By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Israel’s government is once again lurching from crises to crises over a deal gone wrong regarding egalitarian and pluralistic prayer at the Western Wall or Kotel. […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN A professor in the US, who is white, wrote on her Facebook that Otto Warmbier “got exactly what he deserved. She claimed he had the “typical […]
By Seth J. Frantzman The new Netflix war film War Machine is based on a book by Michael Hastings, the author whose expose brought down General Stanley McChrystal. The opening scenes of […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN For years members of the public flying to and from Israel were subjected to harassment by a small number of extreme religious Jewish men. These men […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN There is a lot of talk about “white privilege,” primarily in the United States but also in some other academic and intellectual circles. Often these conversations […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN I’ve always avoided “peace” and “coexistence” groups because I think by their very nature they tend to be unbalanced and predicated on problematic concepts. Most of […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Nadia Murad returned to the Yazidi village of Kocho on Thursday, June 1. The video (below) shows her exploring the village, it is harrowing, shocking, as […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN “US has started shipping weapons to Syrian Kurdish fighters,” reports read on May 30th. The weapons are destined for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) which are […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Just after noon on May 29th the Hashd al-Shaabi, or Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), a mostly Shia group of militias that have been officially part of […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Why wasn’t Salman Abedi stopped before the Manchester bombing? Many are asking this question and have pointed out he was a “known wolf.” People who he […]
