Latma
<youtube size="tiny" align="right" caption="'The Three Terrors' - A racist video produced by Latma and distributed by AIPAC">VmffgIqlAYA</youtube> <youtube size="tiny" align="right" caption="'We con the world' - Latma mocks the Flotilla activists">lnSR6RhdqxM</youtube> Latma is a right-wing Israeli media project which satirizes critics of Israel and what it calls the "egregious leftist slant of news coverage" in Israel.[1] The project is run by Jerusalem Post editor Caroline Glick and funded by the Washington-based neoconservative think tank Center for Security Policy. The Israel lobby group AIPAC,[2] Christians United for Israel (CUFI) and the Israeli embassy distributed its videos as part of the media campagin to discredit the activists massacred on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla.[3]
Aims
According to Latma writer Segal, 'Latma means "hit" or "blow" in Arabic...Like a blow to the head that we're dealing to the media, on the one hand, and on the other hand, we are giving a wake-up slap to the public.' For Segal, the aim of Latma is to counter Israel's media 'all of which march to the beat of the same leftist drummer.' [1]
Principals
- Caroline Glick
- Shlomo Blass - site editor
- Tal Gilad - writer (wrote the lyrics to the flotilla satire).
- Noam Yaakobson - plays 'Captain Stabbing' in the flotilla satire
- Karni Eldad - daughter of Israeli MK Aryeh Eldad who also appears in the flotilla satire.
- Erel Segal - writer and actor
- Asher Derman - chief writer
Affiliations
Contact
Resources
- MJ Rosenberg, AIPAC Circulates Racist Anti-Turk, Anti-Arab Video, Huffington Post, 19 June 2010
- Didi Remez, Caroline Glick’s “We Con the World” and the Tea Partying of the US-Israel relationship, Coteret, 6 June 2010
- Ali Gharib, Tax-Exempt US $$ Fund Tasteless Israeli Flotilla Satire, Lobelog.com, 5 June 2010
- Ali Gharib, Flotilla satire IS “official policy” of Israel, Lobelog.com, 5 June 2010
- JPost.com Staff, Swedish anti-Semitism satire clip a hit, Jerusalem Post, 18 September 2010
- Ruthie Blum Leibowitz, 'One on One: Right hook to the funny bone of the body politic,' Jerusalem Post, 18 March 2009.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ruthie Blum Leibowitz, 'One on One: Right hook to the funny bone of the body politic,' Jerusalem Post, 18 March 2009
- ↑ Andrew Sullivan, AIPAC's Latest Email, The Daily Dish (The Atlantic), 20 June 2010
- ↑ Didi Remez, Caroline Glick’s “We Con the World” and the Tea Partying of the US-Israel relationship, Coteret, 6 June 2010
