LinkedIn banned ‘proud Jew’ Manhattan CPA for pro-Israel posts

 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. 

The end of the ‘Obama era’ has officially arrived

 

You can smell it in the air. A deep sense of betrayal among Democratic voters. 

An underlying realization that the Democratic party’s politburo — Obama, Pelosi, Schumer, Jeffries, and their courtiers of elected official and consultant sycophants — sold voters a bill of goods: the gaslighting of the public on President Biden’s decrepitude; the false idol of the Kamala Harris “campaign of joy” as a smart last-minute stand-in; and the repeated cowering to the far left whose wokeness and moral condescension turns off most voters.   

In a just world, one might expect a formal no-confidence vote on this leadership failure. 

After all, this is the kind of recall we see with Western European heads of state, in House speakership races, and soon, in Canada. That recall may not happen, but the undeniable trouncing may signal the end of what we can call the Obama Era.    

Simply put, the Obama Era is characterized by a set of ideas and tactics directly linked to the Democrats’ loss. The first is the “Demography is Destiny” delusion — a kind of manifest destiny of the left, adopted in the second Obama term, that promises an ever-diversifying electorate would inexorably vote Democratic and must therefore be patronized with cartoonish appeals to identity and big government wardship. 

This proved to be not only deeply un-American but politically foolish.   

Upon taking office, Biden mandated race preferences and DEI rules across 90 different federal agencies — what leading race theorist Coleman Hughes refers to as the neo-racism of the left. 

Open borders were supposed to buy Hispanic votes. Green New Deal wars on oil and gas industries that most of the big players on the global stage would reject were supposed to buy young voters.

Validating the rhetoric of pro-Hamas activists was supposed to buy votes in Dearborn and the anti-Israel and often antisemitic left. 

Democrats ignored all the polls warning against these identity politics which never had broad voter support — including among black and brown Americans. But it was too late to turn back.

This post-modern religion had spawned the second pillar of the Obama Era: a new industry of NGOs, consultants, activist groups, foundations and donors, public unions, and the increasingly politicized state and city bureaucracies in Democratic-run cities underwritten with gobs of COVID-relief and federal taxpayer dollars.

They were what writer Michael Lind refers to as the Shadow Government — for whom the liturgy of identity politics became the central organizing principle to expand organizational bloat, fundraise, and earn social credit scores within the party.  

This spawning bureaucracy had a profound and often underestimated reach by foisting critical race and gender ideologies in federal and state agencies (e.g. prioritizing COVID checks on the basis of race), in public schools across the country and, ultimately, into a multi-billion dollar DEI industrial complex in corporate America.  

However, now much of this second pillar of the Obama Era is now likely to fall to constitutional challenges unlikely to withstand equal protection challenges, widespread public disaffection with the underlying ideology, and the Trump administration’s DOGE scalpel. 

The third pillar of the Obama Era is the massive cancel culture and accompanying online authoritarianism. 

Former New York Times reporter David Samuels chronicles how the Obama White House conceived and perfected the strategy of using affiliate left-wing public intellectuals to sell often false or misleading narratives to mainstream news and political elites on, say, the deeply defective Iranian nuclear deal, and then to quell dissent with cancel tactics.

Samuels describes an Orwellian machinery spinning an “invented reality that could be successfully messaged and managed from the [Obama] White House.”  

This success of this machinery ultimately led today to 70% of voters distrusting the mainstream news media after profound breaches of professional responsibility on Russiagate, the Hunter Biden laptop, and much else.  

“As the machine ramped up, censoring dissenting opinions on everything from COVID, to DEI programs, to police conduct, to the prevalence and the effects of hormone therapies and surgeries on youth, large numbers of people began feeling pressured by an external force that they couldn’t always name; even greater numbers of people fell silent,” writes Samuels. 

The mainstream media has been its own worst enemy as this third pillar of the Obama Era also appears to self-destruct. 

