By SETH J. FRANTZMAN “Kurdish forces destroyed Arab homes” in Iraq, blared the headlines. They were acting on cue from the organization Amnesty International, which like Human Rights Watch, places […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN For more than two years I’ve been following the development of Islamic State. Here is a look back at the central arguments, interviews, reports and predictions, […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN I went to Europe in August to learn about the refugee problem. Now we are seeing increasing hostility to refugees in Europe and America. The public […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN SInce ISIS burst on the scene in 2014, one of the things analysts have said made it different than many terrorists organizations was its interest in […]
Dear 64 nation coalition fighting ISIS, So supposedly you all are out there fighting ISIS? You’re flying missions, bombing Daesh, defeating the Jihadis. This has been going on for more […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN The last weeks have been momentous in terms of relations between the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad and the world. One by one leaders have lined […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN The responses to the recent Tunisian terror attack in European politics and media were emblematic of the inability of the West to grapple with or acknowledge […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN There is a brewing controversy over a cover story by The Atlantic. The major article by Graeme Wood is a slick piece of journalism by a slick […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN In early October the group Campus Reform released a video of Harvard students being asked, “What is a greater threat to world peace, America or Islamic […]
Wouldn’t be it be extraordinary if all the claims about the instability in the Middle East having their roots in Western meddling were true? By SETH J. FRANTZMAN In a […]
Seth J. Frantzman - author - analyst 