Police Brutality “Made in Israel”

When it comes to dehumanising and abusing a population, the Israelis are experts. Our cops should not be taking lessons from them.

Police face off with pro-Palestinian students after destroying part of the encampment barricade on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles, May 2. [Source: The Forward | Photo: Getty Images}

Many Americans are shocked and horrified by the level of brutality and sheer force that is being levelled against peaceful student demonstrators on college campuses across the United States and the world. Those of us who are older are appalled at how much has changed: how the police and law enforcement agencies in general have started to see the American people as “the enemy”, members of a savage and dangerous population that must be subjugated, controlled and forced into submission.

How did this happen?

The answer is that, over the past 20+ years, the American law enforcement system has been “Israelised” — to the point where the techniques, the attitude and even the mission of American law enforcement has become harmonised with — if not completely subsumed by — the Israeli security state.

During the “BLM” racial justice protests of 2020, the police corralled demonstrators around New York City and arrested them en masse, a practice known as kettling, including on June 4 in the Bronx. [Source: The New York Times | Photo: Stephen Yang]

It all started with 9/11