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 […]
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.” […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN A day after getting elected, mayor of London Sadiq Khan went to an event commemorating the Holocaust. He wrote on Twitter: “At Yom HaShoah commemorations today. […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN I like France24 but sometimes that means suffering through its movie reviews. A recent one looked at the film ‘Baden, Baden’. The description itself tells the […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN In March of 2016 I went to Senegal to report on that country’s role in West Africa. A stable democracy, Senegal is a Muslim country with […]
Seth J. Frantzman - author - analyst 