"Automated Apartheid": How Israel Uses Facial Recognition to Track Palestinians & Control Movement

[Uncle Joe]

A new report by Amnesty International documents how the Israeli government is using an experimental facial recognition system to track Palestinians and control their movements. The findings are part of "Automated Apartheid," which reveals an ever-growing surveillance network of cameras in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron and in East Jerusalem — two places in the Occupied Territories where Israeli settlements are expanding within Palestinian areas. "Surveillance has been ramping up as illegal settler activity has also been ramping up," says Amnesty researcher Matt Mahmoudi, who adds that the surveillance technology is part of an overall coercive structure used against Palestinians by Israel. "Effectively, facial recognition is augmenting, reinforcing, entrenching aspects of apartheid."

[Mosby]

1. Typical, special rules for Israel.

Millions of Americans every day are captured by cameras "without consent". Do these fools not know that? There is no right to be anonymous, anywhere in the world, ffs.

Just my opinion, but democracy now shouldn't be allowed here. It's trash.

Eta:

Link to tweet

Maybe Amy Goodman will do a piece about this, I'm sure she can find some Jews to blame.

[Fozzledick]

2. Anyone who uses the "Apartheid" blood libel against Israeli Jews is telling you who they are.

It's just another Big Lie intended to incite hatred and violence.

[Israeli]

4. really Fozzledick

Why B’Tselem is calling Israel an apartheid regime, from the river to the sea

One of Israel's top human rights groups recognizes the occupation cannot be viewed in isolation from the goal of Jewish supremacy inside the Green Line.

There is a constantly lurking danger for individuals and groups struggling for social or political change. We tend to concentrate so intently on our goal that we no longer realize that the circumstances in which we are acting have fundamentally changed. Not only are we on a different playing field, we’re playing a different game entirely. When the forces we face use their enormous power to distort and disguise this reality, our mission of recognizing it — of calling it by its name — becomes ever more necessary.

This is precisely what B’Tselem, one of Israel’s oldest human rights organizations, is doing today: the NGO is declaring its position that, between the river and the sea, there exists a single, Israeli, apartheid regime that strives to entrench, deepen, and make irreversible Jewish supremacy in every corner of the land.

The word “apartheid” has very severe connotations, and the historical memory it conjures is bone-chilling. As a member of B’Tselem’s board, I can say that we held many difficult discussions leading up to the decision to publish this statement. Establishing that the State of Israel maintains an apartheid regime on both sides of the Green Line was not easy for any of us — not only as members of a human rights group, but first and foremost as Israeli citizens.

It is important to remember, however, that “apartheid” is not simply a derogatory term that leftists throw around whenever they get angry at the current reality. Rather, it is a description of a regime with clear characteristics: one whose organizing principle is to promote and perpetuate the superiority of one group over another. As we enter 2021, this is precisely the reality we face in Israel-Palestine.

Since the occupation of 1967, the existence of the so-called Green Line — which ostensibly distinguishes between sovereign, democratic Israel and the “occupied territories” — has largely become the delineator of left-right political discourse in Israel. At the same time, for most of its existence, Israel has done everything in its power to erase the Green Line, not only by establishing settlements — all of which are illegal under international law — but by promoting virtually identical policies on both sides of that line, with the ultimate goal of maintaining absolute and exclusive Jewish supremacy.

continued @ https://www.972mag.com/btselem-israel-apartheid-supremacy/

[Israeli]

5. here is a link to B'Tselem Fozzledick

https://www.btselem.org/topic/apartheid

I can give you a list of other Israeli Jewish websites if you should so request .

Its not about inciting hatred and violence its about facing reality and the truth .

[Israeli]

3. It is my opinion

that the longer the religious right wing hold the reins of power within this government
the more obvious it will be to the world in general just what their aims are .
Not just for the Palestinians and any hope for a two State solution and Peace between us but also for
anyone that disagrees with them or is not made in gods image as they see themselves.
This includes us secular and non believers , Israeli Arabs, anyone of another faith ,those that are non Jewish and hold Israeli
citizenship, the LGBTQ community ........and anyone who votes for the Left .
More importantly it means the end of Democracy and the beginning of theocracy !!!
Then god help us all

[sabbat hunter]

6. With the explosive

population growth among the religious right, as compared to secular Israelis, especially leftist ones, it is going to be a very hard demographic trend to fight.

[Israeli]

7. That didnt come across right

You think we on the Left have fewer children than Centralist secular ??
Its about the same 2.2 .
Becoming very expensive to raise a large family today .
The average on my kibbutz back in the 70's was 5.
Not anymore .

We know we are outnumbered .

So what do you suggest .....we just give up ?

Thats not going to happen .

Something has to give .

Some fear Civil War ....some have crazy ideas like this :

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-05-05/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/a-federation-cantons-autonomous-regions-everyone-is-talking-about-dividing-israel/00000187-e823-d230-abc7-ff3be4c80000

[sabbat hunter]

8. never give up

keep on fighting.

The article you posted is behind a paywall, but I read the headline. Switzerland has the advantage of being a neutral nation, not surrounded by hostile, or at least antipathic countries. So I don't think autonomous regions would work in Israel.

I wish I knew the solution. Finding a way to end some of the special privileges that some Israel Jews receive (not having to serve in the army, etc) probably would be a good start.

[Israeli]

9. Sorry

I can read Haaretz and keep forgetting its behind a paywall .

I dont think autonomous regions would work in Israel either .

"Finding a way to end some of the special privileges that some Israel Jews receive (not having to serve in the army, etc) probably would be a good start."

It would end much of the resentment but they live in the Middle Ages and are more of a burden to the IDF than worth the time and
training .