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Prof. Wistrich on Antisemitism in 2015
Prof Robert Wistrich, one of the world’s leading experts on antisemitism and the Head of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, died of a
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Holocaust denial & YouTube
OHPI has consistently fought for Holocaust denial to be recognised by social media platforms as a form of hate speech, and hence banned. We examined the topic in
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Success! OHPI gets hate removed
On Harmony Day, March 21, 2015, we initiated a social media campaign asking our supporters to report three hateful images on Facebook. One was antisemitic, another anti-Muslim and
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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