The New Anti-Semitism Quotes

“Today's new anti-Semite hides behind the smokescreen of anti-Zionism. He or she knows that it’s immoral, unfair, and inaccurate to hate and blame the Jews, but since they really do hate and blame the Jews, they have found that anti-Zionism is a popular and politically respectable way to do so.”
― Phyllis Chesler, The New Anti-Semitism: The Current Crisis & What We Must Do About It

“The professoriate, the media, and world leaders do not realize that the West is not the first among sinners—Islam has a long history of colonialism, imperialism, conversion by the sword, gender and religious apartheid, unending Muslim-on-Muslim religious wars, and slavery. Westerners have been carefully taught to believe that such sins or crimes are mainly or solely true of the West—and therefore Westerners must atone for having impoverished and exploited others.”
― Phyllis Chesler, The New Anti-Semitism: The Current Crisis & What We Must Do About It

“Western atheists who view religion, especially Judaism and Christianity, as reactionary and anti-woman, hesitate to criticize Islam for its barbaric misogyny.”
― Phyllis Chesler, The New Anti-Semitism: The Current Crisis & What We Must Do About It