Israel’s position as a global cyber power is the outcome of a tightly integrated public-private apparatus, linking the military and intelligence establishment with a robust surveillance technology sector. This ecosystem, shaped through decades of settler-colonial domination and military occupation, enables the rapid development, refinement, and deployment of digital tools designed to monitor, classify, and eliminate. Technologies are first tested on Palestinians, particularly in Gaza and the West Bank, then refined for export. As Loewenstein argues in his 2023 book on Palestine as a laboratory, the Israeli occupation has been of surveillance capitalism. Palestinians have become the subjects of what is now widely identified as the world’s first AI-powered genocide.
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