from TeleSUR
The Researching the American-Israeli Alliance group, in partnership with
anti-occupation group Jewish Voice for Peace released a report
detailing the ways in which exchanges between the United States and
Israeli state security agencies have reinforced a “security model that
justifies flagrant human and civil rights violations” in the wake of the
9/11 attacks.
This model, which relies on civilian surveillance and racial
profiling along with suppressing public protests and critical social
movements, does not target potential foreign enemy threats but civilian
population and minority communities.
The report
titled “Deadly Exchange: The Dangerous Consequences of American Law
Enforcement Trainings in Israel” details how the U.S. War on Terror
paved the way for the increase in the “militarization of domestic law
enforcement,” enhanced by the institutionalization of Israel-U.S.
security exchanges.
“Months after 9/11,
American law enforcement representatives (including police chiefs, FBI
and CIA agents, future ICE officers, and MTA security directors)
attended their first official training expedition to Israel,” the report
states...
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