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Mar 18 • 8 tweets • 6 min read
We — a Black, Palestinian, and Jewish coalition — disrupted @ADL’s US-Israel police exchanges.

We're fighting for a world where we create safety through solidarity. Not racist, militarized police using tactics honed by an occupying apartheid state.

And when we fight, we win. 🧵 Image
To build a safer world for all, we must permanently end all US-Israel police exchanges — as well as demilitarize, defund, and abolish police and end Israeli occupation and apartheid.

Our successful pressure on @ADL, the leading funder of police exchanges, is a key first step.
The budget and reputation crisis our Deadly Exchange campaign created for @ADL testifies to the power of solidarity across struggles and communities, and of a vision of safety that includes us all.

Organizing and coalition-building WORKS.

We are celebrating — and escalating! Image
As yesterday's leaked memo reveals, @ADL "paused" its US-Israel police exchanges after our campaign made the programs too costly and controversial to continue.

We forced @ADL to admit that, by training in Israel, US police might be further militarized and likelier to use force. ImageImage
But, instead of truly grappling with how it is "contributing to the problem" of racist police violence, @ADL only "paused" its programs — secretly — due to concerns about money and optics.

It didn't address the harm its exchanges caused, and it has since vowed to continue them.
This means that NOW is the time to:

1) pressure @ADL to PERMANENTLY end its US-Israel police exchanges, and

2) encourage progressive orgs to #DropTheADL, since it yet again showed it only cares about the optics of anti-racism, not actually reducing harm to communities of color. Image
Look out for alerts from us about actions, virtual rallies, and petitions to keep the pressure on @ADL and progressive orgs that still think @ADL advocates for "civil rights."

Read more on @ADL's long history of harm to our movements and communities: DropTheADL.org
And read more about yesterday’s leaked internal memo that revealed how a multiracial coalition successfully pressured @ADL into "pausing" its US-Israel police exchanges and admitting they might make US police more violent:

jewishcurrents.org/scoop-internal…

theguardian.com/us-news/2022/m… ImageImage

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Mar 18
This Monday, celebrate and escalate our disruption of the Anti-Defamation League's US-Israel police exchanges at our virtual rally!

We will PERMANENTLY end the ADL's program as well as all US law enforcement training in Israel.

Join us to find out how! jvp.org/dxrally Image
We — a Black, Palestinian, and Jewish coalition — disrupted @ADL’s US-Israel police exchanges.

We're fighting for a world where we create safety through solidarity, not racist, militarized police using tactics honed by an occupying apartheid state.

And when we fight, we win. Image
As yesterday's leaked memo reveals, @ADL "paused" its US-Israel police exchanges after our campaign made the programs too costly and controversial to continue.

We forced @ADL to admit that, by training in Israel, US police might be further militarized and likelier to use force. ImageImage
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Mar 17
BREAKING: In leaked internal memo, @adl admits its police exchange programs between the US and Israel might militarize police and contribute to police violence.

@adl “paused” the programs after pressure by Black, Palestinian, and Jewish orgs.

Our collective power in action.

🧵
Since 2004, @adl has taken US law enforcement officers to train in Israel. On these trips, US officers learned to treat marginalized people in the US the way Israeli forces treat Palestinians: with racist, militarized tactics developed through occupation and apartheid rule.
For example, a California sheriff interviewed by the @guardian said the systems and tactics he learned on his @adl training in Israel were “Hollywood-esque” and “more invasive.”

Israeli officers’ use of force “shocked” him: “We’d be in jail if we did something like that here.”
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Mar 16
@Google is punishing an anti-Zionist Jewish worker for demanding the company end its contract with the Israeli military.

Workers don't want their labor to power apartheid — and they have the right to speak up!

Tell Google to stop its retaliation:
NoTechForApartheid.com/ProtectWorkers
Last year, 2,000+ @Google and @Amazon workers demanded an end to their companies' Israeli contracts. The contracts’ cloud services can help the Israeli government and military surveil Palestinians, expand illegal settlements, and inflict violence on Palestinians under occupation.
Ariel Koren, an anti-Zionist Jew, was one of the 2,000 @Google and @Amazon workers who came out against Project Nimbus.

And now Google is punishing her for speaking up about how its contract with Israel violates Palestinian human rights.

Here's her powerful MSNBC interview:
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Mar 15
The Sierra Club, the preeminent conservation org, was set to lead a nature trip to Israel today with no mention of Palestinians. So a coalition of Palestinian, Indigenous, Black and Jewish partners demanded they cancel trips that would greenwash apartheid. Weeks later, they did!
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We know the Zionist playbook all too well – so its no surprise that Sierra Club is being hit hard with backlash right now, with the classic players calling the decision antisemitic and demanding a public apology to Jewish people.
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The Israeli govt is settling Jewish Ukrainian refugees on land it illegally occupies and prevents 7 million Palestinian refugees from returning to.

Refugees have the right to sanctuary — AND the right to return home.

Pitting refugees against each other is not justice.

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But we came to view Zionism — Jewish settlement in Palestine requiring forced displacement of natives — as a misguided and harmful approach to Jewish safety.
As with many previous waves of European Jewish refugees who escaped to Palestine since Zionism began, Jewish Ukrainians will leave downtrodden and dispossessed but arrive as settlers, with the privileges given to the dominant demographic in a settler-colonial apartheid state.
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If these images are moving us to action and sympathy for Ukraine — and provoking the US to impose aggressive sanctions on Russia — they should do the same for Palestine and Israel, respectively.
The people of Gaza are watching (or unable to watch) the violence in Ukraine with a painful sense of familiarity and deja vu.
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