Note: Hamas is a resistance group. Calling Hamas terrorists is lazy and disingenuous. Resistance is legal under a violent oppressive military occupation.
This documentary by Farrel McGuire traces how two cities—Derry in Northern Ireland and Hebron in Palestine—became laboratories for control, surveillance, and enforced division. It starts with Derry’s history: a native Irish majority boxed into poverty while British settlers were handed political power through engineered borders. The city split into two worlds, one wealthy and protected, the other monitored and restricted.
In Hebron, where the imbalance is even more extreme, a few hundred Israeli settlers live inside a Palestinian city of tens of thousands, guarded by a dense military presence. Checkpoints, screenings, and daily obstruction define life for Palestinians. In 2020, the Israeli military moved to automate this system. They partnered with an AI firm to build “Keyron Smart City,” a surveillance stack meant to track every Palestinian movement.
Soldiers were given the Blue Wolf app—an AI facial‑recognition tool that turned photographing Palestinians into a game with leaderboards, quotas, and punishments. Later came Red Wolf, an automated checkpoint system that scans faces, decides who can pass, and can trigger arrests based solely on algorithmic flags.
The documentary argues that this isn’t a hypothetical dystopia—it’s already happening. It pushes past Western political noises to focus on the actual human suffering on the ground. It also highlights that dissent exists inside Israel itself, including among people in positions of power. That dissent becomes the doorway into a strange real‑world mystery: a missing smartphone that washed up on a Tel Aviv beach, sparking a frantic search by authorities and raising questions about what someone inside the system was trying to expose.
The film leaves viewers with the unsettling reality of how far this technology has already gone. Watch the documentary to follow the full story and see how these pieces connect inside a system that was never meant to be questioned.
