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UN Human Rights commissioner calls Jew-hate ‘an assault on our collective humanity’

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The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, delivered a statement on Wednesday before a workshop geared to counter antisemitism, sponsored by the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations in Geneva. “Antisemitism is a scourge on our collective humanity,”...

Global influencers gather in New York City for Jew-hatred summit

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More than 300 influencers worldwide traveled to New York City earlier this week to fight antisemitism in a first-of-its-kind event. “You are now on the precipice to decide which direction we go in. You only...
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Jewish TikTok workers reveal antisemitism in workplace, biased content

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Since the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel, which have sparked surges of antisemitic acts worldwide, Jewish and Israeli employees of TikTok report a lack of support and insights into the biases underlying the platform’s heavily...
The words “Neuremburg 2.0” (sic), next to a hangman noose, and “Covid is Jew” were spray-painted on an underpass in Melbourne, Australia. Source: Screenshot.

Australia criminalizes public ‘Sieg Heil’ salutes, displays of Nazi symbols

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The parliament of Australia has passed a new law making it illegal to promote iconography associated with the Third Reich. The bill, called the Counter-Terrorism Legislation Amendment, received unanimous support on Wednesday. Mark Alfred Dreyfus, the attorney general...
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Israel to start its own web domain in Hebrew

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The Israel Internet Association announced on Tuesday that it is launching a new domain, .Israel, which will allow users to enter Internet addresses in Hebrew. The association is allowing trademark holders to pre-register for Internet...
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‘Malevolent racist’ in UK who calls for second Holocaust convicted of harrassment

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A man in the United Kingdom was convicted of one count of malicious communication and two counts of racially aggravated harassment after calling for another Holocaust while harassing a Jewish writer, reported The Jewish Chronicle. Nicolas...
Israeli Intelligence Minister Elazar Stern with Liz Kanter, TikTok's director of government relations and public policy in Jerusalem on July 19, 2021. Credit: Courtesy.

Israeli intelligence minister, TikTok policy director talk best practices in fighting hate

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Israeli Intelligence Minister Elazar Stern met Liz Kanter, director of government relations and public policy at TikTok, in Jerusalem on Monday to discuss best practices about how to prevent the spread of anti-Semitic content...
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers opening remarks for the “Ancient Hatred, Modern Medium: Conference on Internet Anti-Semitism,” Oct. 21-22, 2020. Source: Screenshot.

US State Department conference tackles mounting hate and anti-Semitism online

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Hate online, particularly anti-Semitism, is continuing to grow at alarming rates, and stopping it will require education, collaboration and a cohesive definition were the findings from the first-of-its-kind, two-day symposium sponsored by the U.S....
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Twitter, Google decline to be in State Department event countering anti-Semitism

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Twitter and Google declined to participate in next week’s U.S. State Department event, featuring U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, on countering anti-Semitism on the Internet and social media—the first event of its kind...

The only way to stop socialism is to decentralize the internet

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The internet was born out of efforts to build a decentralized network that could survive a nuclear war. What made the internet so liberating in its early years of mass adoption was the very...