Kurdistan diary, the multi-front war: July 2016
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN In Mid-July I travelled to the Kurdistan Regional Government area of northern Iraq to cover the war on Islamic State and to look at other themes […]
Monthly Archives: July 2016
Zionism’s catch-22: European and Middle Eastern
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN “Despite what many in the secular-European camp feel, it’s not the end of the world…this is the era of the Sephardim and the religious,” wrote Ravit […]
The ISIS excuse factory
On July 23 ISIS murderers killed 80 people and wounded more than 200 in an attack on a Shia Hazara protest in Afghanistan. If you read major media accounts of […]
Dear Haaretz, the 1950s called and they want their opeds back
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN “There is a huge Ashkenazi majority and a small Mizrahi minority. Before the Holocaust there were 16.5 million Jews in the world, only a million of […]
An Israeli film critic’s rant and the legacy of 1950s Israeli racism
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On July 9 an Israeli film critic named Gidi Oshrer wrote on Facebook: “To all the Zubaidas and Khalils, the Shasnikim [Shas political party] and eastern […]
If KKK terrorism had been explained and reported the way terrorism is reported today:
– The KKK is seeking to drive a wedge between white people and black people – All this crazy violence has a goal and that is to create a backlash […]
People made fun of Museveni’s Entebbe speech for no reason
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni was once considered a dynamic new and relatively young leader in Africa when he came to power in 1996. He had been […]
Mario Vargas Llosa finds the “righteous Israelis”: Rich, white, privileged
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN “There is an uninterrupted tradition of Jewish history throughout the millennia that is one of justice and righteousness.” So writes Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian writer […]
The politics of the Armenian genocide in Israel
istBy SETH J. FRANTZMAN “Israel is one of the only democratic countries in the world, if not the only one, to deny the genocide and support Turkey’s stubborn policy of […]
Mass ethnic-cleansing of Jews is the 20th century’s real legacy
By Seth J. Frantzman It always strikes me when someone mentions the Jewish history of a place while traveling or in books or discussions of their family history. It almost […]
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