WEST BANK (Kayhan Intl.) – Following the killing of George Floyd, as U.S. riot police fired rubber-coated bullets, tear gas canisters, pepper spray and stun grenades at protesters, Palestinians shared tips on social media on how to best deal with the assaults.
Many in the Palestinian territories are well experienced with such tactics by security forces while living under a decades-long occupation by Zionist troops in the West Bank and besieged Gaza Strip.
According to the organizations Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and Researching the American-Israeli Alliance (RAIA), one common theme shared between United States and the Zionist regime is the exchange of tactics and expertise in violence, which has been ongoing for 18 years.
Months after the September 11 attacks, U.S. law enforcement delegates attended their first official training expedition to the Zionist regime to exchange "best practices” in "counter-terrorism”.
Since then, thousands more from across the U.S. – including agents from the FBI, CIA, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) – have been schooled at these meetings in both the occupied territories and the U.S., sponsored by far-right Israeli lobby organizations.
But instead of promoting effective security for communities, the program facilitates an exchange of tactics used in police violence and control including mass surveillance, racial profiling and the suppression of protests and dissent, according to the JVP and RAIA’s 2018 report titled Deadly Exchange, which details the extent of the cooperation.
Among the thousands of U.S. law enforcement officers who have participated in the exchange over the years was Anoka County (North Minneapolis) Sherrif James Stuart, who travelled to the occupied territories in December.
Eran Erati – executive director of RAIA, who has studied the subject for the past decade – told Al Jazeera that when training with the Zionist regime, U.S. police delegates witness "live demonstrations of repressive violence in real-time, in protests across the West Bank, patrols in East Jerusalem (al-Quds), and visits to the Gaza border”.
"Delegates meet with the Shin Bet and chief officers in Israeli military prisons to discuss investigation tactics, with Palestinian Authority agents and police, to learn about how Israel uses their collaboration in suppressing Palestinian dissent, and with representatives from the Department of Defense and others to learn about Israel’s security expertise,” Efrati said.
Leila, a campaign organizer at JVP who asked that only her first name be used, told Al Jazeera the exchange program is just one aspect of violent policing in the United States that has existed for decades.
"The violence that we’re seeing today in the U.S. is 100 percent the result of white supremacy and anti-blackness and institutionalized racism in the U.S.,” Leila said.
Many in the Palestinian territories are well experienced with such tactics by security forces while living under a decades-long occupation by Zionist troops in the West Bank and besieged Gaza Strip.
According to the organizations Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and Researching the American-Israeli Alliance (RAIA), one common theme shared between United States and the Zionist regime is the exchange of tactics and expertise in violence, which has been ongoing for 18 years.
Months after the September 11 attacks, U.S. law enforcement delegates attended their first official training expedition to the Zionist regime to exchange "best practices” in "counter-terrorism”.
Since then, thousands more from across the U.S. – including agents from the FBI, CIA, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) – have been schooled at these meetings in both the occupied territories and the U.S., sponsored by far-right Israeli lobby organizations.
But instead of promoting effective security for communities, the program facilitates an exchange of tactics used in police violence and control including mass surveillance, racial profiling and the suppression of protests and dissent, according to the JVP and RAIA’s 2018 report titled Deadly Exchange, which details the extent of the cooperation.
Among the thousands of U.S. law enforcement officers who have participated in the exchange over the years was Anoka County (North Minneapolis) Sherrif James Stuart, who travelled to the occupied territories in December.
Eran Erati – executive director of RAIA, who has studied the subject for the past decade – told Al Jazeera that when training with the Zionist regime, U.S. police delegates witness "live demonstrations of repressive violence in real-time, in protests across the West Bank, patrols in East Jerusalem (al-Quds), and visits to the Gaza border”.
"Delegates meet with the Shin Bet and chief officers in Israeli military prisons to discuss investigation tactics, with Palestinian Authority agents and police, to learn about how Israel uses their collaboration in suppressing Palestinian dissent, and with representatives from the Department of Defense and others to learn about Israel’s security expertise,” Efrati said.
Leila, a campaign organizer at JVP who asked that only her first name be used, told Al Jazeera the exchange program is just one aspect of violent policing in the United States that has existed for decades.
"The violence that we’re seeing today in the U.S. is 100 percent the result of white supremacy and anti-blackness and institutionalized racism in the U.S.,” Leila said.
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