: suggesting Israel is responsible for American police brutality
due to training programs between U.S. and Israeli police forces
WHEN IT’S ANTISEMITIC:
The Deadly Exchange trope directly compares U.S. police
actions against Black Americans with the Israeli Defense
Forces’ (IDF) treatment of Palestinians. Believers in the
“Deadly Exchange” allege “worst practices” are shared
[between U.S. and Israeli armed forces] to promote and
extend discriminatory and repressive policing practices that
already exist in both countries, including racial profiling,
massive spying and surveillance, deportation and detention,
and attacks on human rights defenders.”
A cartoon shared on the official
Fatah Facebook page, following the murder of George Floyd in the United States, implying Israel is responsible
for instances of American police
brutality and racism
Users of this trope argue Israeli and U.S. law enforcement
exchange security practices and ideologies to purposely
target people of color. This false equivalence appeared in
demonstrations in the summer of 2020 when protesters
chanted “Israel, we know you, you murder children, too" (see
blood libel). This is categorically false. Accusing Israel or
Zionists (see Zionists) of complicity in the murder of Black
people is malicious, perpetuates antisemitism, and blames
Jews for societal ills (see scapegoat).