by Phyllis Chesler In a nearly full page article entitled “As Court Decision Nears, Battle Over Evictions Spikes in East Jerusalem,” the New York Times manages to describe Jews as “settlers” in Jerusalem nine times; as “far right” or “right-wing” twice; as “right-wing settlers” once (in case ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler To honor the Sabbath table. These are known as Parrot Tulips. They may last for five days—or not. Time slays beauty, all living things come to an end, ‘tis in the nature of life. But, as time seems to speed up, why is that I seem to slow down? Not just me, others also report ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler The year 2021 is already a bad year for feminist truth-tellers. In March, three brave Indigenous Australian women flew to the capital in Canberra to draw attention to the sex assaults and murders by Indigenous men targeting Indigenous women. They were rebuffed and insulted ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler We are fast becoming the Disunited Identities of America. American embassies may now fly the gay rainbow flag along with the American flag. What next? A Transgender Flag? A Black Transgender “Sex Worker” Flag? A “Palestinian” Flag? A special flag for American non-binaries and ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler When did I start to read the Obits daily? At least forty years ago, not any sooner. Before then, I thought I would live forever, as would everyone I knew and loved. Mortality was not uppermost on my mind. At first, when I put my shoulder to this wheel, I remember noting ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler My dear friend, Linda Clarke, suggested I read this book by Robert Franklin Leslie, a Cherokee Indian, about the utterly enchanted relationship between Gregory Tah-Kloma, a Chimmesyan Indian of the Tsimshian band, and the glistening, silver-white female leader of a wolf pack ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler In the history of the world, no foreign power has ever occupied or been able to remain in this landlocked and remote country in central Asia. The Persians, the Mongols, the British, the Russians – all were unable to prevail. Even Alexander the Great departed, only leaving behind ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler After reading something I quoted from Peter Weiss’s MARAT/SADE, a friend called this passage from Mark Twain to my attention. It is worth sharing. THERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler Playwright Peter Weiss, of Marat/Sade fame had this to say about the “righteously” oppressed taking their revenge. The words belong to the Marquis de Sade as he views the future of revolution. “Now I see where this revolution is leading To the withering of the individual man and ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler If our leading literary enchantress, J.K. Rowling, an author who cherishes those who are seen as unacceptably “different” because they wield magical powers, can be cursed and shamed for her belief that biology, DNA, and anatomy are real—imagine what can be done to a less magical, ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler And there she is, in a black-and-white headshot, on the cover of Martin Duberman’s important biography: Andrea Dworkin: The Feminist as Revolutionary. She is looking straight at us, her frank j’accuse-like gaze somehow holding us accountable for all the evil in the world. Andrea ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler  In 2005, I published a book with the title The Death of Feminism. I saw it all coming. But I did not foresee the rise of a transgender movement.  On March 31st, an allegedly feminist Open Letter Supporting Trans Women and Girls, was circulated. Among other things, it stated ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler A few days ago, a 16 year-old teenage girl was raped by her 21 year-old neighbor. Heroically, she cried out, she “told,” she did not remain silent. Her punishment was savage. Her family tied her to her rapist and paraded them both through the streets of rural Madhya Pradesh ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler I always order flowers on Friday morning. Roses, often—but they do not seem to last as well as tulips do. This gathering of lovelies arrived small, sweet, and bud-like and the green spears were decorously and artfully arranged. My dentist, retired, has become a passionate gardener. ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler I just joined an amazing, landmark literary festival sponsored by Ananke, based in the United Arab Emirates. The distinguished Sabin Muzzafar organized feminist women writers whose work in Urdu, Hindi, Bangladeshi, and Arabic is rarely translated into other languages. The same ...Read More...