On the 6th anniversary of the ISIS genocide of Yazidis: A personal look back
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN My first memories of ISIS crimes were in the summer of 2014 when the group first began to flood social media of images of mass murder. […]
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From Syria’s Suwayda massacre to Israel’s ‘Nation-State’ law: The Druze between rocks and hard places
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN The last week of July and first days of August were momentous and difficult for Druze in Syria and Israel. On July 25 ISIS members attacks […]
Prelude to genocide: Remembering the days before August 2014 and the Yazidi genocide
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN JERUSALEM, JUNE 2014 – In June 2014 ISIS attacked Camp Speicher in Iraq. The group captured more than 1,000 mostly Shi’ite cadets and systematically murdered them. […]
We need to talk about #MeToo and ISIS crimes against Yazidis
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Lamiya Aji Bashar, the Yazidi human rights activist, recently spoke at the World Youth Forum in Sharm el-Sheikh. Her story, like so many others, is difficult […]
Trump didn’t visit Warsaw Ghetto, BUT past presidents who did visit DID NOT learn its lessons
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN In a recent column Frank Bruni writes “Donald Trump has established a pattern of offending — or at the very least ignoring — Jews. The most […]
Western media’s prurient accounts of ISIS genocide of Yazidis dehumanizes them
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Did you see the latest headline about the woman tricked into eating her own child by ISIS. It reads like something out of the play Titus Andronicus. […]
Nadia Murad returns to Kocho: ISIS genocide, trauma and world’s failure
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Nadia Murad returned to the Yazidi village of Kocho on Thursday, June 1. The video (below) shows her exploring the village, it is harrowing, shocking, as […]
When people say “instability in Middle East” it is a form of Orientalism and neo-colonialism
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN At the recent J Street conference Bernie Sanders said that the Iraq war “created a cascade of instability around the region that we are still dealing […]
What can you do to stop Islamist extremism? Not much, because you don’t understand the problem
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN “We can all sigh a breath of relief and sleep better knowing British Muslims are more likely to be harbouring aspirations for their children to continue in […]
Photo essay: Inside a Kakei village liberated from ISIS by peshmerga
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN In May of 2016 more than 5,000 Peshmerga, including Zerevani special forces, liberated nine Kakei and Shabak villages that lie near the Great Zab and Khazir […]
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