Phyllis Chesler's Blog, page 32
February 8, 2013
What Jonathan Kay got wrong
I disagree with my colleague Jonathan Kay's recent article "American super-hawks demand to know: 'Are you Jew enough?'" First, let me thank him for referring to me as "a feminist-turned anti-Islamist" and not as "anti-Muslim" or as an "Islamophobe."
February 3, 2013
Upper West Siders Forget to Think Jewish
The crowd at the Lincoln Plaza Cinema on the upper west side is mainly Jewish and liberal—ultra-liberal. They behave as if they are superior to all "Ostjuden," the illiterate, superstitious, unwashed Eastern European Jews–and therefore, in their
January 2, 2013
The Indian Gang Rape-Murder Just Scratched the Surface
And so, poor soul, she has died and been cremated in New Delhi, the victim of a public and murderous gang-rape. Six men attacked her for more than an hour, raping and beating her with a heavy metal bar which damaged her intestines beyond repair. They
December 17, 2012
If My Work Has Found Favor In Your Eyes...
Dearest People: Please forgive my extraordinary silence. Know that I have continued my life's work as a wordsmith. My new book is now almost final. I forgot how much I enjoy writing books. I will never forget this again. One escapes time, one leaves
November 27, 2012
Why Is the NY Times Islamist Terrorism's Apologist?
Mainly, I lead a quiet, writer's life. I read, I write, I listen to music, I gaze out my window. Sometimes, I visit a museum or see a movie. I read two or three books and several manuscripts every week and about one hundred articles and many hundreds of
November 19, 2012
Up Against a Faux-istinian Culture of Human Sacrifice
I have been getting email and phone calls from dear friends in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. The Tel Avivians and Jerusalemites are sober but slightly shocked to have woken up to a lesser, but still a Sderot-like reality. Senior citizen friends cowered in
November 15, 2012
What a Wonderful People! and What a Cynical World!
Israel has been under the most profound siege since the fall of 2000; some would say, since the day after it won the 1967 war of self-defense; others would insist that the siege began the moment the sovereign Jewish state came into being in 1948. They
