Former Israeli spy Assaf Kaplan is still employed by the UK Labour Party during its current general election campaign, The Electronic Intifada can reveal.
We have also learned of Kaplan’s attempt to gain access to a cross-party electoral reform group called Get PR Done, alarming members and administrators of the group who were aware of his background in the Israeli military’s elite cyberwarfare unit.
And in an extraordinary turn of events on Tuesday, the Labour Party threatened legal action against The Electronic Intifada, after we sent them a request for comment.
Yet the party did not dispute any specific statements put to them in our inquiry for this story, and effectively confirmed that they still employ Kaplan during their current election campaign. ….more
