{"id":281212,"date":"2017-01-11T12:53:54","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T17:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=281212"},"modified":"2020-10-28T13:01:24","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T17:01:24","slug":"israeli-embassy-backing-campaign-to-topple-britains-pro-palestine-student-leader-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/zh-hans\/israeli-embassy-backing-campaign-to-topple-britains-pro-palestine-student-leader-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli embassy backing campaign to topple Britain\u2019s pro-Palestine student leader \u2013 report"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>The Zionist mafia at work everywhere!<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Israeli authorities collaborated with student campaigners in an attempt to topple the president of the UK\u2019s National Union of Students (NUS), Malia Bouattia, undercover filming suggests.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera reports\u00a0the Israeli embassy in Britain and the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) have sponsored attempts to influence student politics, manipulate NUS elections, and even bring down the current president.<\/p>\n<p>NUS vice president Richard Brooks is seen in footage telling an undercover reporter he is the one helping to organize Bouattia\u2019s opponents.<\/p>\n<p>Bouattia, who represents more than 4 million students, ran on an openly pro-Palestinian platform, and has been\u00a0criticized in the British media for calling herself anti-Zionist.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks is also filmed telling the Al Jazeera journalist, who went by the alias of Robin and pretended to be a Labour Friends of Israel volunteer, that he had held several\u00a0\u201cprivate meetings\u201d\u00a0with former Labour Students chairman and active pro-Israel campaigner Michael Rubin, and\u00a0Union of Jewish Students\u00a0(UJS) campaign director Russell Langer, on how to take over key NUS positions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019d have our secret little purpose meeting where we\u2019d plan how to get moderate people with good politics and any number of things elected to certain places,\u201d\u00a0he told Robin.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks has since replied to the allegations, saying it is\u00a0\u201cnot a shock or an expos\u00e9 that I politically organize against what I think to be an ineffectual and damaging presidency for students\u2019 unions and students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He did, however, deny that he had actively worked with the Israeli government to depose Bouattia.<\/p>\n<p>News of pro-Israel NUS officers colluding against the pro-Palestinian NUS president comes after revelations that an Israeli embassy aide was filmed telling a Conservative Party employee how to\u00a0\u201ctake down\u201d\u00a0MPs critical of Israel, as well as other British officials.<\/p>\n<p>In the same Al Jazeera investigation, University College London student and founder of the Zionist think tank Pinsker Centre Adam Shapira is filmed saying\u00a0\u201cthe Israeli embassy in the UK gives money to UJS.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other powerful lobbies like AIPAC were also identified as donors to Shapira\u2019s student lobby.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli embassy and Labour Friends of Israel did not respond to the allegations. Bouattia and the NUS are yet to make an official statement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/373357-israel-embassy-nus-bouattia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/373357-israel-embassy-nus-bouattia\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: The Zionist mafia at work everywhere! &#038; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":281213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}