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{{Short description|British lobbyist and human rights activist}}
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| birth_place = London, England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2012|5|20|1933|7|4}}<ref>{{Cite web|last=Abécassis|first=Frédéric|date=January 21, 2014|title=Questions About Jewish Migrations from Morocco|url=https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00778664/document|access-date=December 20, 2020|website=HAL}}</ref>
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| known_for = [[Operation Mural]]; Representation at the UN; historian<ref name=trouw/>
| education = [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] and [[Master of Arts (Oxbridge and Dublin)|MA]] degrees
| alma_mater = [[Canford School]], Dorset, England; [[Trinity College, Dublin]]; [[University of London]]
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| awards = "President's private Commemoration" for [[Operation Mural]] in Casablanca 1961 by Israeli President [[Shimon Peres]];<ref name=conn /><ref name=ner />
"Hero of Silence" Order from Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center [[Mossad]] 2009<ref name=ner />
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'''David Gerald Littman''' (4 July 1933 – 20 May 2012) was a British Jewish activist<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,613193,00.html|first=Veit|last= Medick |title=Germany Asked to Boycott UN Racism Conference|magazine=[[Der Spiegel]]|date=13 March 2009|accessdate=10 January 2010}}</ref><ref>[http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=CS&s_site=thestate&p_multi=CS&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB58713D01A5C22&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM "Religious Freedom to Get Spotlight Conference to Focus on Persecuted Church"], ''[[The State (newspaper)|The State]]'', p. B2, 12 March 1998, accessed 12 January 2010</ref> best known for organising the departure of Jewish children from Morocco when he was 28. He then worked as a [[lobbyist]] at the United Nations in Geneva and was also an historian.<ref>Thomas, Martyn and Adly A. Youssef, ''Copts in Egypt: A Christian Minority under Siege'', (Orthdruk Bialystok, 2006), 190; ''David Gerald Littman: Historian, born in London, received his BA and MA degrees in modern history and political science at Trinity College Dublin''.</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Kf3XAAAAMAAJ&q=%22david+g+littman%22
==Biography==
David Littman was born on 4 July 1933, in London, England.<ref name=bio>{{cite news | url=http://www.dhimmitude.org/littman-biography.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070623005919/http://www.dhimmitude.org/littman-biography.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=23 June 2007 | title=David G. Littman; Biography | work=dhimmitude.org | accessdate=13 January 2010 }}</ref> He was educated at [[Canford School]], Dorset, England (1951), and [[Trinity College, Dublin]], where he earned his BA with honours and [[Master of Arts (Oxbridge and Dublin)|MA]] degrees in Modern History and Political Science, followed by post-graduate studies at the [[UCL Institute of Archaeology|Institute of Archaeology]], [[University of London]]. He married his wife Gisèle (née Orebi; originally from Egypt and later known by her [[pen name]] [[Bat Ye'or]]), in September 1959. They moved to [[Lausanne]], Switzerland, the following year.
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization was founded by his brother, Louis Littman.<ref>[http://www.littman.co.uk/about.html Littman Library of Jewish Civilization].</ref>
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In 1970, the Littmans helped to found the ''Centre d'Information et de Documentation sur le Moyen Orient'' (CID) in Geneva, which published studies on Middle East subjects until the mid-1980s. He supervised its publications until 1974, and then served as an advisor.
Since 1986, he has appeared several times before the [[United Nations Human Rights Council]] (formerly the [[United Nations Commission on Human Rights]]) on behalf of various NGOs. From
===Release of Russian Jews===
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===Hamas===
From January 1989 Littman sought to make public at the
===Release of Syrian Jewish women===
In October 1990, as the WUPJ's representative to the
===Lebanese Jewish hostages===
In August 1991, he appeared before the
===Claim of UN conference being hijacked===
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===Shariah, violence against women, and anti-semitism===
''[[The New York Daily News]]'' referred to Littman as a "rare but tenacious [voice] who confront[s] Islamic human rights abuses at the UN at every turn," and cited his complaining to the Council that Iranian law "still allows the marriage of girls at only 9 years old, and justifies the [[stoning]] of women for alleged adultery."<ref>[http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2008/06/02/2008-06-02_unspeakable_hypocrisy.html Bayevsky, Anne, "UN-speakable hypocrisy"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080918102855/http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2008/06/02/2008-06-02_unspeakable_hypocrisy.html |date=18 September 2008 }}, ''[[The New York Daily News]]'', 2 June 2008, accessed 12 January 2009</ref><ref>[http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/0,1518,563714,00.html "Debatte über Uno-Gremium; Religionsfreiheit vor Menschenrecht?", ''Der Spiegel'', 4 July 2008, accessed 13 January 2009]</ref><ref>[http://www.elperiodico.com/print.asp?idpublicacio_PK=46&idnoticia_PK=519774&idioma=CAT&h=080619 "Polèmica per la llei islàmica al Consell de Drets Humans"], ''[[El Periódico de Catalunya]]'', 19 June 2008, accessed 13 January 2009</ref> In 2007 he held a keynote speech at the international [[counter-jihad]] conference in Brussels along with Bat Ye'or.<ref>{{cite
When Littman sought to make a three-minute statement before the
===Writings===
Early in his career, Littman's writings were published in the ''Wiener Library Bulletin'', a periodical of the [[Wiener Library]]. Others were published by the CID, which disseminated its publications by mailing them to prominent people and institutions. He also published historical writings with ''Les Editions de l'Avenir'', which distributed its publications in a similar manner.<ref name="littmanwebsite">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070623005919/http://www.dhimmitude.org/littman-biography.html David G. Littman website]</ref>{{better source needed|date=December 2022}} Since 1971, Littman has published articles on historical and human rights issues in [[academic journal]]s, including in [[Jean-Paul Sartre]]'s ''[[Les Temps Modernes]]'', in the press, and in three books.<ref name="littmanwebsite"/> He also published a chapter in ''The Century of Moses Montefiore'' (1985), published by the Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, under the auspices of the [[Oxford University Press]].<ref name="booksGooglePomeroyAlpert">[https://books.google.com/books?
