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Anthropologist, post-doc @ harvard, phd @ duke, writes about AI, warfare, & digital rights. Words in Foreign Policy, Jewish Currents, 972 Mag, the Baffler, LRB

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Earlier this month @972mag outlined AI’s pivotal role in Israel's war on Gaza I dive into the human decisions behind all the bloodshed It's a story that implicates Israel's military & broad swaths of a civilian tech sector

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Why human agency is still central to Israel’s AI-powered warfare

Following +972’s 'Lavender' exposé, international law and AI experts explain how Israel's top brass and global tech firms are implicated in the slaughter.

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Millions poured into Israel’s high-tech blockade of Gaza didn’t stop the air sirens, explosions, news militants simply paraglided over or cut through the “smart” border Call it an intelligence failure, it’s also proof technology can’t fix the catastrophe of unending occupation

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Anyone who has worked as the journalist in Israel knows the vast scale of the electronic surveillance and humint effort Israel puts into the OPT. This is an intelligence failure for the ages

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Police shot a Palestinian man in Jerusalem last night and say there is no footage--no body cams, no CCTV cameras In 2015, police said old city surveillance tech provided "95% detection." It seems this tech only works against Palestinians

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תיעוד: מחבל דוקר, חוזר לזירה למחרת - ונתפס

בגל הטרור, יחידת מב"ט 2000 היא העיניים של המשטרה וכוחות הביטחון בעיר העתיקה: פעמים רבות זיהוי המחבלים בזמן אמת הוביל למעצרם תוך זמן קצר. צפו בהצצה לפעילות היחידה, ובתיעוד שמתפרסם לראשונה

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I wrote about the brutal and global effects of surveillance in Hebron for @ForeignPolicy

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How the Occupation Fuels Tel Aviv’s Booming AI Sector

Israel hones invasive surveillance technology on Palestinians before it is exported abroad.

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I wrote about Israel’s new ‘thought police law’ for @972mag I’ve reported on many dystopian developments but this was the most dystopian yet Read what rights advocates have to say about unfettered surveillance and policing in Israel/Palestine

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Israel's ‘thought police’ law ramps up dangers for Palestinians

Rights advocates warn the draconian law will enable unprecedented surveillance, raising Palestinian fears of arrest for their online activity.

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For @JewishCurrents I wrote about a Fauda themed escape room in Tel Aviv, where visitors play as Israeli agents sent to blow up a hospital in Gaza. It’s a disturbing report on how demand for gamified war has surged and is shaping political reality

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The Gamified Occupation

A Fauda -themed escape room in Tel Aviv gives customers a taste of military rule.

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Jumping back on here to say I succesfully defended my dissertation "Algorithmic Disposession: Automating Warfare in Israel and Palestine" today Looking forward to joining Harvard Kennedy School's Middle East Institute as a Post-doc this fall more (writing) updates to come ;)

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Israel’s army boasts of the most advanced surveillance tech in the world but fails to stop settlers laying siege on Huwara—burning homes, attacking civilians— this evening. 98 Palestinians are wounded thus far. Settlers planned and coordinated this violence on public platforms.

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תיעוד שיוצא מחווארה , הצתת בתים ורכוש של פלסטינים, משמאל תיעוד של עשרות מתנחלים שתוקפים בתים של פלסטינים באזור.המפגש בעקבה כבר לא רלוונטי.

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My latest on Israel's surveillance of Palestinian social media users for @972mag Razmi is just one of many sentenced to months or years behind bars for posting online Legal experts say its "a systemic restriction of Palestinian freedom of expression"

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For Palestinians, social media influence comes with the threat of prison

The persecution of activists like Ramzi Abbassi illustrates Israel’s escalating attempts to stifle Palestinian expression online since May 2021.

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This is a really important interview and should be essential reading for those who care about safeguarding human rights here in Israel/Palestine

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New Interview: I talked to Hadas Ziv of Physicians For Human Rights about the sexual violence committed by Hamas on October 7th, and how best to support those who survived.

