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    Lowkey & Whitney Webb Video: Israel's Entryism & the Campaign to Create a Binational Security State 📂 Archived Message

    Posted by sashimi on July 22, 2021, 8:35 am

    21st July 2021

    Lede: Lowkey is joined by Whitney Webb to examine the IDF's military
    intelligence Unit 8200, which gave birth to the NSO group responsible for
    Pegasus Spyware, and how Israel's national security state is merging with that
    of the United States to target free speech and dissent.

    (quote)
    The new MintPress podcast, "The Watchdog," hosted by British-Iraqi hip hop
    artist Lowkey closely examines organizations that are in the public interest to
    know about including intelligence, lobby, and special interest groups
    influencing policies that infringe on free speech and target dissent. The
    Watchdog goes against the grain by casting a light on stories largely ignored by
    the mainstream, corporate media.

    For the launch of "The Watchdog," we examine the idea that Israel, through
    well-camouflaged proxies, has been making efforts to merge with the U.S.national
    security state. The podcast delves deep into two organizations we deemed
    essential to this process of entryism. For this task, we enlisted the help of
    the prolific writer, researcher into intelligence, surveillance, civil
    liberties, and big tech on the macro and the micro-level, Whitney Webb.

    The first part of the podcast focuses on the IDF Unit 8200, a military
    intelligence unit in the Israeli Army known for monitoring Palestinian
    communication and using that information to blackmail them. The unit has also
    carried out cyber attacks on other states. Unit 8200 gave birth to the NSO
    Group, the supposedly private company responsible for the Pegasus Spyware which
    has recently been used around the world to target dissidents, journalists,
    activists, and more. The lesson which must come from this global scandal is that
    companies with any Unit 8200 involvement must be seriously examined.

    The NSO group is far from the only way in which Unit 8200 actors have been able
    to insinuate themselves into the business of other governments. Following a 2012
    policy set by the Benjamin Netanyahu government, Israel set about siphoning the
    functions of its military intelligence into private companies. Former Unit 8200
    members set up staff and numerous important cybersecurity companies across the
    world, tasked with guarding swathes of very sensitive data.

    Whitney Webb explores her research by looking at Unit 8200 founded and-or
    staffed organizations like Cybereason, National Start-up Central, and Cyber
    Threat Intelligence League which between them have access to masses of
    information in both the U.S. and UK. Lowkey draws a connection between
    Cybereason, their partner Leidos and the 2012 British census. He also delves
    into the recently widely referenced cybersecurity company Proofpoint,
    identifying for the first time the connection between this company and Unit
    8200.

    This information is visible to both former and current employees of the Israeli
    government leads to a power imbalance which is allowing Israel to not only
    prevent any possibility of Boycott Divestment and Sanctions being practiced in
    the most vital sectors but also helps to create a binational security state
    entrenched with its interests.

    The second organization discussed as a key part of Israel's entryism into the
    U.S. security state is the Anti-Defamation League. Webb reveals some of the
    context around the founding of the organization over a century ago and details
    of its trajectory to today. Lowkey pointed out that an internal FBI memo in 1969
    had questioned whether the ADL violated U.S. law by failing to register a
    foreign agent and asserted that it would be "incredible" to assume it was not
    being furnished by the Israeli government in its infiltration activities
    targeting Arab-American student groups.
    (/quote)
    -- Cont'd at https://www.mintpressnews.com/lowkey-israel-spyware-unit-8200/278004/

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