Littman contributed multiple chapters to ''[[The Myth of Islamic Tolerance|The Myth of Islamic Tolerance: How Islamic Law Treats Non-Muslims]]'' (2005), edited by [[Robert Spencer (writer)|Robert Spencer]], [[Prometheus Books]] 2005, {{ISBN|1-59102-249-5}}.<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/dp/1591022495#reader_1591022495 "The Myth of Islamic Tolerance: How Islamic Law Treats Non-Muslims (Hardcover)", Amazon, accessed 12 January 2010]</ref>
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==Published work==
* ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=aaDrGwAACAAJ&
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=nw27AAAAIAAJ&q=%22d.f.+green%22+islam
* "[https://books.google.com/books?id=MLYcMwAACAAJ&
* "[https://books.google.com/books?id=ENrHHAAACAAJ&
* "[https://books.google.com/books?id=MZ25AAAAIAAJ&q=Protected+Peoples+under+Islam
* "Quelques Aspects de la Condition de Dhimmi: Juifs d'Afrique du Nord avant la Colonisation," in ''Yod, Revue des Etudes Hébraiques et juives modernes et contemporaines'', (Publications Orientalistes de France), 2: 1, October 1976 (+ Geneva, Avenir, 10 May 1997)
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=fwJfGwAACAAJ&
* "[http://dhimmitude.org/archive/littman_jews_under_muslims_case_of_persia.pdf Jews under Muslim Rule: The Case of Persia]," ''Wiener Library Bulletin'', 32, n.s. 49/50 (1979)
* "[https://books.google.com/books?id=QQM-GwAACAAJ&
* ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=0sRtAAAAMAAJ&q=The+Century+of+Moses+Montefiore
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=yZFiPAAACAAJ&
*''[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZHttGwAACAAJ&
* "Human Rights and Human Wrongs," N° 1 – 11, 344 pages (verbatim oral and written statements: 1986–91 made by all accredited representatives of the WUPJ to the UNCHR and UN Sub-Commission, Geneva: 84 texts, of which 68 (oral) and 9 (written) by David Littman, WUPJ, Geneva, 1986–91<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=TObUQQAACAAJ&
* "[https://books.google.com/books?id=ShGPAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Utopia:+A+'United+States+of+Abraham%22+littman
* "[http://direct.bl.uk/bld/PlaceOrder.do?UIN=013294318&ETOC=RN&from=searchengine The U.N. Finds Slavery in the Sudan] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110807221402/http://direct.bl.uk/bld/PlaceOrder.do?UIN=013294318&ETOC=RN&from=searchengine |date=7 August 2011 }}", ''[[Middle East Quarterly]]'' (Philadelphia), September 1996
* "[https://books.google.com/books?id=g28oNQAACAAJ&
* "Dangerous Censorship of a U.N. Special Rapporteur," Rene Wadlow and David Littman, ''Justice'' (Tel Aviv) No. 14, September 1997
* "UN Special Rapporteur Censured on Islamist and Arab Antisemitism," by Rene Wadlow and David Littman, ''Midstream'', vol. 44, pp. 8–12, February–March 1998
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* "Islamists' Perpetual Jihad," David G. Littman, ''FrontPageMagazine'', 15 August 2003
* "[http://97.74.65.51/Printable.aspx?ArtId=10582 Yasser's Terrorist Jesus]{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}," by David G. Littman, ''FrontPageMagazine'', 15 November 2004
* ''[[The Myth of Islamic Tolerance]]: How Islamic Law Treats Non-Muslims'', edited by Robert Spencer, "[https://books.google.com/books?id=ShGPAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Human+Rights+and+Human+Wrongs%22+littman
* ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=ooAaaMdOwpAC&
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=PF9_EG3VaaUC
* "[https://web.archive.org/web/20101003071751/http://pups.paris-sorbonne.fr/pages/aff_livre.php?Id=857 L'Exil au Maghreb], La condition juive dans l'Islam, 1148–1912", [[Paul B. Fenton]] et David G. Littman, 17 November 2010, Presses de l'Université Paris-Sorbonne, {{ISBN|978-2-84050-725-3}}
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