Middle East Jewish history: The Kurdistan exception
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Why isn’t the media telling the story of Kurdistan’s openness to Jewish history and people? For years and years Israelis and Jews complained about the rampant […]
Monthly Archives: February 2016
Does the ‘Guardian’ dislike Israel so much it kept it out of a health care article?
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN I’m not one of those people who buys into the “media hates Israel” exaggeration usually. But sometimes an error is so egregious that it seems it […]
What if Bernie Sanders’ “Kibbutz values” came to America?
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN For the last six months or so there has been a scavenger hunt in Israel to track down the mysterious kibbutz that Bernie Sanders was supposed […]
Beware! When Jewish activists stereotype Ethiopians in order to “help” them
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN ***UPDATE: The original post has been altered and this blog has been altered to reflect that*** The statements stuck out: “She was completely unfamiliar with how […]
The “Obama supported Palestine” myth
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Peter Beinart, the slavish devotee of Barack Obama, is already shedding tears for his leaving office. In an article about how he’ll “miss Obama” because of […]
What Israel’s hyper-critical “left” fears the most, that people might listen to them
What Israel’s hyper-critical “left” fears the most, that people might listen to them By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Israeli society is constantly lurching from one culture war to another, a point […]
Stop pretending terror attacks don’t target Jews
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Last week the readers of an Israeli newspaper were once again treated to the “resistance” narrative. Gideon Levy claimed “The dozens of Palestinian male and female […]
Seth J. Frantzman - author - analyst 