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| birth_place = London, England<ref name=bio />

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2012|5|20|1933|7|4}}<ref name=death>{{citeCite newsweb|last=Abécassis|first=Frédéric|date=January 21, 2014|title=Questions About Jewish Migrations from Morocco|url=httphttps://wwwhalshs.jihadwatcharchives-ouvertes.orgfr/2012halshs-00778664/05/ripdocument|access-david-littman.html |titledate=R.I.P. David LittmanDecember 20, 2020|workwebsite= jihadwatch.org |accessdate=20 May 2012 HAL}}</ref>

| education = [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] and [[Master of Arts (Oxbridge and Dublin)|MA]] degrees

| parents = Joseph Aaron Littman (father)<ref name=bio />

'''David Gerald Littman''' (4 July 1933 – 20 May 2012) was a British [[human rightsJewish activist]]<ref>{{cite webmagazine|url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,613193,00.html|first=Veit|last= Medick |title=Germany Asked to Boycott UN Racism Conference|publishermagazine=''[[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<ref name=bio /> 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&dq=%22david+g+littman%22&lr=&num=50&cd=13 ''Islam et judéo-christianisme: texte inédit: Intervention philosophique'', p. 38, Jacques Ellul], Presses universitaires de France, 2004, {{ISBN|978-2-13-054215-5}}, accessed 13 January 2010</ref> He was married to [[Bat Ye'or]].

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]].<ref name=bio /> He married his wife Gisèle (née Orebi; originally from Egypt and later known by her [[nompen de plumename]] [[Bat Ye'or]]), in September 1959. They moved to [[Lausanne]], Switzerland, the following year.<ref name=bio /><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070623005919/http://www.dhimmitude.org/littman-biography.html Website of David Littman's wife].</ref>

In 1961, Littman volunteered for a clandestine humanitarian mission to evacuate Jewish children from [[Morocco]] to Israel, via Switzerland. Moroccan Jews had been forbidden from leaving the country since 1956.<ref name=trouw /> Littman thought he was working for the [[Jewish Agency]] – years later it was revealed it was arranged with the assistance of the [[Mossad]].<ref name=trouw>{{cite news|url= http://www.nederlandsgesprekcentrum.nl/user/file/aphilosopheratthehumanrightscouncilartikelaustindacey-trouw.doc|last= Dacey|first= Austin|date= 3 December 2008|title= Sensitive Words|work= [[Trouw]] / article stored at the Nederlands Gesprek Centrum|accessdate= 21 November 2011|deadurlurl-status= yesdead|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20120425235150/http://www.nederlandsgesprekcentrum.nl/user/file/aphilosopheratthehumanrightscouncilartikelaustindacey-trouw.doc|archivedate= 25 April 2012|df= dmy-all}}</ref><ref name=conn /> From March–July 1961, posing with his wife and baby daughter as Christians, Littman ran the [[Casablanca]] office of the Geneva-based international NGO for children ''Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants de l'Afrique du Nord'' (OSSEAN).<ref name=bio /><ref name=conn /><ref name=ner /> His [[code name]] was "Mural",<ref name=conn /> and the code name for the mission was "[[Operation Mural]]". After months of negotiation by Littman, the children left Morocco in five convoys under the guise of a supposed holiday in Switzerland (with Littman accompanying the last convoy), and from Switzerland went to Israel.<ref name=trouw/><ref name=conn /><ref name=ner /> In all, he assisted in evacuating 530 Jewish children to Israel.<ref name=trouw/><ref name=conn /> The children's families joined them several years later.<ref>[''Mideast file'', Volume 5,&nbsp;Issue 4, Mekhon Shiloaḥ le-ḥeḳer ha-Mizraḥ ha-tikhon ṿe-Afriḳah, Learned Information, 1986, accessed 14 January 2010]</ref>

