'ICE and the IDF: The Transnational Nexus of State Control'
"Palantir has deep ties to the Trump administration, coming from both its status as a government contractor and as a personal investment for Trump administration leadership. The data mining software company uses AI decision-making software to help power the state's surveillance apparatus, demonstrating how the surveillance state is held up not only by the state itself, but also by private functionaries that willingly serve as its architects. Since 2014, Palantir has contracted with various U.S. government entities and branches of the military. One of those projects is a case management system that allows Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to track and monitor people in its database more effectively, likely to enable fast-track deportations whenever possible."
"Another is more deadly – with Israel, it has developed an AI-based platform that makes decisions about which people to target for attacks. These life-or-death determinations are made through U.S.-provided data, including seemingly private chat logs between Palestinian-Americans and their relatives in Palestine. Palantir represents but one of the many links comprising the military-industrial surveillance connections between ICE and Israel Defense Forces (IDF)."
"These links illustrate both the ideological and practical ties between the two bodies, as both serve as means to increase the militarization of policing via the weaponization of surveillance technology. Private and public entities alike join in this effort, forming the infrastructure that will target and surveil those whom the state wishes to target—bordering, marginalizing, and othering them."
"Deadly Exchange, run by Jewish Voice for Peace, has chronicled the imperial nexus between the two bodies. ICE, which has the budget of a military itself, has a vested interest in the IDF, as the two are interlinked in ideology and function."
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https://scalawagmagazine.org/2025/08/ice-and-the-idf-the-transnational-nexus-of-state-control/