‘Search for company name.’
‘Anti-Israel-employees.com’, a website created after the Palestinian armed group Hamas attacked Israel, displays ‘pro-Palestinian’ posts and profiles posted by over 20,000 employees from over 12,000 companies around the world. You can find . In a way, it is a blacklist. This includes employees of not only American companies such as Amazon and Microsoft, but also Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics.
According to the New York Times (NYT) on the 22nd (local time), this site was created by hedge fund manager Itai Liptz and others. “It’s about exposing people who support Hamas,” Liptz said. “Even though I work at the same company, I can’t feel safe when I see a colleague who supports Hamas.”
The problem is that employees who simply posted messages expressing concern about Palestinian civilian casualties or lack of humanitarian support were also classified as ‘Hamas supporters’ and their names were listed. The NYT reported that some people deleted their LinkedIn profiles because clicking on the name led to LinkedIn, a social media site specializing in business, including job openings.
The sparks of camp conflict sparked by the Middle East war between Israel and Hamas are spreading to companies. Companies whose executives have made statements supporting Israel are under internal pressure to also make statements about victims in the Gaza Strip. According to the Washington Post (WP), Amazon CEO Andy Jassy sent a consoling email to Israeli employees, but remained silent to Palestinian employees, causing Middle Eastern employees to protest.
According to Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a professor at Yale University’s CEO Leadership Institute (CELI), as of today, about 130 companies have publicly condemned Hamas or expressed support for Israel.
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Source: Donga
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