Asa Winstanley - Ex-Israeli Spy in Keir Starmer's Office

Labour Places ex-Israeli Spy in Keir Starmer's OfficeKeir Starmer’s Labour Party has hired a former Israeli spy to work in the leader’s office helping manage Labour’s social media output. The ex-spy is Assaf Kaplan, who worked in Israeli military intelligence for nearly five years as an officer in the cyber-warfare branch of Unit 8200. According to his LinkedIn profile, Kaplan was in the Israeli army’s military intelligence division from May 2009 to November 2013. Unit 8200 specialises in spying, hacking and encryption. It carries out blackmail, mass surveillance and systematic discrimination against Palestinians. In 2014, a group of whistleblowers detailed how the unit spies on Palestinian civilians living under Israeli military occupation. Many people are asking why Sir Keir Starmer wants an ex-Israeli spy running Labour’s social media output, and what signal this sends to the Palestinian people, whose land is occupied by a brutal apartheid regime.