Zionist fingerprints on the machine: how AI became Israel’s invisible empire
In an era dominated by artificial intelligence, a sinister truth lies buried beneath the code and circuitry powering our everyday lives: the architects of the world’s most intrusive AI surveillance systems are not Silicon Valley giants, but a web of Israeli military tech firms, intelligence-linked startups, and Zionist-aligned investors. From Gaza to Georgia, from Paris to Punjab, the tools of digital domination trace back not to California but to Tel Aviv. The global AI revolution has been hijacked by an occupying force; one not just invading land, but now minds, behavior, and data.
The Eastern Herald’s investigation uncovers how Israeli companies like NSO Group, Cellebrite, Verint Systems, and lesser-known entities such as AnyVision, Toka, and Corsight AI have embedded themselves deep into Western surveillance architecture. More disturbingly, we reveal how Israeli-linked AI software has been actively used in the genocide of Palestinians—trained, tested, and optimized on real human lives in Gaza, and then exported to the US, EU, India, and other “allied democracies” under the guise of “counterterrorism.”
This report also exposes the quiet partnerships between Israeli firms and tech behemoths like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft, each of which has either set up major research hubs in Tel Aviv or partnered directly with Israeli intelligence-linked companies. This is not merely about business. It’s about control over data, dissent, resistance, and ultimately over the future of how humanity is governed.
As BRICS nations attempt to build sovereign technology infrastructures, a new warning must be sounded: artificial intelligence is not just a tool, it’s a battlefield—and Israel already controls the weapons. If the Global South fails to recognize this in time, the future will not belong to those who build, but to those who surveil, manipulate, and exploit.
Israel’s surveillance state: exporting apartheid through AI
In the digital age, surveillance isn’t just a feature of governance—it’s the operating system. And no country has refined this system more ruthlessly than Israel.
Built on decades of military occupation, Israel’s surveillance industry didn’t evolve in the lab—it was born in war zones. The brutal colonization of Palestinian territories served as the perfect live-testing environment for a new genre of artificial intelligence: predictive policing, facial recognition, behavioral biometrics, and population control algorithms.
Gaza has often been described by historians like Ilan Pappé as a live laboratory for testing Israeli military and surveillance technology.
NSO Group: The spyware arms dealer of the digital age
NSO Group—the maker of Pegasus, the most infamous spyware tool in modern history—stands at the forefront of this surveillance empire. Originally funded and incubated by Israeli military intelligence, NSO’s core offering enables full remote access to smartphones, bypassing encryption, privacy, and legal oversight. Pegasus, according to the Washington Post, was used to track, blackmail, and even kill dissidents across the world—from human rights activists in India to journalists in Mexico, and politicians in France and Rwanda.
But NSO is only one tentacle of the Israeli surveillance octopus.
Cellebrite: The silent accomplice
While Pegasus invades smartphones invisibly, Cellebrite offers forensic tools to extract every byte of data from a phone, even after it’s locked or deleted. Cellebrite devices are used by US police departments, Indian law enforcement, and authoritarian regimes in Asia and Africa—not to fight crime, but to suppress opposition, protest, and dissent. In fact, Cellebrite’s own leaked sales logs show its tools being sold to regimes with atrocious human rights records.
Verint Systems: Listening to the world
Verint—another Israeli firm, quietly embedded in Western telecom infrastructure—sells systems that tap into voice calls, SMS, and internet traffic. What sets it apart? Its founders come from Unit 8200, Israel’s version of the NSA, and its clients include dozens of Western intelligence agencies. In the words of one former employee, Verint operates as “the ears of the empire.”
AnyVision, Toka, and Corsight: AI with apartheid in its DNA
These newer Israeli firms offer cutting-edge AI: real-time facial recognition, emotion detection, and even “predictive behavior analytics”. But their systems were first deployed to monitor Palestinians in East Jerusalem, map movements inside Gaza, and even track facial micro-expressions at Israeli checkpoints.
AnyVision’s software, for example, was exposed by NBC News for monitoring Palestinians in the West Bank through hidden surveillance cameras, prompting Microsoft to divest from the company. But most other firms continue such partnerships in silence.
Toka, founded by former Israeli PM Ehud Barak, claims to offer “legitimate intrusion” into devices and smart city networks. It has received US Department of Defense contracts and works with NATO-aligned regimes. Translation: Israel is building tools to control not just Palestine, but Paris, New Delhi, and New York; all from Tel Aviv.
The apartheid AI business model
What makes Israel’s AI ecosystem uniquely dangerous is not just its technology; it’s the moral immunity it enjoys in the West. Tools that would be condemned if used by China or Russia are tolerated, even celebrated, when built in Israel. Why? Because the clients, the US, the UK, France, and India, are deeply complicit.
This is not a surveillance economy. It’s an apartheid economy.
