Media
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OHPI advises Herald Sun on Holocaust Denial Video
OHPI strongly condemns two deeply antisemitic videos circulated online on Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), describing them as harmful, offensive, and designed to cause distress to the Jewish community. As reported today in the Herald Sun, Dr Andre Oboler, CEO of OHPI, described the clips as “Holocaust denial” drawing on “the most common antisemitic meme…
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Extremism in Australia
An Australia Day weekend camping trip in the Grampian Ranges by neo-Nazis has caused rising concern. In media coverage on this story today, our CEO, Dr Andre Oboler, was interviewed by ABC Australia’s The World Today on Radio National, then separately in a live TV interview on ABC News. The radio segment can be heard…
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Online hate has surged during the pandemic and solutions are not being funded
Our CEO Andre Oboler speaks to The Advocate about online hate during the coronavirus outbreak. Oboler argued that online hate proliferated during the pandemic, and explained that the Government needs to be willing to fund initiatives to help solve this problem.
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Anti-online hate speech campaigners launch new reporting tool
Report in the National Indigenous Radio Service on December 9, 2014. Report by Warren Barnsley. http://www.nirs.org.au/NEWS/Anti-online-hate-speech-campaigners-launch-new-reporting-tool A new tool to report and monitor hateful speech on social media will be made available for public use today. The ‘Fight against Hate’ initiative has been developed by the Online Hate Prevention Institute and will aim to determine…
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Tackling the online hate of right-wing extremism
Published in The Point Magazine in December 2014. Author: Matt Khoury. http://www.thepointmagazine.com.au/post.php?s=2014-12-04-tackling-the-online-hate-of-right-wing-extremism A new online hate reporting tool will be shared with government departments, police and non-government organisations to help locate and tackle the online racism fuelling right-wing extremism in Australia. The user-based reporting software, Fight Against Hate, has been developed by Dr Andre Oboler,…
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Preventing Online Hate
Published in J-Wire on December 10, 2014 by Sabina Baunin. http://www.jwire.com.au/preventing-online-hate/ OHPI is a harm prevention organisation headed by Dr Andre Oboler which focuses on hateful and discriminatory internet content across a wide array of websites including social media and websites which serve as advocacy platforms. In the past OHPI has monitored harmful online content consisting of Anti-Semitism,…
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New tool in fighting online hate
Published in the Australian Jewish News on December 15, 2014. Author: Phoebe Roth. http://www.jewishnews.net.au/new-tool-to-fight-online-hate/38909 New tool to fight online hate THE Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) last week launched a new online tool, Fight Against Hate, set to revolutionise the way online anti-Semitism, and discrimination on the web more broadly, is dealt with. The software was…
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Misogyny and the Internet
Published in the Council Bulletin (National Council of Jewish Women of Australia Ltd.), vol 91, September 2014/5775. Two incidents in the last month have sparked a debate on online misogyny and sexism: the hacking and publishing of the nude photos of women celebrities and the intense online harassment of the feminist video-blogger Anita Sarkeesian after…
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N.Z. Jews welcome John Key’s reelection as they sense a shift in anti-Semitism
Published in Haaretz.com, September 23, 2014: http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/.premium-1.617169. OHPI will be distributing its book on Reporting Online Antisemitism at the antisemitism seminar mentioned in the article (see text in bold). SYDNEY, Australia – Jewish leaders in New Zealand will welcome 5775 this week relieved that conservative leader John Key has been reelected for a third term,…
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Hate Mail for Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs
Published in the J-Wire on September 28, 2014. http://www.jwire.com.au/news/hate-mail-sydneys-easter-suburbs/46307 Virulently anti-Semitic leaflets have yet again made an appearance in letter-boxes in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs…raising the ore of local Federal Minister Malcolm Turnbull. The Minister for Communications and member for Wentworth said: “Earlier today my staff were handed copies of a disgusting, racist leaflet which has…