The politics of refusing Israel’s draft
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On Friday September 12th the issue of Israel Defense Forces soldiers refusing to carry out their duties raised its head again when it was reported that […]
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When ‘Romeo and Juliet’ are Reuven and Jamila
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Originally published in The Jerusalem Post Magazine, August 28 The war in Gaza has been hard for Hala K., a Muslim from Nazareth, and her Jewish […]
Will there be new housing for Arab residents in Jerusalem?
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN A decision on September 3, 2014, by the Jerusalem Municipality’s Planning and Construction Committee to approve a plan to build 2,200 housing units and around 340 […]
The tragedy of the Israeli left in three different vignettes
Textual analysis can provide insights into documents from history. Some documents serve as symbols of a generation’s views and some are representative of a larger thought pattern. Let’s shed our […]
Psagot wines are rooted in Jewish history
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Yaakov Berg tells a story about the Baron Edmund de Rothschild. Rothschild invested massively in wine production in Europe and also in Ottoman Palestine in the […]
They ran Israel, now they hate it?
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN If you watched a documentary about America during the Cold War and the people who ran the Vietnam war came on one at a time and […]
How tolerant is “secular Israel” of intermarriage?
Secular Israel, not quite as tolerant as it’s commentators pretend? For years secular Jewish Israelis on the left have painted themselves as models of tolerance, a “little Europe” in the […]
Israel’s self-centered policy critics
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Israeli commentator Aeyal Gross writes that “at any given moment Netanyahu could and should have switched to the diplomatic track and called for beginning immediate negotiations […]
Nasrallah’s dangerous game
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN ‘The sense of danger is growing and the popular sentiment is more accepting our fight against the militants [who stoke] Islamic division.” Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of […]
So “pro-Israel”, it hurts…
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On August 14th the Daily Mail tabloid in the UK ran an “expose” on an Israeli “reservist” with a shirt that claimed he had “deployed, destroyed and […]
Seth J. Frantzman - author - analyst 