Antisemitism 2.0
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Modern antisemitism: The Holocaust and other genocides
On January 27, 2015, the Holocaust Memorial Day, OHPI published a briefing discussing how Holocaust denial is a well recognized form of antisemitism, and why social media companies’ poor response in dealing with it as part of their policies on hate speech must change. While we expected discussion in response to our new briefing, we…
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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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Dealing with Online Hate
In J-Wire, Australian Jewish News Agency, September 24, 2014, http://www.jwire.com.au/news/dealing-online-hate/45949 The Online Hate Prevention Institute has hosted an event to highlight the rising antisemitism on social media and to launch tools to help combat it. At the core of the event was the beta-launch of an online tool developed by OHPI to report and monitor…
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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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OHPI launches Fight Against Hate: an online hate monitoring software platform
On August 31st, OHPI hosted an event to highlight the rising antisemitism on social media and to launch tools to help combat it. At the core of the event was the beta-launch of an online tool developed by OHPI to report and monitor online hate on social media. The tool enables antisemitism as well as…
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It’s Happening! Join the fight against growing online antisemitism.
At 4pm on August 31st, OHPI will be running a major event, empowering the Jewish community and releasing a new tool that will make social media companies publicly accountable for antisemitism on their platforms. To be a part of this, you need to be there. Those who attend will receive a free guide not only…
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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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Facebook Caught in Social Media War
July 17, 2014: Andre Oboler, Facebook Caught in Social Media War, Jerusalem Post, http://www.jpost.com/Blogs/Internet-Engagement/Facebook-caught-in-Social-Media-War-372962 Beyond the physical war between Hamas and Israel and another war is raging. This other war is taking place in social media; it’s caught major players like Facebook unprepared, and its caused government officials around the world to quietly express concerns about…
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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…
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The Merchant – an Antisemitic Facebook Page
Update 1 February 2014: “The Merchant” page is currently “unpublished”, this means it is not visible on Facebook and you can no longer report it. It has, however, not been permanently removed. This means the administrtaor can make it come back at any time. If the unpublishing was done by Facebook as a warning (with…