Darcie Grunblatt

US Media Researcher at @CAMERA4Truth. Previously at @Jerusalem_Post. Let’s tackle misreporting on Israel and antisemitism together. Views expressed are my own ✨

[Darcie Grunblatt @D_Grunblatt]

An unbelievable failure in CNN’s research. ⬇️ It took me 2 seconds to find that the Lemkin family filed a complaint against the Lemkin Institute. Lander has repeatedly invoked the institute’s name. CNN couldn’t figure this out to rebut Lander’s claims? Googling is too hard?

[CAMERA @CAMERA4Truth]

In a recent interview with @CNN, New York congressional candidate Brad Lander cited Raphael Lemkin and the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (LIGP) to argue that Israel's actions in Gaza constitute a "genocide."

Lander told CNN's Dana Bash that Jews are now "grappling with what it means in some ways to be a perpetrator."

But Lemkin's closest living relative takes issue with how Lander has weaponized his family member's legacy.

"Invoking the Lemkin Institute as though it speaks with special authority on Raphael Lemkin’s legacy is deeply misleading. The Institute has no affiliation with Raphael Lemkin or his family, and my family has repeatedly and publicly objected to its use of his name," Joseph Lemkin told CAMERA's @D_Grunblatt.

To counter Lander’s suggestion that the LIGP position represents a consensus, Lemkin pointed to a letter 112 Holocaust and genocide scholars signed who also explicitly rejected labeling the war in Gaza a genocide.

Lemkin noted that his relative was an ardent Zionist who understood the existential vulnerability of the Jewish people. He said Raphael Lemkin also “understood that if the term were untethered from its legal meaning and transformed into a political slogan, it would ultimately lose its force. I believe that is precisely what is happening here.”

[Tal Sharon @talsharon08]

@CAMERA4Truth @DanaBashCNN @D_Grunblatt Dana, assuming that you misspoke in the moment you should clarify to your audience

[Darcie Grunblatt @D_Grunblatt]

The fact that the Nazis forced members of the Jewish people to turn against their own was not only physically brutal, but also a form of psychological warfare. Erasing this element dilutes the terror of the Nazi regime.

[CAMERA @CAMERA4Truth]

CNN anchor @DanaBashCNN says kapos were "Jews who were helping keep the peace, so to speak, in the Nazi concentration camps.”

But as @D_grunblatt observes, Bash's definition is absurd.

"The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum notes that beating and punishing subordinate prisoners was a required duty for kapos, with many committing murders to meet SS expectations, a brutal reality Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel documented in his memoir Night," Grunblatt writes in a recent analysis.

Bash is supposed to be "CNN’s premier voice on American Jewry and antisemitism." But instead of confronting misinformation about the Holocaust and Israel, she's aiding in "amplifying harmful revisionism under the banner of legacy journalism."

[CAMERA @CAMERA4Truth]

CNN anchor @DanaBashCNN says kapos were "Jews who were helping keep the peace, so to speak, in the Nazi concentration camps.”

But as @D_grunblatt observes, Bash's definition is absurd.

"The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum notes that beating and punishing subordinate prisoners was a required duty for kapos, with many committing murders to meet SS expectations, a brutal reality Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel documented in his memoir Night," Grunblatt writes in a recent analysis.

Bash is supposed to be "CNN’s premier voice on American Jewry and antisemitism." But instead of confronting misinformation about the Holocaust and Israel, she's aiding in "amplifying harmful revisionism under the banner of legacy journalism."

[Richard Landes @richard_landes]

excellent article. must read

"In the wake of the 1994 genocide, Alison Des Forges, then a senior adviser to Human Rights Watch, pointed to genocide inversion as a central means of justifying the genocide against the Tutsis. In rhetoric such as Hutu extremist Léon Mugesera’s 1992 speech, Tutsis were cast as invaders bent on extermination of the Hutus. Such false accusations—especially those that target a population with collective guilt—came to be recognized in later court cases as key indicators of incitement to genocide.

