OHPI in the press
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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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OHPI: Tracking down the data to combat online hate
The Big Smoke, 11 December 2014, by Richard Jackson OHPI: Tracking down the data to combat online hate Richard Jackson attended the launch by The Online Hate Prevention Institution (OHPI) of a database it hopes will help combat online hate. On Tuesday night the B’nai B’rith Centre, a Jewish organisation based in Darlinghurst, celebrated the…
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Hitting back against hate
Mx Newspaper, 9 December 2014, Hitting back against hate Web users are being armed with a new weapon in the war against online hate. Melbourne-based charity The Online Hate Prevention Institute will launch a tool tonight at ohpi.org.au that can be used to report, log and track online hate. Fight Against Hate uses crowd-sourcing to…
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Gaza “War” Photo taken down
October 15, 2014: Christian Kerr, Gaza “War” Photo taken down, The Australian (Page 2: Print Edition) quotes Dr Andre Oboler. A FACEBOOK posting linking to an article that portrayed a disabled Palestinian child as a victim of the recent strife in Gaza has been removed. The posting, by lobby group Australians for Palestine, appeared with…
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White supremacist group resurfaces in inner Sydney
October 9, 2014: Lucia Osborne-Crowley, White supremacist group resurfaces in inner Sydney, http://www.altmedia.net.au. A white supremacist group has begun a new racist campaign around Sydney’s inner city suburbs this week. The group, called Squadron 88, made themselves known to inner city residents in late August when they began distributing anti-Semitic flyers around the eastern suburbs.…
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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…
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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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antifa notes (september 30, 2014)
September 29, 2014: antifa notes (september 30, 2014), Slackbastard (Blog), http://slackbastard.anarchobase.com/?p=36965 Briefly: Australian Defence League/Patriots Defence League Australia I wrote a piece about the Australian Defence League (ADL) for New Matilda. You can read it here. The Patriots Defence League Australia, an ADL splinter group, was planning on holding a rally at Hyde Park in…