The Wall Street Journal: Google removes diversity exec over 2007 anti-Semitic blog post

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Google removed a senior member of its diversity team over anti-Semitic remarks in a 2007 blog post, marking the second time in a month that a big tech company has been forced to make a staffing change in the wake of public outcry over an executive’s previous writing.

The subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. 
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hired Kamau Bobb in 2018 as global lead of diversity strategy and research, a decade after he published a blog post titled “If I Were a Jew.”