LinkedIn, once a beacon of social media calm, is being turned into a tool of propaganda, political surveillance and professional blacklisting. Andrew Gardiner reports.
A report prepared for the UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, describes LinkedIn as a “uniquely significant arena of information warfare, precisely because of its character as a professional networking platform”. The report states:
“Unlike Facebook or X, LinkedIn’s content is understood by its users as professional communication carrying career implications — a dynamic that has been
systematically exploited to suppress opposing views.
Unsurprisingly, the Zionist lobby has been particularly prevalent in that regard. In a video posted to LinkedIn last week, conservative podcaster Erin Molan spoke of leaving an October meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu ‘incredibly reassured’ of the latter’s commitment ‘to eradicate’ the enemy for good … and with the hope (that Israeli voters have given him) an opportunity to ‘finish … the … job’.
That inflammatory video is still up as LinkedIn stands accused of sitting on its hands when it comes to pro-Zionist material.
Cataloguing Palestine supporters
Such brazenness goes way beyond commentary. For three years now, Zionists have catalogued the names, employers and profiles of supporters of Palestinian rights, weaponising LinkedIn to ruin them as the platform ‘warns’ the culprits of consequences that never come.
The doxing and blacklisting of people opposed to genocide in Gaza and ‘settler’ occupation of the West Bank comes largely from bio data on LinkedIn.
LinkedIn sells itself as “a safe and trusted community” which pledged to crack down on doxing members “because of their political (or other non-inherent) beliefs or affiliation”. While content such as Molan’s is everywhere on Facebook or X, people expect more from LinkedIn, which stands accused of Israel-friendly double standards when enforcing its rules against inciting “violence (or discrimination) against individuals or groups because of their actual or perceived race (or) ethnicity”.
MWM asked LinkedIn how zealously it enforces its rules, and sought clarity from Molan on what she meant in her video. In response, she insisted “the enemy” is Hamas, although her video doesn’t make that clear.
Anti-Israel-employees
The scouring of LinkedIn profiles began within a week of hostilities breaking out in Gaza, in October 2023. A since-rebranded website called ‘anti-Israel-employees.com’ started putting up to 2,000 posts per day with data “taken mainly from LinkedIn” to harass and hurt the careers of people horrified by the carnage there.
Itai Liptz, a California-based hedge fund manager later banned from that job over fraud charges, proudly proclaimed he was one of the people behind this site, telling the New York Times their goal was to “expose people who supported Hamas publicly”. “If I work in this company, but I see my friends on LinkedIn celebrating and praising Hamas, then I’m not feeling safe.”
But posts on the site also targeted people who never explicitly supported Hamas and were solely focused on Gaza’s humanitarian crisis instead. Early versions of the site included a numeric “hate score” for companies employing ‘anti-Semites’.
Experts accused the site of using automated programs to extract content from the platform, a practice known as ‘scraping’. “People ‘scrape’ pro-Palestine LinkedIn posts and add them to a database of ‘terror supporters,’” one employee wrote on an internal Meta message board.
“The lack of understanding” on Gaza “is beyond insensitive and cruel”, another Meta employee posted. Liptz and his successors at other sites have denied ‘scraping’ LinkedIn.
Cease-and-desist
LinkedIn sent cease-and-desist letters to Liptz over ‘scraping’ in 2023, but appears not to have bothered with his successors (whose site operates from the safe haven of Israel) and barely lifts a finger against Zionists more generally. Another report also linked to Francesca Albanese documented “a comprehensive pattern of institutional bias” at the platform, which cancelled what one executive described as “revolting” Palestinian cultural initiatives following the October 7 attacks.
This latter report fingered LinkedIn as a Zionist enabler which routinely suppresses posts by Palestinian rights activists, while turning a blind eye to (and sometimes amplifying) Zionist spin from the likes of Molan or the ‘Pallywood’ conspiracy theorists who say Gaza is a “staged genocide”.
Oddly enough, the report’s authors say they were shadow-banned by LinkedIn following its publication, having seen their “likes and follows” drop off a digital cliff.
The enforcement of LinkedIn’s rules seems skewed around the Jewish post-war imperative of “feeling safe”. Ergo, pro-Palestinian content (much of it strictly factual) was often removed on reports of “harassment”, while pro-Zionist posts were deemed non-threatening, no matter their impact.
The net effect of all this is a chilling of viewpoints from Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim LinkedIn members (not to mention their white, Anglo-Saxon fellow-travellers) who
self-censor on Gaza for fear of career diminution.
Meanwhile, Erin Molan can speak of “eradication” and “finishing the job” with barely a care.
Careers ruined
On an individual level, critics say the ‘scraping’ of LinkedIn, and its apparent toeing of the Zionist line, has ruined many who speak out. Here in Australia, Muslim former naval officer Mona Shindy was removed from a Multicultural NSW advisory board after sharing two posts about Israel and Gaza on the platform.
Appointed in December last year, Shindy was called into a meeting weeks later and sacked from the board (having refused to resign) after posts of hers from earlier in 2025 were deemed “contentious”.
Multicultural NSW insists these posts came to its attention as part of a “due diligence” process – not because Zionists hand-fed them later on – but if that’s so, why did the agency go ahead and appoint her in the first place?
MWM readers know all about former NSW government media advisor Farah Abdurahman, who – on the train to work one morning – expressed her dismay on LinkedIn over the 2023 bombing of Gaza’s al-Ahli hospital. Within minutes, that post turned into a political football, Zionists sending screenshots to 2GB’s Ray Hadley.
It begs the question: how did the Zionists get hold of her post so quickly? The ‘scraping’ of LinkedIn – which the platform seems to tolerate these days – offers a very plausible answer.
After sending her home for two days’ leave – ostensibly for compassionate reasons, as online trolls called her a “rape apologist” – Farah’s directors at the Department of Communities and Justice effectively suspended her without pay before terminating her contract.
All because she lamented the bombing of a hospital.
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An Adelaide-based graduate in Media Studies, with a Masters in Social Policy, I was an editor who covered current affairs, local government and sports for various publications before deciding on a change-of-vocation in 2002.