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Why did Germany keep a report used to justify deportations to Syria a secret? Germany kept a report used to justify post-Assad deportations to Syria confidential for nearly a year before quietly releasing it last week. It appears to contain inaccuracies.

For the past year, Germany's asylum agency has been keeping secret a report it uses to justify deportations to Syria.

It was only released after we reached out to ask why it contains inaccuracies.

w/ Cosette Molijn for @syriadirect.bsky.social

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Why did Germany keep a report used to justify deportations to Syria a secret? Germany kept a report used to justify post-Assad deportations to Syria confidential for nearly a year before quietly releasing it last week. It appears to contain inaccuracies.

Why did Germany keep a report used to justify deportations to Syria a secret?

✍️ Cosette Molijn and @anasambri.bsky.social

Meanwhile, at least we now know the latest grotesque euphemism Frontex deploys for the murderous tactics - such as boat rammings - routinely used by border authorities to deter migrants at sea:

'dynamic engagement'

Orwell wept.

'Covert influence': Israel hired Toronto firm to fight Canada's labelling of settlement wines To ensure wines were falsely labelled "product of Israel," the Israeli Ministry of Justice secretly hired a local firm to help its lobbying of the Canadian government.

"[C]overt foreign influence."

Israel "secretly hired a Toronto law firm in an effort to stop the Canadian government from accurately labeling wines from Israel’s illegal settlements in the Palestinian West Bank."
#Canada #Israel #WestBank #Palestine #Drugs #Food #Courts #Lobbying #EthnicCleansing

‘Covert influence’: Israel hired Toronto firm to fight Canada’s labelling of settlement wines ⋆ The Breach To ensure wines were falsely labelled “product of Israel,” the Israeli Ministry of Justice secretly hired a local firm to help its lobbying of the Canadian government

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This email, and others more, reveal how the Israeli government hired the law firm from 2019 to 2021 to influence the outcomes of a case in Canadian courts involving Israeli settlement wines.

Read the story on @breachmedia.ca

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"I spoke with [redacted], and he knows Gil Sinclair (the lawyer pleading for the AGC)," wrote an associate at Toronto law firm Torys in an email.

"He suggested that we could reach out to her on your behalf”.

The email's recipient: officials at Israel's Ministry of Justice

‘Covert influence’: Israel hired Toronto firm to fight Canada’s labelling of settlement wines ⋆ The Breach To ensure wines were falsely labelled “product of Israel,” the Israeli Ministry of Justice secretly hired a local firm to help its lobbying of the Canadian government

"This is an outrageous example of covert foreign influence,” said @mbueckert.bsky.social of CJPME. “The Israeli government is using deception to prevent Canadian authorities from adhering to international law." breachmedia.ca/covert-influ...

‘Covert influence’: Israel hired Toronto firm to fight Canada’s labelling of settlement wines ⋆ The Breach To ensure wines were falsely labelled “product of Israel,” the Israeli Ministry of Justice secretly hired a local firm to help its lobbying of the Canadian government

Israel secretly hired a Toronto law firm to ensure wines from its illegal settlements would not be accurately labelled in Canada.

Anas Ambri reveals Israel’s efforts to lobby the federal government, over fears the labelling could set precedents elsewhere.

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The secret European Commission group driving EU deportations

The secret European Commission group driving EU deportations

The secret European Commission group driving EU deportations First launched in late 2022, the so-called High Level Network for Returns (HLNR) used the October 7 Hamas terror attack on Israel as a justification to enforce the exchange of data of individuals with...

The moral panic in the EU institutions about 'migrants' has got to such a level that, far from capitalising on the net benefits the evidence shows #refugees bring overall over time, more and more public money is being wasted unaccountably on expensive deportations: euobserver.com/205312/the-s...

First launched in late 2022, the so-called High Level Network for Returns (HLNR) used the October 7 Hamas terror attack on Israel as a justification to enforce the exchange of data of individuals with a deportation order and flagged as “potential terrorists”.

