Phyllis Chesler

Why are these women also flying Palestine flags and wearing keffiyehs? Who is paying them to do this? Or are they actually stupid enough to do this pro bono?

For that matter, why are so many young women in NYC so dressed up as they line up to catch a glimpse of their heartthrob, killer Luigi Mangione, who is on trial for murdering an insurance company executive?

Might as well ask: Why do women write to male serial killers who have killed women? And why do they marry them as well? I once joked that they do so because they have delusions of omnipotence–that they alone can tame the savage beast, but there’s more. They can always be sure where “their” man is; there can be no other woman with him; and, most of all, these brides do not have to cook, do laundry, or clean up for these male killers who might actually appreciate their visits, including the conjugal visits.

What is wrong with this picture? Practically everything. And the real and radical feminist movement is nowhere in sight. We’ve been marginalized, disappeared, our most important ideas forgotten.

Oh yes: There are so many women in hijabs attacking pro-Israel activists, individual Jews, both Jewish students and teachers…I could go on. I have ideas about this but will share them a bit later.