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“Operation Wrath of Zion" Aims to Dox and Deport Pro-Palestinian Protestors in New York City (www.dropsitenews.com)

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This week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to cancel the visas of college students who protest in support of Palestine, opening the path to their deportation. A small company called Stellar Defense & Cyber Intelligence is ready to help by deploying AI technology to identify anonymous, masked pro-Palestinian protestors, through a campaign it refers to as “Operation Wrath of Zion.”

Stellar is the maker of NesherAI, a bespoke facial-recognition tool which it claims is capable of deanonymizing pro-Palestinian protestors. The name “Nesher” is Hebrew for “eagle,” the symbol for both NesherAI and the Terror Watch Agency, the brand under which it operates. Their slogan on social media is, “The Eagle listens, The Eagle watches, The Eagle knows.”

In December, The Times of Israel reported that Betar had worked with pro-Israel U.S. lawmakers including Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and John Fetterman (D-PA) on plans to round up “suspects” in anticipation of Donald Trump’s return to the White House. Ross Glick, the executive director of Betar US, told the paper the purpose of Betar’s use of facial recognition was to “give the Trump team a head start.” While Glick stressed that Betar supports free speech, he added that “if a foreign student is here on a visa, they don’t have the same rights as others to protest or promote anti-Zionist narratives.”

On Wednesday, Betar did just as Glick said. “Join us at the jihad rally as we assist @ICEgov in deportation efforts,” the U.S. branch of Betar posted on the social media platform X. Hawila’s Terror Watch Agency reposted Betar’s statement.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

A small company called Stellar Defense & Cyber Intelligence is ready to help by deploying AI technology to identify anonymous, masked pro-Palestinian protestors

And now you know why privacy was important and Big Tech was a threat to democracy. Those of us who know history saw the danger coming, have been warning people right and left and been called crackpots for a quarter century.

And now that democracy is living its final days in America, it's happening.

And now it's too late.

Welcome to the dystopian future you complacently let yourself get trapped into.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

When 77 million people do the thing, you can't really blame it on character. At that point it's a failure of the species. Don't worry, we won't be plaguing the world for too much longer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I didn't know white settlers were "the species".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

You think political illiteracy is an epidemic only of white European descendants?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

You're saying the species as a whole failed because 77 million people voted for a fascist. Thats a minority WITHIN THE US, a minority which was empowered by an undemocratic superstructure, when they were given a choice between a fascist and a fascist with a coexist sticker on top.

The global majority isn't as ignorant as the US/European and the fact that left to their own devices, without intervention from your genocidal ass governments, leftist movements pop up time and time again.

If you wanna wallow in your nihilism and self pity, knock yourselves out, but keep the rest of us out of it. It's not a failure on our part that you and others like you capitulate to fascists (dressing it up as a tragic inevitability in which you bear no responsibility) at the slightest gust of wind.