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Israel waged secret campaign to stop Britain boycotting trade, Declassified reveals
Michael Gove leaves after delivering a speech in central London, while on the General Election campaign trail, July 2, 2024

ISRAEL secretly lobbied the British government to stop it boycotting trade, an investigation by Declassified revealed today.

Israeli officials were exposed as holding a high-level meeting with Michael Gove when he was justice secretary in 2015.

Emails leaked from a hack of the Israeli ministry of justice show how the “sensitive” meeting focused on how to combat the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement.

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