Time Magazine Lays Bare Its Anti-Israel Bias | Bobby Burack

Time Magazine ran an "exclusive" headline on Friday revealing that Google has a contract with the Israel Defense Ministry for its Cloud services.

"Exclusive: Google Contract Shows Deal With Israel Defense Ministry," reads the headline.

The contract the author references allows the Israeli Ministry of Defense a secure destination to store and process data, and access AI services.

The ministry deepened its investment in cloud services following Israel’s war in Gaza.

Per the report:

"The ministry sought consulting assistance from Google to expand its Google Cloud access, seeking to allow "multiple units" to access automation technologies, according to a draft contract dated March 27, 2024. The contract shows Google billing the Israeli Ministry of Defense over $1 million for the consulting service."

The Time article is soundly reported. We don't dispute that. The author obtained a contract upon which Google and the ministry agreed. However, one ought to question one key element of the report: Why does it matter? 

What makes the agreement newsworthy and worth an entire headline?

See, readers already knew of a relationship between Google and the ministry. In 2020, the Israeli government introduced "Project Nimbus," a $1.2 billion cloud computing and AI agreement between the Israeli government and two tech companies: Google and Amazon. 

We reached out to Time for an answer, wondering of what significance it thought its story provided. Unfortunately, we did not hear back. We will be sure to update this story if we do. 

But the answer seems quite obvious. The sheep inside Time believe the Israeli Military is evil. 

Specifically, the piece states there are allegations that the Ministry of Defense is using an AI-powered system to select targets for air-strikes on Gaza – suggesting Google is assisting in said task. 

While we don't encourage Time or any outlet to blindly support Israel, or any foreign nation – the outlet's coverage of the conflict in Gaza is not exactly of a mutual arbiter of the truth.

In fact, Time was one of the first notable outlets to print the infamous warzone lie (via Hamas sources) that Israel caused the deaths of more than 500 Palestinians after bombing a hospital on Oct. 17, 2023.

"Hundreds Killed in Israeli Airstrike on Gaza City Hospital, Health Ministry Says," read that headline.

Israel is at war with Hamas in Gaza after a massive terrorist attack left more than 1,200 people dead. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images)

Time eventually stealth-edited the piece.

Still, it was illuminating to see the legacy media grapple with how to cover the war in Gaza. 

The media often sympathized with the Palestinians and even Hamas terrorists after leftist thought-leaders from Harvard University and The Squad declared said perspective to be one of enlightenment.

Often, corporate journalists view matters through the lens of the oppressed and the oppressors. Or, in the case of the Israeli-Hamas conflict, the colonizers and the colonized.

U.S. outlets often bucket the Israeli Ministry of Defense as part of the latter category.

Thus, the Time headline named and shamed an agreement that benefits a ministry the outlet deems sinister. Time published the article to incite the wrath of Google employees, to pressure their bosses to disassociate from any agreement with Israel.