Open Action Items
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Far Right Nationalism on Facebook
This is the second in a series and further focuses on the extreme nationalism of the Far Right Facebook pages followed by a commenter on our Facebook Page who claims to be “a centre related person”. By extreme nationalism we do not mean the type of nationalism that celebrates the diversity of cultures in Australia…
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Normalising Far Right Views
As part of our campaign on monitoring far-right groups in the lead up to Australia day we highlight one of the tactics of the far right is to claim that they are not actually far right and that their views are typical of normal every day Australians. In this way they hope to appeal to…
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Senator Anning’s Hate Machine
On January 5th Fraser Anning, an Australian Senator, attended a far right rally at St Kilda beach in Melbourne. The rally was called by former United Patriots Front leaders Blair Cottrell and Neil Erikson, men with criminal convictions for serious vilification of minorities – that’s an speech that either threatens or incites violence against a…
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Racists at St. Kilda Beach & Online
Large numbers of police, including the riot squad and mounted police, have formed a barrier better far-right nationalist and anti-racism protesters at St. Kilda beach today. The far-right nationalists The far-right nationalists include the usual self appointed leaders, some of whom already have criminal convictions for serious racial vilification. In the past their focus has…
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Hate on the Rise in Victoria
The Herald Sun today reported on the “Rise of online hate speech” in Victoria. Here’s some highlights from the article and our commentary. As the only charity in the country dedicated to this issue we’d be happy to provide the Herald Sun or any other paper with commentary for any future articles on this topic…
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Hating those opposing hate
As the year draws to a close one of our key reflections is that in 2018 it became harder than ever for people to oppose online hate. While social media platforms increase the pressure on far-right groups, closing many of their pages, the people involved simply created new accounts and put their energy into trolling…
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Impact on Islamophobia: OHPI in UK Parliamentary Report
A few weeks ago the All Party Parliamentary Committee on British Muslims released a detailed and extremely important report “Islamophobia Defined“. The report is the result of “widespread consultation with parliamentarians, experts, lawyers, community activists and victim-led organisations” (page 8). The report also reviews past work in the field and its impact. Speaking of our…
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Report Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial
The Online Hate Prevention Institute is proud to be supporting the online antisemitism and Holocaust denial monitoring pilot project. This project, led by Australia and with the participation of Italy and Luxembourg, is a multilateral pilot project by the participating countries as part of their engagement with the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. As part of…
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Antisemitic responses in July 2018
The following are some examples of the antisemitic comments posted to the OHPI Facebook page in response to our coverage of Facebook’s refusal to remove Holocaust denial. The relates Facebook threads are here, here, here and here. Far-Right antisemitism This post and its reply are the kind of content mostly found on 4Chan’s /pol/ and…
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Facebook under fire over Holocaust denial
Facebook is under fire for its position that Holocaust denial is acceptable content on the platform. OHPI’s CEO,Dr Andre Oboler, was interviewed live on Radio Sputnik in Moscow where he explained that Facebook’s position is about a decade old, what’s changed is that the world is no longer willing to accept it. Listen to the interview:…