Tel Aviv to Mountain View: How Israeli firms infiltrated Google, Amazon, and Meta
When people think of Silicon Valley, they imagine a world of open-source idealism, digital freedom, and innovation. What they don’t see is the strategic convergence between Israeli state-linked tech companies and American Big Tech giants. What began as R&D partnerships has morphed into a deeply integrated system of AI collaboration, surveillance enablement, and covert intelligence-sharing.
The question is no longer “if” Israeli surveillance firms have penetrated Silicon Valley. It’s “how deeply have they rewired its core?”
The Google–Israel pipeline
Few people know that Google operates one of its largest non-US research centers in Tel Aviv and Haifa, employing thousands of engineers, many of whom are Unit 8200 veterans (Israel’s elite cyberintelligence division). These are not backend coders, they are algorithm architects, product strategists, and security leads.
- Mandiant, the cybersecurity firm acquired by Google in 2022, has close operational ties with Israeli digital intelligence circles, particularly in its global threat assessment operations.
- In 2021, Google signed a $1.2 billion deal with the Israeli government (alongside Amazon) to provide AI-powered cloud infrastructure through Project Nimbus—a military-grade system used to process facial recognition, drone data, and predictive policing tools targeting Palestinians.
What was sold to shareholders as a “cloud solution” was in reality a digital occupation accelerator.
Amazon and the cloud of complicity
Amazon, too, is neck-deep in Israeli military infrastructure. Through AWS Israel, Amazon now runs critical cloud servers for Israel’s Ministry of Defense, including its drone surveillance programs and biometric databases.
- Former Mossad agents work in consulting roles within Amazon’s “Global Security Operations.”
- Project Nimbus, again, binds Amazon and Google into Israel’s repressive tech ecosystem. Amazon has refused to answer human rights inquiries about whether its servers are used to process data from illegal surveillance in Gaza and the West Bank.
Behind the smiling Alexa voice is a silent agreement: do business with Tel Aviv, no questions asked.
Meta (Facebook): From social network to social control
Meta has had a long and disturbing history of collaborating with Israeli surveillance contractors. In 2021, Facebook removed over 300 fake accounts and sock-puppet networks linked to Israeli firms attempting to influence elections in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia.
But that’s just the surface.
- Meta works with Cyabra, an Israeli firm specializing in narrative manipulation detection, originally developed to monitor Palestinian resistance discourse online.
- WhatsApp, owned by Meta, was the primary vector through which NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware infected over 1,400 phones worldwide, including journalists, activists, and heads of state.
Hiring the empire
Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook routinely hire former Unit 8200 officers. In fact, LinkedIn searches reveal hundreds of Israeli veterans now working in AI ethics, cybersecurity, and trust & safety departments within US tech firms.
This is not meritocracy. It’s a pipeline, a strategic placement of personnel trained not in ethics or open society, but in military-grade surveillance and suppression.
Strategic silence
While Western media obsess over China’s TikTok or Russia’s trolls, they ignore the deep presence of Israeli intelligence-linked entities inside their own tech firms.
The reason? Western governments benefit from this surveillance web. Israel is not a rogue actor; it is the official subcontractor of empire.
From Gaza to Minneapolis: exporting digital apartheid worldwide
If Gaza is the laboratory, the world is the marketplace. What Israel tests on Palestinians through drones, predictive algorithms, and biometric profiling is quickly refined and sold across continents—from the streets of Minneapolis to the suburbs of Paris, from Kashmir to Cape Town. Israel’s AI weapons of control have gone global, and the buyers include the very democracies that preach freedom.
Israeli defense sources have admitted that occupied territories serve as testing zones before systems are exported globally—effectively turning them into a “showroom” for militarized tech.
Gaza: AI’s Ground Zero
In Gaza, surveillance is not passive—it’s a real-time battlefield tool. Israeli drones equipped with AI-enhanced targeting algorithms don’t just observe; they calculate, predict, and execute. Voiceprints, gait analysis, facial heat signatures, and even sentiment detection tools are deployed to flag “suspicious” behavior.
An Israeli AI software, internally known as “Lavender”, was used during the 2023 invasion of Gaza to generate thousands of kill lists. The software flagged any male between 16–40 seen in proximity to Hamas zones, marking them for automated airstrikes.
Collateral damage was not a bug. It was the input.
Minneapolis: Where Gaza’s code lives on
When George Floyd was murdered, protests erupted across the US. What most didn’t realize is that many American police departments, including Minneapolis, had already been trained by Israeli security forces or had adopted surveillance technology from Israeli vendors like Cellebrite and BriefCam.
- BriefCam, a video analytics firm from Tel Aviv, allows real-time facial tracking in crowd footage. Its AI was first deployed at checkpoints in the West Bank.
- Cellebrite devices were used to extract personal data from arrested Black Lives Matter protesters in Atlanta and Chicago.
It’s no coincidence that the tools used to suppress dissent in Gaza are now deployed in Ferguson or Portland. The algorithm doesn’t see citizens, it sees threats.
