(Jewish Group) Google's Diversity Chief in 2007 Posts Jews Have 'Insatiable Appetite for War'

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Google's Diversity Chief Under Fire for 2007 Blog Post Saying Jews Have 'Insatiable Appetite for War'

The post, titled "If I Were A Jew," was published in November 2007 on a personal website. Bobb, who is from Israel, condemned the country's 2007 military activity in Gaza and Lebanon in the blog post, saying that his "sensibilities would be tormented" if he was a Jew today.

"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," Bobb wrote.

The post served as Bobb's reflection and guide for how he thinks Jewish people should feel about their identity and the Middle East conflict. Bobb wrote that, as a Jew, he would "reflect on the redemptive qualities of suffering" and read the work of writers like Elie Weisel and Anne Frank to find that his faith and history "render me closer to human compassion."

"I don't know how I would reconcile that identity with the behavior of fundamentalist Jewish extremists or of Israel as a nation," Bobb wrote.

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How interesting.

[Behind the Aegis]

1. He's been reassigned.