Code Pink disrupts former Google CEO's interview at his DC AI expo
Following similar disruptions on Monday, the anti-war group Code Pink disrupted former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's fireside chat at his second annual DC AI expo, chanting "No Tech for Genocide."
Minutes after former chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford suggested that the U.S. going to war with Iran in partnership with Israel was likely in the next “30 to 60 to 90 days,” protestors from the anti-war activism group Code Pink interrupted a fireside chat in the same room of the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. to protest former Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s support for the Israeli military’s ongoing mass killings of women and children in Gaza as part of its prolonged response to the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023.
The three protestors, holding up two Palestinian flags, were quickly blocked and forcibly removed from Dr. Schmidt’s panel, “Delivering AI Advantage,” with former New York Times Pentagon correspondent Thom Shanker serving as the interlocutor.
“You are killing people in Palestine, shame on you,” stated the protestors, adding that “Google and its AI are profiting off of killing innocent lives” in Palestine. Beyond ongoing multi-year protests over Google and Amazon’s billion dollar cloud computing contract with the Israeli government — including its military — known as Project Nimbus, Schmidt’s SCSP expo is also hosting both the Israeli embassy and the Israeli national security think tank MIND Israel, whose president and founder is former Israeli military intelligence chief Amos Yadlin.
As of May 27, 2025, the Palestinian Ministry of Health has reported that Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 54,056 Palestinians, including at least 17,400 children, and that a further 123,129 Palestinians have been injured.
The disruption is at least the third from Code Pink in the past two days, following protests of Mike Gallagher, a former Congressman and current head of defense for data analytics firm Palantir, on Monday morning and former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice later the same day. In the latter case, Code Pink quickly published footage of the protest, with co-founder Medea Benjamin asserting that, “Hundreds of thousands of people got murdered because of her lies,” in reference to what the organization Iraq Body Count reports to be roughly 200,000 documented civilian deaths from the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.
The author yesterday published footage of a demonstrator involved in the Code Pink protest of Palantir being forcibly escorted out of the convention center on Monday.
At last year’s SCSP AI expo, the billionaire Palantir CEO Alexander Karp and former chairman of the joint chiefs Mark Milley — sitting on stage next to Schmidt and deputy CIA director David Cohen — jointly justified continued U.S. support for the Israeli military’s ongoing killing of tens of thousands of Gazan civilians on the basis of previous U.S. military casualties, including in Iraq. “Before we all get self-righteous about what Israel’s doing, and I feel horrible for the innocent people in Gaza that are dying, but we shouldn’t forget that we, the United States, killed a lot of innocent people in Mosul, in Raqqa,” Milley stated last year.
Milley is the biggest, maybe dumbest dirtbag.
“Before we all get self-righteous about what Israel’s doing (…) we, the United States, killed a lot of innocent people in Mosul, in Raqqa” … WTF?? SO STOP!!