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Netanyahu planted listening devices in former UK PM's toilet, Johnson claims

October 4, 2024 

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson meets with Benjamin Netanyahu at No. 10 Downing Street, in London, United Kingdom on September 5th, 2019. [Kate Green – Anadolu Agency]


Former UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has made a startling claim in his memoir “Unleashed”, alleging that a listening device was discovered in his personal bathroom at the Foreign Office following a visit by Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, in 2017.

Johnson said that Netanyahu, whom he refers to as “Bibi”, excused himself to use the facilities during their meeting. The former PM states “it may or may not be a coincidence but I am told that later, when they were doing a regular sweep for bugs, they found a listening device in the thunderbox.”

The allegation comes amid a history of similar accusations against Israel. In 2018, Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency, was accused of placing listening devices near the White House to eavesdrop on then-President Donald Trump. According to Politico, three former US officials claimed that Israel had been identified by the FBI as the culprit behind the placement of several miniature devices in Washington DC, designed to monitor mobile telephone traffic.

The recent allegations have reignited discussions about Israel’s espionage activities against its so called allies. Historical cases include Jonathan Pollard, a former US Navy intelligence analyst, who was convicted of passing classified information to Israel in the 1980s. Another notable case is that of Ben-Ami Kadish, an American mechanical engineer who pleaded guilty in 2008 to providing classified US military documents to Israel. Additionally, Arnon Milchan, a Hollywood producer, admitted to being an Israeli spy in the 1970s and 1980s, helping to acquire technology for Israel’s nuclear weapons program.

Although not directly connected to Israel, the case of Jewish-Americans, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, is relevant to the broader history of espionage involving US secrets. The Rosenbergs were convicted of passing atomic bomb secrets to the Soviet Union during the Cold War, an act that significantly advanced Soviet nuclear capabilities. The Rosenbergs’ case is often cited as one of the most famous instances of espionage during the Cold War and resulted in their execution in 1953.

In 2016 British intelligence labelled Israel as a “true threat” to the security of the Middle East. The revelations were reported by French newspaper, Le Monde, based on top secret documents obtained by whistleblower, Edward Snowden.

The latest case of alleged espionage targeting Johnson has sparked a conversation about whether Israel is a genuine ally of Western nations. Notably, after World War II, Zionist extremism became British spies’ biggest enemy, as revealed in an article by the Foreign Policy magazine.

Britain’s Prime Minister, Clement Atlee, was among the targets for assassination as was Foreign Secretary, Ernest Bevin, who was regarded in 1946 as the main obstacle to the establishment of a Jewish state in the Middle East. The Stern Gang hit list included MI5’s new director-general, Sir Percy Sillitoe, who warned Atlee that “an assassination campaign in Britain had to be considered a real possibility”.

Users of X took to social media to highlight Zionism’s long track record of conducting terrorism. “Revisionist Zionists conducted a campaign of terror against British targets in Palestine, Germany, Italy, Egypt and in the UK in the 1940s” tweeted Professor David Miller.

Miller went on to list a number of Zionist terrorism in the UK specifically:

“The Stern Gang invented the book bomb and used it for the first time in the UK to attempt to kill Major Roy Farran in Wolverhampton. They killed his brother Rex, instead. The bomb was inside a hollowed out copy of Shakespeare’s plays”.

“They also tried to kill many of the Cabinet with 21 letter bombs targeting every prominent member of the Cabinet, including Prime Minister, Clement Atlee, Stafford Cripps and Sir Anthony Eden.”