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Haaretz: Israeli Firm Hired to Discredit Palestinian Activist Linda Sarsour

HeadlineMay 25, 2018

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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