My brief online silence explained

By Phyllis Chesler

Worry not dear reader–my brief silence only means that I am working on some new projects. I realized that my online writing could be lost for all time if I did not publish them as volumes of my Selected Works. I may have far more than 1,000 pages that address Israel, Antisemitism-Antizionism, and Judaism; Women’s Situation Globally and the Demise of Western Feminism;  Culture, (film, book, and opera reviews), Campus and Media Bias; The Psychology of Terrorism; and perhaps, maybe, efsha, my Devrai Torah from 1994-2021.

And then–it hit me like the proverbial thunderclap. With so many dear friends dying around me, I was forced to concede that I, too, might not live forever–and I’m sitting on a huge amount of influential, even prescient work. It has to live on beyond me.  Publishing online often means that the site may drop the piece or go out of business. For this reason I have tried to post many of my articles at my own website.

As I began reviewing my work, even I was astounded at how many themes I had covered very early on. For the moment, I am not including my writings from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s but am focusing only on the last thirty five years.  In the 1990s, I  published one of the earliest articles about rape as a war crime. Then, between writing and publishing ten books, (2002-2020),  I covered a multitude of other subjects: The war against the Jews and against the West, the nature of propaganda, a dangerously poisoned curriculum, the rise of cancel culture, disinvitations and purges, riots on campus, real genocides, gender cleansing, women living under Sharia law, honor killings or femicide–just on and on. After 10/7, I was a cognitive warrior on fire and seem to have written about 30-35 articles about what this atrocity (or pogrom on steroids) has come to mean, delivered some lectures on the subject, and did about ten media interviews.

I also completed a new book. I’m not talking about it yet but it will surprise, even shock you.

Happy Fourth of July to all the Americans reading this.