An article about Operation Mural by Shmuel Segev was published in the magazine ''Maariv'' in 1984.<ref name=ner /> Littman's work was then recognized by President [[Chaim Herzog]] and later President [[Shimon Peres]], who presented him with the Mimouna award in 1986.<ref name=conn >{{cite webnews|url=http://www.jpost.com/Features/Article.aspx?id=146367|title=The Moroccan connection|publishernewspaper=''[[The Jerusalem Post]]''|date=22 June 2009|accessdate=10 May 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite webnews|url= http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/935128.html|first=Yair|last= Sheleg|title=Codename: Operation Mural |publishernewspaper=''[[Haaretz]]''|date=17 December 2007|accessdate=12 January 2010}}</ref> A documentary film on the operation, filmed by Yehuda Kaveh, screened in 2007.<ref name=bio />

On 1 June 2008, at a special private commemorative event at the presidential Jerusalem residence – with Littman, his wife, two children, three grandchildren and former key agents from the Mossad, who had worked with Littman – [[President of the State of Israel|Israeli President]] [[Shimon Peres]], said:<ref name=trouw/><ref name=ner>{{cite news | url=http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/52539/sec_id/52539 | title=Conferring the "Hero of Silence" Order on David G. Littman; "Operation Mural": Casablanca 1961; Presentation by President Shimon Peres | work= New English Review | date=1 July 2009 | accessdate=13 January 2010 | archive-date=21 July 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721192351/http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/52539/sec_id/52539 | url-status=dead }}</ref>

A few months earlier a Casablanca French newspaper, Le Soir Echos, interviewed him through a Swiss colleague, with their own questions; and published the Operation Mural story integrally in four successive issues ( 23–26 March) with their own positive titles and sub-titles throughout, and no editing.<ref name=conn /> It was the first time that Moroccans learned about the affair.<ref name=conn />

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.<ref name=bio /> He supervised its publications until 1974, and then served as an advisor.<ref name=bio />

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.<ref name=trouw/> From 1986–911986 to 1991 he was main representative of the [[World Union for Progressive Judaism]] (WUPJ).<ref name=bio /> In February 1992, he joined René Wadlow (main representative of the [[International Fellowship of Reconciliation]]; (IFOR)), then with the [[World Federalist Movement/Institute for Global Policy|World Federalist Movement]] (WFM).<ref name=bio /> He has been an accredited representative for the Association of World Citizens (AWC) and for the [http://www.iheu.org/ Association for World Education] (AWE) since 1997, and an accredited representative and main spokesman for the WUPJ again since 2001.<ref name=bio /> He has made oral and written statements (some jointly) at the UN Commission on Human Rights for the WUPJ, IFOR, WFM, International Committee for European Security and Cooperation (ICESC), [[Christian Solidarity International]] (CSI), [[Simon Wiesenthal Center]], [[International Humanist and Ethical Union]] (IHEU), AWC, AWC, and other NGOs.<ref name=bio />

In March 1987, the Soviet delegation to the UN walked out when Littman arranged for [[Natan Sharansky]] to speak to the Commission about [[refusenik]]s.<ref name=bio /><ref name=trouw/> Also in 1987, he accused the Soviet delegate of [[antisemitism]] when he appeared before the UN Commission on Human Rights.<ref>[http://www.lemonde.fr/cgi-bin/ACHATS/577041.html "NATIONS UNIES : devant la sous-commission des droits de l'homme Le délégué soviétique s'est exposé à l'accusation d'antisémitisme,"] ''[[Le Monde]]'', 22 August 1987, accessed 12 January 2010]</ref> In 1988 he requested that several Jews in the [[USSR]] who were refused permission to emigrate should be allowed to do so. He repeated the request to [[Boris Yeltsin]] in 1991.<ref>[http://www.lemonde.fr/cgi-bin/ACHATS/618862.html "La réunion de la sous-commission des droits de l'homme de l'ONU La "glasnost", enfin, mais toujours sélective,"] ''[[Le Monde]]'', 9 September 1988, accessed 12 January 2010]</ref> In August 1989, he appeared before the Commission representing WUPJ.<ref>[http://www.lemonde.fr/cgi-bin/ACHATS/655984.html "ONU: la disparition de M. Mazilu Le silence du vice-président roumain de la sous-commission des droits de l'homme...", ''Le Monde'', 13 August 1989, accessed 12 January 2010]</ref><ref>[http://www.lemonde.fr/cgi-bin/ACHATS/538644.html "En vertu d'une résolution de la sous-commission des droits de l'homme L'ONU devrait se saisir de la question du Tibet", ''Le Monde'', 3 September 2001, accessed 12 January 2010]</ref>

