#david litman

[eretzyisrael]

There was a remarkable Twitter exchange between a number of critics of the Amnesty "apartheid" report and Kristyan Benedict, Amnesty UK campaigns manager.

CAMERA created a video showing specific lies in Amnesty's video supporting the report.

If Amnesty had a good case, why would it need to manipulate viewers? 15 Lies in 15 Minutes: Amnesty International's 'Apartheid' Video":#Israel pic.twitter.com/PFMqfs5T4T

Benedict responded:

Please send this as ‘evidence’ to the chief prosecutor of the ICC..  

David Litman of CAMERA:

Now that we have your attention, perhaps someone from Amnesty could finally address some of those blatant factual errors

I pointed out directly to your colleague, which suggest your organization is knowingly lying or doesn't actually understand the law.

Kristyan Benedict

Benedict: "Sound like you’ve already made your mind up. Good luck with that."

Adam Levick (CAMERA-UK): "Why don't you just respond to the CAMERA video, Kristyan."

Benedict: "We've laid out our findings in a very detailed report and stand by it. We didn't just put it out without serious review from experts. You however, should make your case to the likes of the ICC chief prosecutor and the COI. Would be a better use of your time in all seriousness."

Eitan Fischberger: "Who were the experts?"

Benedict: "External experts on international law including those with specialist knowledge of apartheid in international law."

Fischberger: "No I'm sure, but who? A couple of names for reference would be most appreciated."

Benedict: "Afraid not. External (and internal) colleagues have many reasons to not be public about such work - one of them being the awful smear campaigns that sometimes occur. Not everyone wants that nastiness in their lives. Hopefully that’s understandable."

Fischberger: "I can certainly understand the need for privacy. Yet, I can't help but worry this creates a situation in which Amnesty can issue reports on highly contentious topics, and when confronted with counterarguments, defers to unanswerable experts whose objectivity can't be verified."

#apartheid #experts #david litman #camera #eitan fischberger #amnesty international #15 lies in 15 minutes

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Book Covers of Note, July 2023

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#allison saltzman #andrew walters #arsh raziuddin #book covers #book covers 2023 #book covers of note #Books #david litman #Design #emily mahon #gray318 #katya mezhibovskaya #math monahan #natalia olbinski #peter mendelsund #regina flath #robbie porter #tal goretsky #Typography

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Look for Me and I’ll Be Gone: Stories

By John Edgar Wideman.

Design by David Litman.

#Look for Me and I’ll Be Gone #John Edgar Wideman #David Litman #books #book covers

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The Need by Helen Phillips, cover design by David Litman, cover photos by Max Labeille. Paperback edition published 2020.

#helen phillips #the need #david litman #max labielle #contemporary fiction #magical realism #gothic realism #poetic prose

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TEENS for good: Kids Cancel Cancer benefit for Pediatric Cancer Research

TEENS for good: Kids Cancel Cancer benefit for Pediatric Cancer Research

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#Abey Fuks #Ava Litman #Beryl Gross #brigitte segura #brigittesegura #Cagri Kanver #Chris Arlotta #Deana Passarelli #Dena K. Weiner and David Rozenholc #Dr. Samuel Waxman #Flavia Kawaja #Greg D’Elia #hamptons event #Hayley Silvers #Helen Vaysman #Jean Shafiroff #Kids Cancel Cancer #kids event #kids fundraiser #Lauren Silvers #Marion Waxman #Mischa Abend #Nancy Litman #Pediatric Cancer Research #Ruth Abend #TEENS for good #Terence Kawaja #the clubhouse easthampton #Vanessa Gordon

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BY: DAVID LITMAN

Earlier this week, several United Nations “experts” issued a statement claiming there were “credible allegations” of Israeli forces committing sexual violence against Palestinian women. As CAMERA has already noted, among the authors of the statement were individuals with histories of antisemitism and anti-Israel bias. Moreover, the statement was noticeably devoid of any evidence. Similarly absent was any information to assess the credibility of the allegations, such as dates, times, locations, or identities. All readers had to go on was the word of the hardly impartial authors.

CAMERA was not alone in noticing the curious lack of details. At least one journalist, who asked not to be named, corresponded with the UN “experts,” asking if they could provide any details and sources for their allegations. The response from one of them, Reem Alsalem, was to say that she could not provide any details or sources. In fact, she even appeared to suggest that they’re not even sure where the alleged victims are.

