LinkedIn refuses to remove antisemitic post despite complaints from users

The tech company, which has more than 900 million members, says it does not allow prejudicial or hateful comments against any racial or religious groups.

After being alerted to the posts by the JC, LinkedIn apologised for not removing them in the first instance, and took them down.

A spokesman said: "We’re deeply sorry we made a mistake initially, we know we won’t always get it right.

"If members wish to appeal LinkedIn’s content removal decisions, they can request a second review and provide the reasons they believe LinkedIn’s decision was not correct. If you need to."

UKLFI has written to LinkedIn, which is owned by Microsoft, to ask the company to “improve its policy regarding anti-Israel and antisemitic content, and its mechanisms for removing such content”.

Caroline Turner, UKLFI director, said: “LinkedIn is a professional organisation for networking aimed at professionals.

“It therefore has more credibility than other social media outlets. While LinkedIn claims not to tolerate all forms of hate speech, it appears not to apply that standard to antisemitism.”

In the first six months of the year, 210 incidents of online antisemitism across various platforms were reported to the Community Security Trust (CST), according to the group, though the true number of incidents experienced is likely to be much higher.

After this story was published LinkedIn contacted the JC to say that the examples contained in the pice had already been removed, and that they were "deeply sorry" to have made a mistake initially.