@mvario And US #police are being trained by #IDF / #Israel.

U.S. Police are Being Trained by Israel—And Communities of Color Are Paying the Price

by Ilise Benshushan Cohen, Azadeh Shahshahani
October 7, 2019

"Law enforcement from other U.S. states have participated in the program, including those from Tennessee, Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Floria, Georgia, Indiana, North Carolina, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Nevada, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wahsington, D.C., and West Virginia.

"Open records requests have forced program leaders to reveal some of its content topics, including border policing, community policing, and urban policing.

"#Activists in Georgia are pushing for an end to Atlanta’s police exchange program. Seventy local organizations and leaders—including our organizations, #JewishVoiceForPeace - Atlanta and Project South—are demanding that Atlanta get out of these deadly police exchanges.

"Among other objections, activists point to Israel’s clear record of #HumanRights abuses and #StateViolence toward #Palestinians, #JewsOfColor, and #AfricanRefugees. According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 2018 brought a 69 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."

Read more:
https://progressive.org/latest/us-police-trained-by-israel-communities-of-color-paying-price-shahshahani-cohen-191007/

#ACAB #Protesters #IsraeliWarCrimes #Racism #BLM