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Josh Nathan-Kazis L'organizzazione segreta di spionaggio contro il BDS manipolando i social media
La società israeliana di servizi segreti privati che si è offerta di manipolare i social media per la campagna di Trump, ha offerto servizi simili un anno prima a un gruppo di donatori ebrei statunitensi che cercavano di prendere di mira i critici di Israele, secondo un documento ottenuto dal Forward.
Alla fine del 2015, lo studio di intelligence privato israeliano, Psy-Group ,ha contattato un gruppo ad hoc di donatori ebrei con la proposta di minare segretamente il movimento di boicottaggio, disinvestimento e sanzioni. Secondo un riassunto della proposta esaminata dal Forward, il gruppo di Psy ha affermato che avrebbe cercato di danneggiare specifici individui e organizzazioni associate al movimento BDS interrompendo le loro attività o puntando a farli indagare dall'autorità. Ha aggiunto che avrebbe gestito una campagna di influenza sui media.
Psy-Group, i cui dipendenti sono veterani dell'apparato di intelligence israeliano, ha sottolineato che avrebbe funzionato nella massima segretezza, coprendo ogni legame finanziario o tecnologico con le sue attività. Diceva che nessuna delle azioni sarebbe stata riconducibile a ebrei o israeliani.
Il riassunto non contiene dettagli, ma in termini molto ampi assomiglia ad una proposta molto più dettagliata ,ottenuta dal New York Times ,di Psy-Group per la campagna di Trump un anno .
Per tale campagna Psy-Group assicurava falsi account nei social media per avvicinarsi alle migliaia di delegati della Convenzione Nazionale repubblicana e convincerli a sostenere Trump. Aveva aggiunto che avrebbe indagato su Hillary Clinton e avrebbe indirizzato alcuni gruppi di votanti usando altri account falsi sui social media.
Secondo il Times gli investigatori che hanno sondato lo sforzo russo per influenzare la campagna elettorale del 2016, hanno anche intervistato i dipendenti di Psy Group.
Come per Trump, non ci sono prove che Psy Group abbia svolto le attività incluse per i donatori ebrei. Eppure le discussioni tra donatori ebrei statunitensi e spie private straniere, che sono state facilitate da una organizzazione ebraica di primo piano, mostrano come l'intelligence e la guerra segreta sulle informazioni si intersecano con gli sforzi di opporsi al movimento BDS negli Stati Uniti.
I donatori ebrei hanno ricevuto la proposta di Psy Group nell'autunno del 2015, in un momento in cui l'amministrazione Obama aveva appena approvato un accordo nucleare con l'Iran , visto dal governo israeliano e da molti leader ebrei statunitensi come un errore pericoloso. Allo stesso tempo, il movimento BDS, che i leader israeliani classificano come una delle principali minacce, si stava muovendo lentamente verso il mainstream, sostenuto dall'indignazione internazionale per la morte dei civili palestinesi nella guerra di Gaza dell' estate precedente.
In quell'atmosfera i guardiani dell'immagine israeliana all'estero hanno iniziato ad adottare una serie di tattiche più aggressive. All'inizio del 2015, un attivista israeliano anonimo ha lanciato The Canary Mission , una lista nera di studenti pro-palestinesi. Quello stesso anno, Israel on Campus Coalition, un gruppo mainstream pro-israeliano degli Stati Uniti, ha iniziato ad adottare una nuova serie di misure segrete e aggressive per opporsi al BDS nei campus degli Stati Uniti.
Psy-Group ha contattato il gruppo di potenziali donatori ebrei negli Stati Uniti nel 2015 attraverso Misha Galperin, un importante funzionario ebraico che ha recentemente lasciato l' incarico di dirigente presso l'Agenzia ebraica per Israele, un'importante organizzazione non profit israeliana con stretti legami con il governo israeliano . Galperin aveva precedentemente lavorato come dirigente presso due grandi federazioni ebraiche. Non ha risposto a una richiesta di commento sul suo lavoro con Psy-Group.
