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Google announced Bobb would be moved to a different role in the company, not fired after his anti-semitic blog post came to light

Google has removed its former head of global diversity strategy after a 14-year-old blog post resurfaced that some deemed to be anti-Semitic.

Updated 6/3 1:00 ET Google said Wednesday night it had reassigned the company’s diversity lead, whose 2007 blog post suggested Jewish people have an “insatiable appetite for war.” “These writings are unquestionably hurtful,” the company’s press office said in a statement. “The author acknowledges this and has apologized. He will no longer be part of our diversity team going forward.” Kamau Bobb, whose official title at Google was Global Lead of Diversity Strategy and Research, made the offensive remarks on his personal blog years before he joined the company. Nevertheless, the...

Google’s diversity chief suggested in a 2007 blog post that Jews have an “insatiable appetite for war,” deepening concerns about the environment for Jewish people at the company. In a 571-word post to his personal blog titled “If I Were A Jew,” Kamau Bobb, Google’s Global Lead of Diversity Strategy and Research, wrote that he thinks it would be difficult to reconcile the Jews’ experience as victims of the Holocaust with “the behavior of Israel as a nation.” Throughout the post, he conflates Israel’s actions with a singular Jewish point of view. “If I were a Jew I would b...