#AntiWar#activists in #Canada warn that the procurement also directly helps to fund Israel’s #WarIndustry, which equips the Israeli military in its ongoing war on Gaza.
This reminds us that #policing - in #SettlerColonial societies like Canada - has always been a central force for dispossession, displacement & containment.
Jeff Halper, director of the #Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions told audiences in #Canada: “Israel is involved in your prison systems. It’s involved in training the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. It’s involved in your airport security.”
Some of the connections are longstanding, but have been the subject of very little public scrutiny. For example, 32 [#Canadian chiefs of police travelled to Israel in 2005, to attend events hosted by the #Israeli#Police and the Israeli Ministry of Internal Security. A few months later, 39 police chiefs made another trip to #Israel.]
#Ontario contingent was headed by #YorkRegionalPolice Chief Armand LaBarge, #OPP Commissioner Gwen Boniface, Emergency Management Commissioner Julian Fantino & representatives of #OntarioPoliceCollege. While in #Israel, they attended police field units, #Israeli border police, #AntiTerrorist units & a rehab centre for injured police officers.
#VancouverPolice chief Adam Palmer hosted #Israeli#police Major General Avshalom Peled — then commander of Border Police Unit 33, July 8, 2018. Palmer called him an “insightful leader”. #IndependentJewishVoices#IJV#Vancouver disputed this, saying Peled was “notorious for violent suppression of an entire population through widespread human rights violations including extrajudicial killings”.
A representative of #Zionist organisation, the Centre for #Israel & #Jewish Affairs #CIJA, addressed the #Vancouver#PoliceBoard on June 19, 2019 - part of an effort to persuade it to “formally adopt the #IHRA International [#Holocaust Remembrance Alliance] definition of #antisemitism and to ask relevant units of the VPD to make use of it as a tool.” How that tool might be deployed was not specified.
Boucher confirmed “the relationship between #PalestinianAuthority security forces & the co-ordination with the Israeli Defense Force is happening on a 24/7 basis right now”.