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For @972mag i dig into the Israeli military’s use of AI targeting systems in Gaza Experts say the real danger lies in how these systems are used. In Gaza, AI has lent the veneer of technical precision to a war marked by unprecedented destruction

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Why human agency is still central to Israel’s AI-powered warfare

Following +972’s 'Lavender' exposé, international law and AI experts explain how Israel's top brass and global tech firms are implicated in the slaughter.

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Investors are dropping piles of cash on Israeli defense tech start ups as the war on Gaza drags on. My latest in @972mag lays out how the whims of venture capitalists have and will continue to determine Israeli military strategy

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Gaza war offers the ultimate marketing tool for Israeli arms companies

As investors worldwide drop cash on Israeli start-ups for 'battle-tested' weapons, defense tech CEOs are poised to be the war’s only victors.

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I wrote about the existential threat AI-powered warfare poses in Palestine and beyond for @972mag While the dangers of lethal automated weapons are often framed in the future-tense, these weapons are already intensifying Israel's deadly wars on Gaza

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How AI is intensifying Israel's bombardments of Gaza

With algorithms making warfare easier to sustain, automated weapons have turned Israeli assaults on besieged Palestinians into an annual event.

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Ben Gvir and his son are on TikTok preaching Jewish supremacy & young Israelis are drinking it up. Their collaboration draws on a global fascist aesthetic I wrote abt Ben Gvir’s rebrand as the Israeli right’s surrogate dad for @JewishCurrents

Israel’s TikTok Extremists

Far-right content has taken Israeli TikTok by storm, rallying the country’s youth in support of Jewish supremacy.

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My article “Algorithmic State Violence” is now available open access in @IJMES1 It is a study of the economic logic driving automated surveillance in the West Bank and the violent impact of this tech has on Palestinian civilians. 👇👇👇

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My latest for @972mag outlines how military heads long married Israeli military strategy to speculative futures, promising better technologies would provide more security down the line Oct 7 was supposed to force a reckoning with this tactic—it has not

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Gaza war offers the ultimate marketing tool for Israeli arms companies

As investors worldwide drop cash on Israeli start-ups for 'battle-tested' weapons, defense tech CEOs are poised to be the war’s only victors.

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I spoke to @AJListeningPost on the latest @972mag investigation into AI’s role in the mass bloodshed in Gaza. @Monashtayya and @DocMattMoudi and Sebastian Ben Daniel break down the implications & underscore how the global tech sector is implicated in the violence

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With Israel’s use of AI in Gaza, the ‘war of the future’ is already here and it’s as terrifying as we feared. @DocMattMoudi & @972mag 's Sebastian Ben Daniels spoke with us about how Big Tech is fuelling the Israeli war machine. Watch the full report ⏩

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The IDF has long used Gaza as an advertisement of its technological prowress The bloodshed of the past few weeks has exploded one of militarism’s popular mythologies: technological innovation will make warfare more humane My latest for @thebafflermag

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Blunt Force | Sophia Goodfriend

For years, Israel has boasted about the technological precision of their weapons—but now they’re waging war on Gaza with the same old blunt force.

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“Most Israelis have seemed to believe that the current system could bring them lasting safety. That bubble has now burst” Read @aj_iraqi in the latest LRB

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Amjad Iraqi · After the Flood

Apart from a small bloc of anti-occupation protesters, most Israelis have seemed to believe that the current system...

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Just letting you all know I turned 30 yesterday

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I watched cyber experts and military officers day drink and wrote about the dangerous overlaps between Israel's military and its private surveillance industry for @972mag

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The blurred line between the military and private sector in Israel has allowed dangerous cyber weapons like NSO's Pegasus spyware to flourish worldwide, writes @sopgood .

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Christina Sharpe was the best teacher I have ever had. For all the reasons conjured in this beautiful profile and for so many more! Everyone should go and buy Ordinary Notes now.

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The Woman Shaping a Generation of Black Thought (Published 2023)

Christina Sharpe is expanding the vocabulary of life in slavery’s long shadow — peeling back the meaning of familiar words and resurrecting neglected history.

