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Labour shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy accused PM Boris Johnson of launching a culture war over demands by Black Lives protesters for the demolition of monuments to historical figures including Winston Churchill, who led the British resistance to Nazism, and Indian liberation leader Mohandas K Gandhi.
A senior UK Labour Party MP has compared the defence of monuments to Second World War leader Winston Churchill to a 2017 far-right rally in the US.
In an interview with liberal newspaper
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in spying, hacking and encryption. It carries out blackmail, mass surveillance and systematic discrimination against Palestinians.
In 2014, a group of whistleblowers detailed how the unit spies on Palestinian civilians living under Israeli military occupation. According to his LinkedIn profile, Kaplan was in the Israeli army s military intelligence division from May 2009 to November 2013.
He was a Unit 8200
intelligence analyst and later an officer.
This likely coincided with the period when 8200 was carrying out the type of crimes exposed by the whistleblowers, in a September 2014 letter to
Extortion, blackmail Any information that might enable extortion of an individual is considered relevant, one Unit 8200 reservist explained in the letter. Whether said individual is of a certain sexual orientation, cheating on his wife, or in need of treatment in Israel or the West Bank - he is a target for blackmail.
Unit 8200 veteran Assaf Kaplan. (IRI/Facebook)
The UK Labour Party has hired a former Israeli spy to help manage its social media, The Electronic Intifada can reveal.
Assaf Kaplan will work in the office of Labour leader Keir Starmer, a source with knowledge of the hire said.
Kaplan was in Israeli military intelligence for nearly five years, an officer in Unit 8200, its cyberwarfare branch.
Unit 8200 specializes in spying, hacking and encryption. It carries out blackmail, mass surveillance and systematic discrimination against Palestinians.
In 2014, a group of whistleblowers detailed how the unit spies on Palestinian civilians living under Israeli military occupation.