The only source for the allegations they were willing to point to, after repeated requests by the journalist, was a public report by an organization called Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counseling (WCLAC). Given that this is all the public has to go on to scrutinize the allegations, it is worth examining WCLAC’s report. After all, if the UN “experts” consider the report credible, that gives some insight into the quality and nature of the undetailed allegations they have made themselves.

Knowingly Attempting to Create a False Equivalence

The WCLAC report begins with a curious argument. To provide some context, the report was sent to the UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Pramila Patten, who had visited Israel in January to probe the use of sexual violence by Hamas during the October 7 massacre.

In the letter to which the WCLAC report is attached, the organization expresses concern that the allegations they are raising against Israeli forces do not rise to the level of gravity that Ms. Patten’s mandate requires. The letter “raises a significant concern regarding the mandate” Ms. Patten apparently presented to WCLAC, which “limits sexual violence to acts of a grave nature, such as rape and trafficking” for purposes of her mandate. Apparently concerned that none of their allegations rise to that level of gravity, the organization calls for her to “reinforce” her mandate to “amplify” vague concepts such as “humanitarian work, upstream prevention, justice and accountability…” The letter than raises a “demand to consider Israeli’s (sic) violations of different forms of violence including sexual and reproductive rights and in your upcoming report on OPT” (an acronym for “occupied Palestinian territories”).

Put more simply, WCLAC wants the UN representative to change her mandate so as to create an equivalence between Hamas’s systematic use of horrific sexual violence on October 7 with the allegations WCLAC makes in its attached report against Israeli forces.

#wclac #rape #hamas #gaza #pramila patten #women's centre for legal aid and counseling

[eddysocs]

To-Do List

Updated April 30th, 2024

There is no specific order I do my requests in. It’s just whatever strikes me in the moment. Requests will be removed from this list when they’re put in my queue/drafts until they’re ready to post.

🚧 = WIP (Work In Progress)

Ask Games

🚧 🏠: Interior Design Board - Marianne Hardwell 🚧

🏠: Interior Design Board - Prue Wakefield

👗: Fashion Board - Tovah Olander

🏠: Interior Design Board - Alaina Abbott

💕: Ship Moodboard - Linara Sand x Tywin Lannister

🍼: FaceApp Kid - Henrietta Parsons x Buster Brady

👗: Fashion Board - Henrietta Parsons

❌: Crossover - Jodie Rourke & Freya Sherwood

❌: Crossover - Raven Gothel & Diavelle Darkmoor

🏠: Interior Design Board - Antonia Grayson

🎬: If She Were Canon - Zoe Cox

Edits

🚧 Samantha Lincoln x David Hodges - On An Investigation Together (Requested by Anon) 🚧

Clarissa Powers x Julian Fawcett - Clarissa First Seeing Julian In His State Of Undress When He Dies (Requested by Anon)

Lissette Serpens x Severus Snape - Snape Seeing Lissette In Her Yule Ball Dress For The First Time (Requested by Anon)

Harper Cassidy & Hannah Baker - Birthday Memories (Requested by Anon)

Hailey Emerson & Teddy & Spencer - Hanging Out (Requested by Anon)

Taylor Anders & Ariel - Show Of Support (Requested by Anon)

Sherae Jordan x Kathy Griffin - Antics In The City (Requested by Anon)

Alaina Abbott x Melissa Schemmenti - Classroom Fluff (Requested by Anon)

Brigitte Wren x Phoebe Buffay - Guitar Serenade (Requested by Anon)

Fics

The Enemy Of My Enemy - Iridia Danvers x Nyxly (Requested by Anon)

When Lex takes Iridia hostage, Nyxly's first instinct is to blame the super friends, until Lex contacts them, revealing that he’ll only let Iridia go if they give up their totems. Now they’re in a race to save Iridia and trick Lex in the process.

That Old, Black Magic - Mercy Ambrose x Lady Van Tassel (Requested by @yellowbird-flying)

Mercy catches sight of Lady Van Tassel performing a black magic ritual, and must decide how strong her loyalty is.

Treat Her Better - Jennifer Beckett × Janice Litman (Requested by Anon)

When Chandler goes and breaks Janice's heart again, Jennifer is the one to pick up the pieces, leading her to tell Chandler off and inadvertently confess her own feelings for Janice.

