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In the past few years, Israel has been very involved in training US police, both in Israel and here. They use tactics which were heretofore not permitted by our police: use of tear gas, rubber bullets, knee on neck, for example. These tactics are now permitted here in the US, as just recently witnessed. In addition to that, it has become more difficult to recruit qualified police, and so requirements have been relaxed to the point where it is possible that sadistic people have been recruited. Amnesty Int.: "Critics of these programs, including human rights groups, point to Israel's human rights abuses and State violence toward Palestinians, black Jews, and African refugees." "Police departments (in the U.S.) should find partners that will train on de-escalation techniques (...) and how to appropriately respond to those using non-violent protest to express their opinions. Israel is not such a partner," the rights group concluded. (Please Google this: there is lots more information)
ReplyDeleteThe policemen involved in the killing of George Floyd have been suckered into thinking that their tactics were OK. They are of course guilty, but so are the people who trained them to act in this fashion.
ReplyDeleteBackup from Amnesty Int. for Israeli involvement: Hundreds of law enforcement officials traveled to Israel for training, while thousands of others received training from Israeli officials in the U.S.
ReplyDeleteAs several cities across the United States become hot spots of unrest following the violent death of black man George Floyd at the hands of a white police officer, Amnesty International recalled Sunday that U.S. police trains in Israel alongside military officers, who “have racked up documented human rights violations for years.”
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The rights group reported that hundreds of law enforcement officials from Baltimore, Florida, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, California, Arizona, Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Georgia, Washington state as well as the DC Capitol police all travel to Israel for training, while thousands of others received training from Israeli officials in the U.S.
“Many of these trips are taxpayer-funded while others are privately funded,” the group noted, adding that “since 2002, the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee’s Project Interchange and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs have paid for police chiefs, assistant chiefs and captains to train in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.”
Critics of these programs, including human rights groups, point to Israel’s record of human rights abuses and state violence toward Palestinians, Black jews, and African refugees.
According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 2018 brought almost a 70 percent increase over the previous year in Israeli settler violence toward Palestinians, and a rise in Palestinian deaths and injuries in Gaza.
In the year since 2018 Great March of Return demonstrations began, more than 190 Palestinians were killed and 28,000 were injured by Israeli Forces.
In the U.S., many Black and Hispanic neighborhoods have been experiencing disproportionate violence and rising trends in fatal police shootings.
In Georgia for instance, an investigation of deadly police shootings revealed that in the years after 2010, at least 185 people were shot and killed by police, almost half of them unarmed or shot in the back.
Amnesty International, other human rights organizations and even the U.S. Department of State have also been citing Israeli police for carrying out extrajudicial executions and other unlawful killings, using ill-treatment and torture, suppression of freedom of expression and association, through government surveillance, and excessive use of force against peaceful protesters.
“Police departments (in the U.S.) should find partners that will train on de-escalation techniques, (...) and how to appropriately respond to those using non-violent protest to express their opinions. Israel is not such a partner,” the rights group concluded.
(Israelis can get away with all this brutality against Palestinians, but hopefully this will not be tolerated here.