{"id":579537,"date":"2021-07-02T05:05:41","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T09:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=579537"},"modified":"2021-07-02T05:05:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T09:05:42","slug":"google-backs-diversity-team-member-who-smeared-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/google-backs-diversity-team-member-who-smeared-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Backs Diversity Team Member Who Smeared Israel"},"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\">16<\/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-backs-diversity-team-member-who-smeared-israel%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=579537&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=\"28.903225806452\">\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\">Company under fire for &#8216;failure to address anti-Semitism in workplace&#8217;<\/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=\"464\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-452665810-736x464-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-452665810-736x464.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-452665810-1024x645.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-452665810-768x484.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-452665810-1536x967.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-452665810-2048x1290.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-452665810-1400x882.jpg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tA pro-Palestinian protest sign (Adam Berry \/ AFP via Getty Images)\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 July 2, 2021 4:55 am<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"112.16265368852\">\n<p>Google&#8217;s human resources department came to the defense of a member of its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion team who accused Israel of engaging in &#8220;settler-colonial apartheid&#8221; and promoted the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, telling Jewish employees who raised concerns that the statements were valid criticism of a foreign government.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy erupted after the diversity team employee, Scout O&#8217;Beirne,&nbsp;posted an internal message to&nbsp;a group of Muslim employees&nbsp;asking them to&nbsp;press&nbsp;company leadership to &#8220;address the state-sanctioned violence in Palestine\/Israel.&#8221; Google employees pose weekly questions to company leaders using an internal platform known as &#8220;Dory,&#8221; and the most popular questions are put to&nbsp;company leaders&nbsp;each Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One way the US enforces state-sanctioned racism and terror within our borders is through our police force,&#8221; O&#8217;Beirne told a Jewish employee in the June 3 post. &#8220;Therefore, connecting our support of the Israeli military and their process of state-sanctioned violence seems like a no-brainer to me.&#8221; She also referred employees to a suite of books, including <em>Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions<\/em> by BDS founder Omar Barghouti.<\/p>\n<p>The comments could fall into the International Holocaust Remberance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism adopted by successive U.S. administrations, which states that &#8220;applying double standards&#8221; to Israel not demanded of other countries and denying the self-determination of the Jewish people &#8220;by claiming that the existence of a state of Israel is a racist endeavor&#8221; constitute anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n<p>After Jewish employees registered their complaints about the contents of the message with Google&#8217;s human resources department, the company&nbsp;said&nbsp;O&#8217;Beirne&#8217;s remarks&nbsp;were acceptable because she was criticizing a government rather than a people, sources told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past several weeks, Google has grappled with a series of events that have elicited frustration from Jewish employees. The&nbsp;<em>Free Beacon<\/em>&nbsp;reported in June on the anti-Semitic remarks of a senior member of Google&#8217;s diversity team,&nbsp;Kamau Bobb, who argued in a 2007 blog post that Jews have &#8220;an insatiable appetite for war.&#8221; The company said little in the wake of the incident and transferred Bobb to a different team.&nbsp;Google&#8217;s HR department also okayed an employee&#8217;s use&nbsp;on an internal company profile&nbsp;of the phrase &#8220;From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,&#8221; which promotes the eradication of Israel, as the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> reported last week.<\/p>\n<p>The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a global anti-Semitism watchdog group, launched an online ad campaign in June criticizing Google for its &#8220;failure to address anti-Semitism in its workplace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In internal Google correspondence obtained by the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>, O&#8217;Beirne slammed the United States as an &#8220;imperial, colonial nation-state&#8221; and denounced the &#8220;Israeli military and their process of state-sanctioned violence&#8221;&nbsp;in the post. She also encouraged staffers to read a book called <em>Apartheid Israel<\/em>, which accused Israel of engaging in South Africa-style apartheid.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you dispute that there is a settler-colonial apartheid happening in Israel &amp; Palestine, please read any of these books (in particular: Apartheid Israel),&#8221; wrote O&#8217;Beirne.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Beirne urged other Google employees to &#8220;upvote&#8221; a post submitted by another staffer on Dory. The post asked Google&#8217;s leadership to address &#8220;state-sponsored violence in Palestine and Israel&#8221; during a weekly meeting in which company executives field questions from employees that receive the most &#8220;upvotes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What is our plan, comms approach to humanitarian crisis in Palestine following air strikes, disproportionate loss of Palestinian life?&#8221; wrote the staffer.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for Google declined to comment. 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