Are Israeli media afraid of Arab voices?
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN I read an article recently about Haifa. It was interesting. The author looked at the city that is often held up as an exemplar of tolerance […]
Tag Archives: Women
We need to talk about #MeToo and ISIS crimes against Yazidis
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Lamiya Aji Bashar, the Yazidi human rights activist, recently spoke at the World Youth Forum in Sharm el-Sheikh. Her story, like so many others, is difficult […]
Finally, Israel airliner ordered not to force women to change seats for men
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN For years members of the public flying to and from Israel were subjected to harassment by a small number of extreme religious Jewish men. These men […]
Photo essay: Peshmerga and the war on ISIS
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Since August 2014 the Kurdish Peshmerga, the armed forces of the Kurdistan Regional Government, fought a tough war against Islamic State along a 1,000 kilometers of […]
Profiles on International Women’s Day
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Over the years it has been an honor to write about and speak to many inspiring women throughout the world, in honor of International Women’s Day […]
We need to talk about why so many Palestinian women are involved in recent ‘terror wave’,
There is denial on both sides, but we must address why so many Palestinian woman are willing to sacrifice themselves
Bad fact checking: ‘The Nation’ fails Palestinian women
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN An article published on August 19 at the left-leaning US Magazine The Nation seemed to have high hopes for shedding light on discrimination Arab women in Israel […]
Women in sport
A sporting chance By Seth J. Frantzman, published March 7, 2014 In the 2012 London Olympics, one of the runners in the women’s 800 meters stood out from the rest […]
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 […]
