Media
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Anti-Semitic Flyers Distributed in Sydney Again; Neo-Nazi Group Wants Jews Out of Australia (VIDEO)
Published in The Algemeiner on September 29, 2014: http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/09/29/anti-semitic-flyers-distributed-in-sydney-again-neo-nazi-group-wants-jews-out-of-australia-video/ The Australian Online Hate Prevention Institute (OPHI) is charging that a fringe neo-Nazi group is again distributing crude anti-semitic flyers in the Sydney area, after a previous episode of such behavior shocked that city’s Jewish residents. Entitled, “The world’s foremost problem,” the new antisemitic flier by the group, “Squadron…
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Abusive anti-mosque Facebook page taken down
abc.net.au, by Damien Larkins and staff, September 16, 2014, You can view the article here or read the text below. Abusive anti-mosque Facebook page taken down Facebook has taken down a Gold Coast anti-mosque page which included calls to rape and hang a local councillor. The proposed development of a Currumbin warehouse into a mosque…
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Controversial anti-mosque Facebook page removed
ABC Radio Brisbane interviewed OHPI’s CEO, Dr Andre Oboler, on the Facebook page against the Currumbin Mosque proposal which has been stirring-up hatred against Muslims and threats against members of the local council. You can hear the interview at: http://blogs.abc.net.au/queensland/2014/09/controversial-anti-mosque-facebook-page-removed.html
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Rise of Anti-Semitism From This War is No Accident
This article was published as: Andre Oboler, “Rise of Anti-Semitism From This War Is No Accident“, The Australian, August 11, 2014, Commentary, Page 10. It was also published as: Andre Oboler, “The Useful Idiots’ “Gaza Holocaust”“, The Jerusalem Post – Blogs, August 8, 2014. WHILE no civilian casualties are good, reports are emerging that strongly…
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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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Facebook accused of allowing hate speech
The Age, July 10, 2014, reporter Mahesh Sharma. Title: Facebook accused of allowing hate speech http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/facebook-accused-of-allowing-hate-speech-20140710-zszzl.html Facebook rejected a request to take down a page that contained content ridiculing Aboriginal people. Photo: Supplied Facebook is facing fresh accusations that it allows hate speech to proliferate and refuses to enforce its own quality-control standards. Dr…
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Potential Fight Over Federal Racial Discrimination Act s 18C: Unbolting “Bolt”
February 25, 2014, www.timebase.com.au, http://www.timebase.com.au/news/2014/AT097-article.html Recent press has reported that Federal Attorney-General George Brandis (the Attorney) has said that the Federal criminal laws banning racial violence “have been too narrowly drawn” in that they should in fact also prohibit the “incitement to racial hatred”. This appears to be a deviation from the Attorney’s (and his government’s) previously…
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Jewish Press reports on OHPI’s YouTube Report
Source: Jewish Press Staff, YouTube Removes Hundreds of Videos in Response to New Report on Online Anti-Semitism, The Jewish Press, 1 August 2012 The Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) on Wednesday released a report documenting extensive anti-Semitism and racial hatred on YouTube, prompting the popular video-sharing website to close the account of the most egregious culprit.…