We landed in Kabul and the airport official just smoothly took my American passport away.

And then I discovered that my father-in-law had three wives and 21 children.

Phyllis Chesler was born into a Jewish American family.

In 1961, at just 20 years old, she found herself stripped of her rights

as a new bride in Afghanistan. She escaped and became an outspoken critic of what

she describes as faux feminists in the West who remain silent about gender

discrimination in the Arab Muslim world and more recently the

October 7th victims of Hamas rape and torture.

She called me up one day and said, do you want to help rescue girls and women from Afghanistan and we did with no help from

the government. Israel is fighting the West's battle by itself for the kinds of

freedoms from tyranny that the West has been

standing for and is now not holding on to it too fast. This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Yanya Kelleck.

Phyllis Chesler, such a pleasure to have you on American Thought Leaders.

It's my pleasure to be here. Phyllis, tell me about

faux feminists. Well I'm a real feminist. A faux feminist is someone who has given up fighting for sex-based rights and is totally

invested in gender identities of all sorts and who has lost the plot in terms of women globally so that instead of supporting the Iranian women fighting for freedom and

dying for it or the Afghan women trapped under the rule of the Taliban,

or the Israeli women who would just massacred and raped and atrocities galore,

they don't take a position other than an abstract anti-racist, anti-colonial,

post-colonial, deconstructive position on reality.

And therefore, they help no one.

And they're not alone.

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