In 2002, the Los Angeles Times reported:
Five New York City police investigators are in Israel for a symposium on suicide bombers. The officers are apparently the first members of a U.S. police department to receive training from Israeli counter-terrorism experts.
“Obviously after 9/11 everyone’s world changed,” Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said. “We have to be as prepared as we can be for any eventuality.”
The New York Police Department (NYPD) has a detective “based in Israel” who reports back to department head Ray Kelly. The relationship continues.
Fast-forward to the present, where in recent weeks a steady drip of outrageous revelations about the NYPD’s indiscriminate spying on Muslim New Yorkers continues to be published by the Associated Press.
Israeli “counter-terror” tactics rely on a racist dragnet that labels every Palestinian a threat to Israeli security, much in the same way the NYPD’s operation reveal that the department believes every Muslim guilty until proven innocent.
The NYPD, of course, needs no help in learning the tactics of racial profiling when it comes to policing communities of color. But the close relationship between the NYPD and Israel on counter-terrorism merits a closer look. Just what insight is the NYPD gathering from Israeli security?
Is the NYPD’s spying operation on Muslim New Yorkers yet another example of, as Scott McConnell put it, “anti-Muslim bigotry” becoming embedded in the U.S. due in part to Israeli-centric ideas about counter-terrorism?
Alex Kane is a freelance journalist and blogger based in New York City. Follow him on Twitter @alexbkane.
With credit as well to Len Levitt.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/len-levitt/targeting-muslims-does-an_b_983135.html
One must seriously ponder the inmplications and ramifications. Are local police departments in less urban locales being tasked to monitor those Americans that may are expressing thoughts and ideals that are critical of, or oppose, Israel and its corrosive meddling in our policies and government????
I have long suspected YES, such monitoring is occurring nationwide. Why else would we have literally MILLIONS of Americans on “no fly lists”.
Related:…..I mentioned this yesterday and I find it very, very disturbing.
Homeland Security ordering the closing of NY streets because of lawful Occupy Wall Street protest.
Naomi Wolf, Guardian UK
Wolf writes: “Another scary outcome I discovered is that,
when the protesters marched to the first precinct, the whole
of Erickson Street was cordoned off – ‘frozen’ they were
told, ‘by Homeland Security’. Obviously if DHS now has
powers to simply take over a New York City street because of
an arrest for peaceable conduct by a middle-aged writer in
an evening gown, we have entered a stage of the closing of
America, which is a serious departure from our days as a
free republic in which municipalities are governed by police
forces.”
thanks for the report alex. this is freaky.
RE: “In ’02, NYPD began training in Israel…” ~ By Alex Kane
ALSO SEE: Israel trip an eye-opening experience for Jefferson chief, By Adina Solomon, onlineathens.com, 07/18/11
ENTIRE PROPAGANDA ARTICLE – http://onlineathens.com/stories/071811/jac_858627408.shtml