Overview

• Brin wrote in a private Google DeepMind forum that calling Gaza events genocide was “deeply offensive” and labeled the U.N. “transparently antisemitic.”
• Screenshots reviewed by The Washington Post indicate his comments confused and upset some employees debating the report.
• The contested U.N. report by Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese accuses Google and other tech firms of profiting from Israel’s Gaza war through cloud and AI contracts.
• The U.S. Mission to the United Nations has urged the secretary-general to oust Albanese, citing alleged antisemitism and anti-Israel bias.
• Brin’s intervention heightens long-standing internal disputes at Google over Project Nimbus and the ethics of its partnerships with Israel.