How would you feel if your face was plastered on the front of a website where you are targeted as someone who promotes hate against Israel, the US, and Jews? Well, that is the main gist of the Canary Mission.
What Is It Exactly?
The Canary Mission is a political organization that created an entire website dedicated to targeting students from North American college campuses who are believed to spread “hate” against Israel, the US, and Jews. Can you believe that this website existed as far back as 2015?
Back then, it was responsible for a series of online attacks on undergraduate student activists who had spoken up for Palestine. It is relentless when it comes to placing a negative spotlight on these students, as until today, it has managed to post profiles of nearly 2,000 undergraduate and graduate students as well as professors.
How Are The Students Targeted?
The organization is ruthless, as it targets the students in more than one way. First, there’s the website that showcases the profiles of its targets, including personal information, quotes, links to friends, and the list goes on. Each profile is framed to look monstrous and the students are up to no good.
Their second line of attack is X (previously known as Twitter), where they post heinous comments on each of their targets. From there, a domino effect occurs, and X users begin attacking the student or professor with hateful comments.
Then comes their final line of