Global Forum to Combat Antisemitism
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Annual Report 2016 – Antisemitism Report
This article is an extract based on OHPI’s Annual Report for the 2016 Financial Year. Return to the Report. On Holocaust Memorial Day, 27 January 2016, we publicly released the world’s first large scale empirical report on hate speech in social media titled “Measuring the Hate: The State of Antisemitism in Social Media”. It was…
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Measuring the Hate: The State of Antisemitism in Social Media
A major new report prepared for the Global Forum to Combat Antisemitism, “Measuring the Hate: The State of Antisemitism in Social Media”, highlights that not enough is being done to combat antisemitism in social media. The report, based on tracking over 2,000 items of antisemitism over the last 10 months, found that only 20% of…
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Global Forum Endorses FightAgainstHate.com
Key Recommendations “Capturing Data: The Internet Community needs tools for capturing data of antisemitism on the internet as first requested by the Forum in 2009. The Global Forum draws to the attention of the internet community the software FightAgainstHate.com, which was developed to perform this function.” [pg 6] Action for the Working Group and the Global…
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Prof. Wistrich on Antisemitism in 2015
Prof Robert Wistrich, one of the world’s leading experts on antisemitism and the Head of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, died of a heart attack on May 19 2015. He died in Rome on a trip to address the Italian Senate on the rise of antisemitism in Europe. A few…
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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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Global Efforts to Combating Antisemitism
OHPI is proud to have its CEO server as a member of the Steering Committee of the Global Forum to Combat Antisemitism. The Global Forum is an initiative of the Government of Israel and is coordinated through the Israeli Foreign Ministry. The steering committee is made up of international experts in a variety of areas…
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International Engagement on Online Hate Monitoring Software
In late June and early July OHPI’s CEO, Dr Andre Oboler, met with colleagues in Melbourne (Australia), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) and Jerusalem (Israel). In each city the Online Hate Prevention Institute’s Fight Against Hate software was presented and discussed. The software using a combination of crowd sourcing, expert solicitation and artificial intelligence to monitor both…
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OHPI at the 2013 Global Forum to Combat Antisemitism
As co-chair of the Working Group on Antisemitism on the Internet and in the Media, OHPI’s CEO, Dr Andre Oboler, delivered a summary of the Working Group’s meeting and plan of action to the plenary. The Working Group was made up of about 50 international experts in the field of online hate and the plenary…