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The Absorption of Antisemitic Narratives
We recently launched a fundraiser to tackle antisemitism in support of our June campaign. This is part of a series of campaigns for 2020 bringing a focus to 11 different kinds of hate as well as a special focus on Coronavirus. In less than 36 hours our announcement of the campaign received 187 reactions (likes…
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None so blind
An English proverb says “There are none so blind as those who will not see. The most deluded people are those who choose to ignore what they already know”. This proverb is documented as far back as 1546 in John Heywood’s “Dialogue of Proverbs II” as, in old English, “Who is so deafe, or so…
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Coronavirus and the Trolls
Many of those who usually engage in online trolling are now, like everyone else, stuck at home and spending much of their time online. COVID-19 related trolling has been added to their repertoire. This account is a particularly obvious case of trolling as it seeks to pick fights with different users and communities. In this…
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More Racism on Twitter
As part of our March 2020 campaign tackling racism against Indigenous Australians we have looked at Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. In this article we look at a second problematic Twitter account. The account “The Abowaffen Division” (@abodivision) is another fake Aboriginal account, this one more overtly linked to the far-right and more specifically the Alt-Right. With this fake…
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Racism against Indigenous Australians on Twitter
Earlier this month we looked at racism against Indigenous Australians on Instagram and Facebook. In this briefing we look at Twitter. Positive use: IndigenousX Twitter has been used very successfully as an anti-racism tool that gives Indigenous Australians a voice, most notably by IndigenousX (see website). It is based around the IndigenousX Twitter account setup…
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Mein Kampf Discussion
This briefing is a follow up to our article about Dymocks selling 94 editions of Mein Kampf. The editions include the Nazi’s official translation and many of these editions lack any commentary and offer the text, which is genocidal propaganda, with no interpretation or historical context. We’ve had some lively discussion on our Facebook post…
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Instagram needs help
UPDATE: Within a few days of publication of this briefing all three accounts listed below had been closed by Instagram Instagram has been growing rapidly since its launched in October 2010. By late 2014 the number of active monthly users on Instagram surpassed the number of active monthly users on Twitter. Instagram has largely been…
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Poway Synagogue Attack
This article is referred to in OHPI’s Annual Report for the 2016 Financial Year. Return to the Report. On the last day of the Jewish festival of Passover, on the Sabbath as the Jewish community of Poway near San Diego in California was gathered in prayer, a gunman with an AR-type assault weapon entered the place…
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Conspiracy Theories
We’ve been seeing an increase in the spread of fake news and conspiracy theories. Many of these conspiracy theories spread hate against particular groups in society. They then portray any effort to prevent this spread of hate not as an effort to protect groups and individuals whose human dignity is being attacked, but rather as…
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Antisemitic responses in July 2018
The following are some examples of the antisemitic comments posted to the OHPI Facebook page in response to our coverage of Facebook’s refusal to remove Holocaust denial. The relates Facebook threads are here, here, here and here. Far-Right antisemitism This post and its reply are the kind of content mostly found on 4Chan’s /pol/ and…