Israel, like China, has weaponised surveillance technology to suppress peaceful dissent.
![A child plays under police surveillance cameras set up to monitor a dirt road intersection in Kuqa in western Xinjiang province. China on July 16, 2014 [File: Ng Han Guan/AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/AP976961243658.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Omar Shakir is Israel and Palestine Director at Human Rights Watch. He investigates human rights abuses in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. Prior to h... is current role, he was a Bertha Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where he focused on US counterterrorism policies, including legal representation of Guantanamo detainees.
Israel, like China, has weaponised surveillance technology to suppress peaceful dissent.