Overview

• Google co-founder Sergey Brin wrote in a private Google DeepMind forum on July 5 that the U.N. was “transparently antisemitic” for branding Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocide.
• A June report by U.N. special rapporteur Francesca Albanese alleged that Google and peers profited from Israel’s military operations by supplying cloud computing and AI support.
• On July 1 the U.S. Mission to the United Nations formally called for Albanese’s removal, accusing her of bias and antisemitism in her Gaza mandate.
• Brin’s remarks have reignited internal tensions at Google over its $1.2 billion Project Nimbus contract with Israel and past employee protests over its military collaborations.
• The episode underscores mounting scrutiny of Big Tech’s ethical responsibilities in wartime and the contested use of genocide terminology in the Israel-Gaza conflict.