Amnesty: “Israeli” Forces Training US Police on Large Scale

By Staff, Agencies

Amnesty International has revealed how police forces from a surprisingly wide expanse of the United States have been receiving training from “Israeli” forces and services, warning that the violence being exercised by the American law enforcement has come to match “Israeli” brutality.

The UK-based rights group said the American police members have been either traveling to the occupied territories to receive training or have been trained inside the United States by “Israeli” forces

It said “Israeli” police, military, and intelligence services have been providing training to American forces on such issues as “crowd control, use of force, and surveillance.”

It identified the recipients as “Baltimore law enforcement officials, along with hundreds of others from Florida, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, California, Arizona, Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Georgia, Washington state as well as the DC Capitol police.”

Besides those traveling to the occupied territories, “thousands of others have received training from ‘Israeli’ officials here in the US,” the Amnesty noted.

The training is either taxpayer funded or privately funded as in the case of the money that has been offered for the process since 2002 by the international far-right Jewish organization Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee’s Project Interchange that arranges for visits to the occupied territories by Americans, and Washington, D.C-based think tank, the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs of America, the rights body reported.

The training process, it regretted, puts members of the US police “in the hands of [the ‘Israeli’] military, security, and police systems that have racked up documented human rights violations for years.”

The Amnesty cautioned that the US police’s abuses had now come to “parallel violations by ‘Israeli’ military, security and police officials.”