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Harrison Berger
Sep 15, 2025
The firm’s executives mislead the public as they create a mass surveillance system.
Despite over a decade of leaks and exposures, the U.S. security state and its private contractors still pretend that mass surveillance of the American people is a conspiracy theory.
At the All-In Summit this past week, Palantir CEO Alex Karp insisted his company has never spied on Americans, even claiming Palantir was turned away by the FBI and NSA because it “defends privacy and civil liberties” too strongly. That narrative—of Palantir as a quirky, libertarian outfit that checks government power—has always been part of the company’s branding and has always been a ruse designed only to trick the most gullible people.
As disclosures by the whistleblower Edward Snowden proved in 2017, Palantir’s Gotham operating system filtered the National Security Agency’s XKEYSCORE data, vacuuming up the private communications of millions of Americans into the ultimate system for turnkey tyranny. Those embarrassing revelations did not help the public image of a company whose reputation had already tanked in 2011 after reports of their corporate conspiracy to surveil and disrupt the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Glenn Greenwald.
While Americans remain deeply skeptical of the federal government’s surveillance powers, Palantir has nonetheless become one of the country’s most profitable firms, winning billion-dollar contracts off its supposedly “unmatched” technology and collecting endorsements from self-styled anti-establishment pundits like Bari Weiss.
Weiss’s outlet The Free Press—and even her non-accredited “University” in Austin—count Palantir executives as founding donors. He is “one of the most important builders in America and in the West,” Weiss gushed in a glowing interview with Karp, adding that Palantir’s central mission is “stopping terror attacks around the world.”
But far from being a “counter-elite” defending freedom against the establishment, Alex Karp and Palantir embody the establishment itself, having built its ultimate apparatus for surveillance and control.
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If it were just that, Palantir’s vast spying power would already be concerning. But Palantir is not merely another U.S.-based contractor; it is fused with the priorities of Israel’s own security state and functions as part of the Israel lobby inside the United States. Its chief executives—Karp, Joe Lonsdale, and former Rep. Mike Gallagher—have more than just an affinity for Israel. They are ideological fanatics who openly conflate Israel’s enemies with our own.
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Palantir’s troubling loyalty to Israel is not an isolated case but part of a broader pattern linking Silicon Valley’s surveillance infrastructure to the Israeli state.
Another behemoth of the surveillance industry is Oracle, led by the world’s richest man and a major donor to pro-Israel causes, Larry Ellison. The Ellisons—who own their own island in Hawaii to ensure the ultimate form of privacy—are among the NSA’s largest mass surveillance contractors.
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www.theamericanconservative.com
Sep 15, 2025
The firm’s executives mislead the public as they create a mass surveillance system.
Despite over a decade of leaks and exposures, the U.S. security state and its private contractors still pretend that mass surveillance of the American people is a conspiracy theory.
At the All-In Summit this past week, Palantir CEO Alex Karp insisted his company has never spied on Americans, even claiming Palantir was turned away by the FBI and NSA because it “defends privacy and civil liberties” too strongly. That narrative—of Palantir as a quirky, libertarian outfit that checks government power—has always been part of the company’s branding and has always been a ruse designed only to trick the most gullible people.
As disclosures by the whistleblower Edward Snowden proved in 2017, Palantir’s Gotham operating system filtered the National Security Agency’s XKEYSCORE data, vacuuming up the private communications of millions of Americans into the ultimate system for turnkey tyranny. Those embarrassing revelations did not help the public image of a company whose reputation had already tanked in 2011 after reports of their corporate conspiracy to surveil and disrupt the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Glenn Greenwald.
While Americans remain deeply skeptical of the federal government’s surveillance powers, Palantir has nonetheless become one of the country’s most profitable firms, winning billion-dollar contracts off its supposedly “unmatched” technology and collecting endorsements from self-styled anti-establishment pundits like Bari Weiss.
Weiss’s outlet The Free Press—and even her non-accredited “University” in Austin—count Palantir executives as founding donors. He is “one of the most important builders in America and in the West,” Weiss gushed in a glowing interview with Karp, adding that Palantir’s central mission is “stopping terror attacks around the world.”
But far from being a “counter-elite” defending freedom against the establishment, Alex Karp and Palantir embody the establishment itself, having built its ultimate apparatus for surveillance and control.
.
.
.
If it were just that, Palantir’s vast spying power would already be concerning. But Palantir is not merely another U.S.-based contractor; it is fused with the priorities of Israel’s own security state and functions as part of the Israel lobby inside the United States. Its chief executives—Karp, Joe Lonsdale, and former Rep. Mike Gallagher—have more than just an affinity for Israel. They are ideological fanatics who openly conflate Israel’s enemies with our own.
.
.
Palantir’s troubling loyalty to Israel is not an isolated case but part of a broader pattern linking Silicon Valley’s surveillance infrastructure to the Israeli state.
Another behemoth of the surveillance industry is Oracle, led by the world’s richest man and a major donor to pro-Israel causes, Larry Ellison. The Ellisons—who own their own island in Hawaii to ensure the ultimate form of privacy—are among the NSA’s largest mass surveillance contractors.
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Pro-Israel Palantir Endangers Our Liberties
The firm’s executives mislead the public as they create a mass surveillance system.
