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Sharing information on UK matters with Israel

It is being reported that Israel is being furnished with details of policing and protestors with the Israeli embassy. I am assuming that this is not a reciprocal arrangement and Israel is not supplying details of those indulge in their land theft and terrorism in the West Bank or Gaza?

theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/a

The Guardian · Police and prosecutors’ details shared with Israel during UK protests inquiry, papers suggestBy Haroon Siddique
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@bufalo1973
Replies from @Qbitzerre@unbound.social aren't showing in my feed and I cant' reply via @unbound.social.

Anyway, my choice of "associate" caused confusion; "conflate" better describes what the IHRA does. It implies that :
- Judaism;
- Israel;
- Israeli National Zionist ideology;
- the very concept of Jewishness;
are the same. Inseparable. It isn't inevitable. It's tactical.
@kmpiw@mastodon.social @palestine @kmpiw@infosec.exchange

This was published a month after Operation Al-Aqsa Flood:
mondoweiss.net/2023/11/are-isr

#AusPol
#censorship
#zionism
#authoritarianism
#ForeignInfluence
#ForeignInterference
#genocide
#antisemitism
#Islamophobia

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This is the section I quoted of the FT article that I believe is relevant and rises to foreign interference:

“The FT’s analysis, in collaboration with a team of researchers at the University of Southern California led by Luca Luceri, identified a network of suspicious accounts promoting rightwing memes and news sources collected from posts appearing for the queries: #cdnpoli, Canada, Mark Carney, Pierre Poilievre.
The accounts have tell-tale signs of being bots: posting at very high volume and frequency, often only retweeting content, and consistently sharing a variety of common links — in this case promoting Poilievre and attacking Carney. Often the accounts push misleading content, such as associating Carney with the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Luceri said: “Our approach is deliberately cautious to reduce misclassification and minimise false positives — ensuring that organic accounts are not misclassified as malicious actors.””

archive.is/ADxJk

#canpoli#elxn45#X
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Here is the definition of Foreign Interference in the Act. It seems pretty clear to me that it applies.

“Foreign interference in the Canadian electoral process can pose a serious threat to our democracy. All allegations of
wrongdoing on the part of a foreign person or entity are taken seriously and are carefully examined to determine
whether they fall within the Commissioner's mandate.

• Undue influence by foreigners

**** Foreign persons or entities are prohibited from unduly influencing a Canadian elector to vote or refrain from voting, or to vote or refrain from voting for a particular candidate or registered party. *****

Examples of undue influence may include an individual who does not reside in Canada who is neither a Canadian citizen nor a permanent resident knowingly incurring expenses that directly promote or oppose:
• a candidate in an election;
• a registered party that has endorsed a candidate in that election; or
• the leader of such a registered party.

It may also include attempts to influence the elector that involve committing an act or omission that is contrary to federal or provincial laws and regulations.”

Entities on X are attempting to manipulate Canadians to vote for one party in the Canadian election.

I have submitted a report to the Commissioner of Canada Elections. Any Canadian can. I encourage you to do the same.

This is the reporting website:
cef-cce.ca/content.asp?section

Based on the reporting from FT today of right wing influence campaigns on X, I believe there is an attempt by foreign actors — possibly indirectly or directly connected to the Trump Administration — to manipulate the Canadian electorate.

Everything that happens on X is enabled by one person, Elon Musk, who occupies a key role in the Administration of the United States of America.

Archive story link: archive.is/ADxJk
Original FT.com link ft.com/content/743c1dec-0c5c-4

www.cef-cce.caOnline complaint form | Commissioner of Canada Elections
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The #FBI has shut down its #ForeignInfluence task force. #CISA has ended its efforts to expose #disinformation. And this week the #State Dept put employees who tracked global disinformation on leave, shutting down the effort that had publicized the spread of #Chinese & #Russian #propaganda.

Almost 3 months into #Trump’s 2nd term, the guardrails intended to prevent #NationalSecurity missteps have come down as the new team races to anticipate & amplify the wishes of an #unpredictable president.

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…last Sept #US authorities charged 2 #RT employees w/ allegedly funneling $10M to bankroll *unknowing* pro-#Trump #influencers to publish thousands of videos that pushed #Kremlin #propaganda. Dual Russian-American citizens Dimitri Simes & his wife, Anastasia, were charged w/ violating economic sanctions, in part for his paid work for another #Russia state television network.…

…AG #PamBondi shut down the #FBI task force investigating #ForeignInfluence….

#law#DC#USAttorney
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#DanielJones, who has served as a bodyguard to #FarRight figure #AviYemini, said on #SocialMedia on Wednesday that he had walked unchallenged into the hotel lobby before he confronted #Albanese and asked him questions about #immigration.

Jones, a self-proclaimed self-defence #expert, has previously posted online that people should “train to make it easy to be able to #kill”.”

Show me people who #ASIO and #ASIS take an interest in?

When the DG of the Intelligence services talks about foreign influence, this is what it looks like. What foreign country paid our proclaimed SME for this kind of political action?

#AusPol / #ForeignInfluence / #PoliticalInterference / #extremism / #propaganda / #LNP / #Labor <archive.md/IeE6w> / <theage.com.au/national/who-are> (PayWall)

"It’s easy to see why authoritarians instinctively distrust universities. Like a free press, functioning political opposition or effective trade unions, they are a source of independent accountability and potentially resistance to governmental control. In practical terms, academics and students have long traditions of noisy activism. Shutting them up is a critical step in the silencing of dissent."
theshot.net.au/uncategorized/t
@palestine
#AusPol
#censorship
#zionism
#authoritarianism
#ForeignInfluence
#ForeignInterference
#genocide
#antisemitism
#Islamophobia

The Shot · The craven crushing of campus dissent - The ShotThere isn’t a free society where universities aren’t havens for academic freedom. The Nazis knew this; Trump, and Australian Zionists, know this too.

#Trump Dismantles Government Fight Against #ForeignInfluence Operations

The Trump administration has reassigned several dozen government employees who had been working on foreign #election interference issues at the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
#fbi #security

nytimes.com/2025/02/20/busines

The New York Times · Trump Dismantles Government Fight Against Foreign Influence OperationsBy Steven Lee Myers

#Tesla uses #ChineseCourts to #SilenceCritics & make them pay.

Tesla has won nearly 90% of its #lawsuits in China, showing how Musk has thrived in a system in which regulators, the media & the courts must all answer to the #CCP.

It's not common practice for automakers — in #China or elsewhere — to sue their customers, but Tesla has pioneered an aggressive #legal strategy & leveraged the #patronage of powerful leaders in the Chinese Communist Party to silence critics, reap financial rewards and limit its accountability.

taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archi

台北時報 · Tesla uses Chinese courts to silence critics and make them payBy 台北時報