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Report: U.S. Police Receive Privately Funded Training in Israel

HeadlineSep 19, 2014

A new report describes how hundreds of high-ranking sheriffs and police from across the United States have traveled to Israel for so-called counterterrorism training. According to the Center for Investigative Reporting, since 2002 at least 300 top officials have participated in seminars that are privately funded by the Anti-Defamation League, American Jewish Committee and Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs. Israeli police and soldiers, and police in U.S. cities like Ferguson, have also been using the same equipment, from tear gas and stun grenades to long-range noise devices that send out high-pitched sounds. For years Israel has also conducted trainings abroad, including in Chiapas, Mexico, where Israeli officials have trained Mexican police and military forces on combating the Zapatista uprising.

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