Company: GOOGL
Filing Date: 2025-05-07
Form Type: PX14A6G
Source: 0000921895-25-001315
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Company: Alphabet Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-05-07
Form: PX14A6G
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 a narrow political agenda: it singles out Israel, mirrors the Boycott, Divestment
& Sanctions (“BDS”) tactics, ignores Israel’s legitimate security needs, and leans on biased sources. In our view,
Proposal 9 is politically motivated, designed to inject partisan politics into Alphabet’s due diligence program, jeopardize lawful
partnerships aligned with U.S. policy, and expose the Company to reputational, operational, and workplace risks without meaningfully improving
human-rights protections.

A Veiled BDS Campaign

BDS activists frequently use shareholder
mechanisms to pressure companies into cutting economic ties with Israel. This proposal follows that script by:

| ● | Framing standard technology contracts as unique ethical risks, specifically when Israel is the end user. |

| ● | Implying that providing AI or cloud services to the Israeli government is fundamentally suspect, even though these same technologies 
 are used by other democracies without attracting similar scrutiny.                                                                   |

| ● | Using “human rights” language to question Israel’s legitimate defense capabilities, rather than focusing on actual 
 misuse.                                                                                                            |

This approach mirrors the BDS movement’s
core strategy: undermine Israel’s security partnerships by casting lawful, widely employed technologies as exceptional moral threats
[1] [2].

What distinguishes this proposal in our
view is not a principled concern for human rights, but the selective, politicized framing that treats Israel as uniquely problematic.

Project Nimbus: Misinformation and Omission

Project Nimbus is a broad cloud-based computing
initiative supporting various Israeli ministries, including taxation, healthcare, education, and administrative services [3]. Despite
this, the proposal clearly:

| ● | Paints Project Nimbus as primarily a military venture, glossing over its role in delivering essential public services, and omitting 
 its extensive civilian applications.                                                                                                |

| ● | Lacks concrete evidence of “misuse,” simply concluding that military use of advanced tech in Israel is automatically unethical. |

| ● | Holds Israel to a different standard than other nations, where similar technologies are used without comparable scrutiny or condemnation. |

By suggesting any potential military application
is wrongful, the measure ignores Israel’s legitimate need to protect its citizens from persistent threats. It implicitly treats
Israel’s defense activities as uniquely suspect, while downplaying or overlooking comparable uses of technology by other nations.

Ignoring Israel’s Security Context

Alphabet’s technology, including advanced
AI and cloud-based services, plays a critical role in protecting Israeli civilians from continuing violence [4]. The October 7, 2023