WaPo has been ordered to rehire Karen Attiah, who was fired for posts about white men following Charlie Kirk's killing

Columnist Karen Attiah was wrongly fired by Jeff Bezos' The Washington Post, an arbitrator said. Julia Reinhart/Getty Images; Chesnot/Getty Images The Washington Post must rehire fired columnist Karen Attiah, an independent arbitrator said. Attiah was dismissed after comments she made in the wake of conservative activist Charlie Kirk's killing. Firing Attiah was an "absolutely disproportional" punishment, the ruling said. Karen Attiah is returning to The Washington Post in dramatic fashion. The columnist was dismissed last fall for making controversial social media posts following conservative activist Charlie Kirk's death . Now, an independent arbitrator has ruled that Jeff Bezos' newspaper wrongly fired her. "The Washington Post did not have good and sufficient cause to terminate the employment of the Grievant, Karen Attiah," arbitrator Sarah Miller Espinosa said in the ruling, which was announced on Monday.