Il documento che descrive la proposta di Psy Group ,visto dal Forward ,è scritto in ciò che sembra un gergo spy-world. "Parte del loro fascino è che utilizzono un modo molto professionale e molto avvolgente", ha detto un attivista ebreo che non è stato coinvolto nelle discussioni del 2015 con Psy-Group e che ha chiesto di non essere nominato a causa della sensibilità del problema.
Il riassunto del testo di Psy Group non specifica i metodi o le misure che Psy-Group ha proposto di utilizzare per conto dei donatori ebrei statunitensi. La natura segreta di Psy Group, dice, aumenterà il suo impatto, perché non sarà rintracciabile per ebrei o israeliani. Il suo lavoro contro il BDS sarà più prezioso del lavoro esplicito di altri gruppi filo-israeliani, perché l'advocacy collegata a fonti israeliane o ebraiche è considerata inaffidabile.
Psy-Group alla fine ha fatto qualche lavoro contro il movimento BDS. Chi ha pagato per questo è sconosciuto, non ci sono prove del fatto che Psy-Group abbia svolto un lavoro a nome del gruppo di donatori ebrei statunitensi del 2015. Nel 2017, Psy-Group ha creato un sito web chiamato OutlawBDS.com che ha pubblicato i profili dei sostenitori del movimento di boicottaggio e ha inviato e-mail minacciose ai sostenitori del BDS, secondo un rapporto di luglio del "Times of Israel". Il sito non è più online. Il Times of Israel ha detto che il Ministero degli affari strategici, l'agenzia israeliana incaricata di combattere il movimento BDS, era generalmente a conoscenza del lavoro di società private di intelligence israeliane contro attivisti del BDS, sebbene non le finanziasse .
Il Ministero degli Affari Strategici ha dichiarato al Forward di non avere alcun collegamento con Psy-Group 2015. Nel 2017 Galperin è emerso negli sforzi del Ministero degli affari strategici per trovare partner americani per Kela Shlomo, un'organizzazione non governativa che ha creato e finanziato chi si oppone al BDS all'estero. Un portavoce del ministero ha detto che il ministero non aveva alcun collegamento con il lavoro di Galperin con Psy Group e che, pur avendo "parlato con" Galperin per circa due anni, non ha alcuna relazione con lui.
Psy-Group ha licenziato il suo staff a febbraio, secondo Calcalist, un sito di notizie israeliano. Attualmente sta affrontando la liquidazione da parte di un tribunale israeliano. Marc Mukasey, un avvocato che rappresenta Psy Group negli Stati Uniti, non ha risposto a una richiesta di commento.
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The Israeli private intelligence company that offered to manipulate social media for the Trump campaign offered similar services a year earlier to a group of U.S. Jewish donors who sought to target Israel’s critics, according to a document obtained by the Forward.
In late 2015, the Israeli private intelligence firm Psy-Group approached an ad hoc group of Jewish donors with a proposal to covertly undermine the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement. According to a summary of the proposal reviewed by the Forward, Psy-Group said it would seek to damage specific individuals and organizations associated with the BDS movement by disrupting their activities, or leading them to be investigated by the authorities. It also said it would run a media influence campaign.
Psy-Group, whose employees were veterans of the Israeli intelligence apparatus, emphasized that it would work in utmost secrecy, covering up any financial or technological links to its activities. It said that none of the actions would be traceable to Jews or Israelis.
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The summary includes no specifics, but in very broad strokes it resembles a far more detailed proposal obtained by the New York Times that Psy-Group made to officials with the Trump campaign a year later.
In its pitch to the Trump campaign, Psy-Group said it would use fake social media accounts to approach thousands of Republican National Convention delegates and convince them to support Trump. It also said it would investigate Hillary Clinton, and would target certain voter groups using additional fake social media accounts.
Special counsel investigators probing the Russian effort to influence the 2016 election campaign have interviewed Psy-Group employees, according to the Times.
