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Je Suis Humain: Responsible free speech in the shadow of the Charlie Hebdo murders
The Report Some Extracts OHPI’s Recommendations Media Mentions The attacks in January 2015 in France on the satirical publication Charlie Hebdo, a police officer, and a kosher supermarket, have sparked significant discussion. That discussion touches on issues of antisemitism, freedom of speech and expression, a free press, freedom from persecution, human dignity, bigotry, religion, blasphemy,…
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The Antisemitic Meme of the Jew
The Antisemitic Meme of the Jew is a cartoon picture depicting a negative stereotype of a Jewish man with a black beard, long hooked nose, a hunched back, crooked teeth, and hands being wrung in glee. The image was created by a white supremacist cartoonist and has been online in neo-Nazi circles since at least…
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Recognizing Hate Speech: Antisemitism On Facebook
The Online Hate Prevention Institute released a major new report into antisemitism on Facebook to coincide with the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on March 21st 2013. The new report tracks the response to a number of antisemitic items on Facebook. Some of the items were included in OHPI’s previous report in 2012 into Aboriginal Memes and…
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Multiple and Severe Hate Speech on YouTube
The primary aim of this report is to demonstrate and discuss the problem of multiple and severe instances of hate speech on the YouTube platform. Aspects of this analysis apply equally to other forms of social media content and to other platforms. The report both describes the problem and provides some recommendations to mitigate and…