Middle East Jewish history: The Kurdistan exception
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Why isn’t the media telling the story of Kurdistan’s openness to Jewish history and people? For years and years Israelis and Jews complained about the rampant […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Why isn’t the media telling the story of Kurdistan’s openness to Jewish history and people? For years and years Israelis and Jews complained about the rampant […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN I’m not one of those people who buys into the “media hates Israel” exaggeration usually. But sometimes an error is so egregious that it seems it […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN For the last six months or so there has been a scavenger hunt in Israel to track down the mysterious kibbutz that Bernie Sanders was supposed […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN ***UPDATE: The original post has been altered and this blog has been altered to reflect that*** The statements stuck out: “She was completely unfamiliar with how […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Peter Beinart, the slavish devotee of Barack Obama, is already shedding tears for his leaving office. In an article about how he’ll “miss Obama” because of […]
What Israel’s hyper-critical “left” fears the most, that people might listen to them By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Israeli society is constantly lurching from one culture war to another, a point […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Last week the readers of an Israeli newspaper were once again treated to the “resistance” narrative. Gideon Levy claimed “The dozens of Palestinian male and female […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN It’s amazing the audacity and chutzpah that Eichmann who organized the mass murder of millions, who personally oversaw the mass deportation of hundreds of thousands to […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Notice the people who talk about micro-aggressions and suffering them a lot and needing a “safe space”, tend to be the most aggressive people? The more […]
A declaration thrice violated: The shadow and legacy of the Balfour declaration By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Benjamin Netanyahu was in Washington recently to meet US President Barack Obama. As usual […]