Matchmaking Menaces - Lola Marsh × Donna Sheridan (Requested by Anon)

Five times Tanya and Ruby tried to get Lola and Donna to admit their feelings to each other, and the one time it finally happened.

Make A Move - Catrine Burgundy x Tanya Chesham Leigh x Ruby Sheridan (Requested by Anon)

Rosie challenges Catrine and Tanya to make a move on Ruby before Fernando has the chance to steal her away.

Languages Of Love - Sophie Kendall x Tom Koracick (Requested by @ghostsunderstoodmysoul)

Where Sophie and Tom express each of the love languages to one another in various scenes.

Sinduction - Jezebeth Dufort x Margaret White (Requested by Anon)

Jezebeth finally makes her move and begins the seduction and corruption of Margaret.

The Storycrafter - Nella Landon x Merlin (Requested by Anon)

With Nella having read all the books she can get her hands on, Merlin takes it upon himself to craft some new, magical tales for her.

🚧 Fireside Familiarity - Olivette Littletree x Molly Weasley (Requested by @yellowbird-flying) 🚧

Olivette isn’t quite feeling her bright and sunny self, but it’s nothing some quality time with Molly can’t fix.

A Matter Of Height - Linara Sand x Tywin Lannister (Requested by Anon)

Tywin seems to think that stature is part of a proper display of power. Linara, being rather petite, is set to convince him otherwise.

Spa Day To Remember - Jodie Rourke x Cathy Brown (Requested by Anon)

When Jodie leaves a message for Cathy to meet her at the Wash & Blow, she’s actually planned a spa day for her as a surprise.

Psychobabble - Jodie Rourke x Cathy Brown (Requested by Anon)

To help her study, Cathy takes to reading her psychology textbook out loud. Jodie might not understand all the terminology, but she sure doesn’t mind listening to Cathy read.

Caught Out - Henrietta Parsons x Buster Brady (Requested by Anon)

While Agnes is in the kitchen talking to Dermot, Henrietta and Buster make use of their alone time, at least until Mrs. Brown catches them.

New OCs

🚧 Eleanor Newsome - FD: You, Me And Him - FC: Jameela Jamil - LI: Olivia Miller 🚧

#to do list #requests

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Steve Brodner, Full Court Press

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

December 12, 2023

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

DEC 13, 2023

Last night, Special Counsel Jack Smith asked the Supreme Court to decide Trump’s claim that he is immune from any and all criminal prosecution for anything he did while in office. That claim is central to Trump’s defense; he has requested the charges against him be dismissed because of that immunity. 

When Judge Tanya S. Chutkan, who is overseeing the case in which Trump is charged with trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election, dismissed this claim, Trump’s lawyers appealed and asked for the case to be frozen while the appeal worked its way up through the courts. By going straight to the Supreme Court, Smith appears to be trying to stop Trump from delaying the trial until after the 2024 election.  

The Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether it will hear the case. So far, Justice Clarence Thomas refuses to recuse himself, even though his wife Ginni was deeply involved in the attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election. His refusal suggests that the Supreme Court’s new ethics rules are as toothless as their opponents charged.

In another filing last night, Smith revealed that the government expects to introduce the testimony of three experts who will speak to the use of cell phones by Trump and one other person after the 2020 election, including on January 6, a revelation that Los Angeles Times legal analyst Harry Litman suggested must “have the Trump camp totally freaked out.”

Inflation slowed again in November, dropping to 0.1% as gasoline prices fell, so that the annual inflation over the past year has dropped to 3.1%. 

Fallout continues from the Texas Supreme Court’s decision that a woman carrying a fetus with a fatal condition cannot abort that fetus even though it threatens her own health and future fertility. President Joe Biden promised today to continue to fight to protect access to reproductive health care, saying: “No woman should be forced to go to court or flee her home state just to receive the health care she needs. But that is exactly what happened in Texas thanks to Republican elected officials, and it is simply outrageous. This should never happen in America, period.”

But for all the importance of these major stories, the outstanding story of the day is that the Republican Party appears to have decided to undermine financial support for Ukraine’s war against Russia’s invasion. 

This is simply an astonishing decision. Majorities in both the House and the Senate want to pass supplemental aid to Ukraine, which both protects North Atlantic Treaty Organization countries and provides jobs in the United States, but an extremist minority in Congress is stopping passage of a measure that would provide more weapons to Ukraine.

