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. 

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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

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

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

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.

1. Concept note: a 2-3-page concept note, outlining key aspects included in the submission guidelines section above.
2. Registration documents. Only a registered charitable non-profit organisation can apply for the CCOA microgrants.
3. A summary list of projects on online hate speech, in particular antisemitism. This can be included in the concept note.
4. An overview of the budget requested: detailed personnel and direct programmatic costs to be included in the concept note.
5. 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

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

Today, on Tuesday, April 16, 2024, the European Network on Monitoring Antisemitism (ENMA) officially launched.

ENMA is a newly formed coalition of Jewish and non-Jewish civil-society organizations across Europe. Its mission is to provide comparable data on antisemitic incidents throughout europe. ENMA aims to build a sustainable reporting infrastructure that will serve Jewish communities and affected persons across Europe. The Bundesverband RIAS from Germany, the Reporting Centre for Antisemitism of the Jewish Community Vienna from Austria and the Jewish Association Czulent from Poland are the founding members of ENMA. ENMA is funded by the European Union.

This report, published in advance of Holocaust Memorial Day 2024, themed around the Fragility of Freedom, investigates the contemporary challenges of online Holocaust denial and distortion. It features five articles from members of ISD’s Coalition to Counter Online Antisemitism, who each bring unique perspective and expertise to the issue: Alina Bricman, Günther Jikeli, Ada Baumkötter, Linus Kebba Pook, Grischa Stanjek, Karolina Placzynta, Yfat Barak-Cheney, and Hannah Maman. Find the full report here.

In the period from 1 January 2021 until 31 March 2023, this study examined how members of the German far-right capitalised on developments like the Covid-19 pandemic, focusing on their communication and distribution strategies on social media. Conducting a content analysis, the study seeks to understand which themes were particularly widespread in mostly unmoderated spaces, addressing, among others, antisemitism (chaper 2.5.2 Antisemitism). Find the full report here.