As with the Trump proposal, there is no evidence that Psy-Group ever carried out the activitiesREVEALED: Canary Mission Blacklist Is Secretly Bankrolled By Major Jewish Federation included in its pitch to the Jewish donors. Yet the discussions between U.S. JewishJosh
Nathan-Kazis donors and foreign private spies, which were facilitated by a leading Jewish organizational figure, show how Israel’s culture of intelligence and covert information warfare intersects with efforts to oppose the BDS movement in the U.S.The Jewish donors received Psy-Group’s proposal in the fall of 2015, at a moment when the Obama administration had just approved a nuclear deal with Iran that the Israeli government and many U.S. Jewish leaders saw as a dangerous error. At the same time, the BDS movement, which Israeli leaders classify as a major threat, was moving slowly into the mainstream, bolstered by international outrage over the deaths of Palestinian civilians in the war in Gaza the previous summer.
In that atmosphere, guardians of Israel’s image abroad began to adopt a range of more aggressive tactics. Early in 2015, an anonymous Israeli activist launched Canary Mission, a blacklist of pro-Palestinian students. That same year, the Israel on Campus Coalition, a mainstream pro-Israel group in the U.S., began to adopt a new suite of covert and aggressive measures to oppose BDS on U.S. campuses.
Psy-Group approached its group of potential U.S. Jewish donors in 2015 through Misha Galperin, a prominent Jewish communal official who had recently left a senior executive position at the Jewish Agency for Israel, a major Israeli non-profit with close ties to the Israeli government. Galperin had previously worked as an executive at two large Jewish federations. He did not respond to a request for comment about his work with Psy-Group.
The document describing Psy-Group’s proposal seen by the Forward is written in what seems intended to read as spy-world jargon. “Part of their appeal is that they come across very professional and [in] a very cloak-and-dagger way,” said one Jewish activist who was not involved in the 2015 discussions with Psy-Group, and who asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the issue.
The summary of Psy-Group’s pitch does not specify the methods or measures that Psy-Group proposed to use on behalf of the U.S. Jewish donors. The covert nature of Psy-Group’s work, it says, will increase its impact, because it won’t be traceable to Jews or Israelis. It argues that its work against BDS will be more valuable than overt work by other pro-Israel groups, because advocacy linked to Israeli or Jewish sources is seen as unreliable.
Psy-Group did eventually do some work against the BDS movement. Who paid for it is unknown, and there is no evidence that Psy-Group carried out any work on behalf of the group of U.S. Jewish donors it pitched in 2015. In 2017, Psy-Group created a website called OutlawBDS.com that posted profiles on supporters of the boycott movement, and sent ominous emails to BDS advocates, according to a July report in the Times of Israel. The site is no longer online. The Times of Israel said that the Ministry of Strategic Affairs, the Israeli agency tasked with fighting the BDS movement, was generally aware of work by private Israeli intelligence firms against BDS activists, though had not funded it.
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The Ministry of Strategic Affairs told the Forward that it had no connection to the 2015 Psy-Group pitch. In 2017, Galperin emerged as a go-between with Jewish communal leaders in efforts by the Ministry of Strategic Affairs to find American partners for Kela Shlomo, a non-governmental organization it created and funded that will oppose BDS overseas. A spokesman for the ministry said that the ministry had no connection to Galperin’s work with Psy-Group, and that while the ministry has “talked with” Galperin for around two years, it has no partnership with him.
Psy-Group fired its staff in February, according to Calcalist, an Israeli news website. It is currently facing liquidation by an Israeli court. Marc Mukasey, an attorney who represents Psy-Group in the U.S., did not respond to a request for comment.
Do you have more information about Psy-Group? Contact Josh Nathan-Kazis at nathankazis@forward.com or on Twitter, @joshnathankazis
Read more: https://forward.com/news/national/411798/israeli-spy-firm-that-approached-trump-first-proposed-dirty-tricks-against/The summary includes no specifics, but in very broad strokes it resembles a far more detailed proposal obtained by the New York Times that Psy-Group made to officials with the Trump campaign a year later.
In its pitch to the Trump campaign, Psy-Group said it would use fake social media accounts to approach thousands of Republican National Convention delegates and convince them to support Trump. It also said it would investigate Hillary Clinton, and would target certain voter groups using additional fake social media accounts.
