• Spotlight on Anti-Muslim Internet Hate Interim Report
    Spotlight on Anti-Muslim Internet Hate Interim Report

    This interim report provides some background and data from OHPI’s “Spotlight on Anti-Muslim Internet Hate” Campaign.  This report is based on over 1,100 items of anti-Muslim hate in social media reported and categorised by the public through our FightAgainstHate.com reporting tool. The vast majority of the hate this report is based on was found on Facebook. The report indicates the volume of content by category, and how effective Facebook has been in responding to content in each category.

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  • Anti-Muslim Hate Interim Report
    Anti-Muslim Hate Interim Report

    This interim report provides some background and preliminary data from OHPI’s forthcoming “Spotlight on Anti-Muslim Internet Hate Report” due to be released in March 2016. It is released for International Human Rights Day (10th of December 2015) and in light of the need to urgently address this growing problem which threatens the inclusivity of our society and the human dignity of people in our communities. Anti-Muslim hate has accelerated sharply in 2015. It is based on a misplaced fear of Muslims in general in response to the actions of specific terrorist groups claiming to act in the name of Islam. As…

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  • How to Combat Online Antisemitism (eBook)
    How to Combat Online Antisemitism (eBook)

    The Online Hate Prevention Institute is pleased to announce the release of our new eBook, “How to Combat Online Antisemitism: Fight online bad guys, make a real world impact!” This new book: Helps readers safely engage in counter speech Provides examples of online antisemitism and how to respond Provides step by step instructions for reporting content on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter Provides an introduction and reporting instructions for FightAgainstHate.com The book features a welcome from Amb. Gideon Behar, Chair of the Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism and Director of the Department for Combating Antisemitism in Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.…

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  • Je Suis Humain: Responsible free speech in the shadow of the Charlie Hebdo murders
    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, self-censorship, and government censorship. Social media is enabling the masses to come together, to mourn, and to debate the placement of the often fine line between freedom of expression and respect for human dignity. This report highlights the antisemitic aspects of the attacks in France…

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  • How Facebook responded to anti-Muslim Hate
    How Facebook responded to anti-Muslim Hate

    Last year on International Human Rights Day, December 10th 2013, the Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) released a major report into the growing problem of online hate targeting the Muslim community. The report, titled ‘Islamophobia on the Internet: The growth of online hate targeting Muslims’, was made freely available via the OHPI website. In the last year, as anti-Muslim hate has continued to rise, this report has been shared over 2600 times. This briefing provides an update on Facebook’s response to last year’s report. The results demonstrate that self-regulation is failing badly.Two months prior to publishing the report OHPI shared…

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  • Je Suis Humain: Responsible free speech in the shadow of the Charlie Hebdo murders
    Je Suis Humain: Responsible free speech in the shadow of the Charlie Hebdo murders

    This report explores the response of mainstream and social media to the terror attacks in France in January 2015, particularly with respect to free speech. It examines where to draw the line between free speech and attacking a person’s dignity in the light of the Charlie Hebdo attacks. Some key points from the report:

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  • A brief guide to Reporting Antisemitism on Facebook
    A brief guide to Reporting Antisemitism on Facebook

    As part of our efforts to combat the rising tide of online antisemitism, the Online Hate Prevention Institute has made a version of our reporting guide for Facebook freely available. This guide takes users through the new reporting process for pages, images, posts and comments. At OHPI we are also working on an expanded version of this guide which will discuss a range of antisemitic themes that are currently popular on Facebook. The expanded version will show how readers can explain the problem with these racist statements and hopefully open people’s eyes to forms of antisemitism that are rapidly becoming…

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  • Submission to the Commonwealth Attorney-General on the Proposed Amendments to the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth)
    Submission to the Commonwealth Attorney-General on the Proposed Amendments to the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth)

    This report discusses OHPI’s views on the proposed amendments to the Racial Discrimination Act 1975. We argue that the revisions would lead to a loss of sovereignty, in which case the Australian public may be exposed to hateful content that would have otherwise been illegal. We also raise concerns about the elevation of some forms of cyber racism to criminal matters, which may violate online-offline consistency.

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  • The Antisemitic Meme of the Jew
    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 2004. The report looks at the history and significance of this image. The main focus of this report is on the effort to give the antisemitic image on the cover of the report public acceptance as a part of mainstream online culture. This is being…

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  • Islamophobia on the Internet: The growth of online hate targeting Muslims
    Islamophobia on the Internet: The growth of online hate targeting Muslims

    This work examines 50 anti-Muslim Facebook pages from which it documents 349 images of anti-Muslim hate. These images represent 191 unique images and many repetitions as messages of hate move between the different pages. The message of hate in this report are divided into seven themes which the report discusses:

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