Publications
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Golden Dawn, Holocaust Denial & Facebook
The Greek parliament has just passed a legislation outlawing Holocaust denial and expanding prosecution powers against the incitement of racial violence (read here). This follows a number of violent attacks against immigrants and the rise of the extreme-right Holocaust-denying political party Golden Dawn in Greece. OHPI has been campaigning with Facebook to include Holocaust denial…
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Racism
One of the most significant forms of hate speech that OHPI combats is online racism. The Macquarie Dictionary (Sixth Edition, 2013) defines racism as: noun 1. the belief that human races have distinctive characteristics which determine their respective cultures, usually involving the idea that one’s own race is superior and has the right to rule…
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What we do
This video explains what we do at the Online Hate Prevention Institute and how we do it. Please help us share this video, particularly with people and organisation you believe should know about OHPI, and who might have the capacity to support us financially or partner with us in ongoing projects. The Online Hate Prevention…
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Aboriginal Memes still doing the rounds on Facebook
Last month, OHPI registered a big win when after 5 months of campaigning Facebook finally closed an Aboriginal Memes page permanently. It took numerous reports by OHPI and its supporters, and an article in The Age to get the company to follow its own community standards. The page “Aboriginal Humour” (ID # 327442417394528) was created…
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Rise of Anti-Semitism From This War is No Accident
This article was published as: Andre Oboler, “Rise of Anti-Semitism From This War Is No Accident“, The Australian, August 11, 2014, Commentary, Page 10. It was also published as: Andre Oboler, “The Useful Idiots’ “Gaza Holocaust”“, The Jerusalem Post – Blogs, August 8, 2014. WHILE no civilian casualties are good, reports are emerging that strongly…
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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…
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Calls to Kill on Facebook
UPDATE (5 August 2014): In the early hours of August 5th (Melbourne time), after this report went viral with over 1000 shares, this hate was finally removed by Facebook. Thank you to everyone for your support and your help reporting this page. Together we made a difference. Hadar Goldin, a 23 year old Second Lieutenant…
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60 Minutes Unholy War
At around 8pm on Saturday night, Channel Nine’s 60 minutes Australia program posted an announcement on their Facebook page about tomorrow’s program (see it at the bottom of this briefing). The announcement claims “#60Mins brings you both sides from the Israeli Gaza war zone”. Within a few hours of the announcement there had been over 250 comments…
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An antisemitic response to the Hamas-Israel war
(Updated 23rd of July) The Online Hate Prevention Institute is deeply concerned by the increased level of antisemitism being spread on social media as a result of the current conflict between Hamas and Israel. Yesterday afternoon we wrote to a charity based in Victoria after their Facebook page posted an antisemitic image comparing Israeli policies…
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Hate, Humour and Social Media
Humour can be a powerful tool. It can break down barriers and allow the inappropriate or impolite to be said. Through humour deep fear can be broached and established power structures challenged. Humour, however, can also be used to enforce existing power structures, to humiliate, and to exclude. In social media the power of humour…