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OHPI analysis provided to Royal Commission on Experience of Jewish Australians Online
The Australian Government established the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion following the 2025 Bondi terrorist attack, in which the Jewish community were targeted in what was the most deadly terrorist attack on Australian soil. As Australia’s highest form of public inquiry, the Commission is examining the causes and impact of antisemitism on Australian…
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OHPI Testifies to Royal Commission
Dr Andre Oboler, CEO of the Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) appeared before the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion on May 12, 2026, and will be doing so again on July 1. The Royal Commission was established by the Australian Government following the deadliest terrorist attack in Australian history which occurred at Bondi…
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OHPI’s Endorsement of Melbourne City Council Motion on Royal Commission Submission
The Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) has welcomed the unanimous endorsement by Melbourne City Council to authorise the Lord Mayor to submit a prepared submission to the Royal Commission. The motion, moved by Lord Mayor Nicholas Reece and passed by the Future Melbourne Committee on 5 May 2026, authorised the Lord Mayor to formally lodge…
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Queensland Holocaust Denial Videos
Why this content may be considered offensive or harmful The first video is a Holocaust denial video. It shows a man dressed up as a Rabbi refers to “six million headlights”. He is rubbing his hands in glee and holding a bag of money, a visual instantiation of the most common antisemitic meme on the…
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Dr Oboler Addresses Caulfield Shule on Online Antisemitism
Saturday 18 April. Dr Andre Oboler, CEO of the Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI), was the guest speaker at Caulfield Shule’s Seudah Shlishit, where he addressed the growing challenge of online antisemitism and the structural factors driving it. Drawing on more than two decades of experience combating online hate, Dr Oboler spoke about why antisemitism…
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OHPI advises Herald Sun on Holocaust Denial Video
OHPI strongly condemns two deeply antisemitic videos circulated online on Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), describing them as harmful, offensive, and designed to cause distress to the Jewish community. As reported today in the Herald Sun, Dr Andre Oboler, CEO of OHPI, described the clips as “Holocaust denial” drawing on “the most common antisemitic meme…
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Examining an Anti-Zionist response to the Michigan Temple Israel attack
On March 12 a truck loaded with explosives (fireworks) was driven into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township, a suburb of Detroit, Michigan, in the Untied States. After demolishing part of the building, the driver began shooting. The Temple Israel site that was targeted includes a synagogue, a Jewish nursery school, and a Jewish school…
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Holocaust Memorial Day 2026
On January 27th, the world remembers the Holocaust. In 2005, the United Nations General Assembly designated this date as the annual International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a day to remember the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators. The date chosen, 27 January, marks the liberation of the concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz…
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Attracting the antisemites
Since the Bondi terrorist attack the Online Hate Prevention Institute has been received strong responses from some opposing our efforts to improve online safety. Under our No Platform Policy we ban those promoting hate or attacking us on our page. The policy explains why. We also, however, capture their comments. Here’s some of what we…
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Manchester Synagogue Attack: Yom Kippur 2025
A deadly terrorist attack at Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester on the morning of Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calender, has left two people dead and three more with serious injuries. The attacker was also killed, shot by armed police multiple times after he refused to stay down and was reaching for…