Google co-founder Sergey Brin calls U.N. ‘transparently antisemitic’ after report on tech firms and Gaza
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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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.
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.
“With all due respect" is always followed by something deeply disrespectful.
also deeply offensive is actually DOING a genocide and killing gaza citizens in cold blood who are just waiting for aid
“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
I would also be careful citing transparently antisemitic organizations like
the UNWikipedia in relation to these issuesReally works as a counterargument against anything!
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.
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.
Before and after. Like you said, the occurrence of one unfortunately doesn't stop humans from carrying out another elsewhere.
He can go suck a lemon
The only victims of those rediculous accusations is non zionist jews
its not great for the people actually being genocided too.
I mean with antisemitism accusations or without them, gazan are genocided. Nobody who isn't a scum believe in those accusations but those accusations can increase the real antisemitism
He doth try to don that mantle, dothn't he.