Phyllis Chesler

Phyllis Chesler, Ph.D, is an Emerita Professor of Psychology and Women s Studies. She is the author of seventeen books, including the 20th century landmark feminist classics Women and Madness (1972); Mothers on Trial: The Battle for Children and Custody (1986); and Sacred Bond: The Legacy of Baby M (1988). Her 21st century work includes The New Anti-Semitism (2003), The Death of Feminism (2005) and An American Bride in Kabul (2013), which won a National Jewish Book Award, and, in 2016, Living History: On the Front Lines for Israel and the Jews 2003-2015. Her work has been translated into many European languages and into Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Hebrew. Dr. Chesler is a co-founder of the Association for Women in Psychology (1969) and The National Women's Health Network (1974). She is a Shillman-Ginsburg Fellow at The Middle East Forum, a fellow at the Institute for the Study of Global Anti-Semitism and Policy (ISGAP), and a founding member of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME), and currently a member of SPME s Council of Scholars. Since the Intifada of 2000, Dr. Chesler has focused on anti-Semitism and the demonization of Israel; the psychology of terrorism; the nature of propaganda and the importance of the cognitive war against fact and reason; honor-based violence and the rights of women, dissidents, and gays in the Islamic world. Dr. Chesler has published four studies about honor killings, and penned a position paper on why the West should ban the burqa; these studies have all appeared in Middle East Quarterly. She has testified for Muslim and ex-Muslim women who are seeking asylum or citizenship based on their credible belief that their families will honor kill them. She has archived most of her articles at her website: phyllischesler.com. She has published widely over the years in the mainstream media (NY Times, LA Times, Washington Post, Times of London, London Guardian, Globe and Mail, Huffington Post, Jerusalem Post, etc.), as well as at FOX, Middle East Quarterly, New York Post, Israel National News, FrontpageMag.com, PJ Media, Breitbart.com, Times of Israel, etc.