{"id":548818,"date":"2021-06-01T18:35:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T22:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=548818"},"modified":"2021-06-01T18:35:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T22:35:52","slug":"google-diversity-head-said-jews-have-insatiable-appetite-for-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/google-diversity-head-said-jews-have-insatiable-appetite-for-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Diversity Head Said Jews Have \u2018Insatiable Appetite for War\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgoogle-diversity-head-said-jews-have-insatiable-appetite-for-war%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=548818&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"28.509090909091\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/\">Latest News<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">In a 2007 blog Kamau Bobb had harsh words for Jews and the Jewish state <\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/S90t23ws_400x400-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt=\"Kamau Bobb \/\" srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/S90t23ws_400x400.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/S90t23ws_400x400-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/S90t23ws_400x400-703x491.jpg 703w\" data-sizes=\"auto\"  style=\"display:none\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tKamau Bobb \/ Twitter\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/alana-goodman\/\" title=\"Posts by Alana Goodman\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Alana Goodman<\/a> \u2022 June 1, 2021 6:23 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"108.12674483529\">\n<p>Google\u2019s head of diversity strategy said in a 2007 blog post that Jews have an &#8220;insatiable appetite for war&#8221; and an &#8220;insensitivity to the suffering [of] others.&#8221; The comments were part of a longer meditation from Kamau Bobb, now head of diversity strategy at Google, that also slammed Israel\u2019s military actions in Gaza and Lebanon that same year.<\/p>\n<p>Bobb was at the time a research associate in technology at Georgia Tech, according to his LinkedIn. The post,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>titled &#8220;If I Were A Jew,&#8221; described how he believed Jewish people should view the Middle East conflict.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I were a Jew I would be concerned about my insatiable appetite for war and killing in defense of myself,&#8221; he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kamaubobb.com\/hidden-blogs\/2007\/12\/if-i-were-a-jew\">wrote<\/a> in a Nov. 30, 2007 post on his personal blog, where he was still actively publishing as recently as April 2021. &#8220;Self defense is undoubtedly an instinct, but I would be afraid of my increasing insensitivity to the suffering [of] others.&#8221; The blog features commentary from Bobb on a wide range of issues, including racial equality, U.S. politics, and education policy.<\/p>\n<p>Bobb identifies himself as a Google employee in his blog&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kamaubobb.com\/about-1\">biography section<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Google and Bobb did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The post\u00a0is likely to cast a new light on\u00a0Google\u2019s diversity strategy<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>in the wake of demands from a group of employees that the company cancel its business contracts in Israel and publicly condemn Israel\u2019s military defense operations in Gaza. While Google has been a vocal supporter of diversity initiatives\u2014the company released a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/inside-google\/company-announcements\/commitments-racial-equity\/\">statement<\/a> about its &#8220;commitments to racial equity&#8221; in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests last year\u2014it has\u00a0not commented on the\u00a0recent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/05\/24\/999790233\/officials-say-hate-crimes-against-jews-are-growing-in-the-aftermath-of-gaza-viol\">spike<\/a>\u00a0in anti-Semitic hate crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Bobb\u2019s blog post was heavily critical of the Israeli government and argued that Jews should be &#8220;tormented&#8221; by the country\u2019s actions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I were a\u00a0\u00a0Jew today, my sensibilities would be tormented,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;I would find it increasingly difficult to reconcile the long cycles of oppression that Jewish people have endured and the insatiable appetite for vengeful violence that Israel, my homeland, has now acquired.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bobb wrote that the history of Jewish suffering, particularly the Holocaust, should theoretically provide Jews with more &#8220;human compassion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t know how I would reconcile that identity with the behavior of fundamentalist Jewish extremists or of Israel as a nation. The details would confuse me. I wouldn\u2019t understand those who suggest that bombing Lebanon, slaughtering Lebanese people and largely destroying Beirut in retaliation for the capture of a few soldiers is justified,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wouldn\u2019t understand the notion of collective punishment, cutting off gas, electricity and water from residents in Gaza because they are attacking Israel who is fighting against them. It would be unconscionable to me to watch Israeli tanks donning the Star of David rumbling through Ramallah destroying buildings and breaking the glass,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Noting that it was the 79th anniversary of Kristallnacht, Bobb wrote that this should lead Jews to oppose violence\u2014but instead, he claimed, they embrace it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My reflections on Kristallnacht would lead me to feel that these are precisely the human sentiments that I as Jew would understand; that I ought to understand and feel compelled to help alleviate,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;It cannot be that the sum total of a history of suffering and slaughter places such a premium on my identity that I would be willing to damn others in defense of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest News In a 2007 blog Kamau Bobb had harsh words for Jews and the Jewish state   Kamau Bobb \/ Twitter  Alana Goodman &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278847,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/S90t23ws_400x400-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Google Diversity Head Said Jews Have \u2018Insatiable Appetite for War\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/S90t23ws_400x400-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Google Diversity Head Said Jews Have \u2018Insatiable Appetite for War\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}