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Neo-Nazis posters and stickers plaster Melbourne
Our CEO Andre Oboler talks to J-Wire about antisemitic posters and stickers that were recently put up around Melbourne by a Neo-Nazi group.
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How The Bourke Street Rampage Was Quickly Claimed To Be ‘Islamic Terrorism’
HuffPost reports on the recent attack on Bourke Street, and false claims that it was a case of Islamic Terrorism. Within minutes of the first reports filtering through that there had been a terrible incident, social media and blogs immediately branded it an act of religiously-motivated terror. They talk to our CEO Dr Andre Oboler…
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Anti-Muslim hate speech ‘fuels extremism’, experts say
The Sydney Morning Herald talks to our CEO Andre Oboler about the role that hate-speech can play in fuelling violent extremism, following the Baird Government’s refusal to legislate against anti-Muslim hate-speech.
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A special investigation into extremism
Over the last few weeks I have been exchanging e-mails with Paul Toohey a journalist from News Corp. The e-mails let to the Online Hate Prevention Institute’s offices by him and a photographer as part of a special investigation into extremism in Australia. The article, “Extremism taking us to dark places” was published in various…
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Online Hate and Violence
We are seeing an unprecedented rising not just in hate speech but in hate crimes. Yesterday British MP Jo Cox was murdered, shot and stabbed by an assailant shouting “Britain First” the name of the far-right anti-Muslim British group created as a social media movement. The attack on the pulse night club in Orlando last…
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PRESS RELEASE: Shurat Hadin Facebook experiment on Kill Israelis and Kill Palestinians
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: A number of people sent us a video of an experiment by an Israeli NGO, Sherut Hadin. In the video they created two hate pages, once against Israelis and one against Palestinians. Very similar content was posted to each page. They then reported both pages. The anti-Palestinian page was promptly removed while…
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OHPI featured in an ABC Radio National documentary
The ABC interviews our CEO Andre Oboler about anti-Muslim extremism in Australia.
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OHPI interviewed by SBS Urdu
In an interview on SBS Urdu Radio, the Communications Officer of OHPI Chetna Prakash discusses the negative anti-Muslim reactions on social media to the Paris attacks. You can listen to the interview here: http://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/urdu/en/content/online-reactions-paris-attack-draw-concern Or read the translation here:
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Response to attacks on Paris and Beirut
Terrorists attacked Beirut (Lebanon) on Thursday killing 46 and Paris (France) on Friday with night killing 158. The attack in Beirut involved a twin bombing. The coordinated attacks in Paris targeted a concert hall, sport stadium and restaurants. Daesh (ISIS) claimed responsibility through social media for the Beirut attack. A suspect arrested in Paris also…
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OHPI featured in BBC News
The Online Hate Prevention Institute was recently featured as part of the BBC’s coverage of Mike Wendling, who was recently arrested by the FBI on charges of inciting violence.