As this investigation shows, Israel is at the centre of new and dangerous technologies of espionage that threaten rights and freedoms across the world.
This tech is designed as part of Israel’s apartheid regime in Palestine, with companies developing the tech interlinked with the Israeli military. The mastermind running this exposed disinformation-for-hire group, Tal Hanan, is a former Israeli military special forces operative.
Find out more about how Israeli spyware is facilitating human rights violations against journalists, human rights defenders and others. Read this leaflet: bdsmovement.net/sites/default/…#BanSpyware
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Today the Labour leadership pressured Kim Johnson MP to withdraw remarks she made suggesting the Israeli Government contains fascists and that Israel practises apartheid. This was predictable but nonetheless shameful. Here’s why: (1/6) #IsraeliApartheid
Predictable because it matches with Keir Starmer's refusal to accept the overwhelming evidence of Israel’s practice of apartheid, as presented by Palestinian civil society, legal experts and human rights organisations including @amnesty. (2/6) bit.ly/3JvBhB2
Shameful because it reinforces complicity with the injustices being perpetrated on Palestinians by refusing even to name them. (3/6)
Reports have surfaced that the management of 5 firms linked to the dangerous Israeli spyware company NSO Group has moved to London. #banspyware#endapartheidexport (1/5)
The NSO Group’s Pegasus software has been used by a range of repressive states to conduct intrusive surveillance of human rights defenders, lawyers, and journalists. This includes activists and politicians in Britain. (2/5)
Israel is bombing Gaza again. Gaza has been held under illegal siege for fifteen years - creating inhuman conditions for the inhabitants, more than half of whom are children. (1/4)
In what an Israeli official once grotesquely described as “mowing the lawn” it subjects Gaza to periodic systematic campaigns of bombardment - the last, most savage, took place in May 2021 when, over 11 days, Israel killed 260 Palestinians, more than 60 of them children. (2/4)
Today Israel began a renewed bombing campaign which so far has killed 8 Palestinians. Despite this barbaric record of violations of international law, the UK not only imposes no sanctions on Israel, but regularly approves military technology and arms exports to Israel (3/4)
Hats off to @DaleVince and Forest Green Rovers for refusing to be intimidated by the bullying behaviour of UK Lawyers for Israel. UKLFI has complained to the Football Association about FGR speaking up for Palestinian rights. (1/10)
UKLFl claim that such displays of support for Palestinian rights are inherently “discriminatory". The argument is that because some Jewish people feel an affinity with Israel, to criticise the State for its rights abuses is to discriminate against Jewish people. (2/10)
This degrades anti-racist discourse, and threatens the ability of Palestinians, and their allies, to bring the facts of their dispossession into the public domain. (3/10)
🚨Breaking: In advance of the Gov's plans to table an "anti-boycott bill," PSC along with 45 civil society groups has published a statement in defence of our collective right to boycott in campaigns for social and climate justice.
The UK Government wants to prevent public bodies from "making boycott, divestment or sanctions decisions that aren’t in line with their foreign and economic policies."
This is a direct threat to freedom of expression #RightToBoycott
If passed, it will impact a wide range of campaigns, from climate justice, to anti-militarism work, to our campaigns for Palestinian rights. It also hinders public bodies & democratic institutions from investing & trading ethically in line with international law & human rights.
.@Lowkey0nline has become the latest target of pro-Israel groups seeking to use disingenuous accusations and slander to silence any voice advocating for Palestinian rights.
The attack follows a familiar McCarthyite playbook of trawling though social media accounts and finding quotes to take out of context. The foundation is always the same: To define criticism of Israel outside of a very narrow proscribed framework as inherently antisemitic.
Part of the charge sheet against Lowkey is his calling out of the racist laws & policies of the Israeli state. Those attacking him ascribe antisemitism to descriptions of Israel as an example of a settler-colonial state practicing apartheid and ethnically cleansing Palestinians.