The layers of [white] privilege
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN There is a lot of talk about “white privilege,” primarily in the United States but also in some other academic and intellectual circles. Often these conversations […]
Tag Archives: racism
When western media calls Syria war confusing “free for all” it’s a form of racism
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN I was reading a major US media outlet about Turkey’s president visiting Washington and there was a link to the “free for all” in Syria. “The […]
Inside the twisted world of the bomb threat suspect
BY SETH J. FRANTZMAN A man named Juan Thompson has been accsed of at least eight bomb threats against JCCs and the ADL. The 31-year old former journalist “allegedly caused […]
When people say “instability in Middle East” it is a form of Orientalism and neo-colonialism
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN At the recent J Street conference Bernie Sanders said that the Iraq war “created a cascade of instability around the region that we are still dealing […]
Dead Poet’s Society was a Bull**** movie, why did we watch it?
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Someone at work mentioned “classical music” to me recently and as I was thinking about why we even call it “classical” and not “archaic,” it got […]
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 […]
An Israeli film critic’s rant and the legacy of 1950s Israeli racism
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 […]
The politics of the Armenian genocide in Israel
istBy SETH J. FRANTZMAN “Israel is one of the only democratic countries in the world, if not the only one, to deny the genocide and support Turkey’s stubborn policy of […]
Yes, Saviona Mane, there is racism in Israel and its disgusting
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 […]
References to Hannah Arendt’s racism
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN I wrote a column in The Jerusalem Post on June 6 that provided evidence for a racist and white supremacist line of thinking in the work of […]
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