Google co-founder Sergey Brin has denounced the United Nations as “transparently anti-Semitic” over a report accusing tech firms, including Alphabet, of profiting from Israel’s war in Gaza, The Washington Post has reported.
Brin made the remarks at an internal Google DeepMind forum last week, according to screenshots reviewed by the newspaper, which reported the exchange on Wednesday. His response came after a recent publication by Francesca Albanese, the UN’s special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, which claimed that Google and its parent company Alphabet had provided cloud and AI tools to the IDF during its operation in Gaza – actions the report described as “the genocide carried out by Israel.”
“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,” Brin, who is Jewish himself, wrote. “I would also be careful citing transparently anti-Semitic organizations like the UN in relation to these issues.”
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