Thread by @ShulimLeifer

I have been saying this to journalists who assign to lobbying groups such as @pearlsNY and @KnowUs_ the same credibility as they give #YeshivaGate whistleblowers:

https://twitter.com/karlbode/status/1648678160278355968

I will try to unpack this for you all:

@pearlsNY was formed after a legal complaint was filed by whistleblowers who allege educational neglect at certain yeshivas. A few years ago @MollyBoigon found that leadership of @AgudahNews actually helps run it 2/X forward.com/news/436106/se…

It’s important to understand that at it’s core, what the whistleblowing does is threaten a hugely profitable enterprise which was hitherto allowed to operate almost totally unregulated — on the public’s dime.

@pearlsNY themselves acknowledge their raison d’être is financial 3/X

Fast-forward 8 years and the @nytimes dropped a bombshell investigative report which uncovered the scope and scale of the aforementioned profits paid for by the public: BILLIONS OF $$ IN TAXPAYER FUNDS while *intentionally* failing miserably 4/X nytimes.com/2022/09/11/nyr…

What did @AgudahNews do?

They went to their old playbook and formed ANOTHER group to combat the business threats to Yeshivas brought on by whistleblowers, this time it’s called @KnowUs_c, and it’s specifically (according to their own words) targeting the Times’ reporting. 5/X