Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Canary Mission, a group that publishes information online about anti-Israel activists in an effort to punish them through a blacklist.
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Opinion In Funding Canary Mission, Jewish Federation Betrayed Us
The revelation that mainstream Jewish organizations like the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco have been secretly funding Canary Mission, a widely-condemned online blacklist of students and professionals critical of Israel, pulls back the curtain on a stunning abuse of the trust and esteem placed on these groups by the Jewish communities they purport to…
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Opinion I’m A Zionist. Canary Mission Targeted Me Anyway.
I woke up the other day to discover that I promote hatred of Israel and of Jews. So says the Canary Mission, a secretive website funded in part (as The Forward has reported) by a foundation affiliated with the San Francisco Jewish Federation. I am said to belong to a BDS organization (which one, it…
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News REVEALED: Canary Mission Blacklist Is Secretly Bankrolled By Major Jewish Federation
One of the largest Jewish charities in the U.S. has been secretly funding a shadowy online blacklist targeting college students who criticize Israel. For three years, a website called Canary Mission has spread fear among undergraduate activists, posting more than a thousand political dossiers on student supporters of Palestinian rights. The dossiers are meant to…
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Fast Forward Pro-Israel Donor Adam Milstein Denies Report That He Funds Canary Mission
(JTA) — Real-estate investor Adam Milstein denied a report that he is a funder of Canary Mission, an anonymous website that aims to name and shame anti-Israel activists. Milstein’s charity, the Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation, donates to a number of groups that work on campus from a right-wing pro-Israel perspective, including Students Supporting…
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Opinion I’m A College Student Who Opposes BDS — And Finds Canary Mission Reprehensible
In a recent article in these pages, Josh Nathan-Kazis exposed the growing efforts of right wing actors targeting American pro-Palestinian student activists, particularly those urging their universities to divest from Israeli and Israel-supporting businesses. Students who show support for the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement may wake up the next day to find their name…
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News Canary Mission’s Threat Grows, From U.S. Campuses To The Israeli Border
This is the second story in a series on covert tactics targeting Israel’s critics. Last December, Andrew Kadi flew to Israel to visit his mother. As he walked through Ben Gurion International Airport, officials pulled him aside and said that the security services wanted to speak with him. Kadi is among the leaders of a…
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News A New Wave Of Hardline Anti-BDS Tactics Are Targeting Students, And No One Knows Who’s Behind It
This is the first story in a series on covert tactics targeting Israel’s critics. Strange things started happening at George Washington University this April, as their student government prepared to vote on a resolution supported by pro-Palestinian campus activists. Anonymous fliers, websites and social media campaigns appeared out of nowhere to attack the student activists….
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Opinion I’m A Puerto Rican Jew Being Targeted By Canary Mission. This Has To Stop.
I received a call a week ago from my dad, early in the morning. It took me a second to realize what he was saying, between the exhaustion and horrible connection that comes with any call from my home in Puerto Rico. But then the words “What is Canary Mission?” came out of his mouth….
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