More info: In the #DeadlyExchange, police officers, ICE officials, and other US law enforcement agents train with Israeli forces, exchanging tactics of surveillance, racial profiling, and repression.
The @ADL, which has been organizing these exchanges for the past 20 years, has even questioned the consequences of these trips in a leaked internal memo. Many local police departments have gone on these exchange trips, including BU PD, NU PD, Tufts PD, Boston PD, Cambridge PD...
and many more, along with Boston TSA and @MBTA officers. The ADL is not only responsible for organizing these trips, but it has a history of promoting Islamophobia and anti-Muslim racism, targeting and surveilling progressive movements, and supporting antisemites.
Rally will begin 4:30pm this Thursday, 3/31/22, at Boston City Hall Plaza, hear from speakers, and then march to Downtown Crossing. Bring your friends & make signs with phrases like “Drop the ADL,” “End the Deadly Exchange,” “Boston for Palestine,” or “Safety Through Solidarity!”
Sami Abu Shehadeh, member of Balad party in Israeli Knesset, is visiting the US for the first time:
"There are 1.7M Palestinian citizens of Israel. We didn't emigrate. Israel emigrated to us. Often our legitimate political demonstrations are met by inhumane violence by Israel"
"There is a continued process of ethnic cleansing from the Nakba to #sheikhjarrah. And taking land is the main way this is done. This is why #LandDay is so important" Sami Abu Shehadeh
"I don't know why they get crazy when we call Israel apartheid! In every sense that is what Israel is. Israel controls everything including Gaza and the borders. There are different legal systems for different people. If you are Jewish, you have supremacy in Israel"