Melanie Phillips

Journalist, author, public speaker
Columnist, Times (UK)
New book, 'Fighting the Hate: A Handbook for Jews Under Siege'
Speaking inquiries: [email protected]

[Melanie Phillips @MelanieLatest]

https://t.co/w8IRVIYFNU
Islamists believe that Jewish power is their principal obstacle to conquering the West. With New York containing the largest Jewish population in the world outside Israel, Mamdani is setting out to neutralise the Jews through discrimination and an atmosphere that incites harassment, intimidation and violence against them.
The full implications of this strategy were well understood by Angela Buchdahl, the Reform rabbi of Manhattan’s Central synagogue. In a strong open letter to the mayor, she wrote that he had used “rhetoric that demonises Jews and the Jewish state” and had therefore put “a bullseye on our backs”.

[Melanie Phillips @MelanieLatest]

https://t.co/VcgUiWYoIv?
Those who have embraced the letter’s narrative need to understand what this controversy is really about. There is no epidemic of “Jewish terrorism” because such claims are, in the vast majority of cases, not merely false but motivated by something other than moral outrage about criminal behavior.
A Kohelet Policy Forum report on the subject by Israeli legal scholars Eugene Kontorovich and Avraham Shalev details the facts that many of the alleged acts of settler violence consist mainly of Jews doing things like visiting the Temple Mount in Jerusalem or creating infrastructure in their communities.
More important is the fact that many of these alleged instances of Jewish terrorism represent incidents in which Jews have defended themselves against acts of Arab terror. They also include times when the IDF has conducted counter-terror operations.

[Melanie Phillips @MelanieLatest]

https://t.co/w8IRVIYFNU
Islamists believe that Jewish power is their principal obstacle to conquering the West. With New York containing the largest Jewish population in the world outside Israel, Mamdani is setting out to neutralise the Jews through discrimination and an atmosphere that incites harassment, intimidation and violence against them.
The full implications of this strategy were well understood by Angela Buchdahl, the Reform rabbi of Manhattan’s Central synagogue. In a strong open letter to the mayor, she wrote that he had used “rhetoric that demonises Jews and the Jewish state” and had therefore put “a bullseye on our backs”.

[Jerusalem News Syndicate @JNS_org]

"While, of course, Jews remain Jews even if they are neither observant nor Zionists, anti-Zionism, which would destroy the religion by detaching it from the land, is therefore inescapably anti-Judaism."

Melanie Phillips warns that separating Judaism from Zionism doesn't protect Jews but leaves them more vulnerable than ever.

https://t.co/OrmBpzF6Ag

[Melanie Phillips @MelanieLatest]

Getting more desperate now, isn't he: still not one word to disprove the information I provided, just character assassination which he believes makes facts unnecessary.

[Brian E. Frydenborg @bfry1981]

@MelanieLatest -Unlike this lady this guy has a consistent definition more than "Violence I don't like by people I don't like."
-Smotrich been arrested by ISRAELI authorities as terrorism suspect
-If you support Smotrich you support terrorism since he does
-Didn't read
https://t.co/jtKEi5lSeD

[Melanie Phillips @MelanieLatest]

Absolutely barbaric. How can anyone claiming to be civilised not be clamouring for this regime to be brought down?

[S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore]

The Islamic regime is preparing to hang 18-year-old Shervin Bagherian for participating in the January 2026 protests.

His family has just been called for a final visit. He has been moved into solitary confinement.

This kid is only 18.

DO NOT LOOK AWAY.

[Melanie Phillips @MelanieLatest]

Let me make it even more simple. Every part of this is wrong, distorted or a total falsehood. Either you didn't read what I wrote, or have chosen wilfully to misreprent the facts.

[Angry Lebanese @Angrylebanese]

Let me make it simple
“Settler violence” is not a libel against 750,000 Jewish settlers. It is a description of documented violence committed by certain settlers and groups against Palestinian civilians - Fact

Pretending that condemning arson, assault and forced displacement is somehow an attack on all Jews is disingenuous and a cynical shield for the perpetrators - Fact

Jewish history in the land is real, but is not a legal licence to occupy territory, build settlements, demolish houses or remove the people already living there - Fact

Last but not least, Palestinians are not “Arab colonizers”
They are the population that is being displaced by the settlers while the settlements create the actual “facts on the ground” - Fact

You know this, you just choose to ignore it

[Melanie Phillips @MelanieLatest]

These beautiful young people. Sickening, heartbreaking. And the west is opposed to the war AGAINST this evil. Conscience has died.

[Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن @elicalebon]

I woke up this morning filled with grief and rage.

Three more protesters were hanged this morning in Iran. Publicly, from cranes, to show the consequences of dissent.

