The Israeli surveillance system enforces the politics of fear, creating a hostile and an aggressive program that enables the colonial order to justify and continue its violence Opinion | MalakaShwaikh
Earlier this year, a Palestinian friend told me that, while passing through an Israeli checkpoint in the West Bank, Israeli soldiers knew her location without even seeing her identity card. This was scary to hear, and it made me wonder if Israeli soldiers used facial recognition technology to identify my friend’s face and destination.
. There have also been debates about the legality and safety of facial recognition. The method itself can be inaccurate and misidentify individuals, which can put their life in danger. The software has been banned by several US cities, and the European ParliamentHowever, for colonial powers, basic human rights of the colonised are typically irrelevant. Hence, the new surveillance program does not come as a surprise.
The scale of Israeli mechanisms of control, intimidation, and surveillance that Palestinians have faced, and continue to face, is beyond the scope of any one article. That said, I will highlight two examples here: the population registry and prisons. Since 2003, the number of Israeli jailers has been continuously reduced, having been replaced with cameras. The manually operated door locks in jails have beenwith electronic systems, with one prison officer in a central monitoring room to control a section of more than 100 prisoners.
In colonial contexts across all temporalities and geographies, the coloniser will not only try to oppress and dehumanise the colonised but will also treat them as ‘controlled subjects.’ The coloniser will ensure their rights are curtailed and their most intimate details, pictures and whereabouts are known.
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