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"provider_name": "Action Network",
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"author_name": "Matt Berkman",
"author_url": "https://actionnetwork.org/users/jewish-voice-for-peace/profile",
"title": "Stop Police Exchanges with Israel!",
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"description": "Tell the Anti-Defamation League: Stop Funding Police Exchanges between the US and Israel We are deeply concerned that the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) continues to present itself as an institution “opposing hate” by organizing events like the Walk Against Hate, while simultaneously sponsoring trips for U.S. police, ICE agents, FBI agents, and border patrol to Israel for meetings and trainings with Israeli armed forces. These trips, which occur through ADL’s National Counter-terrorism Seminar (NCTS), normalize racist ideologies and policing practices that harm the very communities ADL is purportedly seeking to support. Given the violence that communities of color and other marginalized groups in the U.S. already face at the hands of the police and under the Trump administration, we cannot ignore when communal organizations that claim to be fighting for safety for all are simultaneously leading programs that perpetuate harm. ADL’s National Counterterrorism Seminar, a program that Philadelphia and Pennsylvania State police chiefs attended in 2010 and 2011 and 2016, falls into a category of “counter-terrorism programs” that focus exclusively on “Muslims” and “Arabs” as a grave threat to the U.S., ignoring the fact that violent attacks from Muslims and Arabs make up a small percentage of overall violent attacks in the United States. This feeds racist, anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant rhetoric. While there is little information on the positive impact of these programs on community safety, their profoundly harmful impacts on Muslims and different communities of color have been extremely well documented. In addition to the reinforcement of Islamophobic narratives, the trips contribute to the normalization of the Israel Defense Force’s daily brutality against the Palestinians. These are abuses that currently take the form of intentional killing of unarmed Palestinian protesters along the border of the Gaza Strip. Any kind of program that valorizes an armed force that is responsible for war crimes and human rights abuses as a “model” for U.S. police demonstrates ADL’s complicity in and tacit support for those abuses. By glorifying the practices of Israel’s armed forces, including racial profiling, extrajudicial killings, and violent suppression of grassroots protests, and feeding Islamophobic narratives on who commits violence, ADL’s NCTS program does not create safety; it perpetuates harm against communities that are already bearing the brunt of racialized state violence. At a time when all of our communities are under attack, we believe there is too much at stake through the ongoing sponsorship of these exchanges to continue with “business as usual” with ADL. Join us in our fight to hold ADL accountable: pledge to not participate in the Walk Against Hate until the ADL stops funding and supporting police exchanges. The fight for a world without hate means a world without racist policing or Islamophobia. Without full commitment to challenging those systems and structures, we cannot achieve a hate-free world that guarantees true safety for all. Jewish Voice for Peace Philadelphia",
"url": "https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/stop-police-exchanges-with-israel"
}