Seth J. Frantzman is the opinion editor of The Jerusalem Post.
Seth J. Frantzman
By Seth J. Frantzman
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Community Think Airport Interrogations In Israel Are New? Ask An Arab
A British Palestinian professor deported. A Swedish Jewish journalist questioned for hours. An East Jerusalem Palestinian professor hassled on her way to Tunis. A woman strip searched for being born in the Middle East. A French intern at an Israeli newspaper held for hours on her way back from Turkey. An Israeli Supreme Court justice’s…
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Opinion If You’re Coming To Israel As A ‘Protest Tourist’, Just Stay Home.
The first time I heard the word “demo” was in 2010. It was outside Mango, a fashion boutique in the upscale Mamilla shopping center in Jerusalem. I was waiting for a Palestinian friend to leave work, and three students with American accents were chatting about going to “this weekend’s demo.” “Demo” did not mean demolition,…
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Opinion Why Isn’t AIPAC Talking About Israel’s African Refugee Crisis?
In late February, the Jewish Agency joined a long list of groups opposed to Israel’s deportation of African asylum-seekers. Its board urged that Israel should grant legal status to 500 young people who had grown up in Israel and asked Jerusalem to ensure that “every migrant has an opportunity to apply for asylum and receive…
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Community It’s Time To Stop The Exploitative Romanticization Of Undocumented Immigrants
“Without immigrants, America’s economy would collapse,” reads a recent video posted by “Attn:” on Facebook. So far it has been viewed 3.1 million times. The video urges us to wonder “what would America look like without them?” It claims the food industry would suffer because “America would lose up to 70% of its farm workers…Agricultural…
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Community Want to help Syrians? Listen To Them.
There is a huge amount of rage being directed at President Donald Trump’s administration over it’s temporary ban on immigrants and visa holders from 6 countries in the Middle East and indefinite ban on Syrians entering the country. Uber has lost clients, Iraq and Iran have sought to ban US citizens from traveling there, an…
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Community Sorry, Pundits: Non-Orthodox American Jews Are Here to Stay.
Recently I was waiting to chow down on some beef stew at a Jerusalem restaurant in the city’s iconic Mahane Yehuda market, often called “the shuk.” That’s when I saw them. Hordes of Americans in the their early 20s. The best new winter jackets. Young, robust, happy. They were chatting about how “cool” Jerusalem was….
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Community We Can’t Make Healthcare Great Again Unless We Consider This Hidden Cost
The new Republican administration is expected to tackle health care as one of its main domestic priorities after the new year. “The President-elect’s made it very clear. He wants the Congress when they convene in early January to take up the task of repealing and replacing ObamaCare first,” Vice-president elect Mike Pence told FoxNews on…
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Community Just How Many Different Americas Are There?
If you’ve been reading the headlines since the U.S. election it seems like a civil war is brewing. In California and the Northwest they are preparing the “Calexit.” Around the Thanksgiving table people are being disinvited, or moods are cooled. In their “coastal citadels,” as one article called them, people are hunkering down, wondering how…
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