LinkedIn issues warning to a site shaming pro-Palestinian sentiment. – The New York Times

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.The site listed thousands of people and grouped them by their workplaces after they posted on the Israeli-Hamas conflict.Oct. 22, 2023, 5:25 p.m. ETOnline posts asking to “#PrayForPalestine.” Entreaties for peace. Pleas to “Free Gaza.”Over the last 10 days, a website called anti-israel-employees.com published more than 17,000 posts, which one of the people behind the site said had been taken mainly from LinkedIn. The site, which claimed to be a “global live feed of potentially supportive sentiments for terrorism among company employees,” listed thousands of people and grouped them by their workplaces, in an apparent attempt to shame them for their sentiments on the Israeli-Hamas conflict.The website, which was taken offline for a day before being migrated to a new web address, named employees of major international corporations, including Amazon, Mastercard and Ernst & Young, and shared their profile photos, LinkedIn pages and posts.Itai Liptz, a hedge fund manager who said he was one of the people behind the original site, said that its goal was to “expose people who supported Hamas publicly.”“We wanted to
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