What happens if BBC reports on other countries as it does Israel?
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 […]
Trump’s false purposeful ‘stupidity’ fooled everyone
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 […]
Euro-supremacism, Trump and the American scapegoat
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 […]
How NOT to write an article about Palestine
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 […]
London’s new mayor commemorated the Holocaust, and people attacked him for it
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. […]
Why European movies concentrate on boring minutiae
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 […]
Frantzman on Senegal: Reporting in West Africa
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 […]
Dear British Labour, it’s not about suspending people but educating them
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Everyday brings a new anti-semitism scandal in the British Labour party. It began with Naz Shah, an MP from Bradford West who had tweeted that a […]
ISIS Jihadists are not “suppressed”, many love to murder
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Everyday there is misinformation about ISIS. Recently I read an NPR fawning piece about ISIS prisoners captured by the Kurds. “It can be hard to understand […]
No, Ken Livingston, Hitler wasn’t “mad” he was a calculating mass murderer
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN In Ken Livingston’s shocking recent interviews in which he downplayed Hitler’s anti-Jewish policies, most of the media has latched onto his argument that Hitler had contacts […]
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