Google co-founder calls UN ‘transparently anti-Semitic’ over Gaza genocide report
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has called the United Nations “transparently anti-Semitic” after a UN report said the company profited from “Israel’s genocide” in Gaza.
Brin’s comments came in response to a UN report released last month that technology firms, including Google and its parent company Alphabet, had profited from “the genocide carried out by Israel” in Gaza by providing cloud and AI technologies to the Israeli cabinet and military.
“With all due respect, throwing around the term genocide in relation to Gaza is deeply offensive to many Jewish people who have suffered actual genocides. I would also be careful citing transparently anti-Semitic organizations like the UN in relation to these issues,” Brin wrote in a forum for staff at Google DeepMind, the company’s artificial intelligence division, where workers were debating the report, according to the screenshots.
Brin later told The Washington Post his comments were in response to an “internal discussion that was citing a plainly biased and misleading report.”
The UN report, authored by its special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, names corporations that she says should be held accountable for Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
It said American tech giants have capitalized on a lucrative opportunity created by the regime’s expanding need for computing services and cloud storage, driven by the copious data generated by Israel’s control of Gaza.
It specifically cited Project Nimbus - a $1.2 billion cloud services deal granted to Google and Amazon in 2021 - saying the firms provided essential artificial intelligence and cloud capabilities after Israel's military systems were overwhelmed following Hamas's Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.
Last week, the US Mission to the United Nations called on the secretary general of the UN to condemn Albanese’s activities and remove her from her role, accusing her of anti-Semitism and bias against Israel.
Google’s leadership has previously confronted and fired workers who protested the company’s ties with Israel after its genocide in Gaza began.
The company sought to provide its artificial intelligence technologies to Israel’s military after Hamas waged the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Flood against the Zionist entity in response to the regime's decades-long campaign of bloodletting and devastation against Palestinians, The Post reported in January.
Since October 7, 2023, when Israel began its campaign of genocide in Gaza, it has massacred over 57,570 Palestinians and wounded nearly 137,000, according to estimates by the health ministry of Gaza.
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