Scapegoating Israel is Fashionable
Balancing Feminist Sorrows with Israel's Right to Exist

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
March 24, 2008

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/286/scapegoating-israel-is-fashionable-balancing

Excerpt:

In June of 1982, in the pages of Ms. Magazine, Letty Cottin Pogrebin earned her reputation as a Jewish feminist by writing about anti-Semitism among feminists. She did so by standing on the shoulders of other Jewish feminists who had been wrestling with this "problem without a name" since the early 1970s and whose cries Pogrebin finally heard.

Pogrebin's article in Ms. Magazine was brave and she was, at the time, both attacked and disbelieved. But she was also respected for writing the piece. By 1991, Pogrebin had expanded her article about Jew-hatred among feminists into a book about Judaism and feminism, Deborah, Golda and Me. The book's index contains at least 30 references to anti-Semitism/anti-Zionism and the women's movement. There is also a whole chapter titled "Special Jewish Sorrows and Women and Anti-Semitism." Since Pogrebin published her book, she has risen to prominence as a spokeswoman for all things Jewish and feminist.

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