rabid antisemitism

This madness must be fought by those who help make the cultural weather. Politicians' promises of support are not enough. Op-ed

The last, overlooked but still active front of World War II

The West needs the Jews to be proved bad people. Israel-haters are eager to yell “gotcha” and put the Jews into the public pillory.Op-ed

Might Biden be turning America into Israel’s foe?

When it comes to the Middle East, Biden's specialty is the “values-feint”— high-minded statements to disguise morally bankrupt action.Op-ed

A complex relationship made in heaven

If Jews feel threatened by some Christians through conversion or assimilation, Christianity itself feels threatened by Judaism. Op-ed.

How Biden is smashing America’s moral compass and dragging the West behind it

Obama repudiated the “Durban Declaration and Program of Action” for its demonization of Israel. Biden has embraced it. Op-ed

Anti-Semitism is a form of delirium, especially in France

Those in its grip believe Jews have diabolical powers, have a secret conspiracy to control global affairs, cause all the world's ills. Op-ed

Israel: The necessary superpower

Its legendary military and security derring-do derives from its unique culture of risk-taking, creativity and thinking out of the box. Op-ed

Jared Kushner’s curious change of heart

With the Biden administration re-empowering PA aggression, Kushner has shown he doesn’t grasp the significance of the Abraham Accords. Op-ed

Meghan Markle and the Jewish question

This has become a terrifying looking-glass world where morality has been turned back to front, disloyalty and spite have moral worth. Op-ed.

The brouhaha over defining Jews as an ethnic minority

The idea that Judaism is both religion and peoplehood feeds the antisemitic paranoid suspicion that the Jews are slippery customers.Op-ed.

We recogniize Haman, but where are Mordechai and Esther?

Today’s Persia declares its intention to annihilate Israel and works to achieve that infernal aim. And there’s Western media and academia …

Christian leaders remain silent as the church recycles its oldest hatred

S. African Rev. Frank Chikane of the WCC’s Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, suggested Israeli Jews were demonic. Op-ed.