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Is it an antisemitic conspiracy theory?

This is what the article said:

"Born in Bolton to a lorry driver father and care worker mother, Peake is strident and expressive; if religion wasn’t anathema to her, she’d be perfect in the pulpit. “Systemic racism is a global issue,” she adds. “The tactics used by the police in America, kneeling on George Floyd’s neck, that was learnt from seminars with Israeli secret services.” (A spokesperson for the Israeli police has denied this, stating that “there is no tactic or protocol that calls to put pressure on the neck or airway”.)

Someone who is talking in an article about Labour politics should probably stay well away from tangential links to Israel. And it does sound a bit like they're trying to blame Israel for making American police violent or racist.

But it's not disputed that many US police forces train in Israel. The Anti-Defamation League have paid for it for two decades: https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-u-s-police-departments-cancel-participation-in-israel-program-due-to-bds-pressure-1.6701898

So it sounds like Maxine Peake has an anti-Israel bias that has caused her to say something contentious that you couldn't really prove without knowing what the extent of the Israeli-US police cooperation is. Is that enough to warrant the description of "antisemitic conspiracy theory?"