His comments came in response to a U.N. report released last month that alleged 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 government 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 antisemitic 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.

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    “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.

    Yes, solid reasoning. New genocides can’t exist because there were old ones

    Pretty sure there have been many genocides since WW2

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      I would also be careful citing transparently antisemitic organizations like the UN Wikipedia in relation to these issues

      Really works as a counterargument against anything!

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        Why do you think Israel positions itself as an ethnostate so? “Everything we do is Jewish because we’re an ethnostste with strict apartheid for non-Jews so if you criticize us it’s antisemitism!!”

        But the actions of Israel and its government are not the actions of Jews, they are the actions of Israel.

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      Yeah, I think the confusion is assuming that it’s only a genocide when it targets specific subgroups inside a population. It also applies in terms of national groups (whole or in part). This means any attack that intents to kill civilians of a country (or that at least intents to not make any distinction between civilian or not) is a genocide.

      For example, that list also includes genocide of Ukrainians by Russia.

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          Russia’s attack on Ukraine is not just to change political boundaries. It is to wipe out the Ukraine culture and its people

          It share the same goal as israel. Israel is still worse. Russians claim that ukranians are just russians . Israel want to wipe palestinians because they believe that they are the only who has the right to live in palestine

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          Yes, what makes it a genocide is the intent to target the civilian population belonging to that nation. It does not necessarily have to be about race or religion, it can still be genocide if it targets the nation. Russia doesn’t have a problem with the kids race, religion or ancestry, but with them being raised under Ukranian society and values.

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          Yay me. Got my first comment removed on Lemmy.

          What an honor, especially considering it broke none of listed rules here