Holocaust Denial
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Antisemitic responses in July 2018
The following are some examples of the antisemitic comments posted to the OHPI Facebook page in response to our coverage of Facebook’s refusal to remove Holocaust denial. The relates Facebook threads are here, here, here and here. Far-Right antisemitism This post and its reply are the kind of content mostly found on 4Chan’s /pol/ and…
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‘Holocaust Denial is Still There, Facebook Still Pushes That Line’ – Campaigner
Sputnik International speaks to our CEO Andre Oboler about Facebook allowing holocaust denial comments on the platform, and the history of the platform’s attitude towards hateful content.
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Facebook under fire over Holocaust denial
Facebook is under fire for its position that Holocaust denial is acceptable content on the platform. OHPI’s CEO,Dr Andre Oboler, was interviewed live on Radio Sputnik in Moscow where he explained that Facebook’s position is about a decade old, what’s changed is that the world is no longer willing to accept it. Listen to the interview:…
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Holocaust Denial Sees New Dawn With Social Media
Vocativ discusses how a new Facebook-savvy generation is reviving old conspiracy theories that Jews invented the Holocaust. They spoke to our CEO Andre Oboler, who explained how “The alt-right and far-right have always been steeped in anti-Semitism, but with the election over the past months, we’ve seen that all inhibitions have faded away, people who were…
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Holocaust Memorial Day 2017
Holocaust Memorial Day Today, January 27th is designated by the United Nations as Holocaust Memorial Day. It is the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp and an annual International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. The UN General Assembly resolution creating Holocaust Memorial Day also said the…
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Holocaust Denial, David Cole and CODOH
A few days ago, under our No Platform policy, we banned a person who commented on our posts about the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. They were seeking to promote the idea that Historical Revisionism of the Holocaust was proper scholarly work and should not be confused with Holocaust denial. This visitor was wrong as “revisionists” is the…
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OHPI in Bucharest for IHRA
This week OHPI’s CEO, Dr Andre Oboler, is in Bucharest as part of the Australian delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). IHRA is a unique intergovernmental organization which places political and social leaders’ support behind the need for Holocaust education, remembrance and research both nationally and internationally. At present IHRA is made up…
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Press Release: State of Holocaust Denial on Social Media
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a pioneering research by the Online Hate Prevention Institute “Measuring the Hate: the State of Antisemitism on Social Media” finds that of the three largest social media platforms, YouTube is the largest repository of content promoting Holocaust denial, followed by Twitter and then Facebook. The research, which tracked the…
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Holocaust Denial Cartoon Competition
The municipal government in Tehran (Iran) has announced their third cartoon / caricature contest promoting Holocaust denial. The contest first ran in 2006, then again in April 2015. Last year’s competition was run on April Fool’s Day. The Director of Sarcheshmeh Cultural Complex, one of the organisers, said this was to emphasise that “the Holocaust…
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Report “The Holocaust Fraud Exposed” YouTube video
This briefing highlights the antisemitic video “The Holocaust Fraud Exposed” on YouTube. It was uploaded on March 7, 2014 and has been viewed 15,173 times since. More concerning is the fact that it has received 216 thumbs up as against 25 thumbs down. The video promotes Holocaust denial. It claims that the Holocaust never took…