BDS attacks Israeli and American police

A BDS campaign against an exchange program between American and Israeli law enforcement has successfully resulted in the Durham City Council in North Carolina banning exchanges with Israel. The Vermont State Police and police in Northampton, Mass., also withdrew from from a seminar last year in Israel. Robbie Friedmann, the professor who founded the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange (GILEE) back in 1992, blasted the unfair and biased BDS criticism of the exchange program.

According to JNS:

Despite a public campaign by anti-Israel activists to end an American exchange program between with Israel police, two major police associations in Georgia have issued statements reaffirming their support for the program, according to a report by Miriam Elman at Legal Insurrection.

The Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange (GILEE) brings senior law-enforcement officials and security officials from Israel and other countries together to learn about the fight against terrorist activities and bombings, and brings international delegations to Georgia to study American policing practices at Georgia State University.

Many graduates of the program responded that they had become better police officers as a result of the experience, yet anti-Israel activists have attempted to thwart the program due to its coordination with Israel.

In 2010, the GSU Progressive Student Alliance and the Movement to End Israeli Apartheid-Georgia partnered to protest the partnership, saying Georgia officers would learn from Israeli “extrajudicial killings, racial profiling of Arabs, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of detainees.”

The BDS-supporting organization Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), began calling the international exchanges between American police officers and Israeli colleagues a “deadly exchange,” and launched a campaign in 2017 against what they term “discriminatory and repressive policing” by both American and Israeli police.

The Anti-Defamation League said, according to the Legal Insurrection report, JVP’s “deadly exchange” campaign “veers uncomfortably close to age-old anti-Semitic canards about Jews using their influence to undermine the societies of the countries in which they live.”

However, the anti-Israel campaign has already resulted in the Durham City Council in North Carolina banning exchanges with Israel. The Vermont State Police and police in Northampton, Mass., similarly withdrew from from an ADL seminar last year in Israel.-more

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Three Angry Chimps

Anti-Israel groups seem to spring up like toadstools after a rain
This is a guide to just three of them and is based on Wikipedia entries:

BDS
The BDS Movement advocates the boycott, divestment, and sanctioning of Israel. It has found the most success in university . Its campaign has organized demonstrations and protests targeting companies that have contracts with the Israeli military or with companies in Israeli settlements.Its Actions may also target prominent individuals who openly support settlements businesses.

JVP
Jewish Voice for Peace was formed in September 1996. It endorses neither a one-state solution to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, nor a two-state solution".It supports the Palestinian right of return while opposing the Law of Return and Jewish immigration to Israel and the Birthright Israel movement.

SJP
Students for Justice in Palestine was first established at the University of California, Berkeley in 1993. SJP is known for intimidation of Jewish students. In 2001 the group organized the first Palestine Solidarity Movement (PSM) conference to coordinate corporate divestment from Israel efforts nationwide.

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