Many people are alarmed at how much the Israeli government is embedded within our government and military. This has been going on for a very long time.
NOTE: This blog post is from August 25, 2016, authored by Edith Garwood, Amnesty International USA Country Specialist covering Israel, the Occupied Palestinian Territory and the State of Palestine.
When the U.S. Department of Justice published a report opens in a new tab on August 10, 2016, that documented “widespread constitutional violations, discriminatory enforcement, and culture of retaliation” within the Baltimore Police Department (BPD), there was rightly a general reaction of outrage.
But what hasn’t received as much attention is where Baltimore police received training on crowd control, use of force and surveillance: Israel’s national police, military and intelligence services.