I think most leftists in the UK would be well advised to SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT ISRAEL except when specifically talking about the Palestinian struggle, and even then think carefully about their language and emphasis. Israel is not the problem in the world.
In general yes, but it is fundamentally healthy to see things in common between eg. BLM and the Palestinian struggle and highlighting links between the American state and Israeli state when they actually exist can be useful. As can learning from one another's plights. Scrapping what maybe a useful conversation just because it harms the Labour Party is not on.
By the way some people on here think that there is no reason to think that the American police have a particular fascination with Israeli policing tactics. Apart from that the state department already have a particular, irrational fascination with Israeli intelligence (they seem to think Israeli analysts are the fount of all wisdom for all things Arab), Israel is a country that has recently faced two uprisings and continues to face attacks on its military and civilians (knife wielding & car attacks) and can apply force with impunity while maintaining a liberal democratic political system roughly similar the US's. Of course they love it.
I don't know what these Israeli training groups teach, and yes it seems unlikely that they teach restraining techniques but I wish people (not you Brainaddict) would stop just guessing that what has been taught is something banal and irrelevant to the George Floyd case. I wish people would stop making the most ungenerous assumptions about Maxine Peake's motivations. Uncalled for, unhelpful and does nothing to combat anti-Semitism. What helps for the latter is to show what the loons are actually saying so we know not to accidentally feed them, which I'm willing to agree Maxine Peake did. So a thankyou to rekil for that.