The New Gospel of Violence: Surveillance Meets Border Violence in Palestine

"Israel’s brutal crackdown in Gaza is a bleak reminder of how authoritarianism and technology go hand in hand, as rockets and drones in the sky dim the stars of Bethlehem."

We hope readers will be happy to see this timely article by Border Chronicle favorite Petra Molnar. It is timely for what is happening in Israel/Palestine, timely for the holidays, and, as you will see, has deep relevance for the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.

Petra Molnar is a lawyer and anthropologist. She is a faculty associate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein C…