From January 1989 Littman sought to make public at the Commissioncommission the fact that [[Hamas]] in its ideology calls for the annihilation of Israel, and points to Islamic texts for support of its position.<ref>[http://www.americanthinkernysun.com/2009foreign/01effort-afoot-to-expel-jewish-group-from-un/79243/confronting_hamas_genocidal_je.html BostomAvni, Andrew G.Benny, "ConfrontingEffort Hamas'Afoot GenocidalTo Jew-Hatred",Expel ''[[AmericanJewish Thinker]]'',Group 2From January 2009U.N.,"] accessed 12 January 2010]<{{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100124095502/ref><ref>[http://www.nysun.com/foreign/effort-afoot-to-expel-jewish-group-from-un/79243/ Avni,|date=24 Benny,January "Effort2010 Afoot To Expel Jewish Group From U.N.,"}} ''[[The New York Sun]]'', 4 June 2008, accessed 12 January 2009]</ref>

In October 1990, as the WUPJ's representative to the Commissioncommission, he petitioned for the release of single Jewish women from Syria; in March 1991 he requested that they appoint a special representative to investigate; and in August 1991, he urged it to work for their release.<ref>[{{Cite web |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/99236843.html?dids=99236843:99236843&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Oct+02%2C+1990&author=DAVID+LITTMAN&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=THE+FATE+OF+20+JEWISH+WOMEN+IN+SYRIA&pqatl=google |title="The Fate of 20 Jewish Women in Syria," ''The Jerusalem Post'', 2 October 1990, accessed 12 January 2010] |access-date=6 July 2017 |archive-date=24 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024195442/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/99236843.html?dids=99236843:99236843&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Oct+02,+1990&author=DAVID+LITTMAN&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=THE+FATE+OF+20+JEWISH+WOMEN+IN+SYRIA&pqatl=google |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0DghAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wWAEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1606,1281352&dq=david-littman+-boston-college+-goalie+-hockey+-highland-park&hl=en Canadian Jewish Chronicle (Winnipeg), p. A21, 13 March 1991, accessed 12 January 2010]</ref>

In August 1991, he appeared before the Commissioncommission on behalf of the WUPJ to urge the release of Lebanese Jews held as hostages in Lebanon.<ref>[https://archive.today/20120719172708/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/99709536.html?dids=99709536:99709536&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Aug+16%2C,+1991&author=JONATHAN+SCHACHTER&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=LEBANESE+JEWS%27'+RELEASE+SOUGHT+IN+PRISONER+DEAL&pqatl=google "Lebanese Jews' Release Sought in Prisoner Deal," ''The Jerusalem Post'', 16 August 1991, accessed 12 January 2010]</ref><ref>[{{Cite web |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/99710296.html?dids=99710296:99710296&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Aug+25%2C+1991&author=D%2C+S%2C+Konigsberg&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=SYRIAN+JEWS&pqatl=google |title="Syrian Jews," ''The Jerusalem Post'', 25 August 1991, accessed 12 January 2010] |access-date=6 July 2017 |archive-date=24 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024195504/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/99710296.html?dids=99710296:99710296&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Aug+25,+1991&author=D,+S,+Konigsberg&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=SYRIAN+JEWS&pqatl=google |url-status=dead }}</ref> In December 1991, he wrote a letter on behalf of the WUPJ appealing to UN Secretary-General [[Javier PerezPérez de CuellarCuéllar]], asking him to discover the fate of the 11 Lebanese Jews who had been kidnapped in the mid-1980s.<ref>[http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=WT&p_theme=wt&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB0EF6F904844A3&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM "U.N. gets plea on Jewish hostages,"] ''[[The Washington Times]]'', 26 December 1991, accessed 12 January 2010]</ref>

