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Dr Oboler interviewed on Ram FM
Dr Andre Oboler was interviewed on the Talk @ 10 show on Ram FM (West Bank & Israel) on May 19 2008. Unfortunately there are no copies of this interview.
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The Jewish Week reports on the Wiki Wars raging on Wikipedia, with analysis from Dr Oboler
Tamar Snyder, Latest Front In Mideast Wars: Wikipedia, The Jewish Week, May 14 2008 Call it the Wiki Wars. Fed up with what he considered the skewed perception of Israel depicted by Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia, Gilead Ini, a senior research analyst at CAMERA, the Boston-based pro-Israel media watchdog, decided to mobilize. On March […]
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Andre Oboler’s article “Wiki-Warfare: Battle for the on-line encyclopedia” from the Jerusalem Post
Andre Oboler, Wiki-Warfare: Battle for the on-line encyclopedia, Jerusalem Post, May. 13, 2008 The Web site Electronic Intifada is running an exclusive report entitled “A pro-Israel group’s plan to rewrite history on Wikipedia.” It “exposes,” with much hype, a Google Group in which CAMERA, the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, has […]
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Andre Oboler’s article, “Let’s not give away all our secrets on the Web” from the Jerusalem Post
Andre Oboler, Let’s not give away all our secrets on the Web, Jerusalem Post, April 24th 2008 The front-page article The Jerusalem Post headlined “Classified IDF information open to the world on Facebook” (April 13) highlighted the growing problem of sensitive military information leaking into the public domain through social networking sites. The ability to […]
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The UK’s Jewish Chronicle reports on Facebook wars with analysis from Dr Andre Oboler
Dana Gloger, Facebook groups at war over Israel, The Jewish Chronicle, March 13 2008 A group whose shared interest is a belief that “Israel is not a country” has attracted almost 38,000 members on social-networking website Facebook. The group claims that “criticism of illegitimate apartheid ‘Israel’, which has no right to exist, cannot be regarded […]
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Tamar Snyder’s award winning Jewish Week article that broke the story on Dr Oboler’s research into Anti-Semitism 2.0 and shook the establishment
Tamar Snyder, Anti-Semitism 2.0 Going Largely Unchallenged, The Jewish Week, 20 February 2008 Old-guard groups seen slow in recognizing viral threat from Facebook, YouTube. More than 35,000 people have joined the Facebook group “Israel is not a country! … Delist it from Facebook as a country!” Type “Jew” into the search function on YouTube, and […]
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Andre Oboler’s letter on Daniel Pearl in The Wall Street Journal
Andre Oboler, Good Reporting Is Truly a Pearl of Great Price, The Wall Street Journal, February 7, 2008. Page A17. (Letters) Judea Pearl’s op-ed “The Daniel Pearl Standard” (Jan. 30) highlights the moral compromises some media outlets have made in order to operate in otherwise hostile environments. He reminds us of the recent Hamas propaganda […]
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Andre Oboler’s article “A false prospectus on campus” in The Guardian’s Comment Is Free
Andre Oboler, A false prospectus on campus, The Guardian: Comment Is Free, Feb 15 2008 In the UK this week, anti-racists were hard at work. It was “anti-apartheid week”, billed as “the biggest Anti-Apartheid campus protest since the fall of apartheid South Africa”. Those anti-racists campaigners with their eyes open were out to stop it. […]
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Andre Oboler’s article “Facing up to the ‘Facebook’ dilemma” in the Jerusalem Post
Andre Oboler, Facing up to the ‘Facebook’ dilemma, Jerusalem Post, Feb 5 2008 Eighty-three-year-old President Shimon Peres recently urged young people to fight anti-Semitism using Facebook. Social Affairs Minister Isaac Herzog met with delegates to the World Union of Jewish Students in the Knesset last week and told us to employ technology to combat Jew-hatred. […]
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Andre Oboler’s letter in The Times (UK) on NGOs and the Arab Israeli Conflict
Andre Oboler, Blunt words hurt the Holy Land, The Times (UK), December 24, 2007 (letters) Sir, Your report, (“Israeli sanctions ‘will ruin plans to rebuild Palestinian economy’ ”, Dec 17) refers to reports from Oxfam, the World Bank and the Red Cross to support the claim that Israeli restrictions on Gaza are the primary impediment […]