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Dive into the violence of algorithmic surveillance in Hebron with @AJListeningPost I spoke with @TariqNafi about the genesis and impact of Israel's automated occupation alongside @DocMattMoudi It's an incredible overview of terrifying technologies

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How Israel automated occupation in Hebron | The Listening Post

Palestinians in Hebron are some of the most heavily monitored and controlled people on the planet.In the first episode of a two-part special, Tariq Nafi repo...

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The latest from @yuval_abraham with @972mag reveals how AI-powered targeting systems have turned all of Gaza into a kill zone--a logic justified vis-a-vis the algorithmic systems of the day

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‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza

The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local...

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If you’re looking for a crash course in Israeli politics and the genesis of today’s political “crisis” this is it —excellent analysis by @joshualeifer and @edokonrad

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Went on the @thedigradio with @edokonrad to talk to @DanielDenvir about the longer history of the current political crisis in Israel, the contradictions of the liberal settler state, and the effects of the "temporary" occupation maintained in perpetuity

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What do you call a deeply discriminatory legal and political system? License plate scanners, biometric cameras, spyware, social media monitoring, aerial reconnaiscance, and a policing army covering the West Bank . 0 arrests after Israeli settlers' pogrom in Huwara last night.

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Amidst reports Israeli settlers descend on another Palestinian community to inflict deadly violence, Shin Bet says "lack of intelligence" prevents crackdown This violence is organized on open platforms by Israelis who know they can act with impunity

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Israeli security officials say settler violence will trigger anarchy in West Bank

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I wrote about Hailey Lujan, US military PSYOP specialist turned TikTok celebrity for @thebafflermag It's twisted ride through the history of psychological operations, American conspiratorialism, and the military's bid to shore up its authority on TikTok

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Paranoid Posting | Sophia Goodfriend

In our post-truth era, the military proudly aggravates American conspiratorialism on TikTok.

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My latest for @972mag dives into the Israeli tech sector's so called "political awakening" and the limits of organizing in an industry that thrives off of warfare, in Palestine and around the world.

Israeli high tech’s ‘political awakening’ evades a violent truth

High-tech workers say the government's plans could harm their sector. But history shows the industry thrives off of volatility and violence.

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These days, private technology companies are operating on behalf of militaries and militaries are operating like private technology companies. I wrote about the impact of this status quo in Israel/Palestine and beyond for @972mag

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The human cost of surveillance and weaponry is hard to remember when the business of militarism is dressed up like a Silicon Valley work retreat. @sopgood on Cyber Week at Tel Aviv University last June.

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The last few days here in Israel/Palestine are a reminder war is complete hell No matter an army’s technological arsenal, the billions poured “high-tech” systems, war is brute force and bloodshed. There is no humanity in it & there is no humanity in celebrating its destruction

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I wrote about all the evidence of war crimes saturating Israeli social media feeds From shooting and crying to shooting and laughing, the trend updates a long history of Israeli war photography with the militancy of the day

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Tracing 75 years of Israeli war photography, anthropologist @sopgood explains how images that reframe disproportionate violence as proof of victory have intensified in the war on #Gaza that erupted in 2023.

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2 years

Whenever I think my server hates me I think of this review someone left for me on OpenTable 5 years ago and smile.

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The Israeli army said it will use armed drones during its raids in the West Bank amidst the bloodiest year in recent memory. I wrote about the terrorizing effects of automated warfare in Gaza and how new technologies seed more violence for @972mag

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Drones terrorized Gaza for years. Now they’ll do the same in the West Bank

Israel's army is promoting drone warfare as a less bloody means of governing the West Bank. Palestinians in Gaza know that won't be the case.

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Must read: @yuval_abraham lays out how AI systems make Israeli strikes on Gaza all the more lethal for civilians Neither the scale of destruction nor the need to reign in the use of AI powered weapons can be understated Read in @972mag

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‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza

Permissive airstrikes on non-military targets and the use of an AI system have enabled the Israeli army to carry out its deadliest war on Gaza.

