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.
Dear Sergey,
if you object to the specific word “genocide”, then perhaps we should start calling it the “mass murder and starvation that has killed 5-10% of all Palestinian civilians”. That doesn’t sound much better, though, does it?
One of the key things that some in the “UN is anti-semitic” camp likes to claim is that the UNHRC has many nations that are non-democratic and have known human rights abuses.
But that’s somewhat cherrypicked. Yes, the nations proposing measures against Isreal do seem like a biased set. But most of the Western democracies ultimately vote for those measure, with only the US rejecting it.