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NEW YORK – The World Jewish Congress (WJC) today released a new report exposing systemic bias, extremist propaganda, and governance failures on Arabic-language Wikipedia, raising serious concerns about the integrity of one of the world’s most widely used sources of information.

The report, “Captured Knowledge: Systematic Bias, Hostile Actors, and Governance Failures on Arabic Wikipedia,” finds that key articles related to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the October 7, 2023 terrorist attacks repeatedly violate Wikipedia’s core neutrality policies and rely heavily on sources affiliated with terrorist organizations and propaganda outlets.

The findings highlight the growing global risks posed when manipulated information ecosystems feed not only public discourse but also the artificial intelligence systems that millions of people rely on for information.

Learn more here.

BERLIN – Yfat Barak-Cheney, Executive Director of the World Jewish Congress’s Technology and Human Rights Institute (TecHRI), together with External Relations Manager Máté Holler, led a training session in Berlin as part of Hate Online: Preparedness and Empowerment (HO:PE), an EU-funded initiative aimed at strengthening community capacity to address online antisemitism.

The training brought together participants to examine how antisemitic content manifests across digital platforms and to develop practical strategies for identifying, reporting, and responding to such content.

The sessions combined conceptual and hands-on elements, beginning with an overview of how online hate speech operates, including the distinction between illegal content and harmful but lawful speech, as well as the challenges posed by inconsistent enforcement and lack of transparency on platforms. Participants also explored platform community guidelines and discussed how antisemitic content is assessed and moderated in practice.

A central component of the training focused on the structural challenges behind the underreporting of online antisemitism, including ineffective reporting mechanisms, limited accountability, and the absence of feedback loops for users. Against this backdrop, Barak-Cheney and Holler introduced the HO:PE tool as a practical response to these gaps, demonstrating how it enables users to report antisemitic content through a centralized platform, including via browser extension and mobile applications.

Through case studies and interactive discussions, participants worked through real examples of online antisemitism, assessing how content might be categorized, whether it would be removed, and how context influences moderation decisions.

The training emphasized not only technical tools but also community empowerment, equipping participants with the knowledge and confidence to engage with platforms, support victims, and contribute to a more coordinated and informed response to online antisemitism.

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

BRUSSELS – On 15 March, Máté Holler, External Relations Manager at the World Jewish Congress’s Technology and Human Rights Institute (TecHRI), led a training session on TecHRI’s reporting and tracking tool, Hate Online: Preparedness and Empowerment (HO:PE) — an EU-funded initiative designed to support communities in addressing online antisemitism.

The session brought together Jewish students and activists from multiple countries and included the presentation of real-world cases of online antisemitism and Holocaust distortion. Participants engaged in discussions on how tools such as HO:PE can be integrated into their ongoing efforts to protect and support their communities.

Holler also highlighted how existing EU legislation can be leveraged to advocate for stronger platform policies on hate speech, and demonstrated how the HO:PE tool can be effectively used by both community members and professionals to address the persistent underreporting of antisemitic content online.

The following day, participants were welcomed to the WJC office in Brussels, where they received an overview of the work of TecHRI and the World Jewish Congress more broadly. The session featured remarks by Chief Operating Officer John Malkinson and Director of European Affairs Dany Levin Prist and concluded with a reception dinner.

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

To commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden, Director of the Landecker Digital Memory Lab, participated in a panel event on 26 January, organized by the World Jewish Congress Technology and Human Rights Institute and the United Nations Outreach Programme, that explored the role that technology plays in Holocaust remembrance efforts.

In a blog post from the Landecker Digital Memory Lab, Walden shares her best practices on how to utilize emerging technologies to tackle online hate and preserve Holocaust memory. She also highlights three ways in which the Landecker Digital Memory Lab works to address the challenges of Holocaust memory retention and preservation: the need for a standard to measure the success rates of Holocaust education; mutual cooperation between tech companies and the education sector; and increasing transparency in educational and memorialization practices to counter Holocaust misinformation.  

Read the full article here.

Nearly 29 million views. Six videos. One dangerous narrative.

A recent analysis by WJC's Technology and Human Rights Institute has identified a disturbing pattern of Holocaust distortion, denial, and antisemitic propaganda circulating on YouTube in Arabic. Six videos, collectively gaining approximately 28.75 million views, systematically distort and deny the Holocaust while rehabilitating Hitler's image and promoting dangerous antisemitic conspiracy theories to Arabic-speaking audiences worldwide.

A Consistent Pattern of Deception:

Our analysis reveals that these videos follow a deliberate and coordinated formula designed to maximize impact while evading platform moderation:

1. Humanizing the Perpetrator, Demonizing the Victim

A recurring strategy across several videos is the use of fabricated biographical narratives to "humanize" Adolf Hitler as a victim of Jewish malice, thereby justifying his subsequent actions.