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Read my latest for the Boston Review--how cyberespionage has become a banal career path in Tel Aviv

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In the high-tech culture of Tel Aviv, military-grade spying on civilians has become just another office job. Our latest from @sopgood :

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The death tolls keeps rising. 1100 Palestinians and 1200 Israelis killed since sat Massacring civilians isn't a step towards freedom. War crimes aren't a sign of justice. It needs to be said again. This destruction is why we on the left spent all these yrs denouncing war

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Tel Aviv is often called a bubble, isolated from unending war thanks to missile defense systems and a booming tech economy. That bubble has now burst. My latest in the @LRB blog. On what happens when war comes to Tel Aviv

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Sophia Goodfriend | In Tel Aviv

Israeli airstrikes have reduced entire neighbourhoods in Gaza to rubble while a near total siege has deprived the...

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My latest for @LRB Militaries worldwide are championing an AI 'revolution' But Israel's latest assault on Jenin reveals that, for those most impacted by automated warfare, machine learning does little to alleviate violence

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‘Israel’s military has cast itself as an “AI superpower”, promising that automated weapons would make warfare more precise and, by implication, more humane. But AI has not revolutionised warfare for Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank,’ @sopgood says

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wrote about Israeli generals turned corproate CEOs, the CIA's investment arm, and the delusions of defense conferences as warfare drags on in Palestine and beyond for @972mag

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At Cyber Week, generals talk up the future of military conflict the same way big-tech execs brag about the Metaverse: both adhere to a genre of techno-utopianism that distracts from a reality of pervasive surveillance and endless war, writes @sopgood .

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An essay I was waiting for: “The inescapable truth is that Israel cannot extinguish Palestinian resistance by violence, any more than the Palestinians can win an Algerian-style liberation war: Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs are stuck with each other”

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For the Baffler, I wrote about the ordinary kind of work that goes into sustaining Israel’s surveillance regime in the West Bank. 👇👇👇

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From @sopgood , on how the high-tech work of maintaining Israel’s occupation of Palestine has become just another line on a CV—a surefire way to land a high-paying gig at Google or Facebook.

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Israeli police killed 26-year-old Muhammad El-Asibi in Jerusalem's old city, claiming he attacked an officer... Yet they claim there's no CCTV and body cam footage of the incident. This seems impossible...

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Ex-police officials: ‘Hard to believe’ disputed deadly Jerusalem shooting not on CCTV

Former J'lem police chief says he oversaw cameras where Mohammed Elasibi shot; cops testify: 'Our lives were in real danger'; Ra'am's Abbas: 'I don't believe there's no footage'

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I wrote about the dangerous precedent Israel’s surveillance sector is setting worldwide for @972mag

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Israel's surveillance sector is marketing its repressive technology as offering innovative solutions to global problems — a tactic that was on full display at its latest expo in Tel Aviv, writes @sopgood .

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As others have noted, one of the more astonishing things from this investigation is that it’s pulled from the posts of active military personnel who shamelessly boast about flattening Gaza on social networks

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New: Bellingcat and @scrippsnews followed one IDF battalion’s movements across Gaza, geolocating their social posts to highlight IDF involvement in systematic destruction of Palestinian land and livelihoods:

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I wrote a short piece for the @thedrift_mag on how years of AI hype abetted Israel’s siege on Gaza Read it here alongside other dispatches on the war on Gaza

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Dispatches on the War on Gaza

There have been many dark hours in Gaza since war broke out on October 7, but on Friday, that darkness became literal: for 34 hours, internet and phone services were shut down, cutting off Gazans...

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For @thebaffler I wrote about the brutal bloodshed in Israel/Palestine and the impossibility of making warfare any less horrendous It's a caution against believing technology can redeem violence

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Blunt Force | Sophia Goodfriend

For years, Israel has boasted about the technological precision of their weapons—but now they’re waging war on Gaza with the same old blunt force.

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I wrote a short dispatch for the @LRB on the militarization of everyday life in Tel Aviv

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‘Israeli airstrikes have reduced entire neighbourhoods in Gaza to rubble. Yet missile defence systems and millions in US military aid allow Tel Avivians to pantomime normality.’ Sophia Goodfriend in Tel Aviv:

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Read @bernstein_ariel "Nine years and five military campaigns have passed since I was in Gaza, and the same mistakes are being made all over again. A military response cannot, on its own, bring security."

