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Andre Oboler & Honest Reporting Staff, Exposed – Anti-Israeli Subversion on Wikipedia, Honest Reporting
HonestReporting exposes anti-Israel activists manipulating the online encyclopedia. Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia anyone can edit, may strive for pure democracy, but that doesn’t mean it’s always fair. Our colleagues at CAMERA learned this the hard way last month when their effort to fight anti-Israel bias on Wikipedia ended in several members being banned from the […]
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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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Andre Oboler, Online Antisemitism 2.0. “Social Antisemitism on the Social Web”, JCPA Post-Holocaust and Antisemitism Series
Around 2004, changes in technology created Web 2.0.[1] As technology adapted, so did online antisemitism. With the new “social web” came a new “social antisemitism.” This Antisemitism 2.0 is the use of online social networking and content collaboration to share demonization, conspiracy theories, Holocaust denial, and classical antisemitic motifs with a view to creating social […]
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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 […]
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Andre Oboler, Gaza: NGO’s, the Times, the World Bank, and the facts, Israpundit
A December 17 article Israeli sanctions ‘will ruin plans to rebuild Palestinian economy’ in the Times (UK) caused concern for many who care about fair reporting, human rights and effective assistance to the Palestinians. The article stated that Oxfam, the World Bank and the Red Cross reported that Israeli restrictions on movement have “strangled the […]
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Andre Oboler, Software Engineering for the Research Environment (SERE): a process of improving Process Improvement Processes in academic research, PhD Thesis
Abstract This thesis presents a new process based approach to software engineering designed to meet the needs of academic computer science researchers. The core objective was to examine whether software engineering approaches could be adapted for the research environment so that they gain acceptance and enable improvement of the research process. The approach included the […]