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Prof. Phyllis Chesler

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Binyamin Netanyahu, Gilad Erdan -c'est moi, ze ani, ze anachnu

Read Phyllis Chesler's words to the pro-Israel demonstrators in New York yesterday.

Binyamin Netanyahu, Gilad Erdan -c'est moi, ze ani, ze anachnu

Jews, never give up!

In every generation, they rise against us, but in a generation where everyone seems to be rising against us, what must we do?

Jews, never give up!

9/11 and the New Antisemitism

9/11 has continued, it is still happening; it is not over yet. And antisemitism has been rejuvenated. Who would have thought? Op-ed.

9/11 and the New Antisemitism

Our eternal battle for Zion

Jew-hatred is racist, irrational and homicidal.Jews neither provoke nor deserve.It is the only acceptable prejudice of anti-racists. Op-ed.

Our eternal battle for Zion

Women who fan the flames of hatred

Often it’s nothing but word salad—a stringing together of propagandized soundbites to elicit cheers, applause and return engagements.Op-ed.

Women who fan the flames of hatred

The beautiful people at Cannes

The people may be beautiful but the history they are glossing over is less so. Op-ed.

The beautiful people at Cannes

I am still shocked by the New York Times

If anything, the Gray Lady’s coverage is even more skewed, blatant, committed to viewing Israeli self-defense as heinous aggression. Op-ed

I am still shocked by the New York Times

Lawsuits are key to fighting Antisemitism

The push to get antisemitism/anti-Zionism under the concepts of national origin or ethnicity, both protected classes, is crucial. Op-ed..

Lawsuits are key to fighting Antisemitism

How a Holocaust happens

Remembering the Holocaust may allow us the consolation of assuming that the "worst" has already happened. Alas, this may not be true.Op-ed.

How a Holocaust happens

Cognitive War in Israel

The story of anti-Zionism is filled with Israelis who thought that hasbara—propaganda—was unimportant. Have they learned? Op-ed.

Cognitive War in Israel

Questions without answers

Do Israel’s protesters understand the damage they have done to the state? Op-ed.

Questions without answers

Israeli protesters, I can no longer keep silent

Do you not see that you are tearing the country apart? Or do you not care? Op-ed.

Israeli protesters, I can no longer keep silent

No one wants to hear this

Propaganda, has now succeeded in turning what seems to be the entire world against the Jews and Jewish Israel. Warnings were ignored. Op-ed.

No one wants to hear this

'The carriage held but just ourselves — and immortality.'

Natural disaster in Turkey, diminishing number of friends as one ages - our personal world's losses are paralleled by the world's. Op-ed.

'The carriage held but just ourselves — and immortality'.

The New York Times’ Orwellian obsession with Israel

The Jewish state and Judaism received disproportionate negative coverage throughout 2022. Op-ed.

The New York Times’ Orwellian obsession with Israel

An American college student: Problems, real and Imagined

An American college classroom opens a window through which we can see what is happening to American youth. Op-ed.

An American college student: Problems, real and Imagined

The history of the media intifada against Israel

How a war of lies and language endangers not only the Jewish state, but the West itself, in a new book by historian Richard Landes. Op-ed.

The history of the media intifada against Israel

Staying or leaving: A matter of life and death

Can we learn from Freud about why Jews overstay our welcome or believe that if assimilated enough we will be spared antisemitism? Op-ed.

Staying or leaving: A matter of life and death

Why haven't Linda Sarsour, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib mentioned Iran's hijab protests?

When will these high-profile professional defenders of Muslims decide that Muslim women are also worthy of defending? Op-ed.

Sarsour, Omar and Tlaib haven't mentioned Iran's hijab protests

Insidious propaganda, a tablespoon at a time

It is a steady, low-key diet of info-bits that are meant to normalize the larger lies. The New York Times does this brilliantly. Op-ed.

Insidious propaganda, a tablespoon at a time

A hometown reverie - a day in Borough Park

My childhood neighborhood has changed completely - and I like it. It is like entering a live story by a great Yiddish writer. Op-ed.

