American College Student Held in Israel for Support of BDS Movement

Her “crime”, according to Israel’s Strategic Affairs Ministry, is that while studying for her bachelor’s degree in Florida, she was president of an organization that supported a boycott against Israel.

Middle East Monitor
By Middle East Monitor
Lara Alqasem Israel

An American student has become the latest victim of Israel’s law targeting supporters of the global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Lara Alqasem, 22, has been held since last Tuesday at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport. Alqasem is a graduate of the University of Florida and a US citizen whose grandparents are Palestinian She tried to

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Meet the Owner of Canary Mission’s Anonymous Anti-Palestinian Blacklisting Website

Canary Mission has exploited its anonymity to smear college students with impunity. The Grayzone has obtained documents identifying the owner of the malicious anti-Palestinian organization’s web domain.

Max Blumenthal
Hamzah Raza | Grayzone Project
By Max Blumenthal
And Hamzah Raza | Grayzone Project
Students and supporters protest Fordham University’s ban on Students for Justice in Palestine, a student group which advocates the rights of Palestinians. (Photo: Joe Catron/MintPress)

Since it first registered its website in February 2015, Canary Mission has been a source of mystery and menace. Dedicated to blacklisting students involved in Palestine solidarity activism, intimidating them and denigrating their public reputations, Canary Mission’s administrators have gone to great lengths to conceal their identities. The secrecy

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Canary Mission: The Ultimate Pro-Palestinian Network

The vast majority of the Anti-BDS site is set up like a Pro-Palestinian activist’s phonebook.

Justin King
By Justin King
Image Source: Screenshot Canary Mission

Washington, DC (TFC) – Openly, Canary Mission is set up to appear as an Anti-BDS, Anti-Palestinian website, but when you look closer the site can only be intended to be used by Pro-Palestinian activists as a networking tool. While there are a few pages that play on the reader’s belief the site is pro-Israeli, the vast majority of the site is set up

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Anti-BDS Website Seeks To Ruin Careers, Reputations Of Those Who Support Palestine

Despite calling for more transparency from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, Canary Mission refuses to identify its sponsors or organizers.

Kit O'Connell
By Kit O'Connell

MINNEAPOLIS --- A website that profiles activists from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement with the goal of ruining their careers is coming under fire, with some comparing it to McCarthyism. The Canary Mission features profiles of dozens of activists, students, college professors and journalists which the site’s authors accuse

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