{{short description|Website established in 2014}} {{pp-extended|small=yes}} {{use dmy dates|date=June 2023}} {{Use American English|date=December 2023}} {{Infobox website | name = Canary Mission | logo = Logo of Canary Mission.webp | logo_size = 125px | logo_alt = The logo of Canary Mission, depicting a canary inside of a circle | url = {{URL|https://canarymission.org/}} | commercial = No | type = Database of student activists, professors and organizations the site considers to be [[Calls for the destruction of Israel|anti-Israel]] or [[antisemitic]] | language = English | launch_date = {{Start date and age|2014}} | current_status = Active }}
'''Canary Mission''' is an anonymously run [[doxing]]<ref name=":4">{{Cite news |last=Bamford |first=James |date=2023-12-22 |title=Who Is Funding Canary Mission? Inside the Doxxing Operation Targeting Anti-Zionist Students and Professors |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/world/canary-mission-israel-covert-operations/ |access-date=2024-11-16 |work=[[The Nation]] |language=en-US |issn=0027-8378}}</ref><ref name=":15">{{Cite web |last=Gais |first=Hannah |date=2025-08-26 |title=For Betar or Worse |url=https://thebaffler.com/latest/for-betar-or-worse-gais |access-date=2025-10-16 |website=[[The Baffler]] |language=en-US}}</ref> website established in 2014 that publishes the personal information of students, professors, and organizations that it describes as [[Calls for the destruction of Israel|anti-Israel]] or [[antisemitic]], focusing primarily on people at North American universities.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=https://forward.com/news/national/407127/a-new-wave-of-hardline-anti-bds-tactics-are-targeting-students-and-no-one/|title=A New Wave Of Hardline Anti-BDS Tactics Are Targeting Students, And No One Knows Who's Behind It|last=Nathan-Kazis|first=Josh|date=2 August 2018|work=Forward}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite news|url=https://www.jta.org/2018/08/27/news-opinion/united-states/pro-israel-donor-adam-milstein-denies-report-funds-canary-mission|title=Pro-Israel donor Adam Milstein denies report that he funds Canary Mission|date=27 August 2018|newspaper=Jewish Telegraphic Agency|access-date=16 September 2018}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite news|url=https://mondediplo.com/2018/09/02israel-lobby|title=The truths that won't be heard|last=Gresh|first=Alain|date=September 2018|work=Le Monde Diplomatique|access-date=16 September 2018}}</ref>
Canary Mission's published materials have been described as a [[Blacklisting|blacklist]]<ref name="intercept20181122" /><ref name="intercept20201004" /> and its tactics compared to [[McCarthyism]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Nathan-Kazis |first=Josh |date=27 Feb 2018 |title=Twitter Account Blacklisting pro-Palestinian Activists, anti-Semites Deactivated |url=https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/twitter-account-blacklisting-pro-palestinian-activists-deactivated-1.5850607 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180227114804/https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/twitter-account-blacklisting-pro-palestinian-activists-deactivated-1.5850607 |url-status=dead |archive-date=27 February 2018 |access-date=16 September 2018 |work=Haaretz}}</ref><ref name=":3" /> Critics have described it as [[Weaponization of antisemitism|weaponizing the accusation of antisemitism]] in order to delegitimize or silence [[Anti-Zionism|opposition to Zionism]] or [[criticism of Israel]].<ref name=":4" />
Profiles are publicly-available online and intended for wide use, and Canary Mission may actively send them to employers.<ref name="Maira 2018 p. 94">{{cite book |last=Maira |first=S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=McU3DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA94 |title=Boycott!: The Academy and Justice for Palestine |publisher=University of California Press |year=2018 |isbn=978-0-520-29488-2 |series=American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present |page=94 |access-date=2018-10-22}}</ref> Known users of the profiles include Israeli intelligence organizations [[Ministry of Strategic Affairs]]<ref name=":4" /><ref name="auto1">{{Cite web |last=Landau |first=Noa |date=2018-10-04 |title=Israel Uses Canary Mission Blacklist Info To Bar Activists |url=https://forward.com/news/411453/israel-uses-canary-mission-blacklist-info-to-bar-activists/ |access-date=2024-11-16 |website=The Forward |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":10">{{Cite news |last=Landau |first=Noa |date=4 Oct 2018 |title=Official Documents Prove: Israel Bans Young Americans Based on Canary Mission Website |url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2018-10-04/ty-article/.premium/official-documents-prove-israel-bans-young-americans-based-on-canary-mission-site/0000017f-e5c4-df2c-a1ff-ffd5b4150000 |work=[[Haaretz]]}}</ref> and [[Shin Bet]],<ref name=":4" /> which interrogate and deny entry to American citizens.<ref name=":10" /><ref name="auto">{{cite news |last1=Thrall |first1=Nathan |title=BDS: how a controversial non-violent movement has transformed the Israeli-Palestinian debate |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/aug/14/bds-boycott-divestment-sanctions-movement-transformed-israeli-palestinian-debate |access-date=17 December 2018 |work=The Guardian |date=14 August 2018}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite web |last=Nathan-Kazis |first=Josh |date=2 August 2018 |title=Canary Mission's Threat Grows, From U.S. Campuses To The Israeli Border |url=https://forward.com/news/407279/canary-missions-threat-grows-from-us-campuses-to-the-israeli-border/ |access-date=16 September 2018 |website=Forward}}</ref> In March 2025, [[U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement|US Immigration and Customs Enforcement]] and other US federal agents [[Visa and deportation controversies in the second Trump administration|detained and attempted to deport]] multiple international students with Canary Mission profiles.<ref name=":11" />
