Why do Kupffer cells not attack malarial sporozoites?
Indeed the process is even more interesting than thought: sporozoites actively attack Kupffer cells and let themselves get eaten! In a 2001 research, Pradel et al found that sporozoites pass through a layer of Kupffer cells in order to enter hepatocytes for the next stage of their life cycle. They observed that in rat liver cells, Plasmodium berghei and Plasmodium yoelii sporozoites attach to and enter the Kupffer cells, but not the sinusoidal endothelia. During experiment, the number of intracellular sporozoites kept increasing for upto 12 hours, unlike hepatocytes and other non-phagocytic cells which were invaded in vitro for only the first hour of parasite exposure. The sporozoites entered the Kupffer cells via endocytosis in specialized vesicles which did not interact with lysosomal markers. From Kupffer cells, sporozoites traversed to hepatocytes where they developed into exoerythrocytic schizonts. In another 2015 research, Cha et al concluded that the sporozoites interact with CD68 receptor on the surface of Kupffer cells for endocytosis. In short, sporozoites literally pass through Kupffer cells without letting Kupffer cells doing any harm to them. See this diagram for illustration:



EDIT: What happens in Kupffer cells during traversal of sporozoites remains unkown to some extent. However, Frevert et al, 2008 has shown that sporozoites render Kupffer cells insensitive to pro-inflammatory stimuli and force them towards apoptosis (aka programmed cell death or "cell suicide"). This happens as sporozoite-exposed Kupffer cells are stimulated by lipopolysaccharide or IFN-$\gamma$, causing down-modulation of TNF-$\alpha$, IL-6 and MCP-1 and upregulation of IL-10. Nuclear factor NF-$\kappa$B is also activated, which causes apoptosis in Kupffer cells (Punsawad et al, 2014). However, if Kupffer cells are activated, in particular by immunization caused due to high antivody levels, they may phagocytoze the sporozoites and thus prevent their traversal (Krzych et al, 2015).

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Pradel, G. and Frevert, U. (2001), Malaria sporozoites actively enter and pass through rat Kupffer cells prior to hepatocyte invasion. Hepatology, 33: 1154–1165. doi:10.1053/jhep.2001.24237
Cha, S.-J., et al. CD68 acts as a major gateway for malaria sporozoite liver infection. J. Exp. Med., July 2015 DOI: 10.1084/jem.20110575
Klotz C, Frevert U. Plasmodium yoelii sporozoites modulate cytokine profile and induce apoptosis in murine Kupffer cells. International journal for parasitology. 2008;38(14):1639-1650. doi:10.1016/j.ijpara.2008.05.018
Viriyavejakul P, Khachonsaksumet V, Punsawad C. Liver changes in severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria: histopathology, apoptosis and nuclear factor kappa B expression. Malaria Journal. 2014;13:106. doi:10.1186/1475-2875-13-106.
Frevert U, Krzych U. Plasmodium cellular effector mechanisms and the hepatic microenvironment. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2015;6:482. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2015.00482.