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David M. Litman

David M. Litman

David M. Litman is a media and education research analyst at the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA).

Just a few minutes of basic research uncover facts that upend the entire narrative around the pending deportation of Badar Khan Suri and his wife. Yet not one major outlet, nor the dozens more covering the story, bothered.
Cobbling together speculation, assumption, feelings and partisan “experts,” the only thing the report on Shireen Abu Akleh’s death proves is that it is no longer a serious news agency.
The anonymous authors who accuse Israel of apartheid should accept the challenge to debate their claims.
It was filled with false statements, exaggerations and outright inaccuracies, yet MSNBC still makes excuses for him.
Individuals like Mohammed Barakeh, chairman of the “High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel,” loudly proclaim there is a Jewish threat to Al-Aqsa, knowing it to be a tried-and-true form of inciting anti-Israel and anti-Semitic violence.
By labeling Israel a “colonial occupier,” the Palestinians and their enablers at the UNHRC are trying to unlink Jews from their indigenous homeland and their holy sites.
There are some who think that countries like Israel and Ukraine should play into games premised on the fundamentally discriminatory and dangerous grounds of questioning their legitimacy.
Amnesty International’s “apartheid” report is part of a wider effort to erode the legitimacy of the Jewish state—and will not be the last or worst such report of 2022.
The “anti-Zionist not anti-Semitic” crowd is increasingly viewing their enemy not as a perceived evil state in the Middle East, but as a distinct group here at home in America.