== Activities == According to its website, Canary Mission compiles profiles of students, professors, and organizations that "promote hatred of the US, [[Israel]] and [[Jews]] on North American college campuses".<ref name=":2" /> Profiles are constructed using public information such as social media<ref>{{cite web |last=Carless |first=Will |title=What is Canary Mission? Website runs profiles amid Gaza protests |website=USA TODAY |date=2024-07-01 |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2024/07/01/canary-mission-palestinian-protests/74222568007/ |access-date=2025-08-04}}</ref> and often contain detailed information. According to ''The Forward'', "The site's profiles appear to be based entirely on open source intelligence that could be gathered by anyone with a computer."<ref name=":5" /> Some profiles document prominent [[white supremacists]], including [[Identity Evropa]] members and [[Goyim Defense League]] (GDL) members.<ref name=":5" /> Canary Mission has an "Ex-Canary" process where profiled individuals can request to have their profile removed from the website if they write an apology essay that can be published on the site.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":5" />
=== 2017–2018 === In December 2017, Canary Mission reported on what it alleged were antisemitic tweets posted by students associated with [[Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights]] (SPHR) at [[McMaster University]]. The tweets were written between 2011 and 2017 and contained support for [[Adolf Hitler]] as well as calls for the death of Israel and [[Zionists]]. SPHR, in response, said it "condemns all forms of anti-Semitism within our organization", and that the referenced comments were "intolerable in every sense".<ref name="CBC2017">{{cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/mcmaster-university-anti-semitic-tweets-sphr-1.4454674|title='Death to Israel' tweets linked to Palestinian rights student group at McMaster|date=18 December 2017|newspaper=[[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC]]}}</ref> The university actively reviewed the "disturbing social media post",<ref name="CBC2017" /> but did not publish the results of its review since "it is not our practice to provide details of any actions taken or sanctions applied with regard to individual students".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cjnews.com/news/canada/mcmaster-coy-dealt-anti-semitic-tweets|title=McMaster tight-lipped on how it dealt with anti-Semitic tweets|last=Csillag|first=Ron|date=28 February 2018|website=The Canadian Jewish News|language=en-US}}</ref>
In February 2018, [[Twitter]] briefly suspended Canary Mission's account,<ref name=":0" /> for exposing a 2017 tweet by a pro-Palestinian activist that "modified Adele's lyrics to say 'Set Fire to the Jews{{'"}}. According to Twitter, they made an error in blocking Canary.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://jewishjournal.com/news/nation/231538/organization-fighting-anti-semitism-locked-twitter-exposing-anti-semitic-tweet/|title=Organization Fighting Anti-Semitism Locked Out of Twitter for Exposing an Anti-Semitic Tweet|last=Bandler|first=Aaron|date=5 March 2018|website=Jewish Journal|language=en-US}}</ref>
In 2018, ''[[The Intercept]]'' reported that the website was adding students to its lists immediately following their participation in [[Students for Justice in Palestine]] activities.<ref name="intercept20181122" />
In April 2018, during a [[Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions]] (BDS) campaign at [[George Washington University]], [[Flyer (pamphlet)|flyers]] with Canary Mission's logo were strewn around the university, along with other flyers denouncing a planned student senate vote.<ref name=":6">{{Cite web|url=https://mondoweiss.net/2018/04/washington-university-threatening/|title=George Washington University divestment vote cancelled due to safety concerns following threatening anti-BDS posters|last=Rubin|first=Jesse|date=17 April 2018|website=Mondoweiss|access-date=16 September 2018}}</ref> On the day of the vote, two adult men wearing [[Domestic canary|canary]] costumes performed a dance in the lobby of the building where the vote was taking place.<ref name=":1" /> In September 2018, Canary Mission released a report on the vote highlighting antisemitic and anti-Israel tactics used to promote the vote.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.jns.org/recent-report-highlights-anti-semitic-tactics-used-by-sjp-members-amid-bds-debate-at-george-washington-university/|title=Report highlights anti-Semitic tactics used by SJP members amid BDS debate at GW|last=Richman|first=Jackson|date=28 September 2018|website=JNS.org|language=en-US}}</ref>
In May 2018, Canary Mission released a report on social media posts by [[Students for Justice in Palestine]] (SJP) chapter members at [[Florida State University]] (FSU), saying that 36% of the social media posts by SJP members were "endorsements or promotion of terror as well as calls for intifada and violence against Jews".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://jewishjournal.com/news/nation/234597/signs-anti-semitism-florida-state/|title=Signs of Anti-Semitism at Florida State|last=Bandler|first=Aaron|date=30 May 2018|work=Jewish Journal}}</ref> The FSU SJP chapter subsequently released a statement writing that they "entirely condemn and denounce the racist, anti-Black, and anti-Semitic statements made by some of the individuals who were previous students and members of our SJP chapter", and commenting that some of the social media posts were "legitimate criticisms of Israeli governmental policies and practices, even though they are presented as anti-Semitic." According to Canary Mission, FSU SJP's response did not condemn social media posts that "called for intifada and violence against Jews".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://jewishjournal.com/news/nation/234732/fsu-sjp-attempts-distance-accusations-anti-semitism/|title=FSU SJP Attempts to Distance Itself from Accusations of Anti-Semitism|last=Bandler|first=Aaron|date=4 June 2018|work=Jewish Journal}}</ref>
