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Cape Town
In August our CEO, Dr Andre Oboler, visited Cape Town to speak at the G20 Interfaith Forum. He participated in two panels, one focused on Ethical Issues for Artificial Intelligence and the other on “Positives and Negatives of Modern Communications: Addressing Disinformation and Related Social Tensions“. While in Cape Town he also delivered a seminal…
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Fighting Talk: Online Hate-Speech in Mixed Martial Arts
In my spare time I do a martial art called Jiu Jitsu. Jiu Jitsu is a kind of grappling which was propelled into notoriety when Royce Gracie won the first ever Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) in 1993. The UFC was established to determine which martial art was most effective, and when Royce Gracie won UFC…
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Responses to the Melbourne Synagogue Attacks in 2024 & 2025
In November 2024, the Addas Synagogue in Melbourne was set alight. In July 2025 the entrance to the East Melbourne Synagogue was set alight. These attacks on places of worship are just part of the rise in antisemitism in Australia since October 7, 2023. This report examines some of the online responses to these attacks,…
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When AI goes full Nazi
The Grok AI chatbot on X.com recently created large amounts of antisemitic and neo-Nazi content in response to any related prompt. Multiple articles have been written over the last day about responses like this. “Noticing” is a commonly used deflection tactic by racist and other bigoted groups to deny responsibility for their words by claiming…
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Case Study: Far-left incitement
Following a weekend of antisemitic attacks in Melbourne, we examine the incitement of one far-left activist.
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Wertheim v Haddad [2025] FCA 720
Our CEO, Dr Oboler, served as an expert witness for the case Wertheim v Haddad heard in the Federal Court of Australia. Dr Oboler’s written testimony examined a number of antisemitic statements that had been made by Mr Haddad, an Islamic preacher, in speeches he delivered at the Al Madina Dawah Centre in Bankstown, NSW.…
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United Against Hate
To mark the UN designated International Day for Countering Hate Speech, respond to rising antisemitism and anti-Muslim hate since October 2023, and help address the breakdown in social cohesion, the Online Hate Prevention Institute, together with the Online Hate Task Force, have co-led a group of civil society organisations in creating the United Against Hate…
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Far-left terrorism: Washington DC
In the evening of Wednesday 21st of May the American Jewish Committee (AJC) held its annual Young Diplomats Reception in Washington DC. The event brings together junior staff working in the various embassies in DC. This year’s event, held at the Capitol Jewish Museum, turned tragic when two young people who work at the Israeli…
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Election Interference
WHAT HAPPENED People in the electorate of Goldsten who have corflutes (posters) showing support for Zoe Daniel MP (Independent, Teals) received an anonymous letter caliming to be from “Your Jewish Neighbour” accusing them of antisemitism and of igniting fear in Holocaust survivors by reminding them of Nazi Germany. FACT CHECK There is nothing about the…
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The Antisemitic Khazarian Conspiracy and Ukraine
By Agostino Pilia This briefing discusses the use of the antisemitic “Khazaria conspiracy” myth in relation to the recent events in the Russian-Ukrainian war in social media, a topic that OHPI has briefly touched upon over the past year (1,2,3). Since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, antisemitic tropes…