A fourth young woman, Anahita Azarshab, was shot and killed for protesting the hangings.

If you haven’t breathed a word about them, don’t you dare speak up to protest the war on their killers.

[Melanie Phillips @MelanieLatest]

Absolute evil. Where are the mass demonstrations in the west against this horror?

[נועה מגיד | Noa magid @NoaMagid]

The Islamic regime has executed all these people in recent weeks.

Their only crime: demanding freedom.

Hundreds of others, including women and children, are set to be next.

And the world remains silent.

[Melanie Phillips @MelanieLatest]

This guy seems to think that by the frenzied incantation of "terrorist" while waving the spectre of Smotrich like a voodoo doll, he can obscure the fact that he has not shown a single piece of information in this devastating report is wrong. Because it's all true.

[Brian E. Frydenborg @bfry1981]

@YYcaute @MelanieLatest You're literally citing a think tank with deep ties to the terrorist Smotrich (under Israeli law, even), who is long one of the leaders of the terrorist settler movement, to lie about the settlers committing terrorism right now in the West Bank we can all see with our OWN EYES.🤦‍♂️

[Melanie Phillips @MelanieLatest]

Precisely. This is the advice I've given in my latest book, "Fighting the Hate: A Handbook for Jews Under Siege", available from Amazon.
https://t.co/EOZVQNL8PL?

[AP @Average_NY_Guy]

People constantly ask why Israel’s PR is so bad. The answer, however, doesn’t have much to do with Israel’s actions. It has everything to do with the fact that so many Israelis and Israel supporters spend their time debating inside a framework created by their opponents.

The first rule of any debate is to reject false premises. Instead, they accept them and then try to win from there.

Take the debate over “who was there first.” The moment you engage with that question, you’ve already conceded the premise that whoever arrived first has the superior claim to the land. Why would you ever accept that standard?

Even if you completely dismantle the Palestinian narrative and prove Jews were there first, you’ve still lost something important. By participating in that debate, you’ve accepted that if the historical facts had been reversed, Israel’s legitimacy would’ve disappeared. In other words, you’ve accepted that if Arabs had been there first, they would’ve had a legitimate reason to return 80, 90, or 100 years later and slaughter Israeli babies. That’s a premise you never needed to accept.

The same mistake happens across almost every topic. Israel’s opponents choose the questions, define the moral standards, and decide what Israel has to justify. Israelis then spend all their time playing defense against accusations that are false, misleading, or completely irrelevant.

That’s why Israel’s PR is so ineffective. It isn’t because Israel behaves differently from every other country. It’s because so many people are busy answering the other side’s questions instead of exposing why those questions are flawed in the first place.

If you spend the entire debate fighting on your opponent’s battlefield, don’t be surprised when they keep winning the PR war.

[Melanie Phillips @MelanieLatest]

Lies from start to finish to push a genocidal agenda. This is the face of evil, and it now controls America's most important city.

[Melanie Phillips @MelanieLatest]

https://t.co/S4QuYkBZRg
The “settler violence” libel is being used to demonise all 750,000 Jewish residents living in the disputed areas of Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem. This is being done to erase the Jews’ historic legal claim to these territories, push them out and replace them by Arab colonisers to create “facts on the ground” that make a Palestine state appear inescapable.

The “settler violence” libel is now a strategic threat to the world’s only Jewish state.

[Melanie Phillips @MelanieLatest]

https://t.co/8sRjoZciiR
The reaction to the film has been a seismic eruption. People either raved about it or treated it as the desecration of a sacred text. Nolan has been accused of twisting the poem to make it relevant and “woke” for a modern audience, thus destroying a pillar of western civilisation. The culture war has come to Troy.

[Natasha Hausdorff @HausdorffMedia]

Melanie Phillips hits the nail on the head on the new blood libel of “settler violence”.

[Melanie Phillips @MelanieLatest]

https://t.co/8sRjoZciiR
The reaction to the film has been a seismic eruption. People either raved about it or treated it as the desecration of a sacred text. Nolan has been accused of twisting the poem to make it relevant and “woke” for a modern audience, thus destroying a pillar of western civilisation. The culture war has come to Troy.

[Melanie Phillips @MelanieLatest]

Here's a guy who thinks genocide means the destruction of buildings. LOL

[The Saviour @TheSaviour]

🇮🇱🇵🇸 Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz boasts about committing genocide in Gaza:

"I recently visited Gaza, and places you remember like Shejaiya and Jabalia no longer exist today—they are destroyed, and I see no houses, only the beach."

"We destroyed Gaza, and that is the change I brought with the backing of the Prime Minister."

[Melanie Phillips @MelanieLatest]

https://t.co/S4QuYkBZRg
The “settler violence” libel is being used to demonise all 750,000 Jewish residents living in the disputed areas of Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem. This is being done to erase the Jews’ historic legal claim to these territories, push them out and replace them by Arab colonisers to create “facts on the ground” that make a Palestine state appear inescapable.