Finally, Israel’s stunning success in decapitating Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran’s arc of terror has laid ridicule to Obama’s second-term central policy goal of Iranian appeasement bought with pallets of cash from the US and an exhortation that secular Arab states must “share the neighborhood” with this imperial, neo-Nazi regime.  

That, together with Obama’s red-line bluff on Syria’s chemical gas use, his backing down to Putin on the annexation of Crimea, Biden’s buffoonish Afghanistan withdrawal, and demonstrably counterproductive if not cynical efforts to undermine Israel’s successful campaign against the terrorists, has all left the Democrats looking weak and incompetent not just to voters but the world’s worst actors. 

Barack Obama was an immensely talented and often inspiring historic figure with his campaign of hope and change.  But the political and cultural offspring of his White House that even he himself was often unable to contain, has helped lead the party to a truly dark and defeated corner. 

Julian Epstein is the former Democratic chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee. 

Uber, Lyft spent millions pushing for NYC congestion pricing —and stand to make killing

Uber and Lyft poured millions of dollars into efforts to legalize congestion tolling — and they stand to be among the biggest winners.

Uber spent $2 million alone from 2015 to 2019 to promote congestion pricing, roughly $1 million of which went to some of the city’s top lobbyists, the company confirmed to The Post in 2019.

Since then, both and Uber and Lyft have continued to hire top lobbyists to help persuade key state and city officials to approve the controversial levy, including Gov. Kathy Hochul and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, records show.

It’s unclear how much the companies spent lobbying for congestion pricing because the lobbyists hired worked on multiple issues, and officials records don’t break it down.

The ride-share companies declined to provide The Post a breakdown — or even an estimate — of its lobbying expenses.

Lyft — which also own the CitiBike program — has also directly contributed to pols who have been pushing the polarizing scheme.

Lyft poured over $125,000 into state campaigns since 2020 – including $18,500 the past four years to Hochul, who pushed it forward after a brief pause near the election, records show.

It also donated $10,000 in 2020 to then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who backed congestion pricing when he was in office but now wants to hit the brakes on it.

It’s been money well spent.

The growing industry — which got a huge boost last year when the city lifted a cap on how many for-hire vehicles can be on the road — stands to make a killing because the new surcharge is both cheaper than the $9 fee private vehicles will pay to enter parts of Manhattan, and the $2.90 straphangers pay to take subways and buses, critics say.

The ride-hailing services will be slapped with an additional $1.50 surcharge for Manhattan trips below 60th Street. But the additional costs will be passed on to customers — just like a similar $2.75 “congestion fee” on all trips below 96th Street authorized in 2019.

“This is corporate greed at its worst,” said Councilman Robert Holden (D-Queens), who opposes congestion tolling. “These companies will stop at nothing to rewrite the rules in their favor while leaving chaos in their wake.”

The new tolls fit “right into” Uber and Lyft’s “business model to charge a premium for access to the scarcest street — those in core Manhattan” – and its customers will benefit from faster service with less cars on the street, said Nicole Gelinas, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

“The sudden sticker shock here won’t be felt by Uber and Lyft or their passengers, but by the regular driver,” she said.

Susan Lee, one of the plaintiffs in a slew of lawsuits seeking to stop the congestion tolling, blamed the for-hire industry for “pushing” congestion tolling and flooding city streets with its roughly 100,000 vehicles — causing much of NYC’s gridlock.

“If the motivation is to incentivize people to take mass transit, then the new fee for for-hire vehicles should be equivalent to” the $2.90 cost for a bus or subway ride,” Lee said.

Josh Gold, a Uber spokesman, said the company was “early supporters of congestion pricing — and still is — but “government can’t continue to raise prices and fees on New Yorkers and expect no consequences.”

Lyft spokesman CJ Macklin said “we are supportive of congestion pricing and the positive impacts it could have on our city, but it must be done in an equitable way.”

“Our industry has already been paying a congestion fee since 2019 that has generated more than $1 billion in revenue to the MTA,” he said. “We don’t think riders should be double taxed, and we lobbied hard for them to be exempt from this new additional $1.50 congestion fee.”