=== 2019 === In January 2019, Lara Kollab, a medical resident at the [[Cleveland Clinic]], was fired over antisemitic social media posts documented by Canary Mission.<ref>{{cite web |last=Robins |first=Monica |title=Cleveland Clinic fires doctor accused of making anti-Semitic comments on social media |website=wkyc.com |date=2019-01-02 |url=https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/health/cleveland-clinic-fires-resident-accused-of-making-anti-semitic-comments/95-8a3c8bf3-81c2-4db6-be51-9620d325ee1f |access-date=2025-08-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Zhao |first=Christina |title=Ohio Doctor Fired Over Anti-Semitic Tweets |website=Newsweek |date=2019-01-01 |url=https://www.newsweek.com/ohio-doctor-fired-over-anti-semitic-tweets-ill-purposely-give-all-jews-wrong-1276490 |access-date=2025-08-04}}</ref> Kollab's posts included threats to give Jewish people the wrong medication. Kollab also called Jewish people "dogs" and said the [[Holocaust]] was "exaggerated."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Burke |first1=Minnyvonne |title=Ohio doctor fired after anti-Semitic tweets surface, including threat to give Jews 'wrong meds' |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ohio-doctor-fired-after-anti-semitic-tweets-surface-including-threat-n953916 |access-date=12 November 2025 |work=NBC News |date=2 January 2019 |language=en}}</ref> In 2020, the State Medical Board of Ohio permanently barred Kollab from practicing medicine.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Frellick |first1=Marcia |title=Resident Who Sent Anti-Semitic Tweets Barred From Medicine |url=https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/936556 |access-date=12 November 2025 |work=Medscape |language=en}}</ref>
=== 2022 === In June 2022, Canary Mission published a profile on Ismail Quran, a police officer in [[Cleveland]], Ohio, who allegedly posted antisemitic hate speech to social media. Quran had been honored with a police officer of the year award before coming under investigation when news of his social media posts broke.<ref>{{cite web |title=Cleveland officer under investigation after he's accused of antisemitic social media posts |website=NBC News |date=2022-06-21 |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cleveland-officer-investigation-alleged-anti-semitic-social-media-post-rcna34619 |access-date=2025-08-04}}</ref> The mayor of Cleveland [[Justin M. Bibb]] and the Cleveland chief of police Wayne Drummond released a statement in August 2022 that said "We are frustrated and disappointed that no charges can be filed against Officer Ismail Quran, despite extensive internal investigations by the Cleveland Division of Police (CDP), the City Prosecutor, and the Law Department."<ref>{{cite web |title=Statement from Mayor Justin M. Bibb and Cleveland Chief of Police Wayne Drummond on Officer Ismail Quran |website=Statement from Mayor Justin M. Bibb and Cleveland Chief of Police Wayne Drummond on Officer Ismail Quran |date=2022-08-31 |url=https://www.clevelandohio.gov/news/statement-mayor-justin-m-bibb-and-cleveland-chief-police-wayne-drummond-officer-ismail-quran |access-date=2025-08-04}}</ref>
=== 2024 === In February 2024, neo-Nazi Michael Weaver, a member of the [[Goyim Defense League]], lost a libel lawsuit that he filed and was forced to pay the defendant $20,000 in legal fees.<ref name="jns">{{cite web |title=Neo-Nazi must pay $20,000 legal fees of woman he sued for libel |website=JNS.org |date=2024-02-15 |url=https://www.jns.org/neo-nazi-must-pay-20000-legal-fees-of-woman-he-sued-for-libel/ |access-date=2025-08-04}}</ref> The defendant had reportedly written in an online review that a "neo-Nazi" and "member of the KKK" who is a "known felon of hate crimes" was denouncing her business.<ref name="CJN">{{cite web |title=Neo-Nazi must pay $20,000 legal fees of woman he sued for libel |website=Cleveland Jewish News |date=2024-02-15 |url=https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/jns/neo-nazi-must-pay-20-000-legal-fees-of-woman-he-sued-for-libel/article_59ae3f29-8b59-5637-93ac-cfab30f40587.html |access-date=2025-08-04}}</ref> Weaver's antisemitic views were documented in a Canary Mission profile, and the judge ruled that the defendant's inferences were "reasonable". Weaver lost the case.<ref name="jns" /><ref name="CJN" />
In February 2024, Canary Mission published a report showing collaboration between [[Within Our Lifetime]] and [[Decolonize This Place]].<ref name="nyc-strategy">{{cite web |title=Canary Mission |website=Canary Mission |url=https://canarymission.org/campaign/NYC_Protest_Strategy |access-date=2025-08-04}}</ref> The report alleged that [[Nerdeen Kiswani]], the founder of WOL, and [[Amin Husain]], the founder of DTP, were responsible for the unrest in New York City following the [[October 7 attacks]] in Israel.<ref>{{cite web |title=Within Our Lifetime (WOL) |website=InfluenceWatch |date=2024-06-28 |url=https://www.influencewatch.org/organization/within-our-lifetime-wol/ |access-date=2025-08-04}}</ref> Examples include a protest outside of the [[Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center]]<ref>{{cite web |title="Within Our Lifetime": What You Need to Know About the Pro-Hamas and Antisemitic Group |website=AJC |date=2024-07-01 |url=https://www.ajc.org/news/within-our-lifetime-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-pro-hamas-and-antisemitic-group |access-date=2025-08-04}}</ref> and the Nova Exhibition,<ref>{{cite web |last=Berger |first=Brian |title=Antisemitic Protests Draw Outrage from Union Square to Wall Street |website=www.otdowntown.com |date=2024-06-17 |url=https://www.otdowntown.com/home/antisemitic-protests-draw-outrage-from-union-square-to-wall-street-ID3432802 |access-date=2025-08-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Levaton |first=Stav |title=NYC protesters wave terror group flags, call for intifada outside Nova massacre exhibit |website=The Times of Israel |date=2024-06-11 |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/nyc-protesters-wave-terror-group-flags-call-for-intifada-outside-nova-massacre-exhibit/ |access-date=2025-08-04}}</ref> a memorial installation detailing the attacks at the [[Nova music festival massacre|Nova Music Festival]] on October 7, 2023.