Is this the most sexist mainstream media article ever written
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN I was reading up on the history of Benghazi and the killing of US Ambassador Christopher Stevens after watching the film ’13 hours: The secret soldiers […]
Monthly Archives: May 2016
Is there a plague of sexual harassment in Israel?
“If they couldn’t fight against it, how can I?” a woman asked as she watched a recent special on channel 2 highlighting female Knesset members who were sexually harassed. It […]
The question no one ever asks about anti-semitism
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN You were shocked to find out Zakia Belkhiri, the “selfie-stick” girl who “poked fun at racism” turned out to be an anti-semite? The media was certainly […]
The bizarro reason some on the Israeli “left” embrace a military coup
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On May 10 Zvi Barel wrote a column in the Israeli daily Haaretz about “the first Jewish military coup.” He asserted: “When the values promoted by the Netanyahu […]
To all the racist scum who always excuse swastikas
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN It’s a standard reply whenever you post about swastika graffiti. “That’s not a symbol of hate. It has pre-nazi origins. It’s not anti-semitic. It’s not anti-Jewish.” […]
White privilege and the French protester who hit a journalist
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Remember the migrants and refugees who slapped a female journalist while she was filming live? Remember the black-clad Islamic extremists who hit a woman live on […]
What happens if BBC reports on other countries as it does Israel?
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN I was fascinated to read an article on the BBC about allegations of Turkish human rights violations on civilians in Turkey. In some ways the Turkish […]
Trump’s false purposeful ‘stupidity’ fooled everyone
For everyone out there and the politicians who think that calling Donald Trump “stupid” and “ignorant” is going to defeat him in this election, you seem not to be paying […]
Euro-supremacism, Trump and the American scapegoat
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN “Americans are delusional, prudish religious nuts, especially when compared to the rest of the world,” was the headline of an article at Rawstory.com. The author then […]
How NOT to write an article about Palestine
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN I get it. You’re an aspiring journalism, or maybe even a veteran, and you’ve decided that it would be good to cover Palestinians. You’ve never really […]
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