Biden to award Presidential Medal of Freedom to George Soros and 17 others

 

Social media erupted in anger Saturday morning with news that President Biden will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and left-wing billionaire George Soros.

The award, the nation’s highest civilian honor, is given to individuals who have made exemplary contributions to the prosperity, values, or security of the United States, world peace, or other significant societal, public or private endeavors, the White House said in a statement.

Tesla founder Elon Musk led the furious outcry, labeling the decision to award Soros the honor as "a travesty."

Musk shared a video clip of himself on Joe Rogan's podcast where he said he believed that Soros "fundamentally hates humanity."

"He's doing things that erode the fabric of civilization. You know, getting DAs elected who refuse to prosecute crime," he wrote. 

Online commentator Blake Habyan wrote, "What a joke — these people have done the exact opposite of what the award is intended for," while Natalie F Danelishen wrote that the news could be a Babylon Bee story given how unbelievable it is. 

"Seriously, two of the worst people on earth," she wrote.

Zera Shimshon Parshas VaYigash

 

Sholom Rubashkin's Zos Chanukah Miracle

 

4 Jew haters chase and threaten a visibly Jewish boy in Brooklyn

 

TERRIFYING!  

A group of 4 Jew haters were apprehended in Brooklyn today for chasing and threatening a visibly Jewish boy.
Jewish neighborhoods need extra patrolling and perpetrators need consequences!

IED intended for IDF detonates Palestinian ambulance instead

 An explosive device, intended to ambush and kill IDF soldiers, detonated prematurely when a Palestinian ambulance drove over it.

Watch this video from October in Jablia, Gaza; an ambulance in Hams service runs over an explosive device that was planted by Hams in advance to be used against IDF forces operating in the area, and a camera was even set up to record the moment of the explosion for propaganda and… pic.twitter.com/zqWPLBAlkl

— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) January 2, 2025

‘Turkey is becoming the new Iran in Syria’

 By Vered Weiss, World Israel News

Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter told Israel National News that Israel should not place too much trust in the new regime in Syria, where “Turkey is becoming the new Iran.”

Although the Syrian rebels that overthrew the regime of Bashar al-Assad have made several statements about not wanting conflict with Israel, Dichter said their background with terrorist organizations should be regarded with caution.

Dichter said, “The new regime in Syria has left many uncertain about its origins.”

He explained, “Abu Mohammad al-Julani, the current leader, has ties to Al-Qaeda. His spiritual mentor, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was once a key figure alongside Osama Bin Laden. Given this background, it’s hard to believe that this regime will eventually guide Syria in the way we expect.”

Dichter also cautioned against the growing influence of Turkey in Syria.

“Turkey is increasingly resembling Iran in Syria. While Iran backed Bashar al-Assad, Turkey supports Abu Mohammad al-Julani,” he said.

“As we know, Turkey is no longer the reliable ally it once was. The key difference is that Iran was never part of NATO, whereas Turkey is a member,” Dichter added.

Since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war, Turkey has become increasingly hostile toward Israel. Erdogan has hosted Hamas leaders and threatened to invade Israel to forcibly stop the war in Gaza.

He has repeatedly urged Israel to avoid military actions in Lebanon and Syria. However, Turkey itself seems poised to launch a military operation in Syria aimed at Kurdish groups.

Furthermore, Erdoğan backs the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) terrorist group, which is led by Abu Muhammad al-Julani, who now uses his real name, Ahmed al-Sharaa.

Erdoğan accuses Israel and the IDF of intentionally killing Palestinian civilians in their fight against terrorism.

However, experts argue that Turkey’s military actions in Iraqi Kurdistan, which have directly targeted civilians, violate international humanitarian law and raise serious concerns about genuine human rights abuses.

The moment those glasses came off

 

The moment those glasses came off… pic.twitter.com/J85tS4yz0k

— non aesthetic things (@PicturesFoIder) January 2, 2025