When Israel withdrew from the [[Durban]] [[World Conference Against Racism]] in 2001, joining the US in protesting perceived anti-Israel and anti-Semitic remarks, ''[[The Hindu]]'' reported that Littman and WUPJ Rabbi Francois Garai filed a statement saying that the conference had been "hijacked by dictatorial regimes" interested in pursuing ''[[jihad]]'' against Israel.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20041001025154/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/2001/09/04/stories/0104000b.htm "U.S., Israel pull out of Durban meet,"] ''[[The Hindu]]'', 3 September 2001, accessed 12 January 2010]</ref>

''[[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 book|title='Green Crescent, Crimson Cross': The Transatlantic 'Counterjihad' and the New Political Theology|url=https://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3780/1/Pertwee__green-crescent-crimson-cross.pdf|page=127|last=Pertwee|first=Ed|date=October 2017|publisher=London School of Economics}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bq-IDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT103|title=Soldiers of a Different God: How the Counter-Jihad Movement Created Mayhem, Murder and the Trump Presidency|first=Christopher|last=Othen|page=103|year=2018|publisher=Amberley|isbn=9781445678009}}</ref>

When Littman sought to make a three-minute statement before the Councilcouncil's eighth session in June 2008 (on behalf of the AWE) with regard to various forms of [[violence against women]] (including [[female genital mutilation]]) and ''[[shariah]]'', he was blocked after 22 seconds from finishing his statement.<ref name=trouw/><ref>[http://sydsvenskan.se/opinion/aktuellafragor/article397547/quotRattigheter-under-attackquot.html Lindeborg, Lisbeth, "Rättigheter under attack"], ''[[Sydsvenskan]]'', 9 December 2008, accessed 12 January 2010] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110810181321/http://www.sydsvenskan.se/opinion/aktuellafragor/article397547/quotRattigheter-under-attackquot.html |date=10 August 2011 }}</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=3eLfhvNQBkgC&pg=PT84&dq=%22david+g+littman%22&lrpg=&num=50&cd=5#v=onepage&q=%22david%20g%20littman%22&f=falsePT84 ''Stealth jihad: how radical Islam is subverting America without guns or bombs'', pp. 76–77, Robert Spencer, Regnery Publishing, 2008], {{ISBN|1-59698-556-9}}, {{ISBN|978-1-59698-556-8}}, accessed 13 January 2010</ref> Representatives from Egypt, Pakistan, and Iran (speaking on behalf of the [[Organisation of Islamic Cooperation|Organisation of the Islamic Conference]]) forced a halt to the proceedings, saying that any discussion of Islamic religious law was insulting to the faith.<ref name=trouw/> After deliberations, Council president [[Doru Romulus Costea]] of Romania said: "The Council is not prepared to discuss religious questions and we don’t have to do so. Declarations must avoid judgments or evaluation about religion."<ref name=trouw/> He told Littman to amend his remarks.<ref name=trouw/><ref>[http://diepresse.com/home/kultur/news/395319/print.do Simon, Anne-Catherine, "Kritik an Sharia oder Fatwas verboten,"] ''[[Die Presse]]'', 1 July 2008, accessed 13 January 2009]</ref> Littman gave and amended statement and released copies of the original statement for review.<ref name=trouw/><ref>[http://www.trouw.nl/krantenarchief/2009/04/18/2734328/Wat_was_hier_aan__de_hand_.html Dacey, Austin, "Wat was hier aan de hand?", ''Trouw'', 18 April 2009, accessed 12 January 2009]</ref> A similar incident occurred at the Councilcouncil's ninth session, when Littman had prepared a text protesting the antisemitic writings of the Grand Sheikh of [[Al-Azhar University]] in Egypt. He was ordered by the new Council President [[Martin Ihoeghian Uhomoibhi]] to desist.<ref name=trouw/> In March 2009 he was again denied the opportunity to speak, this time for being "off topic" when calling for a universal condemnation of defamations of Judaism during a discussion of [[freedom of expression]] and [[hate speech]].<ref>{{cite web |url=httphttps://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Jewish+speaker+outraged+after+debate+short/1371164/story.html |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090313031455/http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Jewish+speaker+outraged+after+debate+short/1371164/story.html |archivedate= 13 March 2009|last=Edwards |first=Steven |title=Jewish speaker outraged after debate cut short |work=[[Ottawa Citizen]] |date=9 March 2009 |accessdate=25 June 2015}}</ref>

