Several people have sent this to me and to others. I've got a lot on so perhaps someone else can deal with it more fully, but just a few points to make about it. I think this is probably the '2016 Amnesty International report' cited (but not linked to) by The Independent. https://twitter.com/country_jim/status/1276102576606531587

The first point to make is that if that is so, it's a bit shoddy by The Independent. It's not Amnesty International but Amnesty USA. Okay, pedantic, but it doesn't bode well. Secondly, is it really a 'report'? That's a vague term, but I don't see this as that. It's a blogpost.

It descends, by the end, into pretty much an anti-Israel rant - the argument is effectively 'American cops went to train in Israel, Israel is bad, here are all the horrible things Israel has done, American cops, Israel, see the link? Bad!' It's far from academic or researched.

There are no interviews, visits, graphs and so on you'd expect from what the phrase 'Amnesty report' would suggest. There's lots of hyperlinks to news items showing some US law enforcement execs went to Israel to listen to their counter-terrorism experts.

This is the link given to substantiate the claim that New York law enforcement officials traveled to Israel for training. Ignore the headline, and just read that short three-para article. It says nothing of the sort. Sloppy. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2012/09/nypd-now-has-an-israel-branch.html

The rest of the links for the other states also rely on such web reports, with no fact-checking or explanations or anything else. One is to the Jerusalem Post. Well, I can also link to them: https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/amnesty-international-biased-against-israel-report-611761 That doesn't in and of itself make it true.

The technique of the article is one I've seen a lot in the last few years - I called it Googledemia once when dealing with Glenn Greenwald, but it's basically the idea of a forest of hyperlinks seeming to make a paragraph unassailable. Then you read the sources individually,

and see loads of holes. Usually, as I suspect here, the author hasn't even read the articles they've linked to fully, let alone evaluated them, checked them elsewhere, etc. It's a link blizzard. Most people - all? - linking to this will never read the articles linked to either.

This article is not a report, but an oped that distorts to make a link between Evil Israel and US police brutality. People are now using it to make a further leap still, which is Maxine Peake's precise claim to The Independent

that 'The tactics used by the police in America, kneeling on George Floyd’s neck, that was learnt from seminars with Israeli secret services.' I suggest before you try to bludgeon the authority of the Amnesty brand, you should read the link fully, check the sources, and decide.