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 On July 9 an Israeli film critic named Gidi Oshrer wrote on Facebook: “To all the Zubaidas and Khalils, the Shasnikim [Shas political party] and eastern […]
How Israel’s poor minority was turned into “white racists” by Israel’s “left” in order to excuse it’s own racism By SETH J. FRANTZMAN After the recent Israeli elections the country’s […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN “The lack of engagement of North American Jews with Israel” is a problem, Rabbi Misha Zinkow at Temple Israel in Columbus, Ohio, told the New York […]
SETH J. FRANTZMAN Last Thursday night an overweight man tried to order a hamburger at a late night burger joint in Tel Aviv. He fumbled through his order. Pickles? Onions? […]
Review of The “Magic Carpet” Exodus of Yemenite Jewry: An Israeli Formative Myth, by Esther Meir-Glitzenstein Sussex Academic Press, £67.50 / $89.95, published in The Jerusalem Post Magazine January 10 By SETH […]
The invention of Israeli ethnicism By SETH J. FRANTZMAN 08/20/2013 20:44 THE GREAT SYNAGOGUE in Tunis. Many Jews from Arab countries faced discrimination when they came. (Photo: Seth J. Frantzman) In […]
Seth J. Frantzman - author - analyst 