Israel fears exposure of its dirty tactics against BDS

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  • Israel fears exposure of its dirty tactics against BDS.
    https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israel-fears-exposure-its-dirty-tactics-against-bds

    One of the more troubling revelations in Horovitz’s report for The Times of Israel is that Kela Shlomo may already be involved in dirty tricks and smear campaigns against Palestine activists – the same kind of black-ops in which the strategic affairs ministry has itself reportedly been directly involved.

    Kela Shlomo co-founder Kuperwasser insisted to The Times of Israel that his organization has no connection with two shadowy Israeli private intelligence firms involved in dirty tricks campaigns, Black Cube and Psy-Group – though Kuperwasser speculated that both firms could have worked directly for the Israeli government.

    Last year it was revealed that disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein hired Black Cube to silence and intimidate victims of his alleged sexual assaults.

    More recently, it emerged that Black Cube had been tasked by an unidentified client reportedly close to the Trump administration with trying to gather damaging information on top Obama administration officials involved in negotiating the breakthrough 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

    That agreement was bitterly opposed by Israel’s government and abandoned by President Donald Trump in May.

    According to The Times of Israel, Psy-Group was involved in creating a now-deleted website called outlawbds.com containing the names, email addresses and photos of individuals believed to support BDS.

    Last September, The Electronic Intifada received an email from outlawbds.com that was copied to a number of other media organizations, proclaiming that outlawbds.com had already published 100 profiles of activists.

    “We want these individuals to know their actions are not going unnoticed and someone will lawfully act to stop them,” the email stated.

    But while denying a direct tie to Black Cube and Psy-Group, Kuperwasser would not deny that Kela Shlomo works with a third shadowy firm, Israel Cyber Shield.