Laundering right wing nationalism as left wing in Israel
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN You’ve got to hand it to parts of Israel’s nostalgic Labor Zionist Left. It has the best of both worlds. It can be critical of the […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN You’ve got to hand it to parts of Israel’s nostalgic Labor Zionist Left. It has the best of both worlds. It can be critical of the […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN AFTER SIX years in office US President Barack Obama has finally admitted the nature of his obsession with Israel and it’s really not what anyone expected. […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN You’d think from the coverage of the “Vatican recognizes Palestine” news story that this was some major change in policy. Some articles have implied it was […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Tel Aviv University professor Anat Biletzki wrote in an oped on the New York Times website that, “The story of Israel is a sad story; and […]
WHERE do people come up with this? “For the moment, most of the American public seems free—solidly free—of the anti-Semitism that infects American universities. According to the most recent Gallup […]
There controversy over the PEN boycott mirrors the comments by cartoonist Garry Trudeau against Charlie Hebdo. Garry Trudeau claimed “By punching downward, by attacking a powerless, disenfranchised minority with crude, […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Last week when Ethiopian Jewish protests broke out in Jerusalem on Thursday, every major newspaper covered the events on the front page of their Friday edition, […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Just finished ‘Good Kill’, which had decent reviews, a well known lead actor and a director, Andrew Niccol, whose director/writer credits have conjured up some other […]
‘The police must take responsibility!’ Anti-racism protest in Jerusalem By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On April 30th a massive anti-racism demonstration brought parts of Jerusalem to a halt. More than 1,000, […]