The secret European Commission group driving EU deportations First launched in late 2022, the so-called High Level Network for Returns (HLNR) used the October 7 Hamas terror attack on Israel as a justification to enforce the exchange of data of individuals with...

Det skremmer vettet av meg at deler av EU er på et hurtigtog på vei mot fascisme.

The secret European Commission group driving EU deportations First launched in late 2022, the so-called High Level Network for Returns (HLNR) used the October 7 Hamas terror attack on Israel as a justification to enforce the exchange of data of individuals with...

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You can read the full story here: euobserver.com/205312/the-s...

Thanks to @nikolajnielsen.bsky.social for editing, and to @hopeamelie.bsky.social and Chris Jones for support.

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After pro-Palestine activists, the HLNR started looking at ways to deport Syrians next, especially after the fall of the Assad regime.

To this end, they engaged the services of .@Frontex, which was happy to oblige.

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After the October 7 Hamas attack, the HLNR developed EU-wide guidelines on how to use SIS, the Schengen Information System, to collect information on activists by declaring them "potential terrorists".

It also discussed using special charter flights to deport them.

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For @euobserver.com, @cosettemolijn.bsky.social and I looked into the High-Level Network for Returns (HLNR), a secret group pushing for more deportations, using rather extreme policies.

One of these policies entailed using an EU-wide police database to track pro-Palestine and climate activists

meme: Mann vor einer Pinnwand mit vielen Zetteln und Notizen, verbunden mit roten Linien

Texte zur AfD-Vetternwirtschaft redigieren und faktenchecken be like...

Frontex is building an ‘AI chatbot app’ to encourage repatriations - AlgorithmWatch The chatbot shall provide answers, including legal advice, in many different languages although it was only fed information in English, new documents show.

Read the full story here: algorithmwatch.org/en/frontex-i...

My latest for @algorithmwatch.org

@frontex.bsky.social is building an 'AI chatbot application' to encourage people to 'self-deport', at a cost of 0.5 million euros.

The project was green-lit by the agency's Fundamental Rights Office, though it lacked a "solid theoretical framework".

Israel's anti-BDS programme: €40,000 to stop stickers In 2016, Israel paid law firm Van Bael & Bellis €40,000 to try to stop the BDS stickers campaign.

Read the full story here: www.muckraker.media/israels-anti...

Exclusive: leaked documents show that Israel paid the Belgian law firm Van Bael & Bellis to draft 4 legal memos, with the goal of criminalising the @bdsmovement.bsky.social stickers campaign in Europe.

Israel's anti-BDS programme: 'an untenable position' In 2016, Israel tried to hire an American law firm to run its secret anti-BDS lawfare programme. The firm declined after learning of the true goals of the programme.

Read the full story here: www.muckraker.media/israels-anti...

Exclusive: leaked documents show that Israel's top choice law firm for its covert anti-@bdsmovement.bsky.social programme thought the project put it in "an untenable position".

The law firm ultimately declined the $800/hr job.

Freut mich, dass andere Medien über die E-Mails aus dem israelischen Justizministerium berichten. Die zeigen wie Israel eine Geheimoperation mit Unterstützung europäischer Anwälte gegen Palästina-Aktivisten & Menschenrechtsorganisationen seit 2015 geführt hat. Tolle Arbeit von @anasambri.bsky.social

Israel may breach foreign interference laws in anti-BDS scheme Leaked documents show Israel allocated $1.25 million to Clifford Chance and Van Bael & Bellis to wage lawfare on BDS between 2021 and 2025

EXCLUSIVE: Leaked documents show Israel allocated $1.25 million to Clifford Chance and Van Bael & Bellis to wage lawfare on BDS between 2021 and 2025 ⬇️

Israel may breach foreign interference laws in anti-BDS scheme Leaked documents show Israel allocated $1.25 million to Clifford Chance and Van Bael & Bellis to wage lawfare on BDS between 2021 and 2025

Read our first long form investigation here: www.newarab.com/investigatio...