Latma

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<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]

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  1. 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
  2. Andrew Sullivan, AIPAC's Latest Email, The Daily Dish (The Atlantic), 20 June 2010
  3. Didi Remez, Caroline Glick’s “We Con the World” and the Tea Partying of the US-Israel relationship, Coteret, 6 June 2010