{"id":747,"date":"2007-08-16T22:12:21","date_gmt":"2007-08-17T05:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=747"},"modified":"2007-12-08T15:04:06","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T21:52:06","slug":"breaking-ranks-an-interview-with-phyllis-chesler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=747","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Ranks &#8211; An Interview With Phyllis Chesler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishpress.com\/page.do\/23249\/Breaking_Ranks_%2D_An_Interview_With_Phyllis_Chesler.html\">Fern Sidman writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Phyllis Chesler, a nice Jewish girl from Boro Park who in the 1960&rsquo;s and 70&rsquo;s gained fame both as a prominent voice of the feminist movement and an internationally renowned left-wing ideologue, broke ranks with the Left several years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The unwillingness of leftists to make unequivocal distinctions between Western democracy and jihadist imperialism; the refusal of feminists to condemn the hideous treatment of women in Third World and Muslim nations; and the appalling hatred of Israel that had come to infect vast precincts of the academic and activist Left &ndash; all these played a role in Dr. Chesler&rsquo;s ideological shift.<\/p>\n<p>The author of thirteen books and numerous articles for a wide variety of publications (The Jewish Press has published nearly 40 of her columns over the past few years), Dr. Chesler is an Emerita professor of Psychology and Women&rsquo;s Studies at City University of New York; has lectured and organized political, legal, religious and human rights campaigns in the U.S., Canada, Europe, the Middle East and the Far East; and has appeared on network and local radio and television programs all over North America and Europe.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fern Sidman writes: Phyllis Chesler, a nice Jewish girl from Boro Park who in the 1960&rsquo;s and 70&rsquo;s gained fame both as a prominent voice of the feminist movement and an internationally renowned left-wing ideologue, broke ranks with the Left &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=747\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-jewish-week"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}