There is no doubt previous funding has been effective. A newly declassified intelligence memo shows that Russia had an army of 360,000 before the war and that thanks to the Ukraine resistance it has lost 315,000 troops—87% of its army—forcing it to squeeze more recruits out of its civilian population. It has also lost 2,200 out of 3,500 tanks, forcing it to turn to Soviet-era equipment. 

Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky, who was in Washington, D.C., today to try to convince Republicans to pass such a measure, noted that Ukraine has regained half the land Russia seized in the February 2022 invasion, forced Russian warships out of Ukrainian territorial waters, and opened export corridors to get Ukrainian grain to countries that desperately need it. At the same time, he said, Ukraine’s economy is growing at a 5% rate, suggesting it will be less dependent on foreign aid going forward. 

In The Atlantic, David Frum, who has criticized Democrats on immigration policy, pointed out that Biden and the Democrats have made a real effort to negotiate with extremist Republicans but the Republicans are simply refusing to engage. Frum concluded that Republicans do not want to make a deal. Either they want to perform a ritual in which Republicans demand and Democrats comply, or they want to keep the border as a campaign issue, or they actually oppose aid to Ukraine. And yet, Frum reiterates, majorities in both the House and the Senate want the supplemental aid package to pass.  

Republicans appear to want to keep the issue of immigration front and center in 2024, hoping that people will focus on it rather than on abortion, especially in states like Texas.

Poland’s newly elected prime minister Donald Tusk today vowed that he would “loudly and decisively demand the full mobilization of the free world, the Western world, to help Ukraine in this war,” but Russia expert Fiona Hill told Politico’s Maura Reynolds that U.S. funding will be key to determining whether Ukraine wins back control of its territory. That decision, she says, is really about our own future.

Permitting Putin to win in Ukraine, she says, would create a world in which the standing of the U.S. in the world would be diminished, Iran and North Korea would be strengthened, China would dominate the Indo-Pacific, the Middle East would be more unstable, and nuclear weapons would proliferate. 

“Ukraine has become a battlefield now for America and America’s own future—whether we see it or not—for our own defensive posture and preparedness, for our reputation and our leadership,” Hill told Reynolds. “For Putin, Ukraine is a proxy war against the United States, to remove the United States from the world stage.”

“The problem is that many members of Congress don’t want to see President Biden win on any front,” Hill said. “People are incapable now of separating off ‘giving Biden a win’ from actually allowing Ukraine to win. They are thinking less about U.S. national security, European security, international security and foreign policy, and much more about how they can humiliate Biden. In that regard,” she said, “whether they like it or not, members of Congress are doing exactly the same thing as Vladimir Putin. They hate that. They want to refute that. But Vladimir Putin wants Biden to lose, and they want Biden to be seen to lose as well.”

Today, Biden noted that Russian media outlets have been cheering on the Republicans. "If you're being celebrated by Russian propagandists, it might be time to rethink what you're doing,” he said. “History will judge harshly those who turned their back on freedom's cause."

Congress is set to leave for the holiday break on Thursday, returning in the second week of January. Biden urged Congress “to pass the supplemental funding for Ukraine before they break for the holiday recess—before they give Putin the greatest Christmas gift they could possibly give him.”

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

#Christian nationalism #Moses #House Speaker Mike Johnson #Steve Brodner #Putin #Letters From an American #Heather Cox Richardson #Russia #Ukraine #SCOTUS #Jack Smith #Rule of Law #above the law

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https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300259902/worse-than-nothing/

Praise/Blurbs/Endorsements

“Chemerinsky has written a powerful, respectful but devastating critique of the political practice known as originalism. This rich and careful book provides essential context for understanding the confusions and self-deceptions of that project.”—Aziz Z. Huq, Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law, University of Chicago “Worse Than Nothing addresses an exceptionally timely and significant issue. Chemerinsky provides a definitive account of the rise and pitfalls of originalism that is accessible to a broad audience of lawyers and nonlawyers alike.”—Leah Litman, Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School “Worse Than Nothing is a devastating, concise, and beautifully written critique of originalism. It is a must read for anyone interested in the current debates about originalism and constitutional interpretation.”—Eric J. Segall, author of Originalism as Faith “Originalism mistakenly seeks to slavishly tie interpretation of our living Constitution to a single point in time. Nowhere is this mistake more forcefully and clearly explained than in this excellent new book by Erwin Chemerinsky.”—Martin H. Redish, author of Judicial Independence and the American Constitution “Clear, concise and devastating…A must-read for anyone interested in the Constitution and its contemporary meaning.”—David Cole, National Legal Director of the ACLU

#forthcoming books #supreme court #law #jurisprudence #erwin chemerinsky #conservative mythologies

[eretzyisrael]

Source, again, where the links work.