2. Rebranding the Nazi Propaganda as "Historical Truth"

The analyzed content frequently presents debunked Nazi-era propaganda as suppressed historical fact, often employing the "Stab-in-the-Back" (Dolchstoßlegende) myth.

3. Holocaust Denial and Trivialization

While some videos focus on justifying Hitler's motives, two videos engage in explicit Holocaust denial. Video 1 concludes that the Holocaust was "nothing more than a skillfully crafted political play designed to achieve sinister goals," claiming it was fabricated to extort reparations, gain sympathy, and justify taking Palestine. Video 6 goes further, claiming only 150,000 victims died "at most," dismissing gas chambers as "Western Zionist fabrications," and asserting that deaths resulted from "harsh detention conditions and epidemic outbreaks" rather than systematic genocide.

4. Sophisticated Evasion of Content Moderation

Some of the creators of this content demonstrate an acute awareness of platform safety guidelines and employ specific tactics to bypass automated moderation.

The Real-World Impact

The consequences of this content extend far beyond YouTube's platform. Holocaust denial and distortion serve as gateways to broader antisemitic ideology and can contribute to real-world violence against Jewish communities. When millions of viewers—particularly in regions where Holocaust education may be limited—are exposed to these narratives presented as historical fact, it fundamentally undermines efforts to combat antisemitism and preserve Holocaust memory.

Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the World Jewish Congress (WJC) and the United Nations Outreach Programme on the Holocaust partnered for a high-level panel discussion on how digital platforms and new technologies can safeguard the memory of the Holocaust for future generations.

To watch the event, click here.

Moderated by WJC’s Technology and Human Rights Institute (TecHRI) Executive Director, Yfat Barak-Cheney, the discussion spotlighted the shared responsibility of technology companies and research institutions to preserve the voices of survivors of the Holocaust in ways that young people and average users of tech platforms can easily access. Barak-Cheney opened with a personal story of the discovery of her own grandfather’s powerful testimony of survival at Bergen-Belsen, and how it serves as a driving force behind her professional work.

Delivering opening remarks, the UN’s Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications, Melissa Fleming, highlighted how social media platforms are becoming hotspots of Holocaust denial and distortion, and urged governments and tech companies to be more “transparent about how their algorithms curate history” and to take collective responsibility by safeguarding facts.

Professor Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden, Director of the Landecker Digital Memory Lab and a professor of Digital Heritage, Memory and Culture, at the University of Sussex, stated that “Holocaust memory is at a turning point, shifting from a living memory to one that's increasingly digital,” identifying three core challenges that come with the change:

Walden explained that the Landecker Digital Memory Lab directly addresses these challenges through its Digital Memory Database—an international resource designed to strengthen transparency, encourage collaboration, and support sustainable, evidence-based approaches to Holocaust education in the digital age.

David Tessler, Meta’s Director of Dangerous Organizations & Individuals Policy, spoke about Meta’s strong policies against Holocaust denial and highlighted Facebook’s search-redirection tool developed in collaboration with the World Jewish Congress that encourages users learn the facts via aboutholocaust.org. TikTok directs application users to the site through a similar platform feature as well.

Tessler also referenced Meta and WJC’s support for the VR-based project Tell Me Inge, which allows Metaverse users to have a conversation with Holocaust survivor Inge Auerbacher.

Auerbacher, who was unable to attend the event in person, shared remarks via video.

Luc Bernard, a creative director and videogame developer, spoke to the reach of gaming platforms and how they serve as tools to inform younger generations, who are increasingly using the technology as their preferred medium for entertainment. He pointed to potential of his forth-coming initiative, The Light in the Darkness, which tells the story of a Polish-Jewish family living in Nazi-occupied France during the Holocaust. Bernard, who created of the first-ever Holocaust museum in Fortnite with the support of Epic Games, also teaches others emphasized the importance of creativity when engaging the public with the weighty history of the Shoah.

Michal Sarig Kaduri, Executive Director of the Israel Growth Forum, reflected on her organization’s collaboration with March of the Living to bring delegations of tech-platform leaders and executives to march alongside Holocaust survivors last year. She reflected on the experience by sharing that the bonds forged between survivors and corporate leaders leave a lasting impact on how they approach the responsibility of protecting Holocaust legacy on their platforms.

