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...

by Phyllis Chesler Jewish Romanian deportees, murdered by their Romanian escorts in Transnistria; one of several massacres carried out during the “Holocaust by bullets” phase of extermination behind the Eastern Front. My paternal grandmother, Perel, of blessed memory, was hacked to pieces by ...Read More...

Jody Raphael writes at Dignity: A Journal on Sexual Exploitation and Violence: When author Phyllis Chesler’s famed book, Women and Madness, was reissued almost 50 years after its first publication last year, Dignity Editor Donna Hughes thought it would be important for the journal to mark the ...Read More...

"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...