Once a lawyer. Now the U.S. Media Research Manager at @CAMERA4Truth. I once won a stare down against Erdogan. Views are my own.
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David Litman retweeted
I’ve had this weight on me for a while and felt the need to share it once and for all.
Years ago, the CEO and co-founder of Semafor, a media publication, approached me. He presumably wanted me to consider investing, because he spent a significant amount of time boasting about all of his supplemental sources of revenue.
I was stunned when he bragged about getting an enormous amount of money from the government of Qatar. The pretense was that he was receiving these funds to “train journalists.” I don’t recall the precise amounts, but recall that he acknowledged that the cost to conduct this “training” was a tiny fraction of what he was getting paid - directionally it was something like getting paid $2mm to conduct a “media training” boot camp that would cost Semafor $50,000 to execute. I pointed out that it sounded like he was being bribed - that nobody with proper intentions would offer to pay something that was 20-100X off market - and no entity pretending to be a journalism outfit should accept stuff like that, as it would compromise him.
He insisted that wouldn’t happen. But over the course of many years, I’ve observed how Semafor continues to receive government sponsorships and perform all sorts of “trainings” and “conferences” in partnership with Qatar, while providing very complementary coverage to the government of Qatar. This is downright unethical - and particularly unbecoming of an outfit pretending to be “training journalists”! The problem doesn’t end with Semafor.
The government of Qatar has been buying off media, education and other groups, with reports of how it deployed billions of dollars in the US higher education system. All of us who care about ethics should demand an investigation into these practices. Regardless of whether legal authorities choose to look into this, we as the people and the consumers should admonish such egregious behavior and ensure we avoid “media” publications that are so compromised.
Countless journalists risk their lives every day to expose abuses in power. Semafor does a disservice to the profession by undermining trust.
@buildersmideast @BuildersMvt
David Litman retweeted
Last week, @NPR invented an anti-Israel statistic and ascribed a made-up motive to support the fiction. I wrote about it:
camera.org/article/on-npr-ma…
David Litman retweeted
I'm pleased to report that the @nytimes corrected the article and published an editor's note as a result of our outreach.
The @nytimes appears to have falsified a quote by Benjamin Netanyahu. @CAMERA4Truth has requested a correction or - if it can provide it - substantiation for the quote. I wrote about it here: camera.org/article/new-york-…
David Litman retweeted
These comments are clueless. 12 out of the 19 seats that are going to Arab parties according to the latest count belong to a party that refuses to be part of any Israeli government. And the remaining 7 seats aren't enough for the opposition to reach a majority.
The @nytimes published yet another fake quote from an Israeli leader. This is far from the first time. It won't be the last either, unless the paper starts taking its own credibility seriously.
UPDATE: Following communication from CAMERA, the @nytimes corrected its fabricated Netanyahu quote, which falsely claimed he spoke of a "civilizational alliance against Islam."
The Times called it an editing error—but there is an entire industry of fake quotes attributed to Israelis, and this isn't the first time they've taken part. We commend the correction. Now it's time to correct the pattern.
David Litman retweeted
Netanyahu, Bennett and Eisenkot are all security hawks and economic pragmatists.
Together, they could form a strong government without the ultra-Orthodox, extremists, Islamists or anti-Zionists.
Israel is fighting wars on multiple fronts. Put your egos aside. Put the country first.
Why is this so hard?!
David Litman retweeted
The BBC appear to be trying to justify obsessive coverage of an election in a tiny country 3000 miles away with “but the Jews run the world innit”
Is @bbclysedoucet really saying our cost of living is affected by Israel? Peoples’ suffering always seem to come down to the Jews. Bizarre but standard for Al Beeb.
David Litman retweeted
One of the Cuban regime’s “diplomats” tried to intimidate UN staff into cutting our microphones as I exposed the regime for the world to see.
When one of my American diplomats noticed what was happening, that same regime “diplomat” tried to intimidate him, too.
If you've spent any significant amount of time in the @UN, you've almost certainly seen for yourself how much the Cubans rely on intimidation and disruption to silence criticism.
NEW: @USAmbUN Mike Waltz just got into a shouting match on the floor of the general assembly with Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla
"He's not going to intimidate me in the United States of America, like he tries to intimidate political prisoners," Waltz said, raising his voice
"Back up!"
David Litman retweeted
The UN's Francesca Albanese now wants journalists tried at the ICC for "incitement of genocide" or some bullshit.
Glenn Greenwald wants Free Press journalists tried for "denying the famine in Gaza."
And Ryan Grim wants me tried for aiding the "murder of Palestinian journalists"
David Litman retweeted
CAMERA calls on @nytimes to substantiate their quote claiming Netanyahu called for an "alliance against Islam"—or to issue an immediate correction.
A serious paper doesn't make up quotes. But unfortunately, misquoting and misrepresenting information is the norm at The Times.
David Litman retweeted
The UN harbors a moral fugitive who spews hatred for America, the West, Jews, and Israel. Francesca Albanese is institutional poison, doing grave damage to the UN, and tarnishing the work of brave UN personnel who risk their lives to feed the starving and keep the peace.
I know it. You know it. All that remains is to do something about it. Start by saying publicly what you say privately: Albanese must go. @AmbUNReform
If intellectual dishonesty had a face...
Looking forward to all the screeching about Viktor Orbán being corrupt and friendly with dictators, as if those have not been the defining features of the @UN for decades.
New: Sources from three countries confirm that the Trump Administration has advocated Viktor Orbán for UN Secretary-General.
The US has encouraged Orbán to enter the race, even bringing him the initial idea of a joint U.S.-Russia-China candidacy.
WSJ:
wsj.com/opinion/viktor-orban…
David Litman retweeted
Alonso's whole schtick is systematically ignoring the actual words people use and replacing them with materially different ones that better fit his predetermined narrative.
Here, for example, this weasel tries to pretend that "the killing of children" in war - the phrasing Sidoti actually used as purported "evidence of genocidal purpose" - is somehow the same thing as "targeting children".
As if the distinction between the two weren't precisely "the difference that makes all the difference".
David Litman retweeted
ICJ ad hoc "judge" Navi Pillay is tipping the scales on the ICJ’s current proceedings on Myanmar, intending to lower the legal threshold for proving genocide so that weakened and false standard can later be weaponized against American and allied soldiers whenever they raise a finger against terrorists that hide behind civilians. Pillay: We see your agenda and we'll be watching the ICJ’s handling of these proceedings very closely. As our actions against the ICC demonstrate, we will not allow globalist, faux-judges to weaponize the law against our troops, undermine our sovereignty, or put American lives at risk.
The Nobel Committee has disgraced itself by awarding the Peace Prize to Pillay. What a shameful choice to "honor" someone who represents an "international community" with a leftist, globalist, antisemitic agenda.
President Trump is showing a better way, by actually ENDING WARS, bringing hostages HOME, and making PEACE.
David Litman retweeted
The reality of Palestinian violence in Judea and Samaria.
Yesterday, Palestinian attackers set fire to the Tomb of Eleazar the Priest (son of Aaron, brother of Moses, and High Priest of Israel during the biblical period) in Awarta, Samaria, damaging a Jewish holy site.
Another example of the ongoing wave of Palestinian violence targeting Jews and Jewish heritage in Judea and Samaria.
jsrcenter.org/en/articles/ar…
David Litman retweeted
NEW: CNN Is Caught Quietly Deleting Sycophantic Language About Hamas-Loving Qatar Ahead of Network’s For-Profit ‘Global Forum’ -- Qatar is major sponsor of the moneymaking confab Don’t expect the CNN stars to ask any awkward questions freebeacon.com/media/cnn-is-…
