Book review: The Yemenite tragedy
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 […]
Tag Archives: racism
‘The threat among us’: Post-terror attack racism in Israel
SETH J. FRANTZMAN In the aftermath of the gruesome terror attack in Jerusalem on Tuesday tensions between Jews and Arabs have understandably increased in Jerusalem and the rest of Israel. […]
Does accepting ‘white privilege’ reinforce privilege?
The “white privilege” debate keeps popping up. The latest story is a Jon Stewart debate with Bill O’ Reilly. The crux was that Stewart wanted Bill to “admit” his privilege. […]
Diagnosing Haaretz
Israel’s left-leaning daily presents itself as supporting democratic and pluralist values, but in fact represents an insular vehicle for promoting the cultural supremacy of an elite grounded in early 20th […]
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 […]
Thoughts on Israel’s invention of an Ashkenazi identity
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On July 26 an Israeli professor posted a tweet about a protest he had attended. He claimed that it was divided between two groups: Ashkenazi and Sephardi. […]
Sisi, crack down on mass murder, torture in Sinai!
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN in The Jerusalem Post The accounts are so shocking, the more one reads the more one becomes numb. “The kidnappers would make me lie on my […]
Israel’s uncomfort-able history of elite racism
Originally published in The Forward By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Late in March, Ebony magazine apologized after one of its senior editors made a racially charged dismissive comment on Twitter. Last […]
Why is immigration so divisive?
Originally published in The Jerusalem Post Several years ago at the iconic Restobar in Jerusalem, before it closed, a friend of mine made an outlandish statement that still stings today. […]
Israel’s k-word controversy
Terra incognita: Israel’s k-word: Can Holon teach us a lesson in racism? By Seth J. Frantzman, March 5, 2014 (The Jerusalem Post) At a conference at the Ruppin Academic Center, […]
Seth J. Frantzman - author - analyst 