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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
– 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]