The delegations to Israel began in the 1990s and ramped up after the September 11 attacks in 2001. It’s about the constituent parts of successful law enforcement counterterrorism responsibilities in local policing.” A focus on counterterrorism in a post-9/11 world “There’s no shooting, there’s no wrestling, there’s no chokeholds. “What we do is focus on management and policy issues, not training, not specific tactical training,” said Steven Pomerantz, director of the Homeland Security Program at the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, or JINSA, a conservative think tank that runs some of the delegations. The itineraries, they add, mostly consist of lectures, meetings and tours. They say the trips, which are far from unique among international police exchanges, expose participants to a variety of policing practices in Israel, from surveillance systems to models for community policing in minority communities. Trip organizers and participants, however, say that’s a fundamental mischaracterization of the trips. “It’s like, oh great, then let’s adapt this and adopt this to the practice we’re already trying to do of surveillance and of suppression of protest and of racial profiling.”
“On these trips it’s about sharing and swapping ideas and tactics, but that’s not to say that the mission from the United States officials wasn’t there to begin with,” said Stefanie Fox, JVP’s executive director.
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In a June update to its “Deadly Exchange” campaign, JVP said that “Suggesting that Israel is the start or source of American police violence or racism shifts the blame from the United States to Israel” and “furthers an anti-Semitic ideology.”īut JVP is still campaigning against the trips - not, they say, as the driver of police abuse in the United States - but because the group says such exchanges allow police forces from two countries with histories of racial discrimination and allegations of oppressive policing to swap strategies. Now JVP is seeking to temper the anti-Israel criticism tied to recent protests of police brutality. It also has successfully pressured two New England police officials to withdraw from delegations. The main organization opposing the delegations has been Jewish Voice for Peace, or JVP, an anti-Zionist group that published a 2018 report calling the trips a “Deadly Exchange.” The report says they normalize “the violent repression of communities and movements the government defines as threatening.”īased on the report, JVP has campaigned for an end to police delegations to Israel, and has succeeded in banning them and other international police exchanges in Durham, North Carolina. Protestors scuffle with police during a protest against outside the prime minister’s official residence in Jerusalem, June 26, 2020.
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