"Palestine" is a fiction, a concept that refers to an imaginary entity, not real but socially constructed. by Phyllis Chesler  Six months ago I published a piece at Israel National News. Two weeks ago it landed at a website “Fundies Say The Darndest Things.” (Perhaps a play on Bill Cosby’s ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler  Eleanor Roosevelt monument, Riverside Park, New York CIty. There was a time, not so long ago, when the unpaid obituaries in all the major newspapers were solely of men—and the occasional mother of a Great White Man. I often wondered: Had women never lived, or had we never ...Read More...

The anti-Ilhan Omar rally this week was different, because everyone realized that all Jews, even - or especially - the Iran-loving Neturei Karta are in the sights of today's anti-Semites. And that the Democrats are party to it. by Phyllis Chesler I have never seen so many members of the Neturai ...Read More...

High-minded well-known literary types have the chattering classes in thrall with Jew hatred which has, octopus-like, permeated every nook and cranny of what was formerly considered “high” culture. by Phyllis Chesler  Scene fron Gentleman's Agreement (1947) People say that it is usually calm ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler Last week, out-of-the-blue, a very decent, committed, and radical feminist scholar asked me what I thought about Nina Paley. Apparently, Paley has been de-platformed, harassed, and death threatened for her view of the transgender cult. And so I checked Paley out. There is no ...Read More...

By Phyllis Chesler in Dignity: A Journal on Sexual Exploitation and Violence   Abstract Female genital mutilation (FGM) destroys the capacity of women to experience sexual pleasure. It causes serious medical complications such as bleeding, painful urination, cysts, dangerous and recurrent ...Read More...

I do not think they can easily walk back their own culture of contempt for Prime Minister Netanyahu, for Israel in general, or for the truth in particular when it comes to the Jewish state and the Jewish people. by Phyllis Chesler And so the New York Times has actually, finally, issued an ...Read More...

The story below did not happen in Mecca or Islamabad. It happened in Manhattan. by Phyllis Chesler Last night, my brother, who is legally blind, and who has a service dog, visited me. After dinner, when he called for a car service, I cautioned him to request someone who would accept a service ...Read More...

The Jews and Israel are surrounded by verbal, written and violently genocidal enemies. Who is our Moses, our Aaron, our Miriam?  Who has God appointed to lead us to safety? by Phyllis Chesler We find ourselves in a new kind of Egypt—one in which the Jews and Israel are surrounded and inundated ...Read More...

A film that captures the nature of both Nazism and Communism—as well as the transcendent and brooding power of Art, Love, and Truth. by Phyllis Chesler And, for more than three hours, I never did. Time stood still. I was swept up into a moving panorama of pre-and post-WW2 Nazi Germany—every ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler Glenda Jackson is and always was a magnificent actor. And she is currently strutting her considerable Stuff , “merely (a) player” on the world’s stage. And yet. And yet. Jackson plays King Lear as the consummate Brit at Oxford, perhaps a Don, waspish, cantankerous, clever, ...Read More...

Real rockets are raining down on civilians in Israel, but at the same time, antisemitic rockets are raining down on Jews the world over and there is no respite. Kinda like Heil Hitler in the Nazi era. by Phyllis Chesler Real rockets and arson balloons are relentlessly raining down on civilians ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chelser An intelligent, eloquent, bookish, and hugely positive review of “A Politically Incorrect Feminist” may be viewed as a podcast by a British male theologian and Biblical scholar. Thank you—Alastair Roberts. He fully understands that thinkers continually evolve, are not ideologues, ...Read More...

The Times is only one example - and a thoroughly reprehensible one - of he rampant, toxic anti-Semitism sweeping the entire world. by Phyllis Chesler Anti-Semitism has toxically penetrated and infiltrated the world’s every nook and cranny. Blood Libel propaganda is now far more dangerous than ...Read More...

There are women shrouded in burqas, hidden by Niqab, and set apart wearing Hijab on the streets of so many American cities. by Phyllis Chesler Afghanistan keeps following me right into the West. Headlines abound daily—and there are women shrouded in burqas, hidden by Niqab, and set apart wearing ...Read More...