Touring South Africa: Game Lodges, history and fun
Southern comforts among the wildlife and history By SETH J. FRANTZMAN In The Jerusalem Post 08/18/2013 00:04 Lions roam in the Nambiti Private Game Reserve. Photo: Seth J. Frantzman CAPE TOWN – […]
Do prisoner swaps violate the social contract?
Prisoner release and the social contract By SETH J. FRANTZMAN 08/13/2013 22:54 Hundreds gather to protest impending release of Palestinian prisoners in TA, August 12, 2013. Photo: Ben Hartman What would western […]
Southern comforts among the wildlife and history
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Originally published in The Jerusalem Post The waterfront at Cape Town is a reminder of some of the many contrasts in South Africa. Only two dozen […]
Prisoner release and the social contract
BY SETH J. FRANTZMAN Originally published in The Jerusalem Post What would western civilization be like if its military heroes were not Winston Churchill and George Patton, but rather an […]
Free speech in Israel
Bad justice, free speech in Israel By SETH J. FRANTZMAN 09/15/2013 21:37 One of best scenes in the film The People vs. Larry Flintoccurs when Alan Isaacman gives oral testimony before the […]
Israel police ignore Arab villages
The preventable murder of Zahira Jijini and her daughters By SETH J. FRANTZMAN 09/10/2013 21:30 The death of 15-year-old Amana Najar was relegated to a “news in brief” section of one […]
Why Helen Thomas mattered
Helen Thomas’ lost teaching moment By SETH J. FRANTZMAN 07/23/2013 22:17 Helen Thomas, the intrepid and longserving White House correspondent passed away earlier this week. She was eulogized as a “trailblazing” […]
New Karl Marx book
Marx in context 07/20/2013 06:53 By SETH J. FRANTZMAN In The Jerusalem Post Magazine In 1850 the revolutionary intellectual Karl Marx and his collaborator Friedrich Engels found themselves poor and in exile […]
Are the humanities declining?
Decline of the humanities: Don’t believe it By SETH J. FRANTZMAN THE SORBONNE in Paris Photo: Seth J. Frantzman Anyone who keeps up on the happenings in higher education will eventually come […]
Why Palestine’s Rawabi matters
Rawabi and Israel’s failed socialist legacy By SETH J. FRANTZMAN 07/30/2013 22:51 (Planned Palestinian city called Rawabi in the West Bank. Photo: Seth J. Frantzman) The Israelis nod incredulously. Some are flabbergasted […]
Seth J. Frantzman - author - analyst 