NSW Police ordered to apologise for vilifying Arabs in terror exercise | gmitch_news
The NSW Police Force has been ordered to publish an apology and implement racial vilification training for senior officers after a tribunal found a police training exercise in October 2017 racially vilified Palestinians and Arabs and portrayed them as potential terrorists.
The use of the headscarves had the capacity to encourage members of the public to believe that "Palestinians and/or Arabs were to be feared, despised, hated, and/or held in serious contempt as possibly or probably being terrorists", especially given that it was NSW Police who used them, NCAT found. The tribunal accepted that the training exercise was undertaken in good faith, but said intention was "largely irrelevant" and the use of keffiyehs "portrayed Palestinians and Arabs/Arabic people as potential perpetrators of violent acts of terrorism".
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