Holocaust Denial
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OHPI invites you to a guided tour of Anne Frank Exhibition
The travelling exhibition “Let Me Be Myself: The Story of Anne Frank“ is currently showing at the Lamm Jewish Library Melbourne. The exhibition has been put together by Anne Frank House in Amsterdam and traces the lives of Franks during the Second World War, and connects it to the larger social and political happenings that affected their…
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Don’t open the door to hate
The page Military Memes (ID 309944675811335) is a very large Facebook page with memes largely about military life. This is not a hate page, but a generally non-hateful humour page with almost half a million supporters (493,056 to be exact). On Sunday the page posted a Hitler meme. The meme consists of various stills and each…
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Talk on Online Hate to B’nai B’rith’s Raoul Wallenberg Unit
On August 4, Dr Oboler will discuss the significant impact online hate has on individuals and in shaping the values of society in a talk for the Raoul Wallenberg Unit of B’nai B’rith. The unit is named for Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who rescued nearly 100,000 Jews from Nazi-occupied Hungary. In 2013 Raoul Wallenberg became…
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Holocaust denial & YouTube
OHPI has consistently fought for Holocaust denial to be recognised by social media platforms as a form of hate speech, and hence banned. We examined the topic in previous briefings such as Holocaust Denial & Social Media and Reporting Holocaust Proud Deniers. Holocaust denial used to be the preserve of fringe groups in society, but…
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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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The hatred sown in the network: digital antisemitism
Jessica Palese “L’odio seminato nella rete: l’antisemitismo digitale” (The hatred sown in the network: digital antisemitism) smarknews.it, 28 January 2015 http://www.smarknews.it/press/lodio-seminato-nella-rete-lantisemitismo-digitale/ (Translated from Italian) Think that anti-Semitism is a phenomenon of the past to be entrusted to the memory of books, ie underestimate the virality of ideas and the power of the current digital media.…
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Holocaust Denial & Social Media
January 27 has been designated by the United Nations as the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is the day on which Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp, was liberated. On this day, we remember the 6 million Jews who were murdered under an official Nazi policy to exterminate them for simply being who they were:…
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Holocaust Denial
Holocaust denial refers to denial of an official policy by the Nazi government to exterminate Jews, which led to the killing of between 5-6 million Jews, a figure historically accepted. OHPI considers Holocaust denial as a form of antisemitism. It was recognised as such in the Working Definition of Antisemitism from the International Holocaust Remembrance…
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Holocaust Denial on Facebook 2014
Update December 31 2014 Two of the pages reported on in this briefing have now been closed. The third one remains. Please help by reporting “Holohoax – Exposing the Holocaust“, details are below. The briefing.. This briefing looks at three holocaust denial pages currently active on Facebook, and provides examples of some of the comments and…
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Antisemitism
We use the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism from the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance to help recognise antisemitism. The definition is the entire text, including the examples. We support the definition as it is widely accepted by many governments and organisations. Our CEO, Dr Andre Oboler, serves as an expert member of the Australian Government’s…