Why notions of justice fail victims
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN It’s amazing the audacity and chutzpah that Eichmann who organized the mass murder of millions, who personally oversaw the mass deportation of hundreds of thousands to […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN It’s amazing the audacity and chutzpah that Eichmann who organized the mass murder of millions, who personally oversaw the mass deportation of hundreds of thousands to […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Notice the people who talk about micro-aggressions and suffering them a lot and needing a “safe space”, tend to be the most aggressive people? The more […]
A declaration thrice violated: The shadow and legacy of the Balfour declaration By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Benjamin Netanyahu was in Washington recently to meet US President Barack Obama. As usual […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN I’ve been a frequent visitor to Rawabi and tried to keep track of developments there. Rawabi always seemed like a path-breaking unique idea to do something […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN A heart-wrenching blog post by Jay Engelmayer is making the rounds on English-language social media. In it he describes how his family’s “aliyah dream turned into […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN “Israel defense minister says he prefers Daesh to Iran in Syria,” proclaimed Iran’s pro-regime PressTV. That sounds pretty bad. Other headlines were more nuanced. RT said […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN “Kurdish forces destroyed Arab homes” in Iraq, blared the headlines. They were acting on cue from the organization Amnesty International, which like Human Rights Watch, places […]
Notes from a Facebook post I wrote: By SETH J. FRANTZMAN “At times there seems to be two standards of adherence to the rule of law, one for Israelis, and […]
Here’s a conundrum. Why is culture, and institutions and politics, in socialist societies so nepotistic and elitist? I saw a statement in the Independent about the passing of David Bowie […]
In December of 2015 I went back to Iraqi Kurdistan, the Kurdistan Regional Government. After a drive to Kirkuk I interviewed the police commander Sarhad Qadir and went to the […]