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“The Nerd Reich”: Author Gil Durán on Big Tech Fascism, Peter Thiel, JD Vance & the War on Democracy”
A new book by longtime Bay Area journalist Gil Durán investigates “tech fascism” and its mounting influence on U.S. politics. The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy follows the rise of Vice President JD Vance, the former venture capitalist whose “outsider” campaign for Senate was bankrolled by the billionaire co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, Peter Thiel.
Durán traces the ideological lineage of the current Trump administration back from Vance to Thiel and the far-right-wing monarchist Curtis Yarvin, whose “right-libertarian” political theory has long made the rounds among Silicon Valley elite. “These guys were never libertarians,” says Durán. “Now that they are the government, we see their true face: They’re fascists, and they’re authoritarians.”
Palantir of the Nerd Reich is connected to Israel’s Zionist-Reich – elite Talpiot program through personnel links at Kela Technologies, a defense-tech startup founded by veterans of Israel’s high-tech military ecosystem. [1]
- The Talpiot Graduate: Israeli Alon Dror, the CEO and co-founder of Kela Technologies, is a graduate of the highly selective Talpiot program, which recruits top-tier math and physics minds for military R&D. [1]
- The Startup Ecosystem: Together, the leadership team blends Dror’s technical background from Talpiot and MAFAT (Israel’s R&D directorate) with Meridor’s operational experience scaling Palantir’s data-analytics footprint in the region. [1]
- While Kela focuses on building an interoperable software layer to connect battlefield hardware and commercial devices rather than directly replicating Palantir’s data analytics platform, the company’s leadership explicitly bridges the worlds of elite Israeli military research tracks like Talpiot and Western-facing defense software.
- Explore the startup launch details from the Times of Israel.
- Read the founding overview on the Sequoia Capital Article.
“How US Intelligence and an American Company Feed Israel’s Killing Machine in Gaza“, 12 April 2024