A hometown reverie - a day in Borough Park

'Jewish Lives Matter': Human Rights and Anti-Semitism by Fiamma Nirenstein

Fiamma Nirenstein's new book cries out against the global cognitive war and Blood Libels in the name of "human rights" against Israel.Op-ed.

'Jewish Lives Matter': Human Rights and Anti-Semitism - a review

Finally meeting Meena: The culmination of a year of rescuing Afghan women

Last August, I did not know whether Meena had made it to the airport, whether she was alive or dead. Report.

Meeting Meena: Culmination of a year of rescuing Afghan women

An expatriate professor in New Zealand

He 'lived 'down under' but Norman is the only one (besides me) who remembered the store on 13th and 43rd 'which sold charlotte russe.Op-ed.

An expatriate professor in New Zealand

#Not all men are mass shooters

But all mass shooters in the US so far this year have been male.Is there any way we can intervene long before a mass shooting occurs? Op-ed.

#Not all men are mass shooters

How many names of journalists killed in war zones do you know?

Most people can name one—and only one such journalist, out of 2658 killed 1990-2020. There is a name for that selective attention. Opinion.

How many names of journalists killed in war zones do you know?

Big Lies, Blood Libels, and anti-Zionist narrative

A day in the cognitive war against the Jews, perhaps the hottest war, one which will determine the outcome of much else.Op-ed

Big Lies, Blood Libels, and anti-Zionist narrative

Nostalgia for the slaughterhouse

JTA was positive, but a film about the making of Fiddler on the Roof has me wondering at the idealization a past that wasn’t very nice.Op-ed

Nostalgia for the slaughterhouse

The politics of the lentil in the New York Times

The lowly lentil is now on the list of foods Israel is said to have appropriated from the Palestinian Arabs..Esau would be surprised.Op-ed.

The politics of the lentil in the New York Times

Lutsk, Meyn Shtetele Lutsk

Many Jews still live in Ukraine, but for the life of me, I cannot understand why. Op-ed.

Lutsk, Meyn Shtetele Lutsk

"Woman" not mentioned once at Barnard’s Feminist Conference opening panel

Pseudofeminist speakers used language meant to dominate and silence, and of course,Palestinian Arab issues were part of the discourse.Op-ed

"Woman" word not said at Barnard Feminist Conference opening

The other pandemic

It is a virus of sorts and it is certainly pandemic. Israel-Palestine is everywhere,often used to redeem an otherwise pedestrian work.Op-ed.

The other pandemic

Aafia Siddiqui and the misguided support for Women of Jihad

Is being a Jew and US hater part of feminist war on misogyny? Does it change how Muslim women are abused in Pakistan and Afghanistan? Op-ed.

Aafia Siddiqui and the misguided support for Women of Jihad

Who is steering America's ship of state?

A Jihadist walks into a temple, takes hostages in order to free a known Jew hater and Jihadist and it has nothing to do with the Jews? Op-ed

Who is steering America's ship of state?

The celebs condemning Harry Potter and his mother

A strange correlation between persecuting Harry Potter author Rowling and the pro-Trans, pro-'Palestine' and anti-Israel community. Op-ed.

Look at celebrities who condemn Harry Potter and his mother

The Eternal Life of Blood Libels against the Jews

This cannot end well; at least, it never has. Op-ed.

The Eternal Life of Blood Libels against the Jews

A season of never-ending discontent

Are we ever going to be free of this Wuhan whirlwind? Op-ed.

A season of never-ending discontent

Winter is coming to Afghanistan

Heroic Afghan women and the doctors and global civilians helping them. Op-ed.

Winter is coming to Afghanistan

Free as a Jew

Harvard Yiddish Prof. Ruth R. Wisse’s new memoir is sharp, examined, and a more urgent read than ever Review.

Free as a Jew

Taliban closes in on desperate Afghan women

The Taliban have been hunting house by house for known women's rights activists. Suddenly, a woman disappears and is never seen again.Op-ed.

Taliban closes in on desperate Afghan women