‘If Jeremy Corbyn hired an ex-spy, it would be all over the front pages’
JVL Introduction
We’ve taken the Canary’s headline ‘If Jeremy Corbyn hired an ex-spy, it would be all over the front pages’ as the title for our posting below.
You can listen to the Canary’s interview with Asa Winstanley here, but pride of place in our posting below is Asa’s exposure in the Electronic Intifada of how a former Israeli military intelligence officer, Assaf Kaplan, should find himself working in Keir Starmer’s office.
His role: “Social Listening and Organizing Manager.”
Sounds like he is uniquely suited for the post given his spying background!
We also link to a petition calling for his appointment to be rescinded.
Stop press: see the Tysky Sour video with Michael Walker on Youtube – Keir Starmer Hires A Former Israeli Intelligence Officer
This article was originally published by The Electronic Intifada on Tue 19 Jan 2021. Read the original here.
UK Labour Party hires former Israeli spy
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Perhaps Labour should change its name to IngSoc
“The job he has taken was advertised by UK Labour in September last year. The following month, Kaplan announced on Facebook that he had moved to London. He began work in December, a source told The Electronic Intifada.”
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1. Is Kaplan a British citizen? (We certainly know he’s an Israeli one.)
2. Is Kaplan a member of the (British) Labour Party?
3. Is Kaplan likely to be any good at his job for Labour?
The article itself answers that one: “he was deputy head of the Israeli Labor Party’s campaign for the April 2019 general election to the country’s parliament, the Knesset. That election saw the once dominant Israeli Labor Party collapse to just six seats.”
After the March 2020 election, the Israeli Labor Party has 3 seats in the Knesset and 2% of the national vote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Labor_Party
It accordingly seems unlikely that Keir Starmer has brougth Assaf Kaplan in to help Labour win elections. I wonder what the real reason is.
I would advise LP members not to download any LP apps and to delete any they have or not to update them. Israeli intelligence are masters at hacking into phones and turning them into listening devices, even when switched off. (You have to remove the battery to be sure you arent being spied on).
We have only an allegedly former Israeli spy’s assurance that he is an ex-spy, now that he has access to LP records.
Asa Winstanley and the Electronic Intifada are to be congratulated on a great bit of journalism. Members of the Labour Party – and the people of Britain – owe them a debt of thanks.
The fact that the BBC, Guardian, ITV and the rest of the mainstream media have so far failed to follow up this story shows yet again that they are “whited sepulchres” – merely pretending to be seekers after truth and holding the powerful to account. They do nothing of the kind. They are professionally spineless and little more than the political mouthpieces of corrupt governments.
Keir Starmer has again shown his political incompetence and that his promises of honesty were false. The appointment of Mr Kaplan demonstrates that the leader of the Labour Party cares nothing for racial justice, the oppression of the Palestinian people or – indeed – the members of the Labour Party who are humiliated by this grotesque appointment. If Keir Starmer and his circle of supporters want to run the Labour Party in the interests of Israel and religious bigots, let them at least have the honesty to say so .
Questions:
Mr Kaplan says he is a “former spy”. In the immortal words of Mandy Rice Davies, he would say that wouldn’t he ?
Has Mr Kaplan taken British citizenship or does the leader of the Labour Party not mind having agents of a foreign power working in his office ?
Keir Starmer is a member of the Privy Council and is on oath to “defend all civil and temporal jurisdictions of Her majesty………against all Foreign Princes, Persons, Prelates, States and Potentates”. Won’t that be a bit difficult with an Israeli spy working in his office, or will Mr Kaplan promise to be good?
It is a disgrace that this story has essentially been spiked .. “nothing of any interest here .. just walk on ..”
(Very good YouTube talk by Michael Walker by the way!)
The fact that Kaplan had as a friend Masot (the agent who had been thrown out of Britain) should alone make it of interest – surely? I would be interested to know who was on the interviewing panel for this guy – was he asked about his values concerning Human Rights ?
I take it the BBC is uninterested in the story. Michael Walker mentioned GMB in his talk and Piers Morgans insistence on the airing and discussion of political issues. Now I hesitate to suggest this because the man annoys me a lot of the time – but would GMB be interested in this story? Piers Morgan did speak up for Palestinians when the Israeli vaccine was being discussed as policy. Or am I being naive ..
Good to have a Model Motion on this.
What might be of concern, whoever the successful applicant, is the creation of this post in the first place. That the concern should be justified is confirmed by Starmer’s first choice appointee.
This is just what we need. Irony.
Jacob said the following in his post above:
‘Asa Winstanley and the Electronic Intifada are to be congratulated on a great bit of journalism. Members of the Labour Party – and the people of Britain – owe them a debt of thanks.’
I don’t mean to contradict Jacob, but the vast majority of ‘the people of Britain’ don’t follow the Electronic Intifada, or even know of its existence. The name ‘Asa Winstanley’ might ring a bell for some, but only because some of the MSM (and the Jewish newspapers) covered the fact that he was suspended from the LP (for anti-semitism supposedly).
And I just this moment did a search, and the MSM and the Jewish newspapers have completely blanked the story as far as I can see, as one would expect of them!
In the process of doing a search I came across this abhorrent piece of black propaganda lies and falsehoods by the CAA on their website:
Jewish Voice for Labour, a sham organisation which, by the admission of its chair, was founded in order “to tackle allegations of antisemitism in the Labour Party”, is also hosting an event on Israel featuring highly controversial speakers.
That the Labour Party continues to attract these figures and their following shows that its failure to address antisemitism is registered not only by those fighting antisemitism but also by those instigating and defending it.
https://antisemitism.org/labour-conference-fringe-events-to-feature-individuals-suspended-or-expelled-from-party-over-antisemitism/
This appointment is a major mistake by the New Blairites.
No one in the party wants to think they are being spied on… even less being spied on by the party that they pay subs to… and to top it all, spied on by a person who has supported Israeli intimidation and violence against Palestinians.
We must make the most of this…
Put this story onto the Facebook and Twitter pages of all Labour MPs.. Make it an issue for them and an embarrassment to the Starmer clique. Do it now.
I’d like to see the wording Evans comes out with to justify a ban on discussing the employment of Israeli secret agents LOL
Get those motions sent in to your… go for unanimous resolutions sent to Head office, Regional office, nearest local Labour MP.
I am very concerned on hearing that the Labour party has appointed an Israeli former intelligence officer to manage its social media. Apart from the ethical considerations of such appointment, surely it is a security concern to have a former intelligence officer from a foreign country in such a position?