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The CCOA Toolkit: Mainstreaming digital human rights in education and civic action to combat online antisemitism
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Nearly every single young European is online every day, as such the internet plays a massive role in shaping worldviews, identities, and values. This influence brings about risks—one of the more disturbing and pernicious being the growing spread of antisemitic rhetoric, conspiracy theories and online hate. This trend poses significant threats to Jewish communities globally.
To help address this rise, “The CCOA Toolkit: Mainstreaming digital human rights in education and civic action to combat online antisemitism” was developed through a three-step process by consultants in collaboration with the CCOA team and ISD. The foundation was laid through focus group discussions with teachers in Poland, which informed the initial structure and key themes. Building on this, the consultants developed the final outline and content. The third step involved an evaluation phase, which included feedback from CCOA members.
The content of this toolkit was developed by consultants Sophie Schmalenberger, Monika Hübscher, Karolina Placzynta, Anna Zielińska, and Nathalie Rücker (ISD/ CCOA). Significant contributions were also made by Sina Laubenstein, Hannah Rose, Solveig Barth, and Jacob Davey (ISD/CCOA). We would like to express our sincere thanks to Larysa Michalska and Monika Mazur-Rafał from Humanity in Action, Poland, who facilitated the focus group discussions and shared their expertise and insights from working with practitioners.
CCOA Policy Roadmap: Translated Executive Summary
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In January, the CCOA released a policy paper outlining the key challenges of online antisemitism and providing comprehensive, actionable steps for governments, tech platforms, regulators and civil society to combat online hate. Built from 42 interviews across France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Sweden, this paper presents a unified pan-European strategy to address online antisemitism and calls for stronger platform accountability, legal tools and digital rights protections. We are excited to announce the Executive Summary of this report is now available in Italian, French, Swedish, German and Polish: Mainstreaming Digital Human Rights: A pan-European Policy Roadmap to Combat Online Antisemitism – ISD
Mainstreaming Digital Human Rights: A pan-European Policy Roadmap to Combat Online Antisemitism
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Since long before the October 7 attacks, Jewish communities in Europe have experienced growing hate, harassment and hostility on social media. This policy paper articulates the key challenges of online antisemitism, and provides comprehensive and practical policy steps which governments, platforms, regulators and civil society organisations can take to address them. Built through 42 interviews with Jewish organisations and experts in antisemitism and digital policy from across CCOA’s five geographies (France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Sweden), it collates local experiences and channels them into a cohesive pan-European strategy, uniting communities and sectors in joint responses.
Read the full report here: CCOA-Mainstreaming-Digital-Human-Rights.pdf
First CCOA Conference “Mainstreaming (Digital) Human Rights”, 25-27 Nov
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To further discuss unified responses to antisemitism in alignment with the EU strategy on combatting antisemitism and fostering Jewish life EU Strategy on Combatting Antisemitism and Fostering Jewish Life, the CCOA is delighted to announce its first conference “Mainstreaming (Digital) Human Rights: A Unified Approach to Countering Online Antisemitism Beyond 2024” from November 25-27 in Warsaw, Poland, in collaboration with the Polin Museum. This event will allow the CCOA network to come together for the first time, share and learn about the work that is being done and offer insights into the different geographies representated in the CCOA. The conference will culminate in presenting the CCOA Policy Roadmap to the European Commission. For registration, please fill out this form.
CCOA is announcing the development of a policy roadmap to counter online antisemitism
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The Coalition to Counter Online Antisemitism (CCOA) is excited to announce the development of a Policy Roadmap titled “Mainstreaming (Digital) Human Rights in 2024.”
Antisemitism on social media, from mainstream to fringe platforms, poses a significant challenge. ISD has extensively tracked this issue, noting its deep historical roots and the way social media amplifies it. Online antisemitism often leads to offline violence against Jewish communities worldwide.
Throughout the year, discussions within the CCOA have highlighted several key insights from our research on online antisemitism.
