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 […]
In 1888 Jerusalem was mostly Arab and Sephardi Jewish, stop pretending it’s something else
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Yesterday Benjy Balint posted a fascinating document on Facebook. It was an image of a survey by Ermete Pierotti, a former Captain in the Corps of […]
Tolerant Hitler: If the FBI “redacted” history like it did Orlando
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN In 1924 a KKK leader, grand dragon D. C. Stephenson gave a speech in Indiana. “We are going to Klux Indiana as she has never been Kluxed […]
US congressmen attack India on “religious freedom”, ignore countries with zero freedom
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On June 8th a bipartisan group of 18 US House of Representative members sent a note to speaker Paul Ryan “urging him to prioritize religious freedom […]
Seth J. Frantzman - author - analyst 