International courts have rarely pursued incitement cases, yet countless instances of genocide inversion against Israel have flooded the public sphere since Oct. 7. Whether directed against the Tutsis in Rwanda or against Israelis—now cast as genocidal colonizers by a cohort of anti-Zionist academics and nonprofit advocacy groups—portraying a people as foreign usurpers and inherent perpetrators isn’t neutral. It is a well-recognized prelude to violence."

Rwanda, Israel and the Inversion of “Genocide” by @adam_louis52328 https://t.co/H9Xc48iwtN via @WSJopinion

[Darcie Grunblatt @D_Grunblatt]

Everyone I know in Israel still sometimes has nightmares about terrorists invading our homes. Poor DC babies 😑

[Washington Free Beacon @FreeBeacon]

Former Biden national security adviser Jake Sullivan told the New Yorker he can’t sleep because he’s consumed with thoughts about what the U.S. could have done differently to restrain Israel’s response to the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas terror attack.

“If the issue is policy-related rather than neurological,” @IraStoll writes, “one thing Sullivan or Biden might have done better is communicate more directly that America would not restrain Israel or withhold weapons.

“Once President Trump took office and adopted that approach, Hamas released all its remaining hostages.”

[Uri Kurlianchik @VerminusM]

Bibi is a schmuck but don't for one second think that if someone replaces him as prime minister, the enemies of Israel will suddenly stop hating Israel. It's the idea of a sovereign Jewish state in the Land of Israel they find objectionable, not any special Israeli policy.

[𝔼𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕥 𝕄𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕟 @ElliotMalin]

Just as a casual reminder that @bartov_omer is *not* a "genocide scholar." He's a historian who has done work on the Holocaust.

Being a genocide scholar is more than being a historian and also requires understanding the fundamental principles of the crime of genocide. Something that Bartov has *never* been able to articulate.

In his "analysis" of genocide he fails to apply the requirements for the crime of genocide, he constantly makes assumptions, he does not use the tests designed to infer intent, he does not demonstrate a fundamental understanding of how we assess genocide.

It's because he isn't a genocide scholar. He's a historian.

He gets a big section in my upcoming book on this subject titled "Everything is Genocide."

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Astonishing package of total lies. Total bullshit, start to finish. 600k likes and rising 🤦🏻‍♂️

Palestine is a mental illness.

Still, useful if you want all the blood libels neatly in one place, and if you’re after a good example of what extremist entryism looks like.

[CAMERA @CAMERA4Truth]

Brown University professor @bartov_omer is an anti-Israel activist who has called Israel a nation “injected with poison,” accused it of “Jewish supremacism,” and blamed Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre on Israeli policy.

Yet major media outlets give him cover by platforming him as an "impartial expert" on genocide—most recently in a @nytimes’ July 21 op-ed.

Anti-Israel ideologues like Glenn Greenwald then weaponize Bartov's background, using his credentials to validate the "genocide" narrative.

Outlets like the Times must stop playing along. Laundering activist rhetoric as objective expertise does a massive disservice to readers.

[Olga I Deutsch @olga_deutsch]

“To those with eyes to see, it was obvious from the start that the hate marches springing into existence after October 7 … weren’t spontaneous protests against Israel ... Only six groups “have been involved in more than 80 per cent of protests”.

What we were told were grassroots protests, were in reality nothing less than a “globally coordinated campaign” against the West using Israel as a wedge.

@MelanieLatest's peerless analysis, based on @NGOmonitor research, here in a brave column for @australian.

[CAMERA @CAMERA4Truth]

“As CNN’s premier voice on American Jewry and antisemitism, Bash must have the capacity to confront misinformation about the Holocaust and Israel.”

https://t.co/gQUNdDgShp

[Darcie Grunblatt @D_Grunblatt]

ICYMI, Bash defined kapos as Jews just "keeping the peace" in Nazi camps on-air. Yet CNN ignoring my multiple requests for a correction was almost worse. At a time when Holocaust literacy is plummeting, this apathy toward historical accuracy is dangerous.

