Is Ferguson about class or culture?
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Time Magazine has come out with a headline claiming that race-class war is coming to America and Ferguson is the first stirrings of it. At the […]
Monthly Archives: August 2014
The shame of Yeshayahu Leibowitz’s intellectual laziness
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Israel’s left is celebrating as a street named for philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz has been unveiled in Jerusalem. Haaretz is waxing poetic. They note “Leibowitz was a […]
Motivated to Serve: The Palestine Red Crescent Society
Originally published in The Jerusalem Post By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On one side of a giant parking lot are hundreds of garbage bags, neatly stacked against an earthen embankment. Across […]
Nasrallah’s dangerous game
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN ‘The sense of danger is growing and the popular sentiment is more accepting our fight against the militants [who stoke] Islamic division.” Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of […]
So “pro-Israel”, it hurts…
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On August 14th the Daily Mail tabloid in the UK ran an “expose” on an Israeli “reservist” with a shirt that claimed he had “deployed, destroyed and […]
Are journalists in Gaza harassed by Hamas? A few questions
There is a narrative forming that journalists in Gaza covered up for Hamas, purposely avoided seeing Hamas fighters and rocket launches and that they did this because they were harassed. […]
A short history of the Islamic ‘black flag’ in Jerusalem
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN An article at Times of Israel claims to have spotted the ISIS flag in Jerusalem. “Shopkeeper in Jerusalem’s Old City was seen flying the banner of the Islamic […]
Why defining anti-Zionism as anti-semitism doesn’t help combat either
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On August 9th popular pro-Israel Twitter user Avi Mayer noted that “Anti-Zionism…is always, without exception anti-Semitic.” The next day Emanuele Ottolenghi, the Leone Ginzburg Fellow in […]
Civilian casualties in Gaza: Things to consider
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN [Updated August 10] The recent ‘Third Gaza war‘ or ‘Operation Protective Edge has raised ire and protest around the world; some countries withdrew ambassadors from Israel, […]
Thoughts on Israel’s invention of an Ashkenazi identity
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On July 26 an Israeli professor posted a tweet about a protest he had attended. He claimed that it was divided between two groups: Ashkenazi and Sephardi. […]
