Online Hate Prevention Institute
A BitChute video uploaded by an Australian user, where Jews are accused of infiltrating the Catholic Church and are demonised and dehumanised being called “cancerous”. Photo: Online Antisemitism in Australia 2023 report
August 17, 2023, 11:06 am
Australia behind
At 33 per cent, Twitter was the largest contributor to online antisemitism, more so than "alt-tech" platforms including Gab, BitChute and Telegram.
By AJN STAFF
The On Dit Facebook post on Friday afternoon. Screenshot: Facebook
September 2, 2022, 4:24 pm
Online publisher removes student “Death to Israel” article
'It is propaganda designed to fuel terrorism and incite genocide.'
By Gareth Narunsky
A swastika on a tram stop on Hawthorn Road in Caulfield. Photo: Peter Haskin
September 1, 2022, 9:13 am
Jews, shules targets for far-right
A report from State Parliament's Legal and Social Issues Committee has stated that "left-wing organisations, Jewish people and synagogues, Muslims, Asians and gay people" were targets.
By Peter Kohn
Photo: IHRA
October 21, 2021, 10:32 am
Objections to IHRA definition are misguided
'In the Australian context where racism is unlawful, and universities have long had codes of behaviour, a definition doesn’t challenge societal norms, it clarifies their application.'
By Dr Andre Oboler
Survivors at the Jewish Holocaust Centre in Melbourne protesting against Facebook in July 2018. From left: Joseph De Haan, David Prince, Abe Goldberg and Lusia Haberfeld. Photo: Peter Haskin
October 22, 2020, 9:00 am
Tackling denial will be a challenge for Facebook
'Changing the policy is only the first step, implementing it will be the real test'.
By Dr Andre Oboler
Survivors at the Jewish Holocaust Centre in Melbourne protesting against Facebook in July 2018. From left: Joseph De Haan, David Prince, Abe Goldberg and Lusia Haberfeld. Photo: Peter Haskin
October 15, 2020, 12:00 am
Holocaust deniers denied a platform
Facebook announced that it will now ban any posts that deny or distort the Holocaust, a landmark change from its previous policy.
By Evan Zlatkis
Photo: Dreamstime.com
October 8, 2020, 12:00 am
Oboler appointed as inquiry adviser
Victorian Education Minister James Merlino commissioned an independent inquiry after a number of Jewish students came forward with claims of antisemitic abuse levelled against them
By Rebecca Davis
A post on the Protocols of the learned elders of Zion Facebook page.
August 13, 2020, 12:00 am
Push against antisemitism on Facebook
This week, more than 120 organisations signed an open letter calling on Facebook to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance working definition of antisemitism.
By Peter Kohn
Photo: Dreamstime.com
August 11, 2020, 6:34 pm
Facebook needs the IHRA definition
'What Facebook needs is a specific policy on antisemitism that captures all the ways it manifests. Ideally one supported by international experts, governments, and civil society'.
By Dr Andre Oboler
Companies are boycotting Facebook and demanding the platform take stronger measures to weed out hateful content. Photo: EPA/Sascha Steinbach
July 16, 2020, 12:00 am
Facebook ‘failing miserably’ on hate speech
Calling on Facebook to improve its handling of racist and violent content, hundreds of companies have suspended their Facebook advertising for one month as part of a new campaign.
By Sophie Deutsch
A Holocaust denial post on Facebook.
July 26, 2018, 12:00 am
Facebook is stuck in denial
If Facebook doesn’t revise its outdated policy on Holocaust denial, regulators will inevitably change it for them. That will leave Facebook and the Zuckerbergs not just stuck in the past, but on the wrong side of history.
One of the posters found by Melbourne Zoo. Photo: Courtesy of the Online Hate Prevention Institute
February 17, 2017, 12:00 am
Nazi posters in Melbourne
Anti-Semitic and racist posters have been stuck on walls in Melbourne this week by a group claiming to be “Australia’s only National Socialist Youth organisation”.
May 22, 2015, 12:00 am
Leading the fight against hate
By Evan Zlatkis
April 14, 2015, 12:00 am
Hackers target Bnei Akiva
By Peter Kohn
Jeremy Spinak (left) and Ernie Friedlander at last year's ceremony.
April 8, 2015, 12:00 am
Changemakers honoured
By Gareth Narunsky
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