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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Seth J. Frantzman - author - analyst 