CCOA Call for Evaluator of Education Toolkit
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The Coalition to Counter Online Antisemitism (CCOA) is seeking a consultant to evaluate a toolkit on countering online antisemitism and its impact from one of the following countries: Germany, Italy, France, Sweden, and Poland or the European Union. To ground the development of the CCOA Training Toolkit to counter online antisemitism in Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) guidelines, the consultant’s role will be to gather and synthesize the impact of the toolkit through feedbacking to the development team of experts and monitoring the two piloting phases of the toolkit.
Applicants should send a completed application form and CV (no more than 2 pages) via this link by 23:59 CEST 09 August 2024.
Find more information on responsibilities, qualifications, budget, timeline and the application process here: CCOA Call for Evaluation
CCOA Call for Education Toolkit Development: Consultants
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The Coalition to Counter Online Antisemitism (CCOA) is seeking a consultant or organization to create an educational Training Tool-Kit for educators and multipliers in each of the following countries: Germany, Italy, France, Sweden, and Poland or the European Union. The Training Toolkit will provide materials for multipliers, which can be readily adjusted to audiences and local contexts; it should incorporate latest research on the threat landscape of online antisemitism and will be developed in consultation with ISD experts.
Applicants should send a completed application form via this link by 23:59 CEST 09 August 2024.
Find more information on the responsibilities, budget, qualifications, timeline and application process here: CCOA Call for Toolkit Development
CCOA Call for Local Consultants: Policy Road Map
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The Coalition to Counter Online Antisemitism (CCOA) is looking for five consultants to support the work on the coalition’s policy roadmap focused on combatting online antisemitism in one of the following countries: Germany, Italy, France, Sweden, and Poland or the European Union. The CCOA is building a pan-European policy roadmap on online antisemitism to be delivered to the European Commission at the end of 2024, laying out the contemporary policy landscape, challenges and solutions for combatting antisemitism on social media, from the perspective of platforms, governments and regulators.
Applicants should send a completed application form via the following link by 23:59 CEST 9 August 2024.
Find more information about the responsibilities, deliverables, budget, qualifications and timeline here: CCOA Call for Local Consultants
CCOA Microgrants: Innovative Ideas to Counter Online Antisemitism
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The Coalition to Counter Online Antisemitism (CCOA) is awarding four microgrants of 5.000 EUR for innovative project proposals aiming at combatting antisemitism in the digital space and for ideas for future activities for the coalition. This initiative seeks to empower CCOA members to develop and implement projects that address the increasing spread of online hate speech, discrimination, and misinformation targeting Jewish communities.
Please submit the following documents to [email protected] no later than 23:59 CEST 15 August 2024.
- Concept note: a 2-3-page concept note, outlining key aspects included in the submission guidelines section above.
- Registration documents. Only a registered charitable non-profit organisation can apply for the CCOA microgrants.
- A summary list of projects on online hate speech, in particular antisemitism. This can be included in the concept note.
- An overview of the budget requested: detailed personnel and direct programmatic costs to be included in the concept note.
- CVs for the proposed team members who will work on the project. This can be submitted separately.
Find more information on objectives, submission guidelines and the application process here: CCOA Call for Microgrants
EXPO’s report “The Active Club Milieu in Sweden” now available in English
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In recent years, the Active Club concept has become the fastest growing phenomenon in the right-wing extremist milieu in the US and Europe. In 2023, the milieu established itself in earnest in Sweden. EXPO’s new report “The Active Club Milieu in Sweden: How secret fight clubs became the new recruiting tool of the extreme right” aims to provide an overview of the Swedish Active Club milieu’s emergence, strategy and concept, type of activity, level of activity and international networks. The report also examines who are active in the milieu, to what extent they commit crimes and how they recruit new supporters both online and offline. You can now find the English version of the report here: Expo_Insight_-_The_Active_Club_Milieu_in_Sweden-1
