Jewish
groups in the United States are adept at creating mechanisms that benefit
themselves and also frequently Israel at the expense of the American taxpayer. The proliferating holocaust museums
are a good example, sometimes built by private donations but then paid for and
operated by the local government. The national holocaust museum in Washington
is, for example, supported by the taxpayer to the tune of $54 million per year. When one
considers that the so-called holocaust occurred nearly eighty years ago and did
not involve the United States at all, it is a remarkable achievement to so
memorialize the claimed uniqueness of Jewish suffering, which then is used to
justify other abuses and excuse Israel’s ongoing war crimes.
For
those who deny that claims of the uniqueness of Jewish suffering are exploited
and even promoted in order to be able to influence public opinion while also
obtaining special favors from government, one might cite specific instances
where that has most definitely been the case. Jewish organizations receive over 90% of discretionary
grants from the Department of Homeland Security, for example, and Israel
benefits from $3.8 billion in aid annually plus another $10 billion through
bogus charities, trade concessions and U.S. government funded projects approved
by Congress that the American public knows little or nothing about.
And
benefiting Jews worldwide is also part of the agenda. Apart from the creation
of the state of Israel itself, which was opposed by most of the U.S. foreign
policy establishment, the first major effort to condition U.S. foreign policy
to benefit Jews specifically came with the Jackson-Vanik Amendment of 1975,
which made some aspects of relations with the Soviet Union conditional on that
country’s willingness to let Jews emigrate. Far more outrageous was the so-called Lautenberg
Amendment enshrined in the 1990 Public Law 101-167 that granted refugee status
to Russian Jews even though they were not actually being persecuted or in any
way endangered. The refugee status is significant as it provided food stamps,
housing, social security, Medicaid and educational benefits along with a free
ticket into the U.S. to an “estimated…350,000 to 400,000 Jews [who] entered the
United States …”
Holocaust
education is mandatory in the public schools of 15 states and Jewish groups are
active in determining just what appears in textbooks about Israel, which means
that the propagandizing about Jews and Israel begins early and continues
throughout one’s education. Twenty-seven states have laws criminalizing or
otherwise punishing anyone who advocates boycotts of Israel while the federal
government has similar legislation in the pipeline and has declared that criticism
of Israel is ipso facto anti-Semitism.
Given
all of that it is perhaps not surprising to learn that policemen in Tampa
Florida are now undergoing “holocaust training,”
sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League. Conveniently, there is a holocaust
museum located just down the road in St. Petersburg where the first group of
officers was taken to be indoctrinated.
The
training is mandatory and is reported to be the first in the state of Florida,
though more such initiatives will likely be in the pipeline as governor Ron
DeSantis has declared himself to be the most pro-Israel head of any state in
the U.S. The newscaster discussing the training also observed in passing that
“holocaust awareness training” has been mandatory “for about a decade” for all
federal law enforcement officers. It is difficult to imagine what such training
is intended to do in the American context, though it clearly seeks to remind
trainees that in Nazi Germany policemen were involved in concentration camps
and the claimed execution of Jews.
One
would think that the public will eventually arrive at an “enough already” point
when it comes to government and private sector efforts to exploit the holocaust
and monetize Jewish suffering. Unless the Jewish creators of the “training”
program honestly believe that something like Germany 1939-45 is coming to the
United States and are intent on giving a warning, it would seem to be yet one
more tip of the hat to Jewish power in America, quite likely also intended to
send a positive message about what Israel represents. What it all has to do
with U.S. national security or in benefiting the American people is, of course,
irrelevant.
Joint
training programs run in Israel are also being used to indoctrinate American
police forces and are equally difficult to comprehend as the Israelis are
clueless when it comes to conducting investigations or protecting all of their
country’s citizens. Israel’s cops are at the forefront of state violence
against Palestinians as well as serving as protectors of rampaging heavily
armed settlers who destroy Arab livelihoods so they can steal their land. The
Israeli police are also quite good at using the “Palestinian chair” for torture
when they are not shooting Arab teenagers in the back, skills
that American cops hopefully will not emulate.
In fact, there have been suggestions that
certain policemen might well be picking up some unanticipated pointers from the
Israelis. Georgia has been experiencing a surge in officer involved shootings,
nearly half of the victims being unarmed or shot from behind. As this has
unfolded, the state continues to pursue a “police exchange” program with Israel
run through Georgia State University.
The
police “exchange programs” began twenty-seven years ago in 1992 and are paid
for through grants from the U.S. Department of Justice as well as from the
state and local governments. Reportedly “law enforcement from [a number of]
U.S. states have participated in the program,
including those from Tennessee, Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California,
Florida, Georgia, Indiana, North Carolina, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana,
Michigan, Mississippi, Nevada, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, New York, North
Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas,
Utah, Virginia, Washington, Washington, D.C., and West Virginia.” In some
states and local jurisdictions, the Israel exchange program is managed by the
Anti-Defamation League, which also sponsors propagandistic seminars on Israeli
“counter-terrorism” practices throughout the U.S.
Some states and cities, however,
concerned over being linked to Israel’s militarized police forces and their
brutal occupation of Palestinian land, are beginning to withdraw from the training program.
Recently the Vermont State Police, the Northampton, Massachusetts police
department and the Durham North Carolina city police have canceled their
planned training in Israel.
There
has been particular concern expressed over the Israeli “us-versus-them” dual
track mode of policing where the 20% of the country’s citizens that are Arab
are regarded as an enemy while the settlers who prey on the Palestinians are
automatically protected by police solely because they are Jewish. Lethal force
is frequently resorted to on a “shoot-to-kill” basis in any incident involving
Arabs and Jews, even when there is no serious threat. Some critics of the
training note how that type of policing is basically racial profiling while
areas on what was once the Palestinian West Bank and along the Gaza border have
become free fire zones for the Israeli army and law enforcement, killing
hundreds of Arabs, many of them children. Palestinians injured by policemen or
settlers also obtain no redress from the Israeli courts with only 3 per cent of
investigations resulting in a conviction.
That
some American police forces are now questioning the wisdom of training in an
Israel where police officers can freely shoot and kill members of an oppressed
religious and ethnic minority should not be a surprise but for the fact that it
took so long. That Jewish groups in the United States get away with obtaining
taxpayer money to promote an essentially criminal Israeli enterprise is perhaps
just as discouraging as it suggests that Jewish power and money will continue
to prevail in the brainwashing of the American public. Holocaust training and
exchanges in Israel for police officers are shameful ideas, promoted by the
usual ambitious government officials who pander to the Jewish lobby for their
own personal gain.
Philip M. Giraldi, Ph.D., is
Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, a 501(c)3 tax
deductible educational foundation (Federal ID Number #52-1739023) that seeks a
more interests-based U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Website is councilforthenationalinterest.org, address is P.O. Box 2157,
Purcellville VA 20134 and its email is inform@cnionline.org.
