Google co-founder Sergey Brin has slammed a recent United Nations (UN) report on technology companies and Gaza. In a message posted on an internal Google forum, Brin reportedly told employees that the UN report is “Transparently Antisemitic”. This statement comes after a UN report alleged that several major global corporations, including Big Tech companies, have profited from Israel’s actions in Gaza. Brin’s comments, seen in internal messages from Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) arm DeepMind and shared with The Washington Post, directly addressed the UN report. He wrote, “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 organisations like the UN in relation to these issues,” Brin added. The UN report last month claimed that corporations continued doing business with the Israeli government and military, thus profiting from the situation.Also, in a statement to the Washington Post, Brin said that his comments were about “an internal discussion that was citing a plainly biased and misleading report.”
What the UN report said about Big Tech’s involvement in Gaza
‘The UN report claims that by continuing business ties with Israel, tech giants like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are complicit in what it describes as a “joint criminal enterprise.” The report argues that their operations “ultimately contribute to a whole economy that drives, supplies and enables this genocide.” It highlights Google’s role in Project Nimbus—a billion-dollar initiative providing cloud infrastructure and AI services to the Israeli government and military. Google’s ongoing involvement with the Israeli government has sparked internal backlash as well. Employees associated with the No Tech for Apartheid group staged protests and sit-ins at company offices, after which Google terminated about 50 staff members involved. The company also rolled back a previous commitment not to use AI in surveillance or weapon development.