RIGA – On the 21st of January, WJC’s Technology and Human Rights Institute (TecHRI) External Relations Manager Máté Holler held a training on TecHRI’s reporting and tracking tool Hate Online: Preparedness and Empowerment (HO:PE), an EU-funded initiative, exhibiting actual reported cases of online antisemitism and Holocaust distortion. The session was attended by community leaders from the Baltic and Nordic regions shared the challenges they’ve experienced with digital hate and misinformation, and brainstormed ways to utilize resources such as the HO:PE tool in their ongoing efforts to protect their Jewish communities. Holler focused on how different EU legislations can aid us in advocating for better policies on platforms regarding hate speech and how the HO:PE tool can be effective used by community members and staff to tackle the serious underreporting of antisemitic hate speech online.

Concluding the training, the World Jewish Congress laid out its priorities and future plans for its work with affiliate communities – especially regarding tackling online hate, sharing opportunities for mutual engagement and collaboration on upcoming events.

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

RIGA – On the 20th of January, WJC’s Technology and Human Rights Institute (TecHRI) External Relations Manager Máté Holler held a training on TecHRI’s reporting and tracking tool Hate Online: Preparedness and Empowerment (HO:PE), an EU-funded initiative, exhibiting actual reported cases of online antisemitism and Holocaust distortion. Members of Jewnited, a Riga-based grassroots initiative founded after the October 7 terror attacks, deepened their understanding of how to strengthen international legal partnerships with NGOs and embassies by leveraging the HO:PE tool to combat the antisemitism and anti-Zionism their members have reported.

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

Al-Naba is one of ISIS’s official media outlets, operating under its Central Media Diwan, the same entity responsible for Al-Furqan, Amaq, and the group’s provincial media centers. It functions as a weekly newsletter and serves as a primary platform for ISIS to communicate its ideological positions, glorify attacks, and issue direct calls for violence.

- Europol – Online Jihadist Propaganda 2022
- U.S. Congress – Testimony to the House Committee on Homeland Security (Aaron Y. Zelin)
- U.S. Department of Justice – Affidavit in the Mohammed Khalifa Case
- UN Women – Regional Office for the Arab States
- Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition (IMCTC)

The danger of al-Naba is that, as stated in one of its publications, it promotes a lone-actor model, where attacks no longer require complex infrastructure or logistics, but only an ideologically committed individual who absorbs ISIS doctrine, receives minimal guidance (“jihad code”) in Arabic (or translated), and acts quickly, highlighting online platforms as a core mechanism for remote incitement and instruction.

Al-Naba's weekly publication is regularly circulated across social media platforms, including Facebook and TikTok. Posts typically share publication pages directly, copy or quote content from them, or include links in comments directing users to Telegram channels or external sites where the material can be accessed. In most cases, standard user reporting through the platforms' own mechanisms did not result in takedowns; only after direct escalation by WJC were such posts removed. Below are some examples of al-Naba publications that WJC reported to Facebook and TikTok.

Issue No. 413 (published October 19, 2023): Titled “Practical Steps to Fight the Jews,” it incites lone wolves to target Jewish neighborhoods, embassies, and synagogues in the US and Europe.

Issue No. 513 (published September 18, 2025 *just 2 weeks before Manchester synagogue attack Incident*): Calls on Muslims worldwide to “attack, explode, bomb, shoot, and slaughter” Jews everywhere, explicitly naming Europe and highlighting the UK, France, and Belgium.

Issue No. 526 (published December 18, 2025): It celebrates the Sydney attack and explicitly redirects incitement toward Belgium, urging “refugees” there to carry out local attacks against Jews and Christians.

Issue No. 527 (published December 25, 2025): This issue openly frames Jewish and Christian holidays as "a good opportunity for killing, revenge, and terrorizing the enemies of Allah." It repeatedly calls for attacks in Europe, Australia, and elsewhere, and to lower the barrier for participation, it encourages "lone mujahideen" to use readily available tools, such as trucks for ramming or heavy hammers for crushing skulls, if they cannot obtain firearms.  

External Relations Manager at the World Jewish Congress Technology and Human Rights Institute (TecHRI), Máté Holler, led a session at the World Union of Jewish Student's annual conference on confronting online antisemitism and understanding how digital hate is evolving in 2026. He explored how antisemitic content increasingly surges around geopolitical crises, elections, and polarizing news, spreads through memes and conspiracy narratives, and is amplified by generative AI, which enables more sophisticated and harder-to-detect propaganda.

The workshop also examined how tougher moderation on major platforms is pushing hate into encrypted and fringe online spaces, making it more radicalized and harder to monitor, and how new child-safety and age-verification laws may unintentionally drive young users into these riskier environments. Máté introduced HO:PE, TecHRI’s new reporting and tracking tool, showing how it helps communities document antisemitic content, engage with platforms and authorities, and improve transparency through real-world case studies.

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.