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.

  • HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world
    46·
    4 days ago

    “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

    • Ferk@lemmy.ml
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      4 days ago

      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.

        • Ferk@lemmy.ml
          3·
          4 days ago

          Yes, what makes it a genocide is the intent to target the civilian population belonging to that nation. It does not necessarily have to be about race or religion, it can still be genocide if it targets the nation. Russia doesn’t have a problem with the kids race, religion or ancestry, but with them being raised under Ukranian society and values.

        • HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world
          24·
          4 days ago

          Yay me. Got my first comment removed on Lemmy.

          What an honor, especially considering it broke none of listed rules here

  • BillDaCatt@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    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.

  • minoscopede@lemmy.world
    22·
    4 days ago

    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.

  • lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml
    14·
    4 days ago

    Will you right wing libertarian tech bro Nazis please, kindly, for the love of everything resembling humanity, fuck the fuck off forever and self delete