Orwellian term “moderates” must be replaced by “far right”
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN “Qaeda terrorists were hiding within the Islamist ranks, and I’m not saying it would have been easy sifting out the moderates from the messianic killers,” writes […]
When the police bombed Philly: Why do people write articles like this?
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN I’ve never heard of the “MOVE bombing,” but on May 13th and in the days that followed some people on Facebook posted about it. I didn’t […]
The Comey filter
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Sometimes media is like one of those songs that plays too much on the radio. Social media, such as Twitter and Facebook, magnify stories and scandals, […]
People who despise Palestinians should have to live like them
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN There are some people who have a healthy relationship with the Israel-Palestinian conflict. They just don’t care much about it. There are others who have an […]
Swedish gov’s obsession with Israel is the new anti-semitism
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Sweden’s foreign minister Margot Wallström welcomed the latest UNESCO resolution condemning Israel’s actions in Jerusalem and describing Israel as occupying Jerusalem. More than that, Sweden was a […]
5 reasons not to buy the “Israel Gulf states allies” narrative
By Seth J. Frantzman Over the last year or so a new narrative has emerged that Israel and the Gulf States, and Saudi Arabia, are now part of a new […]
Day 168: Chronicles of the battle for Mosul
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN ISIS is being defeated in Iraq. As Mosul falls to the Iraqi security forces after six months of conflict, many pieces are falling into place in […]
If media treated the KKK and Nazis the way they do Islamist and other terror groups
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN In recent weeks major western media outlets have given a platform to terror. A convicted terrorist got an oped without any mention of his crimes and […]
“Wild boar kill ISIS” clickbait story keeps growing
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN The “wild boar kill ISIS” story is the one that keeps on giving. It began as a simple story about some ISIS members who went out […]
Israel’s Eurocentrists saddened by rise of right in their EU utopia
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN For years anyone who read Israel’s press had to suffer under the finger-wagging eurosupremacists lecturing and hectoring about how Israel was becoming a fascist backward country, […]
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