NYPD chief: Anti-Arab hate crimes in Israel are ’terrorism’ -
Haaretz, By Matthew Kalman | May 13, 2014 |
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Bill Bratton, the New York City Police Commissioner whose radical policies in the 1990s under Mayor Rudy Giuliani are credited with making the streets of New York City safer, urged Israeli police chiefs on Tuesday to stamp out as “terrorism” the anti-Arab hate crimes known as price tag attacks.
The commissioner was in Israel participating in the Public Security Ministry’s Violence Prevention Week.
“I’ve discussed these ’price tag’ attacks with Israeli police officials in the past few days and I know the debate here is, Do you treat it as terrorism or do you treat it as vandalism?” Bratton told Haaretz.
“It is a form of terrorism. It is all about creating hate,” Bratton said.