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 […]
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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 […]
Hypocrisy: If Haneen Zoabi just changed her name to Yeshayahu she’d get an Israel Prize
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN “Israelis are Judeo-Nazis” – Man who said it wins Israel Prize. “Turkish activists were murdered [by Israeli soldiers]” – Woman who said it is called […]
EU politicians who are so tough talking after Brexit, where were you before?
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Jean-Claude Juncker was smirking and talking tough at the European Parliament in response to the British referendum to leave the EU. The usually humorless Juncker, who […]
Yes, Saviona Mane, there is racism in Israel and its disgusting
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN I used to joke that it’s not tuesday in the Israeli press unless there is something racist. There was a point where I started clipping out […]
A borderless world of wealth and white privilege
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN A friend and I were walking home after a night of discussions and he told me about a student he had who had tried to convince […]
Ins and outs of Brexit and the fall of the EU
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN “Democracy is like giving a bad person a gun,” writer Peter Schwartzstein said an Egyptian general told him yesterday. Surely some in the UK and EU […]
Victimhood in Israeli politics
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN I did an interview about why Israel’s traditional left and right parties have declined and there is a large mass of voters who always choose centrist […]
Seth J. Frantzman - author - analyst 