<ref>{{cite web |title=NYC Recap |website=Nova Exhibition |date=2025-03-26 |url=https://novaexhibition.com/nyc-recap |access-date=2025-08-04}}</ref> An attendee at the Nova Protest waved a [[flag of Hezbollah|flag with Hezbollah's logo]].<ref>{{cite web |title=BGOnTheScene |website=X (formerly Twitter) |url=https://x.com/BGOnTheScene/status/1800318295247388709 |access-date=2025-08-04}}</ref> The report further alleged that these disruptions followed a premeditated plan that pre-dated the attacks in Israel. The report also included social media posts from Kiswani supporting the October 7, 2023 attacks on Israeli civilians.<ref name="nyc-strategy"/>
In July 2024, the Chicago branch of the [[Council on American–Islamic Relations]] (CAIR) attempted to sue Canary Mission on behalf of Kinza Khan. Khan was the subject of a viral video where she was allegedly involved in tearing down posters of Israelis being held captive by Hamas. Canary Mission subsequently profiled Khan. Khan was the plaintiff in two lawsuits against Canary Mission but both suits were dismissed by the judge.<ref>{{cite web |last=Alarm |first=Docket |title=Khan v. Levinson et al, 1:24-cv-11568, No. 14 (N.D.Ill. Dec. 16, 2024) |website=Docket Alarm |date=2024-12-16 |url=https://www.docketalarm.com/cases/Illinois_Northern_District_Court/1--24-cv-11568/Khan_v._Levinson_et_al/14/ |access-date=2025-08-04}}</ref> CAIR is also representing Laila Ali who was reportedly fired after video surfaced of her tearing down Hamas hostage posters.<ref>{{cite web |last=Hui |first=Kelly X. |title=New lawsuit takes Canary Mission to court under anti-doxxing law |website=Mondoweiss |date=2024-08-09 |url=https://mondoweiss.net/2024/08/new-lawsuit-takes-canary-mission-to-court-under-anti-doxxing-law/ |access-date=2025-08-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Miller |first=Violet |title=Woman flooded with hateful messages after she expressed pro-Palestinian views, appeared in misleading video, suit claims |website=Chicago Sun-Times |date=2024-07-13 |url=https://chicago.suntimes.com/israel-hamas-war/2024/07/13/lawsuit-online-harassment-palestinian-views-israel-gaza |access-date=2025-08-04}}</ref>
Former [[New York University]] professor [[Amin Husain]] said: "One of the best biographies I have is on Canary Mission. It's endless. The citations are better than I could ever imagine. And everything they cite to is true."<ref>{{cite web |last=Block |first=Frannie |title=NYU Prof Tells Students of Hamas Atrocities: 'It's Not True' |website=The Free Press |date=2024-01-25 |url=https://www.thefp.com/p/nyu-prof-tells-students-hamas-atrocities-untrueu |access-date=2025-08-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Communications |first=NYU Web |title=Statement by NYU Spokesperson John Beckman Regarding Amin Husain |website=NYU |date=2024-01-25 |url=https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2024/january/statement-by-nyu-spokesperson-john-beckman-regarding-amin-husain.html |access-date=2025-08-04}}</ref>
An article by ''The Intercept'' from 2024 interviewed a number of professors that were fired or faced disciplinary action from their universities. The article implies that Canary Mission profiles played a role in the disciplinary action, and many of the professors interviewed have profiles on the site.<ref>{{cite web |last=Lennard |first=Natasha |title=University Professors Are Losing Their Jobs Over "New McCarthyism" on Gaza |website=The Intercept |date=2024-05-16 |url=https://theintercept.com/2024/05/16/university-college-professors-israel-palestine-firing/ |access-date=2025-08-04}}</ref>
=== 2025 === {{Main|Visa and deportation controversies in the second Trump administration}} Various foreign students with Canary Mission profiles have been arrested under the [[Second presidency of Donald Trump|Trump administration]] in March 2025, including [[Detention of Mahmoud Khalil|Mahmoud Khalil]] of [[Columbia University]] and [[Detention of Rümeysa Öztürk|Rümeysa Öztürk]] of [[Tufts University|Tufts]].<ref name=":11">{{Cite web |last=Prater |first=Nia |date=2025-03-28 |title=The Pro-Israel Group That Led to Rumeysa Ozturk's Arrest |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/rumeysa-ozturk-tufts-canary-mission.html |access-date=2025-03-29 |website=Intelligencer |language=en}}</ref> Öztürk's name and photo were posted to Canary Mission shortly after her only known pro-Palestine activism, co-writing an [[op-ed]] in the [[The Tufts Daily|student newspaper]] that criticized the administration's handling of student demands such as acknowledgement of Palestinian genocide and divestment from [[Israel]] companies.<ref name=":11" /> A Canary Mission's profile of Mapheze Saleh may have influenced the arrest of her husband, [[Georgetown University]] graduate student Badar Khan Suri. According to a lawyer for Suri, he had no criminal record and was arrested because his father-in-law was documented as a former adviser to a Hamas leader.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Sanders |first1=Hank |last2=Kanno-Youngs |first2=Zolan |date=2025-03-20 |title=D.H.S. Detains a Georgetown University Academic |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/us/politics/georgetown-suri-detained.html |access-date=2025-03-29 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
In July 2025, testimony by a senior official with ICE's [[Homeland Security Investigations]] in federal court confirmed that a [[United States Department of Homeland Security|Department of Homeland Security]] team created a target list of anti-Israeli student protestors that was largely based on the Canary Mission lists.
