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On the Front Lines for Israel and the Jews Book Excerpt: The Brownshirts of Our Time

Dr. Phyllis Chesler, Emerita Professor of Psychology, is the author of sixteen books, including An American Bride in Kabul, which won a National Jewish Book Award, a 2014 edition of The New Anti-Semitism, and Living History: On the Front Lines for

Romeo and Juliet: Brutally Beaten To Death and Burned Before a Mob in India

Earlier this week, an Indian man, Jairam Manjhi, aged either 36 or 25, and Parvati Kumari, a 16-year-old girl related to her lover's wife, were kidnapped by the girl's family and brutally beaten to death; the girls' family publicly burned their corpses

Pakistani Man Convicted of Ordering Honor Killing on Daughter's In-Laws in Pakistan from Brooklyn Cab

The long arm of American justice has prevailed against a heinous overseas revenge-for-honor killingone that was orchestrated by cell phone from the front seat of a taxi in Brooklyn, New York. Muslims driving taxis in American and European cities have

Garland Shooting: The Jihad Against Free Speech Comes to Texas

We are living in infamous times. Reality outpaces fiction, and the worst case scenarios keep unfolding in our daily headlines. Critics of torturers and mass murderers are demonized as "extremists" and "provocateurs." Israel is accused of human rights

Six PEN Writers Withdraw From Gala, Oppose Award to Charlie Hebdo

We live in a time of infamy. The West is committing suicide. Some writers—who should be especially sensitive to the perils of censorship and the dangers of intolerance are, instead, in favor, not of free speech but of the rights of one religion-only

145 Authors Protest 'Freedom of Expression' Award to Charlie Hebdo as Islamophobic

The PEN award to the survivors of the Charlie Hebdo massacre has drawn some very distinguished fire. On April 26, 2015, six PEN "table hosts," all highly regarded writers, publicly protestedPEN's decision to give an award for "Freedom of Expression

Conversations with Liberals

I don't know what to do about liberal American Jews. Unlike some conservatives, I happen to agree with them on certain issues but these days, that barely matters. The only thing that matters is whether one is for or against President Obama. If one dares

Petition Supporting Professor Attacked for Anti-Hamas Facebook Post Gains 10,000 Signatures

A petition to support Professor Andrew Pessin's right to free speech—which includes his pro-Israel point of view—now has almost 10,000 signatures. In addition, this morning, Dr. Pessin tells this reporter, "We trust that the administration is willing

Chesler Facebook Chronicles

Facebook Musings. February 25, 2015 - April 27, 2015. April 27, 2015 The Holocaust Museum in D.C. Last week I visited the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. I have been there before. This time, it was too much for me to bear. I got physically sick. But

"Complicit": FDR's Refusal to Save the Jews on the MS St. Louis

The more we learn about the Holocaust, even as it recedes into the "mists of time," the more my blood boils, the closer I come to tears. Last night, I traveled far out into Syrian-Jewish Brooklyn, where there are not only Syrian shuls but Egyptian,