(MENAFN) British government minister Robert Halfon has talked about Israel on 65 occasions in the House of Commons since he was elected as the member of parliament for Harlow in 2010, according to Hansard, the official parliamentary record.
In a secret recording by an undercover Al Jazeera reporter shared with Middle East Eye, Halfon's former parliamentary assistant, Maria Strizzolo, who had connections to the Israeli embassy in London and the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs, revealed details of how she had used her position to place parliamentary statements sympathetic to Israel.
Describing how questions were planted with MPs, Strizzolo said: "You know, you brief them, you say: 'You don't have to do anything, we are going to give you the speech, we are going to give you all the information, we are going to do everything for you'."
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