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Knee-on-neck restraint and the Minnesota police – a clarification
Palestinians demonstrate against Israeli plans for the annexation of parts of the West Bank, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, yesterday

ISRAELI activist Neta Golan was quoted in a Morning Star article, Minnesota Force Had Training in Israeli Brutality, published on June 2.

The Morning Star reported that “at least 100 Minnesota police officers attended a 2012 conference hosted by the Israeli consulate in Chicago,” highlighting the close links between the Israeli and US police forces.

In the piece, Ms Golan suggested that the “technique of leaning on our chests and necks” which she knew to be practised by both the Israeli and US police forces had been shared by Israeli forces when training others.

Setting the record straight, by Neta Golan 

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