Palestinians and Israelis both conspire to strangle Rawabi
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN I’ve been a frequent visitor to Rawabi and tried to keep track of developments there. Rawabi always seemed like a path-breaking unique idea to do something […]
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Aliyah “nightmare” or just learning about Israel’s reality
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN A heart-wrenching blog post by Jay Engelmayer is making the rounds on English-language social media. In it he describes how his family’s “aliyah dream turned into […]
Why would Israel’s Ya’alon say he “prefers ISIS”?
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN “Israel defense minister says he prefers Daesh to Iran in Syria,” proclaimed Iran’s pro-regime PressTV. That sounds pretty bad. Other headlines were more nuanced. RT said […]
Why is Amnesty International blaming Kurds and excusing ISIS crimes?
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN “Kurdish forces destroyed Arab homes” in Iraq, blared the headlines. They were acting on cue from the organization Amnesty International, which like Human Rights Watch, places […]
Ambassador Shapiro was right about Israeli laws in WB
Notes from a Facebook post I wrote: By SETH J. FRANTZMAN “At times there seems to be two standards of adherence to the rule of law, one for Israelis, and […]
Socialism, nepotism and art as public good
Here’s a conundrum. Why is culture, and institutions and politics, in socialist societies so nepotistic and elitist? I saw a statement in the Independent about the passing of David Bowie […]
Kurdistan articles December 2015
In December of 2015 I went back to Iraqi Kurdistan, the Kurdistan Regional Government. After a drive to Kirkuk I interviewed the police commander Sarhad Qadir and went to the […]
Litmus test for the Israeli “liberal”
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Readers of Israel’s newspaper that is widely read among the feudal old elite were treated to another column on December 30 complaining about the persecution and […]
The problem with the SWC’s “top 10 anti-semitic/anti-Israel” incidents of 2015
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN So the Simon Wiesenthal Center has ranked the “top 10 anti-semitic and anti-Israel” incidents of 2015. It’s convenient to fully entangle and mix these two issues, […]
Revealed: John Kerry’s Assad fantasy
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN A new article in The New Yorker by David Remnick has revealed that John Kerry was taken in by an Assad “peace” deal fantasy in 2010, […]
Seth J. Frantzman - author - analyst 