War on Terror policing reused COINTELPRO tactics first deployed against Black activists

Evidence

The same racial strategies used against the Black and Latinx communities during the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s and the War on Drugs were used against Muslims in the new War on Terror. The methods of the Counterintelligence Program (more commonly known as COINTELPRO), the surveillance of civil rights activists, the use of 185. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 263

Categorization

• XREF: The claim that counterterrorism recycles anti-Black surveillance techniques resonates with Base Nation’s documentation of how the FBI surveilled Black Islam, and with racecraft’s argument that racialization transfers across groups. — connects to: The War on Terror recycled COINTELPRO-era racial policing tactics against Muslims — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 263; COINTELPRO surveillance methods were redeployed to racialize Arab Americans as terrorists — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 249; COINTELPRO actively sought to destroy Black nationalist organizations (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• The War on Terror recycled COINTELPRO-era racial policing tactics against Muslims #corroborates (0.97) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 263
• COINTELPRO surveillance methods were redeployed to racialize Arab Americans as terrorists #corroborates (0.95) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 249
• Operation Boulder redeployed COINTELPRO counterinsurgency methods to racialize Arab Americans #exemplifies (0.88) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 249
• Anti-terror operations disproportionately net poor Black men incited by paid informants #exemplifies (0.86) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 588
• War on Terror security measures enable greater domestic police repression against minorities #expands (0.84) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1125
• Counterterrorism programs like CVE target and criminalize black Muslims and activists #qualifies (0.83) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 1058
• Surveillance mechanisms used on Muslims are also deployed against BLM activists #expands (0.82) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1118
• The FBI ran COINTELPRO to sow distrust and undermine activist groups #expands (0.80) — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 153
• Federal COINTELPRO operations deliberately destroyed activist leaders and movements. #expands (0.79) — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 78
• COINTELPRO actively sought to destroy Black nationalist organizations #expands (0.78)
• Claiming surveillance without evidence diminishes real COINTELPRO harm. #complicates (0.76) — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 870