It is likely because Israel vs. Palestine is a much much more hot button issue than Russia vs. Ukraine.

It really shouldn’t be, though. The offenses of the Israeli government are equal to or worse than those of the Russian one and the majority of their victims are completely defenseless. If you don’t condemn the actions of both the Russian invasion and the Israeli occupation, you’re a coward at best and complicit in genocide at worst.

In the case of Google selectively self-censoring, it’s the latter.

that is press Google does not want to be able to be associated with their LLM in anyway.

That should be the case with BOTH, though, for reasons mentioned above.