Publications
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Antisemitic disinformation from the Sydney Knife Attack
On Saturday April 16, 2024, an attacker with a knife killed 6 people in the Westfield Shopping Centre in Bondi Junction in Sydney. The attacker was shot dead by a police officer. Police said on Saturday that the attacker was known to them and this was not a terrorist attack nor ideologically linked. The name…
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Online Antisemitism Before October 7
A report on online antisemitism compiled just before the October 7 attack in partnership with the Executive Council of Australian Jewry. This report provides a baseline of where we were before the post October 7 flood of antisemitism. We are releasing this report together with the new report as it provides not only the statistical…
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Online Antisemitism After October 7
A groundbreaking new report examines 27 types of antisemitism across 10 platfroms with shocking results that need our urgent attention. Antisemitism surged following the Hamas terrorist attack on October 7, 2023. Antisemitism on social media incited offline incidents including hate crimes, reflected the hostile offline environment, and promoted a social acceptability of antisemitism normalised this…
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Elections, social media, and misinformation
OHPI’s Dr Andre Oboler met with Kate Thwaites MP, Chair of the Australian Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters to discuss problematic social media content in the context of elections.
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Holocaust denial and distortion on this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day
On Holocaust Memorial Day, 4 OHPI Analysts documented antisemitism and Holocaust denial and distortion on social media. This is a summary of our findings.
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Racism towards First Nations people on January 26
On 26 January, 4 OHPI Analysts documented racism against First Nations people on Facebook, X, LinkedIn, Instagram and TikTok. Our findings are summarised here.
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Senator Babet: Please explain
A post made on X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday shows Senator Ralph Babet (United Australia Party Senator for Victoria) with a person who self identifies as a neo-Nazi. In the picture the Senator gives a thumbs up. The neo-Nazi gives a variant of a Nazi salute, an act which is now a criminal offence in…
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Targeting Jews is antisemitic
By Andre Oboler Friday was an exceptionally busy day as the Online Hate Prevention Institute was pushed into crisis mode. Here’s what happened: Yesterday a list of Jews, an archive of their private WhatsApp group conversation, and their photographs and social media accounts, was published online by Clementine Ford. She previously promoted a smaller list…
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Reflections on reviewing social media comments from the referendum
By Matthew Desmond Smith I joined the team at the Online Hate Prevention Institute in January to work on a project investigating online racism and disinformation from the referendum on The Voice. This article shared my initial experience of this ongoing project and the data we saw. The project saw a team of 12 of…
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Understanding Antisemitism
Since October 7 the Online Hate Prevention Institute has been concerned with the rise of antisemitism, efforts to normalise antisemitism in society, and efforts to undermine or wrongly dismiss concerns about antisemitism. One of the most egregious examples of this occurred in an SBS article where, rather than consulting an expert in antisemitism, SBS asked…