Now that she has attacked Elliot Abrams, I wonder where Representative Ilhan Omar stands on the issue of FGM given that she is a Somali-American and the practice is pandemic among Somalis. No one has asked her about it publicly. I am asking her here. by Phyllis Chesler  Many Westerners seem ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler President Trump’s call for a withdrawal from Afgahanistan raises a troubling question: Is the West morally obliged to persist in a struggle that can’t be won? How much blood and treasure must we spend to save the victims of barbarism? No one, after all, has ever been able ...Read More...

When it comes to Israel, there are no facts and no objectivity, just clever confusion and demonization over and over until the lies become Holy Doctrine. by Phyllis Chesler Following in UNESCO’s 2017 footsteps, Amnesty International has just released a Report which accuses Israel of trying ...Read More...

If you tell the truth about Israel or Islam, you will be boycotted by the mainstream/left-stream media, no matter who you are. by Phyllis Chesler Earlier this month, I wrote a piece about why I would not be marching in any of the Women’s Marches. That piece went viral. For the first time ...Read More...

Women’s issues -- even those that are impacted by race, class, religion, and ethnicity -- are still woman-specific, but you won't hear about them at this march. I am in mourning for a vibrant and radical feminist movement. But this is not it. by Phyllis Chesler I have been marching for women’s ...Read More...

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...