Google Cloud VP Loses Job Over Anti-Semitism Dust-Up
In July, Amr Awadallah, Google Cloud’s vice president of developer relations and the co-founder of Cloudera, found himself out of a job.
He faced accusations of misguided attempts to reconcile and renounce his own anti-Semitism, alongside toxic leadership.
The biggest reason appeared to boil down to a 15-chapter manifesto Awadallah posted on LinkedIn, and his references to it during an all-hands meeting. He also posted the essay on YouTube and Twitter.
In “We Are One!,” Awadallah, an Egyptian American who also calls himself a “proud Muslim with a touch of healthy agnosticism,” explains that he no longer hates Jews.
“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 wrote.