The film’s interviewees are depicted as mere “cogs” in a system that turns good progressive educated, non-Arab-hating gods in the sky into murderers.

This framing is dangerous. Focusing on the machinery of war – the surveillance systems, targeting procedures, algorithms, chains of command and political directives to explain how violence becomes systematic and scalable – completely misses the point.

The violence existed well before AI. The system of apartheid was in place for decades.

When you make the machine the protagonist, its operators turn into bystanders to their own actions. In a way, they are absolved.

What motivates them is a question that is never raised. Zionism and Jewish supremacy are never discussed.

Without confronting the ideology, the story becomes one about good or ordinary people caught inside a terrible system, rather than holding accountable people who have made deliberate choices within that system and who could have made other choices.

It fails to ask what Zionism has done to the Jewish Israeli psyche, what generations of being taught that Palestinian freedom represents an existential threat has produced, and of course what the manifestation of that thinking has meant for Palestinian bodies.