Why Zionists promote anti-Muslim law enforcement trainings http://mondoweiss.net/2011/04/why-zionists-promote-anti-muslim-law-enforcement-trainings.html

Following the September 11 attacks, American tax dollars began to flow to local law enforcement agencies around the country in order to enlist law enforcement in the "war on terror." The major consequence of this enlistment, as a report on the counter-terrorism industry released by the Political Research Associates shows, is that anti-Muslim trainers have ample opportunity to propagate crude stereotypes about Muslim-Americans to police forces in the U.S.

And a driving ideological force behind the percolation of Islamophobic trainings for law enforcement agencies is right-wing Zionism.I interviewed Thom Cincotta, the author of the Political Research Associates' report, for a piece on the report that appeared in AlterNet. I asked him to go into detail about the fact that right-wing Zionism in the U.S. feeds anti-Muslim counter-terrorism trainings, and this is what he told me:

All of the rhetoric around these trainings leave very little room for Muslim-Americans to dissent from U.S. foreign policy or domestic counter-terrorism policy. There’s the notion that if anyone is outspoken, then they are providing ideological support for terrorism. When Dr. Zuhdi Jasser testified a few weeks ago before the King hearings, he characterized this as the “pool” where the violent radicals swim. So when you demonize, or paint legitimate advocacy groups or community groups as potential terrorists merely for speaking out against U.S. policy and because there is some vague overlap between the political goals of, say, an al-Qaeda—related to for instance, U.S. occupation of a foreign land—it leaves very little room for dissent and it stifles free speech.

[ALSO SEE..SSI's Global Security Workshop http://www.homelandsecurityssi.com/ssi/content/view/95/97/  SSI's Global Security Workshop celebrates its 6th year and more than 400 participants on 17 missions in the only US Homeland Security Program abroad to receive US Homeland Security Funding. Based on what the US needs to know about Global best-practices, this workshop moves to Israel to enable participants to feel the threat situation and better understand security measures that have been deployed to create one of the most effective anti-terrorism best-practice standards in the world.

The group is able to visit installations, be briefed by the most senior personnel and also hear lectures from world-wide experts on the most pertinent areas of US Homeland Security. The Homeland Security personnel of entire cities including Police, Fire, EMS, EMT, Venue managers have participated in this very serious program that encompasses more than 60 hours during 8 very full days. US Homeland Security policies have actually been changed in many locations when participants returned from the workshop

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JINSA Sends U.S. Police Chiefs to Israel for Anti-Terror Cooperation http://www.jinsa.org/node/706

Top U.S. law enforcement officers met Monday with Uzi Landau, Israel's Public Security Minister, in Jerusalem. Since the Sept. 11th attacks in New York City and Washington, anti-terrorism cooperation between the U.S. and Israel has increased. The spectre of homicide bombers in the U.S. has further drawn the two sides together.Nine U.S. officers brought to Israel by the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) represent the New York and Los Angeles Police Departments, the Major County Sheriffs Association, the New York Port Authority and the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

(JINSA's advisory board includes such notable figures as Michael Ledeen, Richard Perle, and R. James Woolsey, while Vice President Dick Cheney, former U.S. Representative to the United Nations John Bolton, and former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith )