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Google co-founder Sergey Brin calls U.N. ‘transparently antisemitic’ after report on tech firms and Gaza (www.washingtonpost.com)

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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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[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 51 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (8 children)

“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 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Russia's attack on Ukraine is not just to change political boundaries

It is to wipe out the Ukraine culture and its people

Russia has taken over 300,000 Ukrainian children and is forcing them to be stripped of any trace of their Ukrainian identity including being forced to learn Russian

It doesn't get more genocide than that

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I agree! 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. Russia doesn't have a problem with the kids race, religion or ancestry, but with them being raised under Ukranian society and values.

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