Firing anti-Israel subversives is just the beginning for Google’s Sundar Pichai, there is still a long road ahead

Google seems to have finally taken heed of Winston Churchill’s famous quote: “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”

During an anti-Israel, pro-terrorist sit-in staged by radical leftist employees at Google’s New York and Sunnyvale offices, the tech giant felt the heat, called the police, and had them arrested. A commendable move by Google.

However, this action alone is not enough.

It shouldn’t be assumed for a moment that Google is moving away from its woke policies.

If those employees had not occupied Google’s offices, they would still be working within the company, actively undermining businesses that do not align with the Woke religion.

Though a few dozen employees were removed, there are still hundreds who hold similar politically toxic views within the company.

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet Inc., Google’s parent company, must take further steps beyond issuing statements from executives like, “If you’re one of the few who are tempted to think we’re going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think again.”

That approach is not sufficient.

Pichai needs to be fully committed to changing Google’s culture, not just its policies, as without a change in culture, the political subversion will persist.

We have previously discussed on these pages Google’s Gemini AI producing historically inaccurate images of black Vikings and female popes.

You may also recall that Google dismissed an employee for expressing constitutionally protected but “politically incorrect” conservative opinions.

Google displays significant bias.

And this bias is widely acknowledged.

However, Google’s discrimination is not always overt.

Most of Google’s bias is evident in discreet discrimination against non-woke or conservative voices.

If Pichai truly wants to act on his words, he should start by addressing Google’s algorithmic bias, which tends to favor woke content and suppress non-woke viewpoints, especially in news and media.

Wouldn’t it be beneficial to see the New York Post listed among the top search results for “Donald Trump”?

Yet, that is not the case.

Instead, liberal outlets such as The New York Times and CNN, which are critical of Trump, dominate the top search results.

Our search for “Donald Trump” did not feature The New York Post even on the first page of results.

We share The Post’s frustration with search results.

Similarly, our website, LegalInsurrection.com, experiences the same down-ranking in search results, even when our articles are highly read on a particular topic.

This was seen in our coverage of the Gibson’s Bakery v. Oberlin College case, where our reporting influenced the news cycle.

Moreover, we have been inexplicably demonetized by Google Ads.

Google owns YouTube, which removes videos that do not align with the woke narrative.

Videos expressing skepticism towards COVID vaccines or the 2020 election results were suppressed, and their creators often deplatformed, while videos promoting anti-Trump and anti-Republican conspiracies thrived.

Even if right-leaning videos remain accessible, the search function may make it difficult for viewers to find them due to shadowbanning and censorship.

However, the bias of Google does not stop at algorithmic discrimination.

Not too long ago, Google Docs introduced a feature that suggests alternatives like “police officer” and “humankind” when users type “non-inclusive” words like “policeman” or “mankind.”

This feature seems unnecessary and unhelpful.

Therefore, the dismissal of a few woke employees at Google does not signify a change in its overall culture.

Google has a significant journey ahead.

Perhaps as Churchill famously remarked, “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”

This could be an unintentional step in the right direction, and we hope it leads Google towards a less biased path.

William A. Jacobson is a clinical professor of law at Cornell and founder of the Equal Protection Project, with Kemberlee Kaye serving as operations and editorial director.