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.
“Vote or die, for real”: CU Program Council hosts CU at the Polls with Ilana Glazer and Princess Nokia
(Courtesy of CU Boulder Events Calendar)
For Ilana Glazer, getting young people involved in the political process is more important than ever for this 2020 election. Monday night, the comedian now turned political activist spoke as part of the CU Program Council’s virtual “CU at the Polls” voter registration event. Also included in the event, which was live streamed on Youtube, was a performance by rapper Princess Nokia along with a brief presentation about voting in Colorado from New Era Colorado.