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.<ref name=bio /> 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?hl=en&lr=&id=jF0dSJgWEbIC&oi=fnd&pg=PA129&ots=8FzZV1bwqm&sig=ufI8x6DVLa4XDtppylO3EWcaJHA#v=snippet&q=Littman%2C%20David+David&fpg=falsePA129 Citation] in: ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=jF0dSJgWEbIC&printsec=frontcover&dqq=Proceedings+of+the+Twelfth+British+Conference+on+Judeo-Spanish+Studies&client=firefox-a&cd=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false Proceedings of the Twelfth British Conference on Judeo-Spanish Studies] (2001)'' edited by Hilary Pomeroy, Michael Alpert, [[Institute of Jewish Studies]], Studies in Judaica, [[Brill Publishers|Brill]]</ref><ref name="amazon0197100414">[https://www.amazon.com/dp/0197100414 Amazon link for ''The Century of Moses Montefiore'']</ref><!--are amazon links RS?-->

He translated many articles by Bat Ye'or into English and co-translated three of her major books, the last published in 2005.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121102215316/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-3020579.html "Article: Religion of War," ''The Jerusalem Post'', 2 January 1997, accessed 12 January 2010]</ref><ref>[http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-20304559.html "Article: The Decline of Eastern Christianity under Islam: From Jihad to Dhimmitude, Seventh-Twentieth Centuries. (book reviews)", ''History: Review of New Books'', 22 March 1997, accessed 1 January 2010]{{dead link|date=February 2019|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

* ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=aaDrGwAACAAJ&dqq=%22d.+g.+littman%22&lr=&num=50&cd=1 Jews and Arabs: myths and realities]'', David Littman, 1973

*[https://books.google.com/books?id=nw27AAAAIAAJ&q=%22d.f.+green%22+islam&dq=%22d.f.+green%22+islam&lr=&num=100&as_brr=0&cd=1 ''Arab theologians on Jews and Israel: extracts from the proceedings of the fourth conference of the Academy of Islamic Research''], D. F. Green (nom depen plumename of Littman and Yehoshafat Harkabi), Majmaʻ al-Buḥūth al-Islāmīyah, Éditions de l'avenir, 3 eds. in English, 2 eds. in French, 1ed. in German (over 70,000 copies of all editions), 1974

* "[https://books.google.com/books?id=MLYcMwAACAAJ&dqq=%22david+littman%22+-comerica+-%22artificial+intelligence%22+-hockey+-programming+-goalie+-%22atlantic+reporter%22&lr=&num=100&as_brr=0&cd=10 Jews under Muslim Rule in the late Nineteenth Century]," ''[[Wiener Library]] Bulletin'' 28, n.s. 35/36 (1975)

* "[https://books.google.com/books?id=ENrHHAAACAAJ&dqq=%22david+littman%22+-comerica+-%22artificial+intelligence%22+-hockey+-programming+-goalie+-%22atlantic+reporter%22&lr=&num=100&as_brr=0&cd=11 Jews under Muslim Rule, II: Morocco 1903–1912]", ''Wiener Library Bulletin'' 29, n.s. 37/38 (1976)

* "[https://books.google.com/books?id=MZ25AAAAIAAJ&q=Protected+Peoples+under+Islam&dq=Protected+Peoples+under+Islam&client=firefox-a&cd=1 Protected Peoples under Islam]" by David Littman and Bat Ye'or, ''CID'', Geneva, 1976

*[https://books.google.com/books?id=fwJfGwAACAAJ&dqq=%22david+littman%22+-comerica+-%22artificial+intelligence%22+-hockey+-programming+-goalie+-%22atlantic+reporter%22&lr=&num=100&as_brr=0&cd=86 ''Peuples protégés en terre d'Islam''], by David Littman, Centre d'Information et de Documentation sur le Moyen-Orient, 1977

* "[https://books.google.com/books?id=QQM-GwAACAAJ&dqq=Les+Juifs+en+Perse+avant+les+Pahlevi&client=firefox-a&cd=1 Les Juifs en Perse avant les Pahlevi]," ''Les Temps Modernes'', 395, pp.&nbsp;1,910–35, Juin 1979

* ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=0sRtAAAAMAAJ&q=The+Century+of+Moses+Montefiore&dq=The+Century+of+Moses+Montefiore&num=50&cd=1 The Century of Moses Montefiore]'', (ed. Sonia and V.D. Lipman), "[https://books.google.com/books?id=rX05MwAACAAJ&dqq=%22david+littman%22+-comerica+-%22artificial+intelligence%22+-hockey+-programming+-goalie+-%22atlantic+reporter%22&lr=&num=100&as_brr=0&cd=15 Mission to Morocco (1863–1864)]{{Dead link|date=January 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}", pp.&nbsp;171–229, by David Littman, in [[Oxford University Press]], 1985{{citation needed|date=October 2013}}

*[https://books.google.com/books?id=yZFiPAAACAAJ&dqq=%22david+littman%22+-comerica+-%22artificial+intelligence%22+-hockey+-programming+-goalie+-%22atlantic+reporter%22&lr=&num=100&as_brr=0&cd=145 ''L'histoire du relief de Jérusalem (1864–1985)'']{{Dead link|date=January 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, by David Littman, Centre d'information et de documentation sur le Moyen-Orient, 1986

*''[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZHttGwAACAAJ&dqq=%22david+littman%22+-comerica+-%22artificial+intelligence%22+-hockey+-programming+-goalie+-%22atlantic+reporter%22&lr=&num=100&as_brr=0&cd=28 ''Statements made by the representatives of the World Union for Progressive Judaism David Littman and Martin Gilbert] forty-third session; UN Commission on Human Rights, Geneva, [2 February – 13 March], 1987'', Union mondiale pour le judaïsme libéral, Martin Gilbert, David Littman, WUPJ, UN. Commission des droits de l'homme, 1987

* "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&dqq=%22david+littman%22+-comerica+-%22artificial+intelligence%22+-hockey+-programming+-goalie+-%22atlantic+reporter%22&lr=&num=100&as_brr=0&cd=7 ''Human rights and human wrongs'', Issue 2, by David Littman, Martin Gilbert, World Union for Progressive Judaism, Anatoly Shcharansky, Published under the auspices of the World Union for Progressive Judaism, 1986, accessed 14 January 2010]{{Dead link|date=January 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

* "[https://books.google.com/books?id=ShGPAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Utopia:+A+'United+States+of+Abraham%22+littman&dq=%22Utopia:+A+'United+States+of+Abraham%22+littman&num=50&cd=1 Utopia: A 'United States of Abraham']," Part 5, Chapter 48 (pp.&nbsp;453–68) (Lecture: Society for Semitic Studies, [[Lund University]], Sweden, 23 November 1994). Part 5, Chapter 48 (pp.&nbsp;453–68), in ''The Myth of Islamic Tolerance''

* "[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&dqq=Quelques+Aspects+de+la+Condition+de+Dhimmi&client=firefox-a&cd=5 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://web.archive.org/web/20021113111506/http://www.dhimmitude.org/archive/universal_islam.html Universal Human Rights and 'Human Rights in Islam],'" ''[[Midstream (magazine)|Midstream]]'' (New York) February/March 1999, pp.&nbsp;2–7

* ''[[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&dq=%22Human+Rights+and+Human+Wrongs%22+littman&num=50&cd=2 Human Rights and Human Wrongs at the United Nations]," Part 5 (pp.&nbsp;305–472), David G. Littman, [[Prometheus Books]], {{ISBN|1-59102-249-5}}, contributor of multiple chapters, 2005

* ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=ooAaaMdOwpAC&printsec=frontcover&dqq=%22david+g22+littman%22&lr=&num=50&source=gbs_book_other_versions_r&cad=2#v=onepage&q=%22%20littman%22&f=false Copts in Egypt: A Christian Minority under Siege; papers presented at the First International Coptic Symposium, Zürich, September 23–25, 2004]'', Martyn Thomas, Adly A. Youssef, "Need of a State for all Citizens," by David Littman, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, {{ISBN|3-85710-040-0}}, {{ISBN|978-3-85710-040-6}}, 2006

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