Hamas, ISIS and the places in between
On August 22nd the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office uploaded a photo of the James Foley beheading with a claim that “Hamas is ISIS, ISIS is Hamas.” Although it was shared […]
How tolerant is “secular Israel” of intermarriage?
Secular Israel, not quite as tolerant as it’s commentators pretend? For years secular Jewish Israelis on the left have painted themselves as models of tolerance, a “little Europe” in the […]
Israel’s self-centered policy critics
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Israeli commentator Aeyal Gross writes that “at any given moment Netanyahu could and should have switched to the diplomatic track and called for beginning immediate negotiations […]
Is Ferguson about class or culture?
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Time Magazine has come out with a headline claiming that race-class war is coming to America and Ferguson is the first stirrings of it. At the […]
The shame of Yeshayahu Leibowitz’s intellectual laziness
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Israel’s left is celebrating as a street named for philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz has been unveiled in Jerusalem. Haaretz is waxing poetic. They note “Leibowitz was a […]
Motivated to Serve: The Palestine Red Crescent Society
Originally published in The Jerusalem Post By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On one side of a giant parking lot are hundreds of garbage bags, neatly stacked against an earthen embankment. Across […]
Nasrallah’s dangerous game
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN ‘The sense of danger is growing and the popular sentiment is more accepting our fight against the militants [who stoke] Islamic division.” Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of […]
So “pro-Israel”, it hurts…
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On August 14th the Daily Mail tabloid in the UK ran an “expose” on an Israeli “reservist” with a shirt that claimed he had “deployed, destroyed and […]
Are journalists in Gaza harassed by Hamas? A few questions
There is a narrative forming that journalists in Gaza covered up for Hamas, purposely avoided seeing Hamas fighters and rocket launches and that they did this because they were harassed. […]
A short history of the Islamic ‘black flag’ in Jerusalem
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN An article at Times of Israel claims to have spotted the ISIS flag in Jerusalem. “Shopkeeper in Jerusalem’s Old City was seen flying the banner of the Islamic […]
Seth J. Frantzman - author - analyst 