Google has removed a diversity leader over his past anti-Semitic comments
Kamau Bobb will remain at the company doing scientific and mathematical work.
Google has removed Kamau Bobb, the former head of global diversity strategy, from his post on the diversity team after anti-Semitic comments he made in a 2007 blog post resurfaced. Bobb will remain at the company doing scientific and mathematical work.
"What I wrote crudely characterised the entire Jewish community. What was intended as a critique of particular military action fed into anti-Semitic tropes and prejudice," he wrote in an internal email, according to the BBC. In his (now-deleted) 2007 post reflecting on the Israel-Palestine conflict, he wrote: "If I were a Jew I would be concerned about my insatiable appetite for war and killing in defense of myself."
"We unequivocally condemn the past writings by a member of our diversity team that are causing deep offense and pain to members of our Jewish community," a Google spokesperson told the BBC about Bobb's removal.