A lawsuit was filed by a group of Israeli citizens in March 2025 in New York against individuals it described as leaders of organizations including [[Within Our Lifetime]], [[Students for Justice in Palestine]] at [[Columbia University]], [[Jewish Voice for Peace]] at [[Barnard College|Columbia-Barnard]], and [[Columbia University Apartheid Divest]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Haggai et al v. Kiswani et al (1:25-cv-02400), New York Southern District Court |website=PacerMonitor Federal Court Case Tools |date=2025-03-24 |url=https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/57378826/Haggai_et_al_v_Kiswani_et_al |access-date=2025-08-04}}</ref> The suit alleged that the defendants were guilty of "aiding and abetting Hamas' continuing acts of international terrorism." Canary Mission profiles and reports were used as evidence in the lawsuit.<ref>{{cite web |last=Hurwitz |first=Sophie |title=How a shadowy online blacklist became a legal threat to pro-Palestinian activists |website=Mother Jones |date=2025-07-08 |url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/canary-mission-israel-palestine-blacklist-university-trump-deportation-ozturk-khalil/ |access-date=2025-08-04}}</ref><ref name="monoweiss">{{cite web |last=Horowitz |first=Adam |title=Pro-Palestine voices must not be silenced |website=Mondoweiss |date=2023-03-19 |url=https://mondoweiss.net/2023/03/pro-palestine-voices-must-not-be-silenced/ |access-date=2025-08-04}}</ref>
=== 2026 === In mid-March 2026, the [[Council on American–Islamic Relations]]' [[Chicago]] chapter filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of six plaintiffs against Canary Mission and [[StopAntisemitism]], alleging systematic doxxing and harassment.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Price |first1=Mikayla |title=CAIR-Chicago files class action lawsuit against StopAntisemitism, Canary Mission for alleged doxing campaign |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-lawsuit-stopantisemitism-canary-mission-israel-gaza/ |access-date=May 15, 2026 |work=[[WBBM-TV|CBS Chicago]] |date=May 14, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260415084811/https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-lawsuit-stopantisemitism-canary-mission-israel-gaza/ |archive-date=April 15, 2026 |url-status=live}}</ref>
In late-April 2026, [[Drop Site News]] identified five American individuals who had emigrated to Israel as Megamot Shalom employees who worked as content writers, editors and consultants for Canary Mission, based on data extracted from unlisted websites that Canary Mission had used for its doxxing operations. These individuals were identified through a review of Megamot Shalom's business filings with the Israeli government between 2016 and 2024.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sweet |first1=Jacqueline |title=Meet the Top “Content” Producers Linked to Canary Mission |url=https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/canary-mission-israel-megamot-shalom-highest-paid-employees |website=[[Drop Site News]] |access-date=May 15, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260428141524/https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/canary-mission-israel-megamot-shalom-highest-paid-employees |archive-date=April 28, 2026 |date=April 23, 2026 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Yilmaz |first1=Asiye |title=Investigation links Israel-based nonprofit to Canary Mission operations: Report |url=https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/investigation-links-israel-based-nonprofit-to-canary-mission-operations-report/3916857 |access-date=May 15, 2026 |agency=[[Anadolu Agency]] |date=April 24, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260425114958/https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/investigation-links-israel-based-nonprofit-to-canary-mission-operations-report/3916857|archive-date=April 25, 2026}}</ref>
== Use by government authorities == In 2023, ''[[Haaretz]]'' reported that Israeli intelligence organizations, such as the [[Shin Bet]], use Canary Mission profiles.<ref name=":4" /> The [[Ministry of Strategic Affairs]]<ref name=":4" /><ref name="auto1"/><ref name=":10"/> used a Canary Mission profile during the attempted deportation proceedings against Lara Alqasem.<ref>{{cite web |last=Levaton |first=Stav |title=Government said to use Canary Mission blacklist to bar visitors |website=The Times of Israel |date=2018-10-04 |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/government-said-to-use-canary-mission-blacklist-to-bar-visitors/ |access-date=2025-08-04}}</ref> The Israeli government has been accused of using Canary Mission data at border control.<ref name=":5"/><ref name=":10" /><ref name="auto"/> In March 2025, multiple foreign students with Canary Mission profiles were detained by the [[U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement|United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement]] for allegations of supporting terror.<ref name=":11" /> The [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] has targeted activists profiled by Canary Mission.<ref name="Intercept">{{cite web |last=Thakker |first=Prem |title=Pro-Palestine NYU Law Student Speaks Out After Job Offer Was Rescinded |website=The Intercept |date=2023-10-17 |url=https://theintercept.com/2023/10/16/pro-palestine-students-campus-gaza-war/ |access-date=2025-08-04}}</ref>
In July 2025, a senior official from the [[United States Department of Homeland Security|Department of Homeland Security]] (DHS) testified in a federal trial that his team used Canary Mission as a source to investigate a number of student protesters that were foreign nationals.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Gerstein |first1=Josh |last2=Cheney |first2=Kyle |title=Trump officials used shadowy website to target pro-Palestinian academics for deportation, court records show |website=POLITICO |date=2025-07-09 |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/09/pro-palestinian-deportation-documents-trial-00445238 |access-date=2025-07-29}}</ref> Court records from a federal lawsuit revealed that senior Trump administration officials relied heavily on Canary Mission in order to identify foreign students and academics who violated the terms of their visa.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Elia-Shalev |first1=Asaf |last2=Davidovich |first2=Joshua |last3=Berman |first3=Lazar |last4=Levaton |first4=Stav |last5=Freiberg |first5=Nava |last6=Berman |first6=Lazar |last7=Magid |first7=Jacob |last8=Sokol |first8=Sam |title=Trump team used Canary Mission site to target anti-Israel activists for deportation |website=The Times of Israel |date=2025-07-10 |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-team-used-canary-mission-site-to-target-anti-israel-activists-for-deportation/ |access-date=2025-07-29}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Lybrand |first=Holmes |title=Pro-Israel website was used to find names of student protesters to investigate, senior ICE official says |website=CNN |date=2025-07-09 |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/09/politics/ice-homeland-security-canary-mission |access-date=2025-07-29}}</ref><ref name="NBC090725">{{cite web |title=DHS used anonymous pro-Israel site to target activists for deportation, agency says in court |website=NBC News |date=2025-07-09 |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/dhs-used-anonymous-israel-site-target-activists-deportation-agency-say-rcna217814 |access-date=2025-07-29|last=Yam|first=Kimmy|last2=Atkins|first2=Chloe}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/dhs-investigated-5000-student-protesters-listed-doxxing-website/story?id=123619284 |website=ABC News |date=2025-07-09 |access-date=2025-07-09 |last=El-Bawab |first=Nadine |title=DHS investigated over 5,000 student protesters listed on doxxing website: Official}}</ref>
