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Neo-Nazis posters and stickers plaster Melbourne
Our CEO Andre Oboler talks to J-Wire about antisemitic posters and stickers that were recently put up around Melbourne by a Neo-Nazi group.
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How neo-Nazis exploit Instagram to spread antisemitic memes
Religiouseader.org cites our work investigating the ‘antisemitic meme of a Jew’ in the context of Neo-Nazis using Instagram to spread their beliefs.
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Holocaust Denial Sees New Dawn With Social Media
Vocativ discusses how a new Facebook-savvy generation is reviving old conspiracy theories that Jews invented the Holocaust. They spoke to our CEO Andre Oboler, who explained how “The alt-right and far-right have always been steeped in anti-Semitism, but with the election over the past months, we’ve seen that all inhibitions have faded away, people who were…
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Ignorance and Bigotry
An excellent opinion piece by Jenna Price in The Age last Tuesday looked at bigotry and ignorance in Australian society. The article “Ignorant Australians are the threat to my society – Fear of the other is alive and well, and damaging” comments on new research by Matteo Vergani at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and…
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Twitter Fails to Confront Vicious anti-Semites, Jewish Journalists Say
Haaretz reports on New York Times editor Jonathan Weisman quitting Twitter after the company refused to take down anti-Semitic tweets. The cite the Online Hate Prevention Institute’s report that 22 only percent of anti-Semitic tweets we analyzed had been removed over a 10-month period. For Facebook, the number was 37 percent, for YouTube 8 percent.…
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Online anti-Semitism: Difficult to Fight, but Even Harder to Quantify
Haaretz talks to our CEO Andre Oboler about online antisemitism during the Trump presidency.
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Online anti-Semitism: Difficult to Fight, but Even Harder to Quantify
Haaretz reports on antisemitic attacks from Trump supporters online. They discuss the extent to which social media platforms have been successful in moderating hateful and racist content, and cite our recent report: “Measuring the Hate: The State of Anti-Semitism in Social Media”. This report found that out of 2,000 anti-Semitic items, only 20 percent had…
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The Australian discusses OHPI’s report on antisemitism
Jennifer Oriel, Anti-Semitism’s licit disguise on the Left, February 17. 2016, The Australian Anti-Semitism’s licit disguise on the Left The success of Labor rationalists in thwarting a ban on politicians’ travel to Israel provides welcome relief from the standard irrationality of the Socialist International on foreign affairs. In a stymied motion, Labor Friends of Palestine…
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They Can’t launches petition for YouTube to remove videos promoting terrorism
Recently, OHPI teamed-up with an Israeli organisation They Can’t in a call to fight online antisemitism. They Can’t particularly focusses on YouTube videos that promote, incite and abet violence against Jews. It has succeeded in getting thousands of such videos removed from YouTube. Unfortunately, thousands still remain online. A recent research we conducted, tracking 2,000 items of…
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OHPI mentioned in The Federalist
Melissa Langsam Braunstein, The Spooky New Face of Anti-Semitism, October 30, 2015, The Federalist. Kenneth L Marcus, founder and president of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and member of OHPI’s International Advisory Board, was interviewed for The Federalist. He mentioned the work OHPI does, and his connection with our organisation. …