By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Have you ever noticed that countries considered Western are always said to have “right-left” politics, but countries considered non-Western often don’t have a “right”, because the […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN The media in Israel have found a video of Knesset member Haneen Zoabi speaking in Amsterdam, and the outrage has been quick to form. She is […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN When Bill Clinton came to Tel Aviv on Saturday night he hit home the usual talking points about the need for peace and two states. This didn’t […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN There was an interesting oped at the Yale Herald on Nov. 6 that seems to have been subsequently removed. Entitled ‘hurt at home’ it was about […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN The charlatanism of India’s fake “secular” elites who pretend they are for free speech must be questioned. The celebrated Indian writer Arundhati Roy has returned some […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN 9/20/2015 This is part of an ongoing series of articles on Syria: September, 2009 The American hikers held in Iran October 25, 2011, Ambassador Ford’s heroic […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN An interesting article at The Washington Post looks at whether the Bernie Sanders allegory of America being like Denmark has drawbacks. Over the years we’ve always […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Over the last years there has been increasing media attention to small groups of Jews who ascend to the Temple Mount area and seek to show […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN “IDF paramedics treating Palestinian after he tried to stab a Border policeman,” tweeted the IDF spokesman recently. An article on another incident claimed the IDF was […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN For more than a year Turkey’s ruling President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been looking to re-write the country’s constitution and cement the AKP’s grip on power. […]
Seth J. Frantzman - author - analyst 