By SETH J. FRANTZMAN An article on February 17, 2019 in Israel’s Haaretz had a provocative headline “Yemen’s War Is a Mercenary Heaven. Are Israelis Reaping the Profits?” Explosive details were contained […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Recently the publisher of an Israeli newspaper was accused of racism on Twitter. Responding to criticism of a supplement, the publisher had written back “you’re insolent. […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Nigel Farage, former head of UKIP, is accused of suggesting “Jews control America” on his October 31 radio show at LBC. When I read the headlines […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN As the sun was setting over southern Syria on Friday, the Associated Press reported that its sources say a ceasefire in southwest Syria is in the […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN “Was cultural life in Nazi Germany as undimensional and controlled as we have been thought to believe,” asks the sub-head of a review by Oded […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN I used to joke that it’s not tuesday in the Israeli press unless there is something racist. There was a point where I started clipping out […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN What percent of those in Israel today expressing feigned outrage at the report on Reshet B’ radio that hospitals often put Jews and Arabs in separate […]
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 […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Last week when Ethiopian Jewish protests broke out in Jerusalem on Thursday, every major newspaper covered the events on the front page of their Friday edition, […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN The Guardian’s Jonathan Freedland has penned an article complaining that Israelis won’t take up the chance to give Netanyahu the boot, a decision he thinks, paternalistically, they […]
Seth J. Frantzman - author - analyst 