United Against Hate

Examples of reported hate

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by

Andre Oboler
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The following eight examples give a taste of the 140 different* examples initially included in this campaign. Each participant reported two items of antisemitism and two items of anti-Muslim hate on each of the three platforms. The examples below show the sort of content a person would have reported as part of this campaign. We have also provided an explanation of why the content is hate speech.

*Note: a small number of priority items were included in multiple reporting lists resulting in the total of 140 rather than 144 items.

Example 1

PlatformInstagramHateAntisemitismOnline now?yes

Text reads “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Gas (1941)” and the image is of  Daniel Radcliff (who played Harry Potter and is Jewish) in a military uniform (an image taken from the movie “My Boy Jack”). This is an example of Holocaust trivialisation, a form of Holocaust distortion. Such content invites and encourages further antisemitism. 

Comments on this includes:

  • “He’s missing the ϟϟ scar” (the double lighting bolt is the SS symbol)
  • “Where the 卍 scar”.
  • “Harry Potter and the final solution”
  • “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Auschwitz” (repeated many times)
  • “Harry Potter and the Aryan Blood Prince”
  • “Harry Potter and the gassed child”
  • “Harry Potter and the Ash from the Jews”
  • “Platform 9¾ to Auschwitz (crying with laughter emoji)”
  • “Harry potter and the schutzstaffel”

These sort of comments rehabilitate Nazism and create acceptability for antisemitism in society.

Example 2

PlatformInstagramHateAnti-MuslimOnline now?yes

This post was made on March 4th (Australian time), right after the 2025 Mannheim car attack in which a 40-year-old German citizen Alexander Scheuermann allegedly killed 2 people and injured 14 with a vehicle. Scheuermann is not a Muslim, and allegedly has links to the “Ring Bund”, a neo-Nazi arms trafficking group. This was an attempt to use a mass casualty event to recirculate content blaming Muslims to incite hate in response to the event.

Comments posted in response to this image include:

  • “Always blame Islam. There is no such thing as Islamophobia.”
  • “Fuck that! Theirs is a hateful evil religion. It began with 9/11 for me as it probably did for many Americans. It’s not irrational when we are constantly attacked by their twisted beliefs.”
  • “Phobia is an irrational fear of something. These cretins give us all the reasoning and fuel to fear them. (angry emoji)”
  • “Phobia? It’s not a phobia, we aren’t scared. We just know that muzzies for the most part a pieces of garbage.”

Another copy of this image can be seen on X from November 9, 2024 with 357K views. The image was not new, it was just reused opportunistically after the Mannheim attack.

Example 3

PlatformXHateAnti-MuslimOnline now?yes

This post promotes the “all Muslims are terrorists” trope.

Example 4

PlatformInstagramHateAntisemitismOnline now?yes

This example dehumanises Jews by comparing them to rats with the text “when you fall into a sewer in NYC”. The comments contain further antisemitism linking to the rat meme again, tropes about Jews and money, and the “playing the victim” trope used to dismiss concerns over antisemitism (and sometimes to promote Holocaust denial).

Example 5

PlatformXHateAnti-MuslimOnline now?yes

This content is directly inciting violence.

Example 6

PlatformXHateAntisemitismOnline now?yes

This uses the “dirty Jew” trope, along with telling the Jewish person it is directed to that they should “go back to Aushwitz” (sic) refering to the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz. The content is telling the person they should be killed.

Example 7

PlatformXHateAntisemitismOnline now?yes

This is a trope of calling all Jews terrorists. It also Hitler painting “You are Jewish” while holding a mirror, a convoluted Holocaust inversion message.

Example 8

As Tommy Robinson (real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) is a public figure (a prominent anti-Islam activist as Reuters put it) this item has not been redacted.

PlatformXHateAnti-MuslimOnline now?yes

This item promotes the trope that all Muslims are terrorists. The use of Mohammed to symbolise “all Muslims” in similar negative imagery was discussion extensively in OHPI’s “Je Suis Humain” report from 2015 following the Charlie Hebdo attack in France. This is the sort of example that sends a clear message to human readers, but whcih would be difficult for AI moderation to understand. The 9.9 million views in 10 days highlights the danger of social media accelerating negative stereotypes and tropes.

Example 9

PlatformYouTubeHateAntisemitismOnline now?yes

In this video audio has been dubbed over to say “If I take one hour to bake a batch of cookies and Cookie Monster has 15 ovens working 24 hours a day every day for 5 years, how long does it take Cookie Monster to bake 6 million batches of cookies?… it wouldn’t be 5 years, the math doesn’t seem to add up there…” This is an example of Holocaust denial. It uses the “Six Million cookies” meme popularised by US white supremacist leader Nicholas Fuentes in 2019.

Example 10

PlatformYouTubeHateAnti-MuslimOnline now?yes

In this video Dutch politician Gert Wilders says “Islam is not a religion. I know it sounds crazy, and I know don’t get a lot of support for that idea, but I strongly believe Islam might be dressed up as a religion. I always use one example to prove it, there are many more, that like communism and fascism the penalty is death if you want to leave it….” The video is titled, “THE REASON ISLAM MUST BE ABOLISHED”.

While criticism of a religion’s doctrines and beliefs is free speech, this content, particularly with the video title, goes well beyond this and seeks to deny freedom of religion to Muslims.

Example 11

PlatformYouTubeHateAntisemitismOnline now?yes

The audio to this video is from a broadcast on November 18, 2000, by Dr William Luther Pierce III, an American neo-Nazi leader who founded the white supremacist group the National Alliance. He also authored “The Turner Diaries” a fictional story that inspired multiple hate crimes, including the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. He died in 2002, yes his content continues to be re-uploaded to YouTube.

The video itself starts with racism against Black people, beforme moving on to blame the Jews for immigration, civil rights, feminism, etc. while also promoting other classic antisemitic tropes like claiming the Jews control the media.

Example 12

PlatformYouTubeHateAnti-MuslimOnline now?yes

In this video a former Muslim explains why she left Islam, that part is free speech. When she crosses into “the real Islam is ISIS” it becomes a misrepresentation that demonises all Muslims. The title, “She left islam after finding out how oppressive muhammed and his people are” also emphasises this, being about people, not theology or beliefs.