Google co-founder Sergey Brin calls U.N. ‘transparently antisemitic’ after report on tech firms and Gaza
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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in reply to geneva_convenience • • •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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in reply to HappySkullsplitter • • •Really works as a counterargument against anything!
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in reply to cabbage • • •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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in reply to HappySkullsplitter • • •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.
allegations that genocide has been committed against Ukrainians since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022
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in reply to geneva_convenience • • •Genocide is not exclusive to Jewish victims. It is not anti-Semitic to say that.
Genocide can be committed by anyone. It is not anti-Semitic to say that.
Genocide is being committed by Israel's military against the people in Gaza. It is not anti-Semitic to say that... but it is sad.
It is even sadder that my government, instead of stopping them, continues to help Israel commit genocide.
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in reply to geneva_convenience • • •I thought this tool was retired. But no,
At least it seems they are on course to make their AI competitive with Grok.
'Round Them Up': Grok Praises Hitler as Elon Musk's AI Tool Goes Full Nazi
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in reply to rumimevlevi • • •This is also about proportionality and perspective. I care a lot more about people being killed than about one particular group being casually biggoted against. I see antisemitism as a comparatively minor injustice when compared directly to the injustice of Israeli crimes against humanity. And no one talks about the vast issue of anti-muslim bigotry and anti muslim violence, which seems to me to be far more virulent and damaging in its injustice and violence than the effects of anti semitism.
I say people who wring their hands about anti semitism should get in line with all the rest of the victims of terrible biggotry while we all deal with this israeli terrorism and colonization problem. Anti semitism is a problem, but it doesnt rank highly against other more directly impactful problems, right? I rank it right up there with British anti-Irish sentiment. Anti Irish sentiment is a problem, but not worth imprisoning people for years for having that bigotry.
Anti semitism is nothing compared to the 80 years of murderous crimes by the zionists, with their laughing "mowing the grass" strategies. Its nothing compared to anti black prejudice in the US. And nothing compared to oppression of women globally.
Sergiy Brin is a rich spoiled brat who needs to grow the eff up.
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in reply to geneva_convenience • • •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.
The United Nations — From Ally to Antisemitic Platform
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