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The Jerusalem Post gets Dr Andre Oboler’s analysis on the Jewish Internet Defense Force’s Facebook campaign
Stephanie Rubenstein, Jewish Internet Defense Force ‘seizes control’ of anti-Israel Facebook group, Jerusalem Post, Jul. 29, 2008 The Jewish Internet Defense Force, a group that claims to have 5,000 members worldwide, says it is steadily removing members from a viciously anti-Israel and anti-Semitic group on Facebook, having taken control of the group on Sunday. “Facebook […]
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Zionism Online Advocacy and Antisemitism, Zionist Organization of America
This talk was delivered as the keynote at the annual general meeting of the Pittsburgh branch of the Zionist Organization of America. It included discussion about problems in Google Earth which myself, the ZOA and the JIDF had all been focusing on. That problem was eventually solved.
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Is there a problem officer? Lies, dangers and hate on the information superhighway, AJC
This talk was developed by myself and Avigail Sugerman. Avigail later delivered it to a school audience. The talk includes discussion of the AJC competition “My Israel” which was attacked and the competition website later hacked. In 24 hours the site had almost 800,000 hits – and in the last hours it tipped 1 million […]
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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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The Jewish Community and the Internet (Panel speaker), Limmud Oz, Sydney 2005
Panel Description: Anti-Zionism and anti-semitism is spreading. Many Jews want to try to do “something”, but what and how? The internet is the main source of information, self-education and communication for many of us. So potentially, it is an excellent opinion shaping resource. The panel members will briefly talk about and then discuss with the […]
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Andre Oboler’s article on New Antisemitism for the newspaper of the Lancaster District Diversity Festival
Andre Oboler, The New Antisemitism, Diverse: The newspaper of the Lancaster District Diversity Festival. Issue 2, Page 23, November 2004. Today, we confront the ugly reality that Anti-Semitism is not just a fact of history, but a current event” – Colin Powell, 2004. “This is a good time to discuss the issue because Anti-Semitism is […]