== Employment impact on listed individuals == Profiles hosted on Canary Mission may harm the employment opportunities of those listed, particularly students and untenured faculty, by making available their statements to potential employers in a readily available online profile.<ref name="Forward201710">{{cite news |last1=Nathan-Kazis |first1=Josh |last2=Zaltzman |first2=Lior |date=3 October 2017 |title=Shadowy Blacklist Of Student Activists Wins Endorsement Of Mainstream Pro-Israel Group |url=https://forward.com/news/national/383938/shadowy-blacklist-of-student-activists-wins-endorsement-of-mainstream-pro-i/ |access-date=2020-01-16 |website=The Forward |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://jacobinmag.com/2018/04/mccarthyism-canary-mission-bds-palestine-blacklist|title=The Anti-BDS Smear Campaign Escalates|last=Palumbo-Liu|first=David|date=4 September 2018|website=Jacobin Magazine}}</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=McU3DwAAQBAJ&dq=%22canary+mission%22&pg=PA94 Boycott!: The Academy and Justice for Palestine], University of California Press, Sunaina Maira, page 94</ref> According to [[W. J. T. Mitchell]], who has a Canary Mission profile, prospective employers see Canary Mission profiles appear at the top of [[Google search]] results for students and recent alumni who do not have a "very deep set of achievements".<ref>[https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-trolls-of-academe-making-safe-spaces-into-brave-spaces/#! The Trolls of Academe: Making Safe Spaces into Brave Spaces], Los Angeles Review of Books, [[W. J. T. Mitchell]], 5 January 2018</ref> An article from October 2023 referenced a law graduate who had a job offer rescinded and implied that it was because of the applicant's Canary Mission profile.<ref>{{cite web |last=McNeill |first=Zane |title=Law Firms Rescind Job Offers From Pro-Palestine Students at Harvard, Columbia |website=Truthout |date=2023-10-19 |url=https://truthout.org/articles/law-firms-rescind-job-offers-from-pro-palestine-students-at-harvard-columbia/ |access-date=2025-08-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Picchi |first=Aimee |title=NYU law student has job offer withdrawn after posting anti-Israel message |website=CBS News |date=2023-10-12 |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nyu-law-student-israel-hamas-ryna-workman-harvard/ |access-date=2025-08-04}}</ref>
Some Jewish and pro-Israeli students have said that pro-Palestinian students and faculty have suspected them of colluding with Canary Mission, blaming them even when they were not involved with Canary.<ref name=":5" />
Since 2016, over 41 [[Cornell University|Cornell]] activists and organizers have had their personal information posted online by Canary Mission. In the words of Ibtihal Malley, a Barnard alumna who is profiled on Canary Mission, "Some members get put on Canary and decide it isn't worth it in the long run."<ref>{{cite web |title=Fatima Mohammed Has No Regrets |website=Jewish Currents |date=2023-06-21 |url=https://jewishcurrents.org/fatima-mohammed-has-no-regrets |access-date=2025-08-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Students For Justice In Palestine |website=Canary Mission |date=2025-07-26 |url=https://canarymission.org/organization/Students_For_Justice_In_Palestine |access-date=2025-08-04}}</ref>
== Structure and funding ==
Canary Mission does not publish information about who operates or funds it.<ref name=":4" /><ref name="intercept20181122">{{Cite web |last=Kane |first=Alex |date=2018-11-22 |title="It's Killing the Student Movement": Canary Mission's Blacklist of Pro-Palestine Activists Is Taking a Toll |url=https://theintercept.com/2018/11/22/israel-boycott-canary-mission-blacklist/ |access-date=2024-12-03 |website=The Intercept |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="mee20180829">{{Cite web |title=Canary Mission: Mystery website demonising pro-Palestine students exposed |url=https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/canary-mission-mystery-website-demonising-pro-palestine-students-exposed |access-date=2025-03-23 |date=2018-08-29|website=Middle East Eye |language=en}}</ref><ref name="intercept20201004">{{Cite web |last=Hussain |first=Murtaza |date=2020-10-04 |title=The Real Cancel Culture: Pro-Israel Blacklists |url=https://theintercept.com/2020/10/04/israel-palestine-blacklists-canary-mission/ |access-date=2025-03-23 |website=The Intercept |language=en-US}}</ref> According to ''[[The Baffler]]'', Canary Mission "receives over 99 percent of its funding from the United States" and its funding is directed from the [[Central Fund of Israel]], which is registered in New York.<ref name=":15" />
In October 2018, ''[[The Forward]]'' and ''Haaretz'' reported that Canary Mission received funding from the [[Hellen Diller Family Foundation]], a supporting foundation of the [[Jewish Federations of North America|Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco]] (JCFSF), and that the website's operations were headed by Jonathan Bash through an Israeli charity named Megamot Shalom.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Nathan-Kazis |first1=Josh |last2=Zeveloff |first2=Naomi |date=3 October 2018 |title=Revealed: Canary Mission Blacklist is Secretly Bankrolled by Major Jewish Federation |url=https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/revealed-canary-mission-blacklist-is-secretly-bankrolled-by-major-jewish-federation-1.6528545 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181003130309/https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/revealed-canary-mission-blacklist-is-secretly-bankrolled-by-major-jewish-federation-1.6528545 |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 October 2018 |access-date=3 October 2018 |work=Haaretz}}</ref> Other journalists have also tied Bash to Canary Mission and Megamot Shalom.