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Islamophobia and Social Media
December 9, 2013: Islamophobia and Social Media, Soupy One (blog), http://soupyone.wordpress.com/2013/12/09/islamophobia-and-social-media/ There is a new report covering the phenomenon of Islamophobia and social media. It comes from the superb Online Hate Prevention Institute and leading scholar in the field, Dr Andre Oboler. “On International Human Rights Day, December 10th 2013, the Online Hate Prevention Institute…
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Statement from Victorian community organisations
We have read with growing concern that the Federal government has plans to remove or water down the protections against racial vilification which presently extend to Australians of all backgrounds under the Racial Discrimination Act (RDA). This would be a step backwards for Australia. We oppose absolutely any such change. The proposal to change the…
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Racial abuse caught on smartphone, SBS News
November 21, 2013: Andy Park, Racial abuse caught on smartphone, SBS News, http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2012/11/21/racial-abuse-caught-smartphone 10.21AM UPDATE FROM VICTORIA POLICE: Victoria Police takes incidents of this nature seriously and detectives from Transit Crime Investigation Unit are now actively investigating the matter. Anyone with information or who recognises people in the You Tube video is urged to contact Crime Stoppers…
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Proposed changes to Racial Discrimination Act’s S18C re “insult” & “offend”
As reported yesterday in the Australian, the first legislation to be introduced into the Parliament by Australia’s new Attorney-General George Brandis will focus on altering or repealing Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act. The move, in response to the Bolt Case, is being sold as a move to protect traditional freedoms. It realigns Australia further…
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Spread the word, a new solution is in the pipeline!
Take Action Spread the word, a new solution is in the pipeline! Last week an Israeli student, Ido Daniel, held Facebook to account by challenging a Facebook representative at a conference over Facebook’s rejection of his complaint of outrageous antisemitic content. We can’t all have our rejected reports held up in front of Facebook and…
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Positive news from Australia on Antisemitism
October 29, 2013: Andre Oboler, Positive news from Australia on Antisemitism, Jerusalem Post
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Anti-Muslim Hate Report
The Online Hate Prevention Institute have completed work on a substantive report examining online hate against Muslims. The report documents 50 Facebook pages which contain examples of vilifying speech. A further two page that do not contain vilifying speech but whose purpose is anti-Muslim are also included. From these pages we document 349 instances of hate…
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OHPI’s Annual Report 2013
On Tuesday 15 October 2013 OHPI held it’s Annual General Meeting. The meeting approved the operating report (below) and the audited financials on OHPI’s first financial year. As a new organisation, our financial year extended for almost 18 months. A huge amount was achieved and we are excited to make the operating report public. Online…