[Peace-discuss] Occupy Wall Street and "Israelification"

[David Green]

It would be useful here to shift the conversation to focus on the nature of the links between Israeli and American policing; the militarization of domestic policing doesn’t mean that Israel is coming to the States, but rather that the US is a country that acts toward parts of its population as brutally and undemocratically as does Israel. And this is happening in large part by private individuals and organizations. As Johnson and Blumenthal have reported, mainstream rightist American Zionist organizations like the Anti-Defamation League (a group with a less-than-admirable record of protecting Arabs and Muslims from being defamed, and that recently, crazily, strongly implied that Thomas Friedman is anti-Semitic and anti-Israel) have long been bringing together American law enforcement with the Israeli military (see here) and encouraging close relationships. The point here is only to suggest that there is not a single or clear link between Israel and
 American policing, and to point out that the desire for cooperation goes both ways.

http://antipodefoundation.org/2012/03/05/occupy-wall-street-and-israelification/
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