For three years, a woman with a background in U.S. State Department cultural diplomacy and ties to intelligence-linked organizations quietly managed the membership database of Britain’s largest pro-Palestine organization.
Her name is Deborah Fiorin. Hired by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) in early 2018 as its Membership and Data Officer, Fiorin held unprecedented access to the personal information of thousands of activists across the United Kingdom. Yet her prior work history, which includes a stint at a State Department propaganda arm and brief postings at firms with deep intelligence connections, raises serious questions about vetting, oversight, and the very integrity of the campaign’s leadership.
This investigation examines who Fiorin really is, how she came to hold such a sensitive post, and what her story reveals about the governance of PSC.
Ben Soffa, national secretary of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), has developed software to monitor and organize the group’s members. He owns a small company called Organic Campaigns and describes himself on LinkedIn as a “developer of online campaigning tools.” As national secretary, Soffa has access to PSC’s membership data and likely worked closely with whoever oversaw the database.
As revealed in my previous article, Soffa admitted to having “limited” contact with Assaf Kaplan, the former Israeli military intelligence officer who was controversially hired by the Labour Party as head of digital operations. It remains unclear whether Soffa shared PSC member data with his Labour colleague, but the question demands scrutiny.
A more pressing concern, however, is how PSC member data may have been used. (more...)
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