Harvard Law Student Asks Israeli Official Why She’s ‘So Smelly’

[Little Tich]

16. What the Canary Mission is doing is far worse than what this guy did.

Making a blacklist of political opponents is a decidedly undemocratic way to try to stifle political debate. What this guy did was extremely rude, but he didn't try to destroy any foundations of democracy. The Canary Mission is a hate-site that tries to intimidate and incite against political opponents, and it's completely outside the democratic political spectrum. I know you've been fawning over the Canary Mission before, and I'm still just as opposed to its use as I was then.

There's no coincidence that this guy is on the Canary mission list - they've probably stalked him for a long time.

Anyway, here's an article from the Forward about the Canary Mission:

Shadowy Web Site Creates Blacklist of Pro-Palestinian Activists
Source: The Forward, May 27, 2015

A new website is publicizing the identities of pro-Palestinian student activists to prevent them from getting jobs after they graduate from college. But the website is keeping its own backers’ identity a secret.

“It is your duty to ensure that today’s radicals are not tomorrow’s employees,” a female narrator intones in a slick video posted to the website’s YouTube account.

Called Canary Mission, the site has posted profiles of dozens of students and recent graduates, alongside those of well-known activists like Omar Barghouti, founder of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. Some of the students are active in Students for Justice in Palestine; others were involved in recent pro-BDS resolutions at campuses in California. Many of them have relatively thin activist résumés.

“The focus on young people and students is an effort to try to tell people that there will be a price for you taking a political position,” said Ali Abunimah, founder of the pro-Palestinian website The Electronic Intifada. “It’s an effort to punish and deter people from standing up for what they believe.”

Read more: http://forward.com/news/308902/shadowy-web-site-creates-black-list-of-pro-palestinian-activists/