Seth Frantzman
ARTICLES BY: Seth Frantzman
How Drones Shaped Warfare — and Israel
Drone Wars: Pioneers, Killing Machines, Artificial Intelligence and the Battle for the Future by Seth Frantzman, (Bombardier Books, 2021) Drones are transforming the way wars...
Ethiopian Jews and the Elephant in the Anti-Israel Room
Thirty years ago, Israel carried out a momentous operation to bring Jews from Ethiopia to Israel. In an unprecedented act, more than 30 aircraft brought 14,325...
An Inside Look at the Struggle Against ISIS
Below is an excerpt from Seth J. Frantzman’s After ISIS: America, Iran and the Struggle for the Middle East (Gefen Publishing, Jerusalem, 2019) After a short...
The Incitement Against Sholom Rubashkin
The media is abuzz with the story that US President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of Sholom Rubashkin. As CNBC notes: “The Chasidic Jewish Rubashkin was convicted...
Why Were the 7,000 Antisemitic Incidents Under Obama Largely Ignored?
In the last two months, almost 100 Jewish community centers and day schools have been targeted with antisemitic threats. The map of the threats is...
We Must Know the Truth About What Happened to Israel’s Yemenite Children
Steven Plaut recently wrote a piece in The Algemeiner claiming that "Yemenite children were never kidnapped in Israel." His article was a response to news that the Israel State Archives...
The Outrage of Comparing Israel to the Nazis
At a UN meeting last Friday, the Venezuelan ambassador Rafael Ramirez listened to a presentation by an Israeli human rights organization about attacks on Palestinians. The...
In Iraqi Kurdistan, a Genocide Before Our Very Eyes (PART TWO)
Part One of this article appeared here. Nothing can prepare one for the level of destruction found in Shingal. The streets are strewn with rubble, housing blown...
In Iraqi Kurdistan, a Genocide Before Our Very Eyes
The two bullet casings are already beginning to rust. Sheikh Nasser Pasha plucks them from the ground. “Look, one is from an AK-47, one from...
It’s Time to Call Islamic Extremism What It Is
On November 27, 2008, Fahad Ullah and Mohammed Altaf were barricaded in the Oberoi Trident Hotel in Mumbai. They were two of 10 perpetrators of the Mumbai...
BBC Uses ‘Report’ on Jerusalem Light Rail System to Bash Israel
Last Friday, the BBC’s Panorama program aired a story on Israel that suffered from extreme bias - even by the low standards the BBC has become known...
Democrats Think Israel is Racist? They’re Probably Right
A few days after the U.S. was the only country to stand by Israel at the United Nations Human Rights Council, an ostensibly shocking survey was released that showed that...
An Eyewitness Account of the Kurds’ Battle Against ISIS
This firsthand report was originally published by MIDA. The desert grasslands around Mosul are parched and hot. Northern Iraq is not a place one would want...
Israel Must Banish its Ashkenazi-Mizrahi Stereotypes
Living in Israel sometimes makes me wonder what it must have been like to live in 1950s America. My grandmother was a civil rights...
