Phyllis Chesler Archives

Phyllis Chesler

An anti-Israel "apartheid wall" on display at Columbia University during "Israeli Apartheid Week" in 2017. Source: Facebook.

Lawsuits are key to fighting antisemitism

The persecution of Jewish students must end.

Phyllis Chesler

April 20, 2023

A flyer for the new film "Civilization in the Danger Zone." Source: courtesy

A new film details the collapse of belief in America

“Civilization in the Danger Zone” bears witness to disaster, but is also a clarion call and a corrective.

Phyllis Chesler

April 10, 2023

Israelis block the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv during a protest against the Israeli government's planned judicial overhaul on March 26, 2023. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Questions without answers

Do Israel’s protesters understand the damage they have done to the state?

Phyllis Chesler

March 30, 2023

Israelis protest in Tel Aviv against the government's judicial reform plan on March 4, 2023. Photo by Gili Yaari /Flash90.

Israeli protesters, I can no longer keep silent

Do you not see that you are tearing the country apart?

Phyllis Chesler

March 21, 2023

Choose an identity, then perform it

I am not sure I fully understand identity transformations or, if you will, identity impersonations.

Phyllis Chesler

February 23, 2023

“The New York Times” building in Midtown Manhattan. Credit: Ajay Suresh via Wikimedia Commons.

The New York Times’ Orwellian obsession with Israel

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

Phyllis Chesler

January 10, 2023

Photojournalists capture protests in central Tel Aviv against a controversial agreement reached over the past few months between the government and large energy companies over natural-gas production, Nov. 14, 2015. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

The history of the media intifada against Israel

Historian Richard Landes’s new book shows how a war of lies and language endangers not only the Jewish state, but the West itself.

Phyllis Chesler

December 12, 2022

Photographic portrait of Sigmund Freud by Max Halberstadt, circa 1921. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Like Freud, are we in denial about the danger of antisemitism?

The great man failed to flee the Nazis until it was almost too late; we shouldn’t make the same mistake.

Phyllis Chesler

November 20, 2022

Headquarters of “The New York Times” at night. Credit: Osugi/Shutterstock.

Insidious propaganda at ‘The New York Times’

Even articles on food are dedicated to hating Israel.

Phyllis Chesler

September 13, 2022

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