Knee-on-neck restraint and the Minnesota police – a clarification
JVL Introduction
Netal Golan, one of the founders of the International Solidarity Movement in Palestine writes:
“I WANT to apologise for a mistake I made. I stated an assumption that a tactic I personally experienced under the knees of Israeli soldiers was taught to the US police by Israeli security forces. I deeply regret making my unverified assumption public.”
The editor of the Morning Star Ben Chacko says that “This was speculative, and she has asked that the Morning Star publish this clarification as neither she nor the Morning Star wished to suggest that the US police force is not solely responsible for the lethal violence it deploys.”
He adds: “The suggestion that Ms Golan’s speculation in the report, based on her observations of shared behaviour by the Israeli and US police, or the Morning Star highlighting the US-Israeli training exchange amounted to an “anti-semitic conspiracy theory” is absurd, and attacks on individuals for referring to it or sharing an article in which it was incidentally mentioned are utterly deplorable and unjust.”
See also the revised JVL Statement, Unravelling the sacking of Rebecca Long-Bailey.
This article was originally published by the Morning Star on Sun 5 Jul 2020. Read the original here.
Knee-on-neck restraint and the Minnesota police – a clarification
Setting the record straight, by Neta Golan
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Ms. Golan and Ms. Peake should never have withdrawn their accusation against Israel. The fact that Israel denied it by stating that they never use the knee-on-neck on ANYBODY, when photos of this being used on Palestinians are available by the Adalah Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights, should confirm anyone’s suspicion that Israel is,. in fact, guilty as charged. When a denial includes an easily-refuted lie, that is evidence pointing to the guilt of the accused, in the court of public opinion.
Squawkbox has done the public a hge service by pointing out that the knee-on-neck technique appears to be a Krav Maga move, which means that it is an Israeli invention, since Krav Maga is an Israeli invention, just as Uzi submachine guns and Tadmor rifles are, as well. This would explain why there are no documented cases of this technique being used by the US police prior to the start of exchange programs between the US police and Israeli armed forces.