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I fought house to house in Gaza ... I know force alone won’t bring peace

An IDF veteran calls for a political solution that offers hope for both Israelis and Palestinians

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Interrupting wartime posting to say few things bring me more joy these days than receiving my 92 year old grandfather’s newspaper clippings, which he diligently sends from Queens, NY He’s eager to talk politics & wants to make sure I’m up to date

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I wrote about the dystopian vibes of defense expos and how private surveillance firms help make violence sustainable

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As Israel’s tech boom propelled the country into a period of unparalleled economic growth, Israeli politicians across the spectrum also welcomed a new era of military occupation.

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Tune in today for an important discussion on automated warfare in Palestine and beyond Looking forward to being in conversation with some leading thinkers on surveillance, AI, and Palestinian digital rights 👇👇👇

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The dangers of AI-powered applications and technologies are already a reality for #Palestinians living under #Israeli occupation. Join us Thursday to discuss Speakers: @Rasha_Abdul @sopgood @Monashtayya @rohantalbot @tamarakharroub1 For more info👇

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Good morning from Tel Aviv A missile launched from Gaza took out a row of apartments in south Tel Aviv last night, the damage is stark Meanwhile Israeli airstrikes in Gaza are leveling high-rises and destroying civilian infrastructure crippled by 16 years of blockade & war

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I spoke to military & human rights experts abt the failure of Israel's surveillance state for @ForeignPolicy The IDF promised innovation would help manage the conflict But technological solutions to violence will never stand in for political ones

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Israel’s High-Tech Surveillance Was Never Going to Bring Peace

Leaders used technology to insulate Israelis from conflict rather than addressing its root causes.

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Surveillance tech is often framed as more humanitarian. Here I describe how biometric and digital tracking has carceral effects for many Palestinians

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My interview w @poltheoryother is now unlocked On the information economy, techno-solutionism, and warfare in Israel/Palestine

[UNLOCKED] Israel's technosolutionism w/ Sophia Goodfriend

A 'start-up country', the world's first 'AI superpower', an 'innovation nation', those are some of the breathless descriptions used by Israeli politicians, secu

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If you read anything today read this: I hope when the war ends I can go back to Gaza, to help rebuild my family home & fill it with books. That one day all Israelis can see us as their equals—as people who need to live on our own land & build a future

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A Palestinian Poet’s Perilous Journey Out of Gaza

Following Hamas’s October 7th attack and Israel’s invasion, Mosab Abu Toha fled his home with his wife and three children. Then I.D.F. soldiers took him into custody.

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hundreds came out to protest for a ceasefire tonight in Tel Aviv

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There is no military solution. Only peace can bring security.

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Israeli military use of facial recognition on civilians fleeing to the southern Gaza strip emblematizes dangers of FRT in war time Hundreds have been detained after being IDed We know these systems are prone to error. How many have been misidentified?

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The IDF promises AI will revolutionize war but its latest assault on Jenin shows new tech won't alleviate violence for Palestinians As the same wars drag on, it's time to stop blindly promoting AI My latest in the @LRB 👇

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Sophia Goodfriend | New Tech, Old War

Israel’s latest assault on Jenin killed twelve Palestinians, injured a hundred and temporarily displaced three...

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I wrote about the impact of drone warfare in the West Bank and what Israel’s new government has in store for Palestinians for @ForeignPolicy

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Right-wing Israelis have called on the military to use armed drones to drop bombs on major Palestinian territories, writes @sopgood .

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My latest for @972mag dives into the unprecedented surveillance Palestinians across the region have faced since the war began A new amendment threatens to make this status quo permanent

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Rights advocates warn a draconian 'thought police' law will enable unprecedented Israeli surveillance, raising Palestinian fears of arrest for their online activity, writes @sopgood .

