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Dr. Seth J. Frantzman is a Post-Doctoral researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2010. He is the Oped Editor and a columnist at the Jerusalem Post.

His recent employers include Washington Mutual Bank, the Shalem Center's Hebraic Political Studies, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the editor and founder of the online journal and weekly newsletter Terra Incognita (Terra Incognita Journal)

Young life 1980-87
Frantzman grew up in Maine, in a back woods camp where his family lived off the land, producing much of their own food(except meat) and storing it in a Greenhouse. Solar cells were used for electricity for a few things but light came from gas lamps. Outhouses were used. These camps are now known as the Little Lyford Camps, which are a historic site on the AMC trail in Maine.

School days 1987-1994
Frantzman was in Southwest Harbor in 1987, in 1988 he was in Conneticut and in 1989 he was in third grade in M.D.E.S)Mount Desert Island Elementary School), Jim Ashmore(peg leg pete) presiding as principle. School was tough for an outsider who had skipped first and second grade due to home schooling. He was suspended in 1992 for stealing trophies.

Verde Valley School 1993-1996
Frantzman was sent to Verde Valley School in Sedona Arizona, a school that was founded in the 1940s to educate students about Native Americans and the outdoors. In the late 1990s it attracted a lot of hippies and teachers who had been students returned to teach there. After an incident with a fellow student, Regan Farquar and a teacher Dan, Frantzman was dismissed by the headmaster Saul Hillel Benjamin in December of 1997.

The Orme School 1997-1998
Frantzman went to the Orme School, founded as a ranch by the Orme family. After playing football in the fall of 1997 he was dismissed from this school in the spring of 1998 after leaving school for a week with his Rav4 and his friend's Martinique and Hiedi Peterson.

Cordes Junction 1998
Frantzman developed his property at Cordes Junction in the summer of 1998, he was employed at Wallmart and eventually moved to Maine for a period where he worked with his father, Joel Frantzman, also taking odd jobs as a dish washer, prep cook and working tennis courts.

The University of Arizona Fall 1998
Frantzman lived with a man who made his own guns and eventually took over the La Siesta Apartments in South Tucson which he managed for Janet Case and her daughter Sarah Blackburn. He did not succeed in his first semester of studies but in his second semester he took 21 credits and began to find his calling as a historian.

The College Republicans 1999-2001
Frantzman became involved deeply in Republican politics in South Arizona. He founded a College Republicans chapter at U of A in 1999, after Mike Coatny had destroyed it a year before. He became involved with the Pima County Republican Club and Tucson Republican Women, where he received an award as a 'top youth leader'. He used the club to run for student Senate and served as a ASUA senator from 2000-2001. He visited the Green Valley republican club, served as a delegate to the republican party in Arizona, ran a Students for John Mccain chapter and later Students for Bush in 2000. He relinquished control of the the club to Manuel Espinoza. He served as an aide to Congressman Jim Kolbe and on the campaign of Bob Walcott.

=Phi Kappa Psi 2001-2003=

Frantzman, along with Adeel Elahi, re-founded the Arizona Alpha Chapter of Phi Kappa Psi(originally founded 1947)in 2001 and brought it back to a chapter of 80 men. He was involved as Housing Corp President in the purchase of a House with Jerry Nelson's support in 2002 for the chapter on University Blvd.

Mortgage industry 2002-2004
Frantzman spent the summer of 1999 in Russia. In the spring of 2002 he was in Italy on an abroad program. He resided in St. Petersburg, Moscow and Florence, Italy. In the summer of 2002 he obtained a Real Estate license at the Hogan school of Real Estate and then went to work at La Carona De TucsonRealty. He failed as a realor and took a job as a telemarketer with Allied Home Mortgage and its owner Francisco De Bosque. He then worked as a Processor under Eric Painter, also at Allied. He moved from there in 2003 to Washington Mutual Bank where he worked under M.J. Mcee in Tucson, doing home loans. Although he was moving up in this business he decided it was time for something new.

Israel and Middle East June 2004-present
Frantzman began at an Ulpan at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and from there began an M.A program in the fall of 2004. He copleted his M.A and graduated Summa Cum Laude in the spring of 2006. Since then he has been working on a Phd at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Frantzman is a traveler and has been to India, South Africa and Eastern Europe. He has reviewed over 1,000 books on Amazon and works as a reviewer part time and as a writer. He published a Frantzman Weekly newsletter.

