Job networking site LinkedIn employed Nazi tactics when it banned an unabashedly pro-Israel Manhattan accountant who regularly spoke out on the platform against antisemitism, he claimed in a lawsuit.
Marc J. Strohl, who had about 14,000 LinkedIn followers between his personal account and his business profile for ProTax Consulting Services, is a self-described “proud Jew” who lost relatives in the Holocaust as well as the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas terror attack that left 1,200 Israelis dead, according to court papers.
Strohl, 59, claimed he regularly reported or commented on antisemitic LinkedIn posts, including messages “that appeared to praise” the terror group and the massacre, as well as “posts on LinkedIn that praised Adolf Hitler and Nazis,” he said in the legal filing.
He alerted the platform to multiple offensive remarks, according to screenshots provided to The Post, including, “Death to Israel,” and a post that described Jews as “cruel and emotionless animals that need to be extinct.”
“Most of the reports I filed against people [whose comments] … were abusive to the point of hate speech,” Strohl said. “They didn’t take any action, to the best of my knowledge.”
His account was mysteriously suspended twice in 2024 until he was banned without explanation in October, Strohl alleged in his Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit against LinkedIn.
“The Nazis engaged in similar such behavior in Germany in the 1930s of excluding Jews from public places and from businesses,” he contended in the claim.
Strohl claimed he was “aware of a lot of Jews and Zionists” who have been banned from LinkedIn.
The problem “is absolutely huge,” he told The Post.
He claimed the company outsources its content moderation responsibilities “to countries known to harbor a lot of antisemitic sentiment including but not limited to Pakistan and South Africa.”
The certified public accountant was “held to completely different and harsher standards than Muslim, Arab . . . and ‘pro-Palestine’ accounts,” he alleged in the complaint, which seeks unspecified damages.
Alleged pro-Hamas sentiment from LinkedIn users was so pronounced in the weeks after the Oct. 7, 2023 attack, one pro-Israel supporter created a website listing the terrorist-loving commenters.
“LinkedIn, through its algorithms and ‘Trust & Safety Team’ has refused to take down posts supporting Hamas, criticizing Israel, praising Hitler and Nazis . . . and has responded to complaints made that those posts are not in violation of LinkedIn’s terms and conditions,” Strohl said in the lawsuit.
Being banned from the only notable job networking site around has hurt his reputation and business, said Strohl.
In the past he got significant referrals from LinkedIn — and his removal from the platform has been noticeable.
“It’s a selective double standard that permits antisemitic and anti-Israel propaganda to flourish while chilling speech and silencing Jewish and Israeli voices just as they did in Germany in the 1930s,” said Strohl’s lawyer, Ava Zelenetsky.
Strohl wants his account reinstated.
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