Jew-Hating “Feminists” For Jihad
Laura: Psychologically damaged left-wing “feminists” stand in solidarity with murderous islamic misogynists against Israel . Unfortunately many of these mental cases are “Jewish”. What sort of mental illness would cause a Jewish woman to align herself with misogynists and Jew-haters?
by Phyllis Chesler, Newsreal Blog
Yale University’s Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism hosted a major conference in which I was privileged to be a participant. “Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity” was envisioned by Professor Charles Asher Small who founded the Initiative. The conference was also sponsored by the Issac and Jessie Kaplan Center for Jewish Studies and Research, University of Cape Town, in association with the Vidal Sasoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, Hebrew University, Jerusalem; the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism, Tel Aviv University; The Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, Indiana University; and the Rabin Chair Forum, George Washington University.
My plenary panel was the only panel which focused on women and anti-Semitism. It was chaired by Jerusalem based scholar, Jennifer Roskies. My co-panelists included Thyme Siegel, whose speech was titled: “Sisterhood was powerful and Global. Where Did it Go?” and Dr. Nora Gold whose speech was titled: “Fighting Anti-Semitism in the Feminist Community.”
We had the very best time when we met the previous afternoon. Thyme, Nora, and I go back, way back, to the 1960s in feminist America. These days, Thyme, an independent researcher and Women’s Studies teacher, is holding an Israeli flag at Berkeley when her former friends stand holding a Palestinian flag; she has come a long, long way from her matriarchal, lesbian separatist days in Eugene, Oregon. Dr. Nora Gold is using her Toronto-based research to educate feminists about racism against Jews. She is often successful. I look forward to working with them and with our very gracious Chair Jennifer, soon again.
Make no mistake. Others also enjoyed what we had to say and indeed, said the most complimentary things to us afterward. This is no small feat given the greats who were in attendance. I want to thank both Jennifer Roskies and Charles Small for this amazing opportunity.
The History and Psychological Roots of Anti-Semitism Among Feminists, Their Gradual Palestinianization and Stalinization
YALE AUGUST 25, 2010
By Phyllis Chesler
Four score and ten years ago women won the right to vote in the United States. And thirty years ago, in 1980, I stood with the Israeli delegation in Copenhagen at the United Nations conference on women—the true precursor of the anti-Zionist conference in Durban in 2001. Twenty-nine years ago, right here in Connecticut, at the University at Storrs, I convened a panel at the annual convention of the National Women’s Studies Association to challenge American feminists about both their anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism.
I had been doing this since the early 1970s but even I could not have predicted the rapid and extreme Stalinization and Palestinianization that would take place among academics and activists in general. I could never have imagined that the western intelligentsia, the “good” people, including feminists, would make so tragic an alliance with Islamic barbarism and misogyny.
I became a feminist leader in 1968-1969. I remain one. Most of the other feminists of my generation are no longer engaged in the historical moment.
Are women racists? We might as well ask: Are women human beings?
But are women also anti-Semites?
To do justice to this subject might require another conference. Women have internalized the same prejudices as men have. Like men, women are also sexists and racists. Women are also consummate bystanders at the crossroads where evil meets its prey. The majority feminist view has viewed women as “weak” or “innocent” non-actors, powerless to affect the destiny of nations. This is a fantasy and bears no relationship to reality. Continue
There is no short of Jezzabelle types roaming the earth.
Feminists for Jihad = Feminists for Rape
The militant “Muslims” sure know how to treat women (from the jungle ape perspective), and these “feminists for Jihad” deserve the full treatment–after which they get stoned to death for “unchaste behavior” which includes being a rape victim.
I have always liked and respected Phyllis Chesler because she is a brave woman and it willing to stand up for what she believes in.
However, I have never understood why she picked muslim women to champion.
The obvious solution to the discrimination and dehumanizing of women in islam would be to for them to leave islam. Instead, she has tried to bring attention to the problems muslim women face and have found that no one with any power is interested, including the muslims themselves.
Women of other cultures and religions have shown themselves capable of meeting any challenge and any adversity. No warrior in any army is as fierce as a woman protecting her young. Any woman that is, except an Islamic woman.
If muslim women wanted to stop the horrors of islam, they could leave and find refuge in a variety of places. I am tried of being reminded that anyone leaving islam has a death sentence hanging over their heads that effectively precludes them from taking any positive action. This attitude continues the cycle of violence that show no sign of ending.
Since Phyllis Chesler seems to hold the Jews and Israelis in high regard, it would seem that her Herculean efforts on the behalf of women would be much better spent in improving conditions for Israeli women.
From all accounts, the women expelled from Gush Katif could really use some TCL. The women of Sderot are trying to raise families in horrible conditions. Women that have retired on a small pension could use some relief.
These women do not claim victim status, and are therefore, ignored. Yet any monies spent on them would be money well spent. They would use it to improve their lot, and the lot of everyone around them. At the end of the day, they would have something to show for any largesse that came their way.
But, instead, we see women like Phyllis Chesler wasting tremendous time, money and resources for a lost cause. Have muslim women’s lives been improved because of her efforts? Have thousands of muslim women taken courage from her and demanded their freedom? No, it is a enormous waste.
Time and energy spent fighting feminists is a lost cause. Time spent fighting for women who prefer victim status is a lost cause. Time spent championing women that not only embrace the cult that hurts them, but kill their children for not following in their footsteps, is a lost cause. It would seem, after years of wasting her considerable talents, Phyllis Chesler should look for a cause that would pay dividends.
Far easier said than done–sort of like a battered wife trying to leave an abusive husband who has a long track record of violent felony convictions.