Demonstrating and proving its deep criminality, the apartheid regime lost a war it had been waging for years, mainly within Western societies, against anyone who criticized it; and especially against the BDS movement. It was an extremely “expensive” war, with “investments” (and purchases of consciences), and a central motto that “whoever denounces the ethnic fascism of Tel Aviv is turning against Jews in general, therefore is an antisemite, therefore a ‘crypto-Nazi’…”
What is his response to this defeat? A technological leap forward; or, otherwise, an expression of the technological fetishism that runs through all Western bosses. As the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz revealed in mid-January, the regime bought and has put into operation “artificial intelligence systems” in order to overturn the global belief that it is a genocide machine. “A few weeks after the start of the war,” Ha’aretz wrote, “Israel created a ‘hasbara forum’ (hasbara is an Israeli term for propaganda) with the participation of officials from various ministries, the army, the secret services, and representatives of various IT companies.”
The new arsenal includes “an online audience mapping system; a system that automatically creates websites; a ‘content creation’ system tailored to specific audiences; a social media monitoring system; and others.”
No prediction is even needed: this campaign fails too. Not because it is technologically incomplete. But because (still?) the “consciousness production industry” cannot hide the blood…