Australian Jewish News
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Meta to appear before Royal Commission – Australian Jewish News
Meta will appear before the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion when public hearings resume in Sydney from 29 June to 10 July. OHPI CEO Dr Andre Oboler has given testimony on the spread of antisemitism across social media platforms, including Meta’s Facebook and Instagram. Hearing Block 3 will examine the spread of antisemitic…
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Facebook is stuck in denial
IT was back on October 16, 2008, when I gave advice a to Jewish activist about to be interviewed by a German newspaper on the topic of anti-Semitism in social media. “In Germany you have the added advantage that Holocaust denial is a criminal offence … what the Holocaust deniers do is illegal and threatens…
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The battle against rising antisemitism online
In this week’s Australian Jewish News, OHPI’s CEO, Dr Andre Oboler, looks at the rise in online antisemitism in the first two months of 2017 and the way it has gone mainstream. Make no mistake, in 2017, antisemitism is not being normalised, it has become normal. We’re living in particularly scary times. The article, reproduced…
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Leading the fight against hate
EVAN ZLATKIS, “Leading the fight against hate”, May 22, 2015, The Australian Jewish News http://www.jewishnews.net.au/leading-the-fight-against-hate/41993 AUSTRALIAN activists were among the 1200 delegates at the fifth Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism in Jerusalem last week. Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council director of international and community affairs Jeremy Jones, who has participated in all the previous forums, noted…
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The battle against online hate
Source: Peter Kohn, “The battle against online hate”, Australian Jewish News, August 8, 2014 (Page 5) Online anti-Semitism has spiked since the Gaza conflict, with one-sided Australian media coverage of the war driving a flurry of comments in social media, according to the cyber-hate monitoring group. Dr Andre Oboler, CEO of the Online Hate Prevention Institute…
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Loving Nazis and Hating Muslims
Commentary (7/7/2014) An article OHPI’s CEO published a couple of weeks ago in the Australian Jewish News on the problem of a small number of Jews vilifying Muslims online, and linking up with neo-Nazis to do so, is of particular relevance in light of recent news around the burning alive of a Palestinian child in…