The Saudi teen remains in real and terrible danger because she has renounced Islam. She has shut down her Twitter account due to death threats. by Phyllis Chesler  Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun, a Saudi teenager, has just tried to save her own life—and in so doing, has risked death for shaming her ...Read More...

The dangers of being perceived as pro-Israel in online feminist spaces. by Phyllis Chesler Does Big Brother—or rather, Big Sister, never sleep? Is she always anonymously patrolling the internet and the airwaves at the ready to attack, accuse, bully, defame and correct anyone who pronounces, ...Read More...

Miriam Greenspan writes in the Los Angeles Review of Books   In A Politically Incorrect Feminist, Phyllis Chesler vividly recounts the glory days of the women’s movement of the 1960s and ’70s, of which she was a prominent leader. Her memoir captures the movement’s visionary vitality, creativity, ...Read More...

Jamie Glazov's book shows how Jihad Denial is allowing Military Jihad, Stealth Jihad (via mass immigration), and Institutional Jihad (the takeover of institutions by Islamic supremacists) to destroy the West. No, he is not Islamophobic. by Phyllis Chesler In Andrew Roberts’ new biography of ...Read More...

Is this the return of the Thought Police? by Phyllis Chesler In 1984, George Orwell wrote: “The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought. When people ‘disappear’ no one is allowed to mention ...Read More...

Congress passed a law, but a court says it's unconstitutional. What is the remedy? by Phyllis Chesler On November 20, 2018, the United States District Court in Michigan ruled that the federal law which criminalized Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) more than twenty years ago is “unconstitutional”, ...Read More...

Prof. Phyllis Chesler is an internationally known name. She is a writer, opinion maker, research scholar and academician. She has written more than eighteen books including the best-seller Women and Madness (1972). Recently she accorded an exclusive interview to Blitz editor Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury. ...Read More...

I dare to say, at the risk of being shamed and shunned for telling the truth, that "Palestine" is a fiction, a concept that refers to an imaginary entity, not real but socially constructed. by Phyllis Chesler Even as barbarians terrorize civilians everywhere, (if not, the UK and Australia ...Read More...

My anti-racist colleagues seem to oppose every racism save one: that of Jew-hatred, aka anti-Semitism, but I bear the DNA of all my relatives whose descendants I never got to meet because they were murdered in pogroms and in the Holocaust. by Phyllis Chesler Michigan’s Rashida Tlaib and Minnesota’s ...Read More...

Double standards and biased coverage, pity for the perpetrators, and disregard for the victims - the NYTimes is right in tune with the anti-Semites among us. by Phyllis Chesler And still, the New York Times never ceases to amaze me. Frighten me too, because so many thought leaders continue ...Read More...

Aaron Klein writes in Breitbart: NEW YORK — Best-selling author and feminist leader Phyllis Chesler expressed concern that actions by the Democratic Party and progressive activists during the confirmation process of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh may have damaged the #MeToo movement and ...Read More...

by Phillis Chesler In my college and graduate school days, we knew absolutely nothing about our feminist foremothers or about their campaigns for equality and freedom. I did not know that women were oppressed and that feminists had battled for women’s rights for many centuries. Earlier ...Read More...

How one courageous proactive journalist took on the IRS over this issue - and won. by Phyllis Chesler After a “long, lonely and expensive seven year struggle,” one that she alone, on behalf of Z STREET bore, Lori Lowenthal Marcus, the founder of Z STREET has just won a significant legal victory ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler I am glad so many women are speaking out—and I hope that this leads to some enduring changes; I would be delighted if this moment becomes a movement which leads to legislation that is both funded and enforced. Good faith and hard-won victories such as The Violence Against Women ...Read More...

The Forgotten History of Black Women Crying Out Against Sexual Assault By Phyllis Chesler Last week, Recy Taylor, the victim of a 1944 brutal white-on-black gang-rape in Alabama, died. She was 97 years-old. Taylor was also the subject of a nationwide crusade against the rape of black women ...Read More...