The “settler violence” libel is now a strategic threat to the world’s only Jewish state.

[Melanie Phillips @MelanieLatest]

The heart of the issue from this Montana senator: it's taken the US 47 years to fight back against the psychopathic Iranian regime that's been slaughtering Americans.

[Ryan Saavedra @RyanSaavedra]

Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT) delivers an incredibly powerful speech about Iran.

Watch every second of this.

"Yesterday we saw the president of the United States and many others at Dover Air Force Base presiding over a ceremony that is very sacred to those of us who served, and that is a dignified return of remains from the war zone.

That process happens beginning in the war zone through Dover to the hometown of our fallen heroes. I participated in many of those ceremonies myself to include carrying friends of mine off the plane.

One of those is on this bracelet. He was cut in half by an Iranian EFP.

This regime that we are fighting does not care about our partisan politics. They don't care who you voted for, who you pray to, or where you live. They want to kill all of us. And they don't just say it, they actually do it, and they've been doing it for forty-seven years.

This is a war of choice. The Democrats are correct. It's a war of choice that was begun by a radical lunatic band of terrorists that took over a beautiful nation 47 years ago, took it over with brutality, force, and savagery. And the second they took it over, they didn't free their people, they didn't unleash the largest oil reserves in the world to build schools and bridges.

They took it over to murder their own people and to spread their disgusting ideology across the world, and that is exactly what they have been doing. They don't just say it and talk about it. You don't have to believe what they say. You can simply watch what they've done.

They have attacked families, women, children, innocent people. They don't just attack them and kill them, they rape them. They skin them alive on camera. They celebrate it. They honor those people who do disgusting things that we would put in jail for the rest of their lives in this country, and they do it for fun, and they pay them money to do it, and they're heroes to that nation.

They've done it to friends of mine. They've done it to families who've been in this chamber. And the fact that we sit here and listen to elected officials of this country defend these lunatics who want us all dead. They want all of you dead. They want all of us dead.

They don't want us to disappear with a snap of a finger. They want us to be raped, burned alive, and cut into pieces. Watch the video from October 7. That's what they want to happen from Maine to San Diego, from Seattle to Miami. They want this country turned into a burning husk of its former self, and you don't have to theorize that.

That's what they do. From the 1983 barracks bombing, where 280 Marines were vaporized in a morning, from USS Cole to the Achille Lauro, to every terrorist attack, from the Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas. These are not humanitarian freedom organizations. They are death-dealing cults, and they want all of us to die brutal deaths.

William Buckley was abducted in 1985, an American military officer. He was skinned alive on camera by the Iranians. American prisoners of war who were captured. They were never called prisoners of war because they were captured by lunatic terrorists, so they were not subject to the Geneva Convention. They were captured and murdered, power drills through their brains. This is in Iraq. These are families that have dealt with this, and they've never gotten a single dime.

These families have never gotten restitution, and not a single president has ever stood up to them. Love Donald Trump or hate him, love his policies, hate ICE, love ICE, whatever. There's never been a single president who has stood up to Iran and hit back. For 47 years, our troops and our families have been absorbing attack after attack after attack all over the world.

And their radical ideology does not stop at the Persian Gulf. It doesn't stop at Tel Aviv. They want to do this everywhere. It's a global radical ideology, and we've been fighting it for half a century.

We didn't start this war. We did not, but we will finish it. And forever wars are not popular with anybody these days. Both sides of the love to attack our forever wars. And I can promise you, being someone overseas wearing the uniform, when you're fighting for your country, you don't care what party's in office, but you're fighting to defend your country, and you turn on the news and see your elected officials stabbing you in the back, telling you that you're failing, that you've failed every goal of the war, is what I just heard.

Last time I checked, we've wiped these bastards out. An occasional missile strike and boats in the straits, that's not military strength. Those are the flailings of a failing empire. Those are the flailings of a nation in collapse because they deserve it. So I encourage our colleagues on both sides of the aisle, whatever's politically convenient, whatever plays well on Twitter or Facebook, think about the people who are deployed right now, standing on that wall with a loaded weapon, who have volunteered to defend our country and our way of life.

Because they are there defending us in a just war, because we did not start a war with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. They started it with us 47 years ago, and their attacks have gone unanswered for half a century. It's time to fix this problem and make sure another generations of Americans does not have to fight this murderous, savage adversary."

[Melanie Phillips @MelanieLatest]

Look at this individual's picture. She is wrapped in the Islamonazi scarf. That's why she calls a Jew a Nazi; it's been the Palestinian Arab trick, learned from the Soviet Union, for decades.