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Andre Oboler’s article “New media need a new approach to anti-Semitism” in the Jerusalem Post
Andre Oboler, New media need a new approach to anti-Semitism, Jerusalem Post, 28 April 2010, p 15 Why should something condemned by society were it published in print suddenly become legitimate simply because it appears on-line? The US Congress and the Italian parliament deserve credit; last week both held hearings into combatting on-line anti-Semitism. The […]
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Antisemitism 2.0, New Technology, Old dangers and Future challenges, Public lecture in Bucharest
This was a public lecture at the Jewish Community Center in Bucharest, Romania. About half the audience was from the Jewish community, the remained were largely students from the University of Bucharest. The highlight of the talk was an activity based on the Click Against Hate program. The audience were divided into three large groups […]
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Andre Oboler’s appearance as a guest on Italian TV station Rai Uno
Italy’s Channel One TV station, the most popular TV station in Italy, ran a segment on online antisemitism. The host was Stefano Ziantoni and the studio guests were myself, Fiamma Nirenstein (Vice-President of the Italian Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee) , Stefano Gatti (from the Italian NGO who monitor antisemitism). The segment lasting, 20 minutes and […]
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Discussing Online Antisemitism with Australia’s Ambassadors
I met with Australia’s Ambassador to the Vatican, and former Deputy Prime Minister, Tim Fischer in Vatican city.The presentation to Amb. Fischer was a preview of that presented to the Italian Parliament the next day. The discussion covered issues of online antisemitism, the specific nature and danger of antisemitism 2.0. We also discussed the recommendations […]
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Hearing into Online Antisemitism at the Italian Parliament
The following are the prepared remarks of CIE’s Director, Dr Andre Oboler, for the hearing into online antisemitism of the Italian Parliament. The hearing occurred at 8:30am on Thursday April 22nd 2010. I thank the committee and Fiamma Nirenstein, its president, for arranging this opportunity to address you and discuss the important topic of online […]
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Antisemitismo Online: Non Cadere Nella Rete, Palazzo Valentini, Provincia Di Roma
This presentation was part of a panel held as a public forum in Rome. Other speakers included Riccardo Pacifici (President of the Jewish Community in Rome), Fiamma Nirenstein (member of of the Italian Parliament and Deputy Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee), Stefano Gatti (an antisemitism expert at the Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea – […]
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Antisemitism 2.0, Australia Union of Jewish Students (Executive Conference)
This presentation to the executive conference of the Executive Conference of the Australia Union of Jewish Students (AUJS) highlighted the spread on antisemitism 2.0 and gave a particular focus to YouTube. It included discussion of the Sasha Baron Cohen clip “Throw the Jew Down The Web” and how this was attracting large volume of antisemitism […]
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Antisemitism 2.0, WUJS 3G – Unlocking our Future, Congress of the World Union of Jewish Students
I assisted the World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS) with their 2009 congress, “WUJS 3G”. The Congress, based in Jerusalem, was themes on emerging technology. I moderated the track online antisemitism which included a presentation from myself as well as presentations from Amos Hermon (head of the Jewish Agency’s task force to combat antisemitism), Aryeh […]
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Imagine if Hitler had Facebook? Andre Oboler on Arutz 7 TV
At the Global Forum to Combat Antisemitism Arutz Sheva TV’s Yoni Kempinski interviewed Dr Andre Oboler on Online antisemitism. Doctor Andre Oboler directed the working group entitled “Anti-Semitism Online: Cyberspace and the Media” at the Conference of the Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism. Dr. Oboler, Director of the Community Internet Engagement Project, explained to Arutz […]
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Community Internet Engagement – from Antisemitism to Zionism, Union of Progressive Judaism
This presentation to the Annual Conference of the Union of Progressive Judaism was one of the first public presentations about the CIE project. The talk explained the problems we were facing online and explained how to CIE project would to tackle these, and what role community organisations could play to support this work. Specifically, the […]