Google Exec Out After Admitting He Used to Be Antisemitic
Google Cloud’s Vice President of Developer Relations Amr Awadallah is no longer with the company following a post he wrote explaining how he used to be antisemitic.
The Google headquarters on September 2, 2015 in Mountain View, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Google Cloud’s Vice President of Developer Relations Amr Awadallah is no longer with the company following a post he wrote explaining how he used to be antisemitic.
The June 13 post, titled “We are one!” was posted to Awadallah’s LinkedIn Pulse page; the Pulse option allows for users to post their own written thoughts. “‘I hated the Jewish people, all the Jewish people’! and emphasis here is on the past tense,” Awadallah wrote. “Yes, I was anti-Semitic, even though I am a Semite, as this term broadly refers to the peoples who speak Semitic languages, such as Arabic and Hebrew, among others.” He added that the post was about his “redemption story.”