Journalism, privilege, and victim narratives
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN A lot of people have read Jared Yates Sexton’s tweets about getting death threats after he outed a Reddit user who made a gif about Trump […]
Tag Archives: Minorities
Why I stopped writing about the Bedouin in Israel
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Every once in a while I get asked by someone about Bedouin land rights in Israel or the West Bank. Usually it relates to one of […]
Background and strategy of Kurdish Peshmerga operation to take 11 villages near Khazir-Gwer
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN In the early hours of August 14th Kurdish Peshmerga forces launched an offensive on the Khazir and Gwer fronts aimed at liberating 11 villages from Islamic […]
The Israeli Druze in the shadow of terror and Syria war
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN in The Jerusalem Post At the military cemetery in Beit Jann is a monument that rises out of a concrete hole in the ground. It has […]
Is Ferguson about class or culture?
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Time Magazine has come out with a headline claiming that race-class war is coming to America and Ferguson is the first stirrings of it. At the […]
A communal state of denial
Ramle (Photo: WikiCommons) By SETH J. FRANTZMAN, Published in The Jerusalem Post On January 20, sometime after nightfall a pretty, dark-haired, 19-year-old woman arrived at the Central Bus Station in […]
Seth J. Frantzman - author - analyst 