Post Humanism and critiquer of modernity
Frantzman has developed the philosophy of Post-Humanism which he critiques as the bane of the western world. He is opposed to Moral Relativism and has dedicated many writings to critique of histories of South Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Ideologically Frantzman has remained a conservative, but also a passionate libertarian in the footsteps of Ayn Rand and Edward Abbey. He has a deep fascination with Richard Nixon and Josef Stalin but his true passion is the study of minorities and diverse peoples such as Native Americans, Assyrian Christians, Crimean Kairites and other interesting people and interesting histories of obscure subjects. His heroes include John Garang of the South Sudan Liberation Army, the former Shah of Iran, Jan Smuts, Atal Vajpayee, Richard Mienertzhagen, Charles Martel, Don Juan, Roland, Thaksin Shinuat, Pinochet and Vicente Fox.

In the time before time there was a wikipedia entry created of me by someone...it was then deleted, thankfully, but for posterity I am keeping a copy of it here...ha, its too funny what people felt was "notable" below.

Biography
Seth Frantzman completed his B.A. in History and Political Science at the University of Arizona in 2002. He was awarded an MA in Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2004 and is working on his doctorate in Geography at the Hebrew University.

He has been a contributor to the Tucson Weekly, Jerusalem Post, Middle East Quarterly, Frontpage Magazine, National Post, The Jewish Press, and Canadian Jewish News. He has been interviewed by Arutz Sheva's Walter Bingham, has appeared on the BBC World Service, Catholic News Service, and worked as a researcher for Aish HaTorah and the JDC.

He currently writes the column "Terra Incognita" at the Jerusalem Post.

Frantzman is also book reviewer and blogger.

Saudi Arabia commentary and Saudi response
In a June 6, 2006 Guest Commentary at the Tucson Weekly entitled "Why Do Congressmen Like Jim Kolbe Continue to Support a Sexist, Hate-Filled Hypocritical Regime," Frantzman argued that Congressman Jim Kolbe should not support aid for Saudi Arabia, which "Fifteen of the 19 Sept. 11 hijackers were" from and which has "some of the most reactionary laws in the world in terms of human rights, women's rights and gay rights." The U.S. Embassy of Saudi Arabia responded on July 20 in a letter from Nail A. Al-Jubeir, Director of the Saudi Arabian Information Office in Washington DC. It described the column as "malicious" and "hate filled."

Criticism
Kevin Jon Heller, a professor of international criminal law at Melbourne Law School who has been involved with the International Criminal Court lampooned Frantzman's grasp of facts with regard to his article Terra Incognita: Strange justice: The ICC, Europe and the world  in The Jerusalem Post, concerning the work of International Criminal Court. Heller, defending the court, called the Frantzman article "the worst anti-ICC editorial ever," and went on to say that "the Jerusalem Post should be ashamed of itself for publishing it".

In an article published in Haaretz, Israel's leading newspaper, Benjamin Pogrund, a South African born activist, accused Frantzman of being a 'guardian' of Israeli Academia.

Academic Publications

 * ‘Flunking History, Ilan Pappe’s Ethnic-Cleansing in Palestine, Middle East Quarterly, Spring 2008, Volume 15, Number 8.
 * Seth J. Frantzman and Ruth Kark, ‘The Holy Land and American Communes’ in Journal of Communal Studies. Spring 2008.
 * Seth J. Frantzman and Ruth Kark, ‘Exigesis: General Gordon’s pilgrimage to Palestine 1883’ in The Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly, Spring 2008.
 * Seth J. Frantzman and Jovan Culibrk, 'Strange Bedfellows: The Bosnians and Yugoslav volunteers in the 1948 war in Israel/Palestine' History of the 20th Century-Istorija 20. Veka, Issue 1, 2009, Institut za savremenu istoriju, Beograd.

Articles

 * ‘Seth Frantzman: Obama’s Silence offers moral backing to Iranian Regime’, National Post, June 24, 2009. Full Comment online edition.
 * ‘Minarets, Geography and Power’, Jerusalem Post, April 30, 2009
 * ‘Some Truths about Palestinian Christians’, Jerusalem Post, May 13, 2009
 * Kristof and Double Standards’ Frontpage Magazine, July 30, 2008.
 * 'Dr. Peter Likins: The Imperial President of U of A', Tucson Weekly, April 15, 2004.
 * 'Two Critical Book Reviews: Avi Shlaim- Lion of Jordan and Nigel Aston: King Hussein of Jordan' Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, April 1, 2009