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-10-15 |title=Documents Reveal Leaders Of Mysterious Charity Linked To Canary Mission |url=https://forward.com/news/411881/documents-reveal-men-behind-megamot-shalom-mysterious-charity-tied-to/ |access-date=2025-10-16 |website=The Forward |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":5"/><ref>{{Cite web |last=Sweet |first=Jacqueline |title=From Long Island to the Baltics: Drop Site Investigation Reveals New Details About Canary Mission's Operations |url=https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/canary-mission-funding-funders-networks-transactions-doxxing-united-states-deportation |access-date=2025-10-16 |website=www.dropsitenews.com |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":15" /><ref name=":4"/><ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-10-03 |title=Canary Mission Blacklist Funded By Jewish Federation |url=https://forward.com/news/411355/revealed-canary-mission-blacklist-is-secretly-bankrolled-by-major-jewish/ |access-date=2025-10-16 |website=The Forward |language=en}}</ref> Soon after the exposure, JCFSF announced that they would cease funding Canary Mission.<ref>{{cite news |last=Nathan-Kazis |first=Josh |date=4 October 2018 |title=Following Forward Report, Federation says it will no longer fund Canary Mission |url=https://forward.com/news/national/411426/breaking-after-forward-report-federation-says-it-will-not-fund-canary/ |work=[[The Forward]]}}</ref>
''The Forward'' also identified the [[Jewish Federations of North America|Jewish Community Federation of Los Angeles]] (JCFLA) as a major donor to Megamot Shalom, having donated a sum of $250,000 in 2016–2017.<ref>{{cite news |last=Nathan-Kazis |first=Josh |date=11 October 2018 |title=Jewish Charity Admits Funding Group Tied To Canary Mission Blacklist |url=https://forward.com/news/411895/second-major-jewish-charity-admits-funding-canary-mission-blacklist/ |work=[[The Forward]]}}</ref> Soon after, JCFLA also announced that they would suspend grants to Megamot Shalom.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dolsten |first=Josefin |date=October 15, 2020 |title=LA Jewish group pulls funding for Canary Mission-linked NGO |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/la-jewish-group-pulls-funding-for-canary-mission-linked-ngo/ |access-date=April 4, 2024 |website=[[The Times of Israel]]}}</ref>
In April 2025, ''The Intercept'' reported a $100,000 donation to Canary Mission from the Natan and Lidia Peisach Family Foundation, a non-profit backing pro-Israel groups.<ref name=":12">{{Cite web |last=Clifton |first=Eli |date=2025-04-02 |title=Pro-Israel Group That Attacked UPenn Was Funded by Family of UPenn Trustee |url=https://theintercept.com/2025/04/02/penn-israel-canary-mission-peisach/ |access-date=2025-04-09 |website=The Intercept |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":13">{{Cite web |title=Canary Mission's Newest Funders |url=https://jewishcurrents.org/canary-missions-newest-funders |access-date=2025-04-09 |website=Jewish Currents |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":14">{{Cite web |last=Ryan |first=Isha Chitirala, Finn |title=Penn trustee's family foundation donated $100,000 to Canary Mission, 2023 tax form shows |url=https://www.thedp.com/article/2025/04/penn-peisach-trustee-canary-mission-donation |access-date=2025-04-09 |website=www.thedp.com |language=en-us}}</ref> The foundation's treasurer, Jaime Peisach, is married to [[University of Pennsylvania]] trustee Cheryl Peisach.<ref name=":12" /><ref name=":13" /><ref name=":14" />
As of 2015, no organization with the name Canary Mission was registered with the [[IRS]].<ref name=shadow>{{Cite web |first=Josh |last=Nathan-Kazis |date=2015-05-27 |title=Shadowy Web Site Creates Blacklist of Pro-Palestinian Activists |url=https://forward.com/news/308902/shadowy-web-site-creates-black-list-of-pro-palestinian-activists/ |access-date=2025-11-22 |website=The Forward |language=en}}</ref> Canary Mission's donors are anonymous.<ref name=shadow/><ref name=":5"/> Multiple pro-Israel organizations have denied having any affiliation with Canary Mission.<ref name=":5" />
According to [[Edwin Black]] in ''[[The Jerusalem Post]]'', extreme antisemitic comments, as well as outright threats of violence, have been directed towards Canary Mission. Following the threats, Canary Mission became even more cautious and avoided disclosing its physical location or identity. According to Canary Mission's blog, "many of our detractors just want to know who we are so they can physically harm us", which, according to Black, has caused Canary Mission to restrict its communications with journalists. Black, who says he was able to verify Canary Mission's location and operations, says they are a group of students and ex-students working in a medium-sized office in an American city.<ref name="EdwinBlack">{{cite news |url=https://www.jpost.com/Blogs/The-Cutting-Edge/Inside-Canary-Mission-416703 |title=Inside Canary Mission |author-link=Edwin Black |first=Edwin |last=Black |date=May 11, 2016 |newspaper=Jerusalem Post}}</ref> Conversely, ''The Baffler'' wrote that the Canary Mission's staff appear to live in Israel.<ref name=":15" />
Canary Mission's structure and operations have made it difficult to pursue in court.<ref name=":15" />
== Reception == Critics including [[Ray Hanania]] have accused Canary Mission of [[Weaponization of antisemitism|weaponizing the accusation of antisemitism]] in order to silence critique of Israel.<ref name=":4" /><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.arabnews.com/node/1573226|title=US website using hatred to silence criticism of Israel|date=23 October 2019|work=Arab News|first=Ray|last=Hanania|access-date=24 June 2023}}</ref> ''The Intercept'' described Canary Mission as "The most notorious [[anti-Palestinian]] campus operation."<ref name="Intercept" />
Filmmaker Rebecca Pierce, having been profiled as "Radical of the Day" on the Canary Mission site, described Canary Mission as using {{"'}}[[McCarthyism|McCarthyist]] tactics' and employing 'open racism{{'"}}.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Holpuch |first=Amanda |date=2015-05-27 |title=Website targets pro-Palestinian students in effort to harm job prospects |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/27/website-targets-pro-palestinian-students-harm-job-prospects |access-date=2025-11-22 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
Writers for ''[[Le Monde Diplomatique]]'' and Jewish academics have compared Canary Mission's practice of demanding apologies from targeted individuals in exchange for amnesty to that of [[authoritarian regimes]] and [[McCarthyism]] in the United States.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":3" />
