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May 25, 2018

Haaretz: Israeli Firm Hired to Discredit Palestinian Activist Linda Sarsour
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And Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour and her family were the
targets of an intelligence-gathering campaign by a secretive Israeli
firm that was acting on behalf of an American-Israeli organization
established to combat the movement to boycott and divest from Israel.
That's according to an investigative report by the Israeli newspaper
Haaretz, which found the company Israel Cyber Shield-which has ties to
Israel's Strategic Affairs Ministry-compiled a dossier on Sarsour that
it gave to the organization Act. IL. Act. IL is an anti-BDS group that
receives much of its funding from billionaire casino magnate Sheldon
Adelson. The group distributed the dossier to U.S. college campuses in
an effort to bar Sarsour from speaking to university students. Last
June, a number of prominent New York lawmakers called on the City
University of New York to cancel a commencement address by Linda
Sarsour, who says she faced a barrage of death threats ahead of her
speech.


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