#ken roth #human rights watch #david litman #camera #false claims

[casualoptimist]

Notable Book Covers of 2023

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#alban fischer #alex merto #allison saltzman #anna jordan #anna kochman #annie atkins #arsh raziuddin #ben wiseman #beth steidle #book covers #book covers 2023 #book covers of note #Books #christopher brand #dan mogford #dave litman #david drummond #Design #elizabeth yaffe #emily mahon #gray318 #jack smyth #jamie keenan #janet hansen #jaya miceli #jaya nicely #jennifer griffiths #jennifer heuer #jo thomson #john gall

[judgingbooksbycovers]

Sensation Machines: A Novel

By Adam Wilson.

Design by David Litman.

#Sensation Machines #Adam Wilson #David Litman #books #book covers

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Donald <b>Trump's</b> real estate empire hangs in the balance ahead of deadline - YouTube

New Post has been published on https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Dw06VBzpnnyk&ct=ga&cd=CAIyGjUzM2UwMTY5ZmFhZTIwMGQ6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0kSmOjx1nEEuvYcnrYp6Tk

Donald Trump's real estate empire hangs in the balance ahead of deadline - YouTube

Tim O’Brien, Senior Executive Editor at Bloomberg Opinion, Harry Litman, former U.S. Attorney and David Jolly, former Congressman from Florida …

#Uncategorized

[garudabluffs]

Letitia James says she will seize Trump’s assets if he can’t pay civil fraud fine\

Feb 21, 2024 #Trump#LeticiaJames#Trial

Harry Litman for U.S. Attorney, David Jolly former congressman from Florida, and Rick Stengel, former top state department official join Alicia Menendez in for Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House to discuss how NY Attorney General Letitia James is prepared to go after Donald Trump’s assets with him unlikely to be able to put up the cash to pay the penalty in the judgment in the New York civil fraud judgment against him. 

2,297 Comments

#Trump #Dial-A-Trial #Youtube

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by David M. Litman

Nationally, hate crimes against Jews are at shockingly high and disproportionate levels, with four times as many anti-Jewish crimes as anti-Muslim and anti-Arab crimes combined. One need only look at some of the recent scenes on campus, such as anti-Israel demonstrators besieging Jewish students locked in a room at Cooper Union, to understand why Jewish students are afraid.

Moreover, it is not the pro-Israel rallies and activists that have regularly descended into violence, intimidation, and vandalism — or barrages of antisemitic and genocidal chants.

It is the Jewish students who are being attacked at their own rallies or while putting up posters of innocent Israeli civilians taken hostage by Hamas. It is Jewish students who are being forced to reject a central part of their Jewish identity if they want to participate in university functions.

We know where much of this hate is coming from. As shown by one study, the presence of the major anti-Israel student organization, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), is one of the best predictors for the perception of a hostile climate for Jews on campuses.

As one New York appellate court ruling explained, a university’s conclusion that an SJP chapter would “work against, rather than enhance [a university’s] commitment [to] open dialogue” was “not without sound basis in reason” nor “taken without regard to the facts.”

Which brings us to the “cry” part of “crybully.”

Anti-Israel activists shriek and howl over alleged threats to their free speech. But the evidence is thin that there is any reason for anti-Israel students to feel that their freedom of expression is under any serious threat on campus.

Moves against various SJP chapters on universities have not been on the basis of their beliefs or expression, but rather their violations of legitimate university rules, and even plausible arguments that National SJP has run afoul of the Anti-Terrorism Act.

#crybullies #free speech #sjp #hamas #gaza #students for justice in palestine

[antonio-velardo]

Antonio Velardo shares: Shade of Color by Sam Corbin

By Sam Corbin David Litman and Andrea Carla Michaels make a strong case together. Published: July 30, 2023 at 06:00PM from NYT Gameplay https://ift.tt/7Rds4Il via IFTTT

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#antonio velardo #IFTTT #NYT