When an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good — a 37-year-old mother of three — in Minneapolis, the immediate response was grief and protest. But the killing was not an isolated incident of excessive force. It was an expression of a doctrine: the systematic adoption of Israeli military and surveillance tactics, imported into American cities and deployed against American communities.
The connection between Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Israeli military is not rhetorical. For more than two decades, ICE agents and executives have participated in training and exchange programs directly with Israeli occupation forces. On October 16, 2025, US Army veteran and whistleblower Antony Aguilar stated publicly that “ICE agents and DEA agents, and other three-letter agencies, train with the Israelis,” and warned that the tactics used on Palestinians would be brought home to the United States. That warning has materialized.
In July 2025, a senior ICE Homeland Security Investigations official, Peter Hatch, testified in court that “most” of the student names his agency was asked to investigate came directly from the Canary Mission — an Israel lobby-linked doxxing website that compiles dossiers on pro-Palestinian students and faculty. The extremist Betar group has also submitted names of hundreds of activists to government agencies for targeting.
The tactics themselves bear a family resemblance that goes beyond coincidence: checkpoints that humiliate and delay; raids designed to terrify communities into silence; the criminalization of political speech; surveillance systems that treat entire populations as suspect. These are not policing innovations developed independently in America. They were developed in the context of military occupation, perfected on a captive population, and then exported.
What is happening on US streets is not the Americanization of Israeli tactics. It is the return of an exported infrastructure of control — one that was always designed to be scalable, and that is now being scaled.
ICE Is Using Tactics Developed by the Israeli Occupation Military — and That’s Not a Metaphor
When an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good — a 37-year-old mother of three — in Minneapolis, the immediate response was grief and protest. But the killing was not an isolated incident of excessive force. It was an expression of a doctrine: the systematic adoption of Israeli military and surveillance tactics, imported into American cities and deployed against American communities.
The connection between Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Israeli military is not rhetorical. For more than two decades, ICE agents and executives have participated in training and exchange programs directly with Israeli occupation forces. On October 16, 2025, US Army veteran and whistleblower Antony Aguilar stated publicly that “ICE agents and DEA agents, and other three-letter agencies, train with the Israelis,” and warned that the tactics used on Palestinians would be brought home to the United States. That warning has materialized.
In July 2025, a senior ICE Homeland Security Investigations official, Peter Hatch, testified in court that “most” of the student names his agency was asked to investigate came directly from the Canary Mission — an Israel lobby-linked doxxing website that compiles dossiers on pro-Palestinian students and faculty. The extremist Betar group has also submitted names of hundreds of activists to government agencies for targeting.
The tactics themselves bear a family resemblance that goes beyond coincidence: checkpoints that humiliate and delay; raids designed to terrify communities into silence; the criminalization of political speech; surveillance systems that treat entire populations as suspect. These are not policing innovations developed independently in America. They were developed in the context of military occupation, perfected on a captive population, and then exported.
What is happening on US streets is not the Americanization of Israeli tactics. It is the return of an exported infrastructure of control — one that was always designed to be scalable, and that is now being scaled.