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The UK Government has refused to publish any information it holds on a shadowy Israeli firm caught meddling in the Scottish parliament elections, citing a Freedom of Information (FOI) exemption that allows documents to be withheld if they would “prejudice relations between the United Kingdom and any other state”.

On June 12, a report from the French government agency Viginum – the French service for protection against foreign digital interference – said it had detected interference in elections in Scotland, France, and New York City from a shadowy Israeli firm called BlackCore.

In Scotland, the report said that there had been a “mobilisation of at least 256 accounts” targeting First Minister John Swinney and the SNP on social media. After BlackCore was publicly named, its online presence was wiped, and the identity of those behind it has not been publicly established.

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[–] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can Israel not be a pedophilic backstabbing warcrimey liability for a moment?

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 day ago

You mean like this shit from the Torah? "5:4 IntroductionThis mishnah teaches that in a legal sense, sexual relations with a girl over the age of three counts as sexual relations.I should emphasize that this mishnah in no way condones such an act (which is certainly rape) it just teaches that this counts as an act of intercourse. At the core of this notion is their understanding of the physical consequences of intercourse for the first time namely the breaking of the woman's hymen. As we can see at the end of the mishnah, if a girl has intercourse (i.e. is raped) before the age of three her hymen will repair itself. After the age of three, it will not. This, to the rabbis, means that after the age of three, intercourse "counts" in a legal sense. Before the age of three, it does not."

[–] tirateimas@lemmy.pt 27 points 1 day ago (3 children)

So many countries in the pocket of Israel. Or a least the politicians of those countries.

[–] Miller@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Israel has all the photos.

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They must have a copy of the Eppstein files

[–] impairedimperator@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago

Lots of things point to Epstein being directly funded by Mossad, with maxwell being the connection. Probably why she's still alive.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Decades of the Epstein Network operating with Mossad support as well as massive investment in things like tech to remotely hack smartphones (hence why all the companies that do it are based in Israel) has really paid in terms of being able to control lots and lots of Western politicians.

[–] mHtt@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Yup, but if you say anything you open yourself up to invalid ad hominem attacks, which apparently are in style now?

Palestiniana are semitic. FR

[–] Rat_in_a_hat@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Colombia's previous president accused Israel of meddling in their recent elections where a right wing trump supporter got elected, but I doubt the incoming president would bother investigating and they probably don't have the same resources to look into it either.

[–] jamesrandi@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 day ago

Condemning in itself i'd say...

[–] hark@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

With how awful israel has been for its entire existence, it should not have a right to exist. In fact, the world has a right to make it not exist.