[ April 24, 2024 ]
A vicious anti-Israel group is dictating policy to North Carolina police. Israeli Defenses are among the most skilled and practiced in the world. The idea that anti-Jewish groups are imposing their Nazi-inspired boycotts on American law enforcement should shake every American.
North Carolina city bans police exchanges with Israel
Israel National News, April 16, 2018:
Story continues below advertisementDurham city council bans international police exchanges in response to petition by anti-Israel group Jewish Voice for Peace.
The City Council in Durham, North Carolina, has voted unanimously to bar the city’s police department from international exchanges in which the officers receive “military-style training” in a slap at such programs held with the Israeli army and police.
The resolution, which states that the council “opposes international exchanges with any country in which Durham officers receive military-style training since such exchanges do not support the kind of policing we want here in the City of Durham,” was approved by the council in a 6-0 vote Monday night. It is the first city in the United States to officially ban such training, according to Jewish Voice for Peace, which actively worked to pass the resolution.
The resolution also states: “We recognize and share the deep concern about militarization of police forces around the country. We know that racial profiling and its subsequent harms to communities of color have plagued policing in our nation and in our own community.”
Born out of a petition created last fall by Jewish Voice for Peace, a group that supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement targeting Israel, the resolution brought together several partners under the banner of Demilitarize! From Durham2Palestine.
According to the petition, “The Israeli Defense Forces and the Israel Police have a long history of violence and harm against Palestinian people and Jews of Color. They persist in using tactics of extrajudicial killing, excessive force, racial profiling, and repression of social justice movements.
“These tactics further militarize U.S. police forces that train in Israel, and this training helps the police terrorize Black and Brown communities here in the US. Additionally, such practices erode our constitutional rights to due process, freedom of speech, and freedom of assembly.”
It called on the city to “immediately halt any partnerships that the Durham Police Department has or might enter into with the Israeli Defense Forces and/or the Israel Police.”
According to the City Council resolution, Police Chief C.J. Davis said in a memo to City Manager Tom Bonfield that “there has been no effort while I have served as Chief of Police to initiate or participate in any exchange to Israel, nor do I have any intention to do so.”
Some 50 people on both sides of the resolution spoke before the vote, according to the local television station WRAL. Some speakers criticized the resolution as anti-Semitic or objected that Israel was specifically mentioned. Others questioned why such a resolution was necessary, since no such exchanges were planned.
Former Police Chief Jose Lopez spent a week in Israel undergoing training during his tenure. He told the council that none of the training involved “militarization.” He said the training dealt with “leadership, it was learning about terrorism and then learning about how to interact with people who are involved in mass casualty situations and how to manage mass casualty situations.”
Noah Rubin-Blose of the Triangle chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace said following the vote, “Abolishing police exchanges between Durham and Israel is a step towards a true community safety that cares for people’s needs and is not modeled after occupation and apartheid.”
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15 Comments
6 years ago
“The Israeli Defense Forces and the Israel Police have a long history of violence and harm against Palestinian people and Jews of Color.”
What source do they have for this statement? When has Israel treated Jews differently because they were a different color? Many Mizrahi and Ethiopian Jews live there happily to this day.
6 years ago
I know an American of Mexican descent who had a Cross burned on his lawn in North Carolina. So this does not surprise me.
6 years ago
Reply to
SNOWDIN
What does this have to do with baning police from getting some much needed training in Israel by experts?
6 years ago
Reply to
Millionmileman
Muslims hate Christians too! I wouldn’t put it past a Muslim to revive the KKK when they were the ones doing the mischief. Muslims are dishonest people. There is no low too low for them.
6 years ago
This is proof positive that social conservatives cannot afford to fall asleep or retreat from the fight, as it is intersected (a term increasingly used for subversive leftist causes) with the fight against jihad. It is also proof that appeasement of one far-left special interest group will beget capitulation to another. This is where the issue of bathrooms led to this point, when the city of Charlotte surrendered to LGBT supremacists that demanded all public bathrooms be totally redesigned and reoriented to accommodate a mere 0.3% of the populace that consider themselves “transgender.” Sadly, the state’s governor Pat McCrory who came to bat on behalf of women and children, was left to twist in the wind in the general election as social conservatives did not rally in huge numbers, and an anti-family One World globalist, Roy Cooper, now runs things in the state. One of the first things he did was effectively sacrifice women and children at the altar of LGBT supremacism, all to appease outside interlopers like the NFL which were guests in the state but acted like they ran it like an oppressive colonialist power – and the state acted for all the world like a conquered people. A people that could allow LGBT “leaders” to dictate how bathrooms were designed, can just as easily kowtow to Muslim supremacist demands such as here.
5 years ago
“The resolution also states: “We recognize and share the deep concern about militarization of police forces around the country.” Oh, but, cities like Durham will gladly accept surplus American military equipment, like tanks, armored carriers, automatic weapons, etc. to be used on U.S. streets, right? What utter hypocrisy.
6 years ago
Mr. Noah Rubin-Blose, you will eventually learn that your Muslim friends aren’t really your friends. You are a pathetic useful idiot and I guarantee that your Muslim friends laugh hysterically behind your back about how stupid you are! As history has demonstrated time and time again, to people who hate Jews, in spite of your anti-Jewish actions, you are still a Jew.
6 years ago
Reply to
caliroxanne
Sadly, I am afraid that is true. Even the Jewish woman who married Muhammad, Safiyya, was treated with suspicion after she converted to Islam, the Arabs thought she would seek to avenge her slain kin.
6 years ago
America the weak and feeble, allowing muslims to dictate who you may or may not associate with. What is the matter with durham city council? Are they all eunuchs in the service of mutgonad, police beat upon him? Shame and disgrace on the puppets of islam in durham.
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6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
It is not even Muslims this time, it is self haters or at least I think the Jewish Voice for Peace has some Jews in it. Even Hamas CAIR hasa kapo advocate on its board.
6 years ago
Reply to
Underzog
They are disgusting grovelling creatures that should be stepped on and forgotten.
6 years ago
Reply to
Underzog
Doesn’t matter, they are cowards only too willing to be pushed face down into an islamic whore goat pen where they grovel like the garbage they are.
6 years ago
Trump really needs to FREEZE ALL IMMIGRATION.
Look how they are pushing their hatred here. They know to organize.
It is a miracle the Israel still exists. They are surrounded by enemies that constantly threaten them. North Carolina should want MORE interaction with them and not let a bunch of rabid Jew haters end a dialogue.
6 years ago
Silence On Gaza Exposes Canada’s Hypocrisy On Human Rights https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/genevieve-zingg/gaza-human-rights-canada-israel_a_23411881/?utm_hp_ref=ca-homepage
4 years ago
yiddish is not semitic. talmud is hate speech. “we have defeated the wrong enemy.” pam geller is genetically predispositioned to be a liar = jew.