Special counsel investigators probing the Russian effort to influence the 2016 election campaign have interviewed Psy-Group employees, according to the Times.
As with the Trump proposal, there is no evidence that Psy-Group ever carried out the activitiesREVEALED: Canary Mission Blacklist Is Secretly Bankrolled By Major Jewish Federation included in its pitch to the Jewish donors. Yet the discussions between U.S. Jewish donors and foreign private spies, which were facilitated by a leading Jewish organizational figure, show how Israel’s culture of intelligence and covert information warfare intersects with efforts to oppose the BDS movement in the U.S.
The Jewish donors received Psy-Group’s proposal in the fall of 2015, at a moment when the Obama administration had just approved a nuclear deal with Iran that the Israeli government and many U.S. Jewish leaders saw as a dangerous error. At the same time, the BDS movement, which Israeli leaders classify as a major threat, was moving slowly into the mainstream, bolstered by international outrage over the deaths of Palestinian civilians in the war in Gaza the previous summer.
In that atmosphere, guardians of Israel’s image abroad began to adopt a range of more aggressive tactics. Early in 2015, an anonymous Israeli activist launched Canary Mission, a blacklist of pro-Palestinian students. That same year, the Israel on Campus Coalition, a mainstream pro-Israel group in the U.S., began to adopt a new suite of covert and aggressive measures to oppose BDS on U.S. campuses.
Psy-Group approached its group of potential U.S. Jewish donors in 2015 through Misha Galperin, a prominent Jewish communal official who had recently left a senior executive position at the Jewish Agency for Israel, a major Israeli non-profit with close ties to the Israeli government. Galperin had previously worked as an executive at two large Jewish federations. He did not respond to a request for comment about his work with Psy-Group.
The document describing Psy-Group’s proposal seen by the Forward is written in what seems
intended to read as spy-world jargon. “Part of their appeal is that they come across very professional and [in] a very cloak-and-dagger way,” said one Jewish activist who was not involved in the 2015 discussions with Psy-Group, and who asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the issue.The summary of Psy-Group’s pitch does not specify the methods or measures that Psy-Group proposed to use on behalf of the U.S. Jewish donors. The covert nature of Psy-Group’s work, it says, will increase its impact, because it won’t be traceable to Jews or Israelis. It argues that its work against BDS will be more valuable than overt work by other pro-Israel groups, because advocacy linked to Israeli or Jewish sources is seen as unreliable.
Psy-Group did eventually do some work against the BDS movement. Who paid for it is unknown, and there is no evidence that Psy-Group carried out any work on behalf of the group of U.S. Jewish donors it pitched in 2015. In 2017, Psy-Group created a website called OutlawBDS.com that posted profiles on supporters of the boycott movement, and sent ominous emails to BDS advocates, according to a July report in the Times of Israel. The site is no longer online. The Times of Israel said that the Ministry of Strategic Affairs, the Israeli agency tasked with fighting the BDS movement, was generally aware of work by private Israeli intelligence firms against BDS activists, though had not funded it.
The Ministry of Strategic Affairs told the Forward that it had no connection to the 2015 Psy-GroupA New Wave Of Hardline Anti-BDS Tactics Are Targeting Students, And No One Knows
he Ministry of Strategic Affairs told the Forward that it had no connection to the 2015 Psy-Group pitch. In 2017, Galperin emerged as a go-between with Jewish communal leaders in efforts by the Ministry of Strategic Affairs to find American partners for Kela Shlomo, a non-governmental organization it created and funded that will oppose BDS overseas. A spokesman for the ministry said that the ministry had no connection to Galperin’s work with Psy-Group, and that while the ministry has “talked with” Galperin for around two years, it has no partnership with him.
Psy-Group fired its staff in February, according to Calcalist, an Israeli news website. It is currently facing liquidation by an Israeli court. Marc Mukasey, an attorney who represents Psy-Group in the U.S., did not respond to a request for comment.
Read more: https://forward.com/news/national/411798/israeli-spy-firm-that-approached-trump-first-proposed-dirty-tricks-against/
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