Abigail R. Esman writes in the Investigative Report on Terrorism: The young woman looks saucily at the camera, half-smiling, her hijab tightly wrapped to conceal her hair. Her lips are colored red, her eyes outlined heavily in black. Hers is the mischievous expression of a woman dutifully modest ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler “Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet Prince/And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.” William Shakespeare. A poet, a playwright, a screen writer, a psycho-analyst, a tough Jew, a tender Jew, an athlete, and a restless, driven soul has just died. He was also my ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler Muslim and ex-Muslim feminists and dissidents have been risking torture and death in the Middle East, Central Asia, Africa, and the Far East by refusing to wear the hijab and by adopting other Western ways. Bizarrely, Western feminists and accomplished and powerful women, ...Read More...

I spoke about many of my books: “Women and Madness,” “A Politically Incorrect Feminist,” “An American Bride in Kabul” and about “Islamic Gender Apartheid. Exposing a Veiled War Against Women” and “A Family Conspiracy. Honor Killing.” I may also have managed to bring in Jew hatred. Whew! Enjoy listening ...Read More...

New York Jewish liberal organizations are now standing in solidarity with their Orthodox brethren and will march against the hatred behind the rise in antisemitic hate crimes on January 5th. That is the first and crucial step. by Phyllis Chesler Has Hanukkah been extended this year? Are we ...Read More...

The word is out. If you hate your life, if you are filled with rage, if you are mentally ill and off your meds—or on them, but they don’t help—you can stab, shoot, sucker punch, and verbally humiliate a visibly Jewish person in public. by Phyllis Chesler Once Jewish blood is flowing in the ...Read More...

Jewish pioneers cleared the swamps of the Galilee a hundred years ago, hoping naively to be left in peace in their own homeland. But how are we going to clear the swamp of antisemitism that has engulfed the world? by Phyllis Chesler Daily, Jews are being cursed, defamed, beaten, knifed, shot ...Read More...

And who is Noah Feldman? What does choosing him as an expert in the impeachment hearings tell us about the current Democratic Party? by Phyllis Chesler Harvard Law Professor Noah Feldman last week stated in his testimony before the star chamber style impeachment hearing that: “The framers ...Read More...

A jihadist is not an ordinary prisoner. He is a religious zealot whose mission is to inflict terror into the heart of infidels by murdering civilians, not a poor victim who can be rehabilitated. by Phyllis Chesler As we now all know, British-Pakistani jihadist, Usman Khan, was not rehabilitated ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler In my pre-feminist days, sexual harassment and rape were so common, so pervasive, so accepted, that they were virtually invisible. The shame clung to the victim or to the whistle-blower; the abuser almost never experienced any consequences for his actions. In fact, he was rarely ...Read More...

Can you remember the years when Israelis considered antisemitism a Diaspora issue? by Phyllis Chesler This coming weekend (November 1-3), the University of Minnesota will be hosting the infamous Students for Justice Palestine (SJP). The nature and history of SJP has been exposed countless ...Read More...

Fearfulness, cowardice, avoidance of feared punishment—or silent approval—is precisely how Hitler triumphed. by Phyllis Chesler This piece is dedicated to Renia Spiegel, the so-called Polish “Anne Frank” who kept a diary in Premyslani where my maternal ancestors once lived. Visibly Jewish ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler Margaret Atwood, whose work I have long admired, is now being hailed as a prophet. It is quite the phenomenon. According to the pundits, Atwood’s 1985 work, The Handmaid’s Tale, which Mary McCarthy once savaged, and the recently-published 2019 sequel, The Testaments, are dystopias ...Read More...

Is there somewhere a sensitive Jewish soul go to escape it all? Not to new books, theater, talk shows, conferences or any other public venue. Jew and Israel-bashing keeps cropping up everywhere. by Phyllis Chesler I was among the handful who began seeing some awful parallels between the 1930s ...Read More...

The penetration of the feminist and gay movements by pro-Palestine propaganda has borne the poisonous fruit of trees planted by shameless rewriting of history and even the Quran. by Phyllis Chesler  One of the genuine feminist pioneers, an old friend, visited me while she was in New York for ...Read More...