''The Forward'' reported that while some of the profiles include content that is "genuinely troubling", such as antisemitic social media posts, other accusations made by the website are misleading. One such profile accused a student of "demonizing Israel" because the student had made an announcement at a [[Hillel International]]–sponsored dinner critical of [[Donald Trump]]'s decision to move the United States embassy to [[Jerusalem]].<ref name=":5" /> According to Israeli attorney Emily Schaeffer Omer-Man, Canary Mission's information is "often neither reliable, nor complete, nor up to date". She said that the site should not be used by Israeli border officials as it does not meet the reliability standards mandated by Israeli law.<ref name=":5" /> The site has been criticized for listing both anti-Israel activists and white supremacists, seemingly grouping them together.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Syed |first1=Zayna |date=1 March 2019 |title=Canary Mission blacklists students, faculty for pro-Palestine views |url=https://www.michigandaily.com/news/community-affairs/canary-mission-blacklists-students-faculty-pro-palestine-views/ |access-date=11 October 2023 |work=The Michigan Daily}}</ref>
Canary Mission has been criticized for targeting Jewish organizations [[Anti-Zionism|critical of Zionism]], such as [[Jewish Voice for Peace]] (JVP), [[IfNotNow]], and [[Mondoweiss]].<ref name=newvoices20190117>{{Cite news |date=2019-01-17 |title=Dear Canary Mission, If You're Reading This, I'm Not Afraid of You |url=https://newvoices.org/2019/01/17/dear-canary-mission-if-youre-reading-this-im-not-afraid-of-you/ |access-date=2023-10-12 |website=New Voices |language=en-US |last1=Jasper |first1=Zoe }}</ref><ref name=michigandaily20231012>{{Cite web |last=Syed |first=Zayna |date=2019-03-01 |title=Canary Mission blacklists students, faculty for pro-Palestine views |url=http://www.michigandaily.com/news/community-affairs/canary-mission-blacklists-students-faculty-pro-palestine-views/ |access-date=2023-10-12 |website=The Michigan Daily |language=en-US}}</ref> The site profiles Jewish students affiliated with such organizations; listing JVP as having promoted BDS.<ref name=":5"/> Canary has justified such profiling by stating JVP "dismisses and enables anti-Semitism."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jewish Voice for Peace |url=https://canarymission.org/organization/Jewish_Voice_For_Peace |access-date=2023-10-12 |website=canarymission.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=IfNotNow |url=https://canarymission.org/organization/IfNotNow |access-date=2023-11-07 |website=canarymission.org}}</ref> JVP has responded by condemning Canary Mission for "targeted campaigns of misinformation, bigotry and slander."<ref>{{Cite web |last=wpengine |date=2016-05-13 |title=Canary Mission |url=https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2016/05/13/canary-mission/ |access-date=2023-11-07 |website=JVP |language=en-US}}</ref>
Pro-Palestinian sources have denounced Canary Mission's activities as an attempt to silence critics of Israel on American college campuses through intimidation.<ref name=":8">{{Cite web|url=https://mondoweiss.net/2018/08/communal-palestines-advocates/|title=We need a communal response to Israeli gov't and Canary Mission attacks on Palestine's advocates|last=Herbst|first=Robert|date=6 August 2018|website=Mondoweiss|access-date=16 September 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mesana.org/advocacy/committee-on-academic-freedom/2018/04/18/exposing-canary-mission|title=Exposing Canary Mission|last=Committee on American Freedom|website=Middle East Studies Association|date=18 April 2018 |access-date=16 September 2018}}</ref> In response, pro-Palestinian activists announced in 2018 plans to launch a website called Against Canary Mission in order to publish profiles of people targeted by Canary Mission and portray their activism in a positive light.<ref name=":8" /> Some pro-Israel organizations have also criticized Canary Mission for its aggressive tactics.<ref name=":7">{{Cite news|url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2018-08-30/ty-article/.premium/parts-of-censored-al-jazeera-documentary-on-pro-israeli-lobby-leaked/0000017f-f2f2-d5bd-a17f-f6fa08640000|title=Parts of Censored Al Jazeera Documentary on D.C. Israel Lobby Leaked|last=Tibon|first=Amir|date=30 August 2018|work=Haaretz|access-date=16 September 2018}}</ref>
Canary Mission has received support from the ''[[Algemeiner Journal]]'',<ref>{{cite web |last=Algemeiner |first=The |title=Jewish Ambivalence About Fighting Antisemitism |website=Algemeiner.com |date=2025-04-13 |url=https://www.algemeiner.com/2025/04/13/jewish-ambivalence-about-fighting-antisemitism/ |access-date=2025-08-04}}</ref> [[Middle East Forum]],<ref name="shadow"/> and [[Israel on Campus Coalition]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Nathan-Kazis |first=Josh |title=Shadowy Blacklist Of Student Activists Wins Endorsement Of Mainstream Pro-Israel Group |website=The Forward |date=2017-10-03 |url=https://forward.com/news/383938/shadowy-blacklist-of-student-activists-wins-endorsement-of-mainstream-pro-i/ |access-date=2025-08-04}}</ref>
== Reverse Canary Mission == In response to Canary Mission's tactics, a website called '''Reverse Canary Mission''' was set up during the [[Gaza war]] with the stated purpose of identifying "individuals who advocate for the [[ethnic cleansing]] and [[Gaza genocide|genocide of the Palestinian people]]".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.reversecanarymission.org/about-us |title=About Us |website=Reverse Canary Mission}}</ref>
As of February 2026, the site had published the details of 5,000 people it accused of supporting Israel.<ref name=":9">{{Cite web |last=Hill |first=Bruce |date=February 19, 2026 |title=Jewish actor doxxed |url=https://www.australianjewishnews.com/jewish-actor-doxxed/ |access-date=2026-03-22 |website=[[Australian Jewish News]] |language=en-US}}</ref> That month, it doxxed [[Melbourne]]-based Jewish actress [[Naomi Lisner]], accusing her of supporting Israel's "[[Israeli-occupied territories|illegal occupation of Palestine]]" and promoting [[anti-Palestinian racism]] after she claimed her union, [[Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance]] (MEAA), was supporting an "international conspiracy to murder Holocaust survivors" in her 2025 screenplay ''The Imbalance'' because of MEAA's past support for Palestinians.<ref name=":9" />
''[[The Forward]]'' criticized both Canary Mission and Reverse Canary Mission for applying an overbroad definition of antisemitism and anti-Palestinian hatred, respectively.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://forward.com/culture/721285/canary-mission-reverse-canary-mission-doxing/ |title=No matter whose side you’re on — Israeli or Palestinian — these sites are gonna dox you |website=The Forward |date=19 May 2025 |first=Mira |last=Fox}}</ref>
== See also == * [[Accuracy in Media]] * [[Campus Reform]] * [[Cancel culture]] * [[Professor Watchlist]] * [[Discover the Networks]] * [[Myrotvorets]]
== References == {{reflist|30em}}
== External links == * {{Official website|https://canarymission.org/}}
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