Google co-founder decries ‘antisemitic’ U.N. for report on tech aid to Gaza ‘genocide’

"Following a contentious United Nations report on Google’s role in Israel’s war in Gaza, the tech giant’s co-founder Sergey Brin called the international forum ‘transparently antisemitic’ in an internal memo, according to a Wednesday report.

Screenshots of Brin’s comments were sent to The Washington Post, which verified their authenticity with a ‘current member’ of the internal forum they were sent to.

Brin’s comments came after a report issued late last month by UN rapporteur on Palestinian rights Francesca Albanese accused Google, and its parent company Alphabet — along with fellow tech giants Microsoft and Amazon — of aiding Israel’s ‘ongoing genocidal campaign in Gaza’ through cloud and artificial intelligence support for the Israeli military and intelligence agencies.

Responding to the UN report, Brin, who is Jewish, said that ‘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 said in the internal memo, sent to staff at Google’s DeepMind AI division.

While Google did not respond to a request for comment on Brin’s messages, he told the Post that his ‘comments came in response to an internal discussion that was citing a plainly biased and misleading report.’

Albanese, who authored the UN report accusing Google of aiding Israel’s ‘genocide’ in Gaza, was sanctioned by the US on Wednesday, for ‘political and economic warfare’ against the US and Israel.

The unprecedented move was led by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who said it was made in light of ‘her illegitimate and shameful efforts to prompt International Criminal Court action against US and Israeli officials, companies, and executives.’

‘Albanese’s campaign of political and economic warfare against the United States and Israel will no longer be tolerated. We will always stand by our partners in their right to self-defense,’ Rubio wrote on X.

Albanese, an Italian national, regularly accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza and has said that the October 7, 2023, attacks by Hamas must be put in a ‘context of decades of oppression imposed on the Palestinians.’ She has come under harsh criticism from both the Biden and Trump administrations..."