Journalists helped Israel’s ex-UN envoy rally support during Gaza war: Hacker group

A pro-Palestinian hacker group has obtained emails from the former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, Ron Prosor, revealing that prominent journalists secretly helped him rally support for Tel Aviv amid criticisms over the criminal regime’s war on the Gaza Strip.

David Frum, a senior editor at the American magazine The Atlantic, and Douglas Murray, an associate editor at the UK publication The Spectator, ghost-wrote Prosor’s speeches to the UN, according to an analysis of the leaked emails published by Drop Site News on Wednesday.

CNN editorial producer Pamela Gross also raised funds for Israel’s so-called Iron Dome missile system, the report added.

In an email from July 31, 2014, during the height of the Israeli onslaught on Gaza, Frum sent Prosor a message laying out the draft text of a speech for the regime’s ambassador.

The speech branded Israel’s aggression against Gaza as “the most tenacious challenge to the free world in decades.”

The day before sending Prosor the speech, Frum from a separate email address asked him, “Can I interview you for short (sic) profile in Atlantic about what it’s like to be Israeli ambassador at UN?”

Prosor forwarded the message to the Israeli Foreign Ministry, and in late September 2014, The Atlantic published a profile of Prosor, authored by Frum, entitled “Israel’s Man at the United Nations.”

The Israeli regime waged a war on Gaza on July 8, 2014. The offensive, which killed 2,310 Palestinians and injured 10,626 others, ended on August 26 with a truce that took effect after indirect negotiations in the Egyptian capital of Cairo.

Additionally, the report said that Murray wrote Prosor on July 31, 2014, saying he was “pasting in here my first draft ideas.” The email contained Murray’s own suggested speech for Prosor to deliver to the UN, which slammed efforts to boycott Israeli products and referred to European Muslims with derogatory comments.

In November of that year, the British journalist wrote to Prosor to inform him that he had hosted an event that raised over one million pounds for an organization called “The Association for the Wellbeing of Israeli Soldiers.”

Meanwhile, Pamela Gross contacted the Israeli UN ambassador to book him for guest appearances on CNN and invited him to other events.

In one email, Prosor thanked Gross for “the amazing work that you are doing in fundraising for the Iron Dome project,” describing the CNN producer and her husband as “ true assets” to Israel.

In a message dated February 27, 2015, Gross wrote to Prosor to book him on CNN while also telling him that she had just met former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak.

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