France, India, and the new apartheid frontier
In France, Israeli AI firms sold crowd behavior monitoring tools used during the Yellow Vest protests. In India, Israeli facial recognition tech was deployed during the CAA protests, targeting Muslim youth. In Brazil, NSO software was tested for “urban pacification” in favelas.
This is digital apartheid 2.0; a system where power lies not in bullets, but in data, not in soldiers, but in servers. The goal is the same: control, suppress, erase.
Israel’s real export: Not software, but ideology
Israel’s AI empire not only exports code, it exports a philosophy of governance. One that says:
- Citizens are data points.
- Security justifies surveillance.
- Dissent equals terrorism.
This model has been embraced by Western democracies, disguised as “smart policing,” “AI innovation,” or “counter-extremism.”
But behind every euphemism lies a chilling truth: the tools built to oppress Palestinians are now global, normalized, and embedded in every surveillance state blueprint.
Why BRICS must build an AI firewall
In a world increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence, the BRICS nations, Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, now joined by Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Iran, and Ethiopia, stand at a crossroads. These nations have the resources, populations, and geopolitical leverage to chart their own AI destinies. But they face a monumental threat: if they don’t decouple from Israel-linked AI infrastructures now, they risk importing surveillance colonialism under the guise of innovation.
Russian officials have repeatedly warned that digital sovereignty is now a core component of national security in the multipolar era.
Israel’s infiltration of BRICS digital ecosystems
Despite their anti-Western stance, many BRICS nations are unknowingly entangled with Israeli tech firms:
- India uses Cellebrite, NSO, and Verint technologies across its police and intelligence services. Are these tools now deployed in Kashmir, Delhi, and Assam? mirroring Gaza-style surveillance?
- Brazil signed quiet contracts with Israeli cyber firms for “urban intelligence” and crowd suppression ahead of elections.
- South Africa, despite its strong anti-Zionist public stance, uses Israeli-imported security systems in private and corporate sectors, especially in Johannesburg’s financial hubs.
- Even Saudi Arabia and the UAE, though hostile toward Israel until recently, are now opening joint tech ventures that include Israeli AI infrastructure for crowd monitoring and border control.
This is not a digital partnership. This is dependence.
What BRICS must do immediately
1. Establish a BRICS AI Consortium
A joint platform for sovereign AI development, insulated from Western and Zionist intelligence backdoors. This consortium must be grounded in open-source architecture, with transparency and decentralized governance.
2. Create a BRICS “Clean AI” certification
No tech should be allowed in core systems unless its origin, ownership, and training data are publicly disclosed. Israeli-linked firms, especially those with ties to Unit 8200, NSO, Cellebrite, or any firm exporting to apartheid regimes, should be automatically excluded.
3. Build AI firewalls and sovereign data grids
Inspired by Russia’s sovereign internet and China’s Great Firewall, BRICS nations must isolate critical data and AI pipelines from foreign compromise. This includes:
- Cloud services (no AWS or Google Cloud)
- Facial recognition
- Predictive policing
- Military intelligence platforms
4. Invest in AI for liberation, not repression
Rather than mirror the West’s model of AI for control, BRICS must create AI to solve structural problems: food distribution, poverty reduction, climate monitoring, and education. Not biometric domination.
The ideological threat
Allowing Israeli AI systems into BRICS countries isn’t just a technological risk—it’s ideological contamination. These systems are built on a foundation of occupation, racial profiling, and authoritarian control. By adopting them, BRICS nations are importing the very logic they claim to oppose.
Let us be clear: Digital apartheid is still apartheid, even when it’s exported in the name of innovation.
The future will be coded by those who resist
Artificial intelligence is often portrayed as an impartial tool; mathematical, efficient, and emotionless. But like every tool of empire, its morality is coded by the hands that shape it. And in today’s digital order, too many of those hands trace back to Tel Aviv, where surveillance is not a security measure; it’s an ideology of domination.
The evidence is overwhelming: Palestinians in Gaza were the first test subjects of predictive policing and facial recognition software. Once these systems proved effective at dehumanizing, detecting, and destroying, they were exported to the world to monitor protesters in Minneapolis, suppress dissent in New Delhi, and neutralize opposition in Johannesburg.
Yet, beyond the corporations and contracts, beyond Google’s servers and Amazon’s silence, lies a deeper problem: the normalization of surveillance apartheid. That is Israel’s true export. Not Pegasus or Cellebrite, but the idea that security justifies omniscience, that every citizen is a suspect, that control is progress.
If BRICS, the Global South, and resistance-driven nations want a different future, one not owned by Silicon Valley and its Zionist subcontractors, they must act now. This is not simply about technology. It is about sovereignty, dignity, and survival.
Because the question is no longer who owns the data, but who programs the world.
And unless we unplug from the Israeli-led surveillance empire, our future will be occupied, even if our land is not.
