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Modern antisemitism: The Holocaust and other genocides
On January 27, 2015, the Holocaust Memorial Day, OHPI published a briefing discussing how Holocaust denial is a well recognized form of antisemitism, and why social media companies’ […]
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The why of rising antisemitism
An interesting question was raised in a post below, why are the Jews in particular picked on? Obviously other groups in society are also targeted, and our work […]
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Lady Diamond discusses online antisemitism
Lady Diamond, Anti-Hate Campaigner at the Online Hate Prevention Institute, is back and she is tackling online antisemitism this time. In the third in our series of educational […]
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Holocaust Denial on Facebook 2014
Update December 31 2014 Two of the pages reported on in this briefing have now been closed. The third one remains. Please help by reporting “Holohoax – Exposing the […]
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Squadron 88 Returns
A small group of neo-Nazis, calling themselves “Squadron 88”, have again spread racist fliers through people’s mailboxes in Sydney. One set of fliers is similar in style to […]
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Golden Dawn, Holocaust Denial & Facebook
The Greek parliament has just passed a legislation outlawing Holocaust denial and expanding prosecution powers against the incitement of racial violence (read here). This follows a number of […]
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Racism
One of the most significant forms of hate speech that OHPI combats is online racism. The Macquarie Dictionary (Sixth Edition, 2013) defines racism as: noun 1. the belief […]
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Calls to Kill on Facebook
UPDATE (5 August 2014): In the early hours of August 5th (Melbourne time), after this report went viral with over 1000 shares, this hate was finally removed by […]
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60 Minutes Unholy War
At around 8pm on Saturday night, Channel Nine’s 60 minutes Australia program posted an announcement on their Facebook page about tomorrow’s program (see it at the bottom of […]
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An antisemitic response to the Hamas-Israel war
(Updated 23rd of July) The Online Hate Prevention Institute is deeply concerned by the increased level of antisemitism being spread on social media as a result of the […]