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  • Israel has been getting away with this for years: https://www.france24.com/en/technology/20230215-israeli-firm...
  • I'm surprised that they dare to target NYC. I think NSO Group restricted Pegasus so that no US adversary would be retained as a client and the US would not be targeted.
  • Is this the same company that Slovenia was asking the EU for help with regarding the company's meddling in the election process?
  • The same Israeli BlackCore that masqueraded as a humanitarian fund for Gaza and stole the money?

    https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2026-0...

    Lowest of the low.

    by ebbi
  • The israeli ambassador in France should already have been kicked out a while ago for a myriad of reasons, I'm ashamed my country is so spineless.
  • "Lecornu said the French government had asked Israel for explanations of BlackCore's actions, and also for help in trying to find out who may have been behind the smear campaign."

    This is a very well executed bit of diplomacy.

  • I confused BlackCore with Black Cube, a different Israeli private oppo research and dirty tricks group of former intelligence agents. They gained attention for their dirty campaigns against Harvey Weinstein's accusers, NSOs critics and Hungarian opposition.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Cube

  • As a New Yorker this doesn’t shock me too much. The level of “Mamdani is an anti-Semite” sentiment I saw online (Reddit particularly) felt truly hysterical. And wasn’t matched by any equivalent in the offline world.

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