The 22-point manifesto issued by Palantir, “The Technological Republic,” reviewed in the Tuesday EIR.News, was targeted again in RT Tuesday by German writer Constantin von Hoffmeister, who has been a strong critic of Donald Trump. He writes that “we must dissect the alliance between corporate algorithmic power and the Zionist state. This is a new Newspeak, where ‘defense’ is a moral debt and ‘deterrence’ is the silent humming of an algorithm deciding who shall disappear.”
He compares this to George Orwell’s 1984, in which “the Party and the Corporation becom[e] indistinguishable.” He points to Palantir’s “strategic partnership” with the Israeli Ministry of Defense, finalized in early 2024 during a high-stakes visit by co-founders Peter Thiel and Alex Karp to Tel Aviv,” a pact which “seeks to harness advanced data mining for ‘war-related missions.’” He adds: “Their corporate identity is so entwined with the Zionist project that Palantir held its first board meeting of 2024 in Israel, signaling that their ‘Technological Republic’ transcends borders when it comes to the enforcement of state power.”
