Copyright 2010 The Phyllis Chesler Organization Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:06:25 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss The Phyllis Chesler Organization :: Writings http://www.phyllis-chesler.com webmaster@phyllis-chesler.com (The Phyllis Chesler Organization) webmaster@phyllis-chesler.com en-us http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/710/israeli-solders-face-another-kind-of-war Tue, 9 Mar 2010 09:00:00 EST As I write this, the forces of darkness are gathering to battle the forces of light. It's happening two miles away from where I'm sitting, right here in Old New Yawk. The Waldorf-Astoria has hosted debutante balls, grand parties, weddings, crowned heads http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/709/international-womens-history-month-clinton-iran Mon, 8 Mar 2010 09:00:00 EST Madame Secretary Clinton: Where are you on this? For that matter: Christiane Amanpour, your father is Iranian, you grew up in Tehran, you are proudly "ethnic" — where are you on this? How are either of you working to free the women prisoners of Tehran? http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/708/the-goddess-that-failed Fri, 5 Mar 2010 09:00:00 EST For years now, newly arrived refugees have been contacting me. They write to tell me that they've lost nearly everybody they once knew. Their whole world is gone now. Some whisper over the phone. Others write long letters. They ask me how I've managed. I http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/706/artists-against-hatred-confronting-genocide-middle-east Wed, 3 Mar 2010 09:00:00 EST Everywhere I turn—or so it seems–attacks on Israel and Israelis are in process. The other day, after a long day of writing, I idly, instinctively channel surfed—and there was the infamous Christiane Amanpour grilling Israeli Foreign Minister Ehud Barak. http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/705/feminist-hawk-in-the-big-city Mon, 1 Mar 2010 09:00:00 EST As earthquakes, tsunamis, snowstorms, mudslides, and jihad devastate our planet, I sit here reading and writing. My arrows are words, mere words, but as they say, "the pen is mightier than the sword." Trite, but true. Today, after a hellish week of http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/703/islamic-apartheid-month Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:00:00 EST Guess who's coming to California State University at Sacramento? None other than CAIR– only this time they're pairing Japanese American students with Muslim American students for a three hour workshop: "Voices Unite in Solidarity; Japanese American http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/701/presbyterians-jewish-holiday-purim Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:00:00 EST The Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUSA) is about to release a report which denounces Israel as a "racist" nation which has absolutely no historical, covenantal, or theological right to the Holy Land. The report calls for the United States to http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/700/christian-americans-forbidden-to-kill-muslim-murderer Sat, 20 Feb 2010 09:00:00 EST Remember the case in which Faleh al-Maleki, an Iraqi-American father brutally ran over his daughter, Noor, in Arizona, then attempted to escape but was apprehended in Britain and returned to face justice? Guess what's just happened? The Arizona http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/699/american-muslim-hero-ali-alyami Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:00:00 EST Dr. Ali Alyami is a man after my own heart. He is a Saudi reformer who is based in Washington, D.C. and the founding director of the Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia. Listen to what Dr. Alyami just told me: "Democratizing Saudi http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/698/mothers-in-law-not-a-laughing-matter Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:00:00 EST Yesterday I wrote about Nujood Ali, the ten-year-old girl who demanded and received a landmark divorce from her husband–a man three times older than his young bride, a man who raped and battered her day after day and night after night. This all took http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/697/heroic-muslim-girls-and-women Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:00:00 EST By now, we have all heard about Nujood Ali, the incredibly heroic ten year girl in Yemen who fled her abusive husband and demanded a divorce. This act was the first of its kind in a country where girls as young as eight are given away in marriage. We http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/696/i-do-not-like-whats-happening-do-you Sun, 14 Feb 2010 09:00:00 EST I do not like what is happening. When I said this nearly a decade ago, I was a voice crying out in the wilderness. Today, although many more people are "crying out," our voices have not yet changed the course of certain historical events. Pune, 125 miles http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/695/france-women-equality Tue, 9 Feb 2010 09:00:00 EST There was a time, not long ago, when I viewed the French as arrogant Arab-lovers whose leaders chose to protect Yasir Arafat's wealth and reputation, a people which sought to expunge their record as brutal colonizers and to continue their work as http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/694/american-captured-in-iraq Sun, 7 Feb 2010 09:00:00 EST Western civilians–a journalist (Daniel Pearl), a businessman (Nicholas Berg), a civil engineer (Kenneth Bigley), and an aid worker (Margaret Hassan)–have been captured, beheaded, and shot in Pakistan and Iraq. Western troops have also been captured, http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/693/buried-alive-in-turkey-and-under-the-burqa Sat, 6 Feb 2010 09:00:00 EST In Turkey — a country which was nearly accepted as a member by the European Union — a father and grandfather recently buried Medine Memi, a sixteen-year-old girl, alive — and all because she was seen talking to boys. Medine was repeatedly beaten. She ran