[CAMERA @CAMERA4Truth]

“As CNN’s premier voice on American Jewry and antisemitism, Bash must have the capacity to confront misinformation about the Holocaust and Israel.”

https://t.co/gQUNdDgShp

[CAMERA @CAMERA4Truth]

In a recent interview with @CNN, New York congressional candidate Brad Lander cited Raphael Lemkin and the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (LIGP) to argue that Israel's actions in Gaza constitute a "genocide."

Lander told CNN's Dana Bash that Jews are now "grappling with what it means in some ways to be a perpetrator."

But Lemkin's closest living relative takes issue with how Lander has weaponized his family member's legacy.

"Invoking the Lemkin Institute as though it speaks with special authority on Raphael Lemkin’s legacy is deeply misleading. The Institute has no affiliation with Raphael Lemkin or his family, and my family has repeatedly and publicly objected to its use of his name," Joseph Lemkin told CAMERA's @D_Grunblatt.

To counter Lander’s suggestion that the LIGP position represents a consensus, Lemkin pointed to a letter 112 Holocaust and genocide scholars signed who also explicitly rejected labeling the war in Gaza a genocide.

Lemkin noted that his relative was an ardent Zionist who understood the existential vulnerability of the Jewish people. He said Raphael Lemkin also “understood that if the term were untethered from its legal meaning and transformed into a political slogan, it would ultimately lose its force. I believe that is precisely what is happening here.”

[Darcie Grunblatt @D_Grunblatt]

More on this soon 👀

[Israel ישראל @Israel]

The Palestinian Authority is trying to have Sebastia recognized by UNESCO as a Palestinian heritage site.

Because when you don't have your own ancient heritage, you steal someone else's.

The city was founded as Shomron (Samaria), the capital of the Kingdom of Israel in the 9th century BCE, and was renamed Sebastia by Herod, King of Judea, in the 1st century BCE.

[Darcie Grunblatt @D_Grunblatt]

The fact that he could not even respond to any of her points and just kept pulling out new topics shows how little he knows of what he’s talking about

[Natasha Hausdorff @HausdorffMedia]

Why are they so afraid of the truth?

[Darcie Grunblatt @D_Grunblatt]

@ all the people who told me I drink too much coffee at work 👀
slay

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Five cups of coffee a day is fine for most adults, heart association says, as evidence grows about the beverage’s benefits https://t.co/9oxnsqN8hA

[Quillette @Quillette]

A Holocaust historian calls Israel's Gaza war a "genocide." Benny Morris — one of Israel's own "New Historians" — says he's using the wrong prism, and erasing Arab agency to get there.

https://t.co/b04AVovQ6C

[Darcie Grunblatt @D_Grunblatt]

Wow so many layers of racism

[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

'Before 1948, hummus was an Arab food. Most European Jews never ate it' https://t.co/kfufGfGVzY

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

People do realize that if Israel stops taking U.S. aid, the U.S. will have less influence over Israel, not more?

Providing aid is literally the U.S.’s leverage over Israel. This has played out constantly over the course of the war, from Biden tempering Israel’s invasion of Rafah, to Trump pressing to end the war by negotiating the hostage deal, to the recent U.S. backed Lebanon-Israel deal.

I’m not really sure why the U.S. considers itself a moral beacon on wars, considering its conduct in recent ones. Nonetheless, many Americans who are calling for the U.S. to exert more influence on Israel, are simultaneously calling for embargoes which would, essentially, mean giving up their influence entirely.

They must realize that will hardly leave Israel defenseless, but will make Israel less dependent on America?

Maybe it’s not about “helping Palestinians” as they claim. Maybe they just want to wash their hands of a complicated situation to feel morally pure.

Otherwise, it really makes no sense.