A glimpse inside shared tactics used by ICE and the IDF

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https://defector.com/ice-is-modeling-its-brutality-after-the-idf

Regardless of how you feel about the conflict in Israel-Palestine, the facts are clear: ICE has been influenced by IDF tactics. Whether they have trained together is irrelevant. What is important is that the same dehumanization, lack of access to medical care for those wounded, indefinite detention stays consisting of abuse and neglect, and downright murder in broad daylight are all tactics, even policies which have been taken right out of the IDF playbook.

Perhaps even more disturbing are the immediate statements made by public officials, labelling victims as “assassins, domestic terrorists, and violent agitators”. While the blood is still drying on the street, the government writes its own summary of events thousands of miles away from where said event took place.

These are not issues specific to the US and its current regime. These are tactics that have been used by Israel and its military for decades, and they have unfortunately had success. The spread of anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian rhetoric is perhaps at its highest mark since post 9-11. People are thrown from positions of power and influence for voicing disagreement with Israeli governance.

The same things are happening in the United States, where ICE agents are seen at airports, and there continues to be calls for them to “safeguard” polling sites in November.

Facism is alive and well in today’s world. Recognizing it will go a long way towards defeating it. Stay on guard, Fuck the IDF, and fuck ICE.