Together, we recognize the dangers of training San Diego police in Israel. Co-author Khoury was ethnically cleansed from West Jerusalem in 1948 and from East Jerusalem in 1967. She recalls Israeli training of the Nigerian military to protect Nigerian presidents who instilled fear and oppression. We wonder, why did they participate, what did they learn, and what tactics did they implement?Ĭo-author Domingos sees herself as a hybrid between African American and Black African.
Last year the Anti-Defamation League, a civil rights organization, sponsored training in Israel of several local law enforcement officials, only the latest local participants in police training in Israel. Hundreds of law enforcement officials and government agents from across our country have been sent to Israel to meet with military and police forces, and thousands more have participated in conferences, trainings and workshops with Israeli officials in the United States. Since the “war on terror” began in 2001, militarization of American policing has been amplified by training in Israel.
Domestically, the militarization of police departments is linked to the expansion of surveillance, harassment and Black and Brown extrajudicial deaths. Internationally, the United States military is engaged in Black and Brown countries as convenient battlefields.
From our perspectives - that of a Black woman born in Nigeria and a Palestinian American man born in Jerusalem - how America polices its neighborhoods and the world are inextricably linked.
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