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Calls to abolish ICE, defund militarized policing, and defend civil liberties cannot be separated from demands to end U.S. support to Israel

Dear Email,

AJP Action stands with our immigrant brothers and sisters and with communities in Minnesota and across the United States who are organizing, protesting, grieving, and demanding accountability in the face of aggressive federal enforcement. We unequivocally condemn ICE’s murder of Renée Nicole Good and Alex Jeffrey Pretti, as well as the countless people who have been killed by ICE or who have died in ICE custody and detention centers due to brutal conditions, medical neglect, and systemic abuse. These deaths are part of a broader pattern of state violence that disproportionately harms Black, Brown, immigrant, and working-class communities.

We’re sharing a new explainer that lays out the connections between U.S. policing and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and Israel’s occupation of Palestine, and why these cannot be treated as separate or siloed issues.

The explainer examines:

• How policing, deportation, incarceration, and surveillance in the U.S. function as a single system of state violence rooted in American history
• What is unfolding in Minnesota under “Operation Metro Surge,” including the killings of Renée Nicole Good and Alex Jeffrey Pretti by federal immigration agents during enforcement operations in Minneapolis, Minnesota
• How U.S. law enforcement agencies train with and adopt tactics developed by Israel’s occupation forces
• The shared playbook of repression, including the use of “terrorism” labels to retroactively justify lethal force and shut down accountability
• Why calls to abolish and defund ICE are inseparable from demands to end U.S. military aid to Israel

This is intended to help make sense of what many are witnessing right now: repression tested abroad and normalized at home, justified through the same language of “security” and “terrorism.” It is also a call to reject fragmentation, to refuse the idea that Palestine, immigration enforcement, policing, and surveillance are separate struggles when they are deeply interconnected.

You can read and share the explainer here.

Americans for Justice in Palestine Action (AJP Action) is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization advocating for legislation supporting the human rights of the Palestinian people and endorsing candidates for office who support those rights.

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