Are Israeli media afraid of Arab voices?
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN I read an article recently about Haifa. It was interesting. The author looked at the city that is often held up as an exemplar of tolerance […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN I read an article recently about Haifa. It was interesting. The author looked at the city that is often held up as an exemplar of tolerance […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN There is a lot of talk about “white privilege,” primarily in the United States but also in some other academic and intellectual circles. Often these conversations […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Racist. Bigot. Ignorant. Sexist. Homophobic. Islamophobic. Angry. White. Men. If you’re going to insult people repeatedly, and you are running an election against them, you’d better […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN ‘Democracy is other people, and the ignorance of the many has long galled the few, especially the few who consider themselves intellectuals,’ writes Caleb Crain in The […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On July 9 an Israeli film critic named Gidi Oshrer wrote on Facebook: “To all the Zubaidas and Khalils, the Shasnikim [Shas political party] and eastern […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN One of the common refrains among the Israeli intellectual elites, who self-identify as “left” is that the “others” in Israeli society are racist. Shani Gershi wrote on […]