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Annual Report 2023
Our annual activities report for the year ended 2023 is now available. (The financial report in the downloadable version is still pending final signoff.) Highlights OHPI published two major reports this year. Anti-Asian Racism in Social Media was produced in partnership with the Australian Human Rights Commission and Meta. Online Antisemitism in Australia 2023 was…
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Twitter needs to grow up
As part of celebrating our 10 year anniversary we updated to Twitter setting it to be a “professional profile”, an organisation or brand, and filling in as our birthday the the date we were incorporated. Twitter’s response was to immediately lock our account because apparently the rule that you have to be at lest 13…
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‘Racist rot’: Neo-nazi’s slammed for KKK ritual on sacred land
SBSs reports that, over the weekend, 38 young white men as part of a far-right extremist organisation assembled at Gariwerd – also known as the Grampians range – in regional Victoria. The special Gunditjmara country, located about 230km north-west of Melbourne, is described as central to the Dreaming story, particularly to the Djab Wurrung and the Jardwadjali people as…
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Training Exercise
This material is provided as part of an activity for the “The Rising Online Hate from COVID-19” training provided by the Online Hate Prevention Institute in conjunction with the Council of Christians and Jews (Victoria) and the La Trobe LawTech group at La Trobe University. Part 1 Each of the Facebook posts below is from…
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Monthly Campaigns for 2020
As we enter our 9th year tackling online hate extremism we are pleased to announce a new approach with monthly campaigns focused on specific areas of online hate. While we will continue to address these and other areas of online hate throughout the year, our focused campaigns will enable forward planning, opportunities for volunteers and…
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HATE AND VIOLENT EXTREMISM FROM AN ONLINE SUBCULTURE: The Yom Kippur Terrorist Attack in Halle, Germany
A new form of terrorism emerged in 2019. Incubated by a globalised, toxic, anonymous online culture, incitement to hate now all too frequently leads to violent extremism that manifests offline, and has cost the lives of dozens of innocents, including children. Participants and spectators of this newly forged online culture encourage, support and celebrate the serious crimes…
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Antisemitic vandalism during this federal election campaign ― why is it happening? what can be done?
ABC News cites our CEO Andre Oboler on how to prevent abusive and hateful content on social media and the difficulties involved in regulation.
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After the Christchurch massacre, the Coalition and Labor passed a bill prohibiting the sharing of abhorrent material on social media, but experts argue the new law will achieve little.
The Saturday Paper talks to our CEO Andre Oboler about the Coalition and Labour passing a bill prohibiting the sharing of abhorrent material on social media.
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Attending the Welcome to the Govenor of Victoria
On August 30, OHPI attended the Celebration of Welcome to the Govenor of Victoria, Her Excellency, the Honourable Linda Dessau AM at the Melbourne Hebrew Congregation. She is the first woman and the first Jew appointment to the role. She spoke about her Jewish upbringing including some early incidents of antisemitism. A school principal once called…