https://therealnews.com/deadly-exchange-us-sends-hundreds-of-law-enforcement-to-israel-to-learn-worst-practices-from-idf

DEADLY EXCHANGE’: US SENDS HUNDREDS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT TO ISRAEL TO LEARN ‘WORST PRACTICES’ FROM IDF

Through police exchange programs, local and federal officials travel to Israel for training that advocates say further militarizes the police and exacerbates harm to marginalized communities.

BY VICTORIA VALENZUELA
JANUARY 7, 2025

It is not uncommon for police to drive around with their lights flashing in Black and working-class neighborhoods in Atlanta. This is a tactic used to intimidate and make their presence known; for residents of these neighborhoods, it can feel like psychological warfare. US law enforcement learned this strategy from Israeli forces.

Thousands of law enforcement officials have traveled to Israel to learn new repression strategies and surveillance techniques from the Israel National Police, Israel Defense Forces, and the Shin Bet, who inflict violence, crowd control, and surveillance onto Palestinians. Anti-imperialist advocates say the tactics being taught to US law enforcement were battle-tested on Palestinians and spread to the US to target Black and Brown communities through a training relationship that grants Israeli forces more power and profit, causing further harm to Palestinians.

These programs are facilitated by the Anti-Defamation League, the Jewish Institute for National Security of America, and the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange Program—the latter of which was started in 1996. US leaders sought Israel’s guidance to curb terrorism, and a ‘deadly exchange’ of worst practices between US and Israeli forces was born. Federal, state, county, and municipal law enforcement executives including local police departments, the FBI, and ICE have traveled to Israel, while thousands of officials have attended conferences with Israeli experts in the US. An inaugural “US-Israel Security Conference” by JINSA occurred last month, where a former Israel Defense Forces commander was included as a guest speaker.

“Certain police practices and policies that all happen time and time again, when you look back and try to pull back on the thread to see where they got this from, it always comes back to somebody went to Israel.”
STEVEN H., AN ORGANIZER WITH THE BLACK ALLIANCE FOR PEACE.

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Hmmm?

Jesus meets sledge hammer.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/20/israel-soldier-jesus-statue-sledgehammer-lebanon

And how soon Israelis forget their own history. Or does that only apply to synagogues?

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/kristallnacht

moral army in the world, or so we're told.

wtf is wrong with these people?

that are following Torah literally where it says to destroy the gods of those they vanquished.
We do not live in the Bronze age!

I wouldn't want to be the moron who did this. I think we can all agree it's disrespectful of Christianity, so the guy is undoubtedly a moron. At best.

thousands more in Lebanon, murder 170 plus little girls in Iran, but knocking down a statue is a bigger issue for religious folks.
This planet is sick.

Right along with the Palestinians but those articles haven’t gained attention, sympathy or traction so if it takes a photo of a cross to wake people up to the fact that no one is safe from the idf, so be it

Rec

says a lot about how big the delusions are

People love them

....unless that's who you are proud to be

the IDF ARE terrorists

It just makes me sick. What barbarians some humans are!

Now they're up to it themselves.

the religious right, Israel has become the very evil that once attempted to destroy their own civilization.
I’ve seen enough and heard enough from Israels backers and apologists.
And so has the rest of the world.

Right up there with Hamas and Hezbollah. US funding of Israel's military in not any different from Iran funding Hamas and Hezbollah, except for the quantity and quality of the weapons.
Thanks to Netanyahu, the Israeli government has abandoned their "high moral ground" position, and has engaged in ethnic cleansing.

And the forever war grinds on.

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That has sunk a us ship and not paid the consequences.

The ties between the us people and the Israeli people are real, but as best I can tell the fealty between the us government and the Israeli government only seems to flow one way.

and concentrating on Ethnic Cleansing of Shiites.

Whoops.

Hey, monotheists: IT'S ALL THE SAME GOD.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/world/middleeast/israeli-soldier-lebanon-sledgehammer-jesus.html

He's an ordained Southern Baptist minister

Last week, residents of the Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil mourned the loss of the Grand Mosque of Bint Jbeil – a structure that dated back to the Roman empire.

GENOCIDAL MANIACS !!!!


And "how many times have they raped Lebanon?" I have asked previously....

I count two now, but I may have not paid enough attention
during the 40-some years between the first and the last time that I recollect....