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New report from @AmnestyTech details the violence of algorithmic surveillance in Palestine Glad to see some of my research on the human cost of automated surveillance here Another case for reigning in dangerous technologies eroding human rights worldwide

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🚨📢 NEW: Israeli authorities are using facial recognition technology to entrench apartheid. Our latest report - #AutomatedApartheid , exposes how facial recognition systems in the Occupied Palestinian Territories are violating human rights.

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Important reporting on the US’ attempts to keep up with a booming cyberweapon trade, vying for the same AI generated deepfakes the state department has condemned other intelligence agencies for deploying

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Sam Biddle

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NEW: I found a federal contract document that shows U.S. Special Operations Command wants to use deepfakes for global disinformation/deception campaigns The U.S. government has spent years warning the technology could destabilize democratic societies

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Critiques of surveillance often center on opaque governments or malicious CEOs. Two new books prompted me to write about the banality of surveillance for the @BostonReview . Read about the ordinary people whose labor builds up extraordinary regimes of high-tech monitoring 👇👇👇

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Boston Review

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The first person in the U.S. to be convicted for intercepting electronic communications was a Californian named D.C. Williams. The year? 1864. @sopgood reviews two new books on the history of #surveillance :

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Terrifying profile of new offensive Israeli cyber firm that embodies military-corporate interests of surveillance capitalism “‘In a certain sense, Google and Apple created an espionage market,” explains a person in the AdInt industry.”

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🚨SCOOP: My new @Haaretzcom investigation reveals new Israeli cyber companies developed technology that exploits the heart of the online economy - ads - not just for mass surveillance, but also to hack phones 👇

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For @ForeignPolicy I wrote about the failure of Israel’s vaunted surveillance apparatus It’s an argument against thinking technological solutions can ever stand in for political ones

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Israel’s High-Tech Surveillance Was Never Going to Bring Peace

Leaders used technology to insulate Israelis from conflict rather than addressing its root causes.

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Tune in today at 10 am Chicago time! I’ll be talking about Gaza, AI hype, and Israeli warfare

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This is Hell! Monday: @sopgood discusses her @thebafflermag article, "Blunt Force: 'Precision' warfare does not exist," on the war in #Gaza . Live at 10AM CDT and podcast shortly after at

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For @ForeignPolicy I wrote about how drones are upending life in the West Bank. It’s a report on the human cost of dystopian military tech—which the new government wants to deploy it without limits

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What the Rise of Drone Warfare Means for Palestinians

Whether armed or not, drones function as a form of psychological terror for those living underneath them.

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I talked about how investments in military surveillance fuel more violence and the dangers a private spy industry pose to all of us with @DrzavljanD listen now!

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Državljan D

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Our latest #drzavljand podcast episode features @sopgood as we dissuss the issues of surveillance as a service, NSO and its global reach, but also political solutions in addressing the issue of surveillance tech. Listen in at

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Donate to this important campaign and support three young men of Palestinian descent who were victims of an abhorrent hate crime in Vermont this weekend

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Basil Awartani

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We are launching a crowdfunding campaign to provide crucial support for my cousin and his friends. Your contributions will go towards covering their medical expenses, rehabilitation needs, and ensuring they receive the care necessary for their recovery.

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Listen to @aj_iraqi on @poltheoryother : “the most democratic camp within the Israeli state is actually led by Palestinians…there isn’t some kind of saving grace within Israel’s political establishment”

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Israel's war on the Palestinians w/ Amjad Iraqi

Palestinian writer Amjad Iraqi joins the show to talk about where Israel's assault on Gaza is going. We talked about Israel's professed goal to wipe out Hamas i

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Settlers are and have always been part of Israel’s policing army—the vanguard of a civilian occupation—so it makes perfect sense.

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It is absolutely despicable that demonstrators in Tel Aviv are treated with more hostility by the authorities than the rioters in Hawara. New leadership, new standards. Now.

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I spoke to @AJListeningPost abt Israel’s use of AI on its war on Gaza It’s an important overview of how AI is making this war all the more deadly for civilians

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Israel turns to a new AI system in war on Gaza | The Listening Post

More than 60 days into the Israel-Gaza war, two Israeli news outlets - +972 magazine and Local Call - published a report on The Gospel, a new artificial inte...

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thanks to @Monashtayya @DocMattMoudi @notzachcampbell @Alonso_GD @bcmerchant @profbensaul for their insights

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ICYM: Haaretz reports IDF spokesperson unit ran a psyops campaign against Israeli citizens in 2021. Not the first or the last of these revelations. IDF Security memos have urged IDF to embrace "overt cognitive operations" against civilians for years...

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Israeli army conducted online psy-op against Israeli public during Gaza war

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Apple sued the NSO Group for its extra-legal mass surveillance of users yesterday. I wrote about how intimacies between the IDF and private surveillance firms will allow similar companies to continue abusive practices, even as NSO comes under fire.

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The blurred line between the military and private sector in Israel has allowed dangerous cyber weapons like NSO's Pegasus spyware to flourish worldwide, writes @sopgood .

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Israel frames itself as a "pioneer" in AI but countries worldwide have and continue develop lethal autonomous weapons. While generals compare AI-powered drones to chat GBT, life in Gaza demonstrates the brutal human cost of these systems.

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After Israel's latest assault on Jenin, I wrote about AI's empty promises for the @LRB The IDF has long promised innovation will offer salvation from warfare's destruction, but the last assault on Jenin showed new tech just lets the same war drag on

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Sophia Goodfriend | New Tech, Old War

Israel’s latest assault on Jenin killed twelve Palestinians, injured a hundred and temporarily displaced three...

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The West Bank is under lockdown, settlers are calling for pogroms. Israelis are in shelters. Gaza is being flattened. Life has come to a halt. There is no redemption in all this bloodshed. There never was and there never will be.

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Footage verified by @washingtonpost shows the IDF 2 miles inside Gaza. This is the start of a sustained ground invasion; last night Netanyahu said it could take months He also called it Israel’s “Second War of Independence” drawing obv parallels to mass displacement of 1948

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מרגש: דגל ישראל מונף בלב עזה🇮🇱

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Tune in today at 11 EST! We’ll be talking about AI’s impact on Israel’s occupation in the West Bank and the human cost of dragnet surveillance

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Al Jazeera English

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How much has AI enhanced Israel’s ability to control Palestinians under occupation? Join #AJESpaces today as @ajlisteningpost ’s @TariqNafi speaks with @DocMattMoudi , @sopgood & @origivati about surveillance in the occupied West Bank 👇

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This is the meaning of state violence = settler violence in one of the world's most advanced surveillance states

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As pressure for a "humanitarian pause" accelerates, we're seeing Israeli press (again) claim AI makes war humane: "minimizing harm to those not involved" More than 9,000 including over 4,000 children have been killed in Gaza

עם בינה מלאכותית: כך אוספים בצה"ל מטרות טרור לתקיפה בעזה

מפרוץ מלחמת "חרבות ברזל" צה"ל הפציץ ברצועת עזה מעל ל-12,000 מטרות טרור, כאשר מאות מתוכן נאספו תוך כדי הלחימה • בצה"ל חושפים כיצד מתבצע איסוף "מפעל המטרות" - שימוש במערכות אוטומטיות לניתוח חומר...

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I dove into the paranoid world of American PSYOP influencers for @thebafflermag Read on for a history of US Psychological Operations, the rise of TikTok conspiracy/theory, and the military's strange efforts to influence the chronically online

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Whether she’s a DoD-sponsored troll or an average influencer who just so happens to work in psyops for the U.S. Army, Haley Lujan’s content bears a striking similarity to military recruitment strategies.

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Wrapping up two days in Aarhus thinking abt extractive tech and carceral regimes w @dtbyler @CarolinaBoe & more I was struck by the similarities in automated violence across Palestine, China, and the US—from profiteering to the UX of surveillance

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Thanks to Anas Baba and @OmarSShakir for providing crucial context and check out @Monashtayya 's commentary on AI and Palestine.

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1/5 @FbdnStories report of Israeli disinformation firm-Team Jorge-revealed how IDF vets cash in on dystopian surveillance tactics taught in the military. There's a long history of Israeli intel. forces waging similar campaigns. A few gems from the archives:

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reservists back from Gaza are offering testimonies that just begin to get at the scope of atrocity: death, looting vandalism, destruction “Everyone was motivated by revenge…just a daily disregard for human life at the most basic level possible ”

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"העור שלי נקרע" | פוליטיקלי קוראת

מ' הפסיק את שירות המילואים שלו - עד השבעה באוקטובר. עכשיו, אחרי שחזר מעזה, הוא מספר לפוליטיקלי קוראת על האתגרים שם - ועל האתגרים שבחזרה הביתה

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Images saturating television and social media of human rights atrocities as Israel’s death toll rises past 1000 and more than 560 killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza This morning the IDF announces that in Gaza : “The emphasis is on damage not accuracy”

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NYTimes and Haaretz confirm what @972mag reported more than a week ago. The Israeli military is striking private homes and public buildings that weren’t considered legitimate targets before. More evidence AI is expanding scope of lethal operations

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Once again, Jewish Israelis broadcast incitements to violence across social media--and to thousands of protestors with impunity--while Palestinians are thrown into jail for facebook posts or tweets taken out of context.

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Right-wing activists protest in Tel Aviv in support of Netanyahu's judicial overhaul

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My latest now on @JVoiceLabour As evidence of war crimes go viral I return to a tradition of Israeli war photography that has long trivialized violence in palestine

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JewishVoiceForLabour

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In this war of retribution, says cultural anthropologist Sophia Goodfriend @sopgood , destruction is the point. In a sobering discussion Goodfriend shows how photography has served to trivialize the atrocities of war over the last 75 years.

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Read how Israel’s high tech economy is inextricably linked to the occupation, and what this means for Palestinians across the West Bank

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The Israel Defense Forces claim this new network of surveillance systems is a more humanitarian form of military control. Palestinians, however, liken it to a dystopian nightmare, writes @sopgood .

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I talked about the global circuits of capital and expertise that have allowed war to drag on in Israel and Palestine. You can get a sneak peek here

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Politics Theory Other

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From the latest episode - @sopgood describes how from the early 2000s the Israeli military, inspired by collaboration between Silicon Valley and the US military, began trying to transform some of its units into being akin to tech startups and 'innovation labs':

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Sad to see a synagogue I used to work at vandalized this morning in Seattle: As Rabbi Will Berkovitz puts it: “You wouldn’t attack a Jewish place of worship if you were trying to critique Israeli policy.”

FBI investigates anti-Israel vandalism at Mercer Island synagogue

The synagogue was vandalized overnight with graffiti, marking the latest affront to Jewish institutions in the Seattle area, officials said Wednesday.

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ICYMI: Israel refused to sign an international treaty regulating the use of AI in the battlefield. The only other country that refused to sign was Russia. Palestinians will bear the brunt of this decision-Israel waged it's "first AI war" on Gaza in 2021

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60 מדינות קראו לשימוש אחראי ב-AI בשדה הקרב - ישראל סירבה לחתום

ארה"ב, סין והרשות הפלסטינית חתמו על אמנה ��ינלאומ��ת שמטרתה להסדיר את השימוש הצבאי בבינה מלאכותית. ישראל השתתפה בכנס שהתקיים בהולנד, אך לא חתמה על המסמך שאינו מחייב משפטית. ברקע: העניין הציבורי הגובר...

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Samar Zora, a colleague and friend to many of us at Duke, had just arrived in Antakya for fieldwork when the earthquake struck. She was a brilliant scholar taken from the world far too soon. Her family set up a site to help with relief. Please donate:

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The Samar Zora Foundation for Hatay Relief, organized by Aaron Patey

On February 6th, a massive earthquake hit Turkey and Syria. A few days later, S… Aaron Patey needs your support for The Samar Zora Foundation for Hatay Relief

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Check out my latest, on the limits of political action in an industry bound up in war, for @972mag

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+972 Magazine

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Israeli high-tech workers are warning that the far-right government's plans could have harmful effects on their sector and the economy. But recent history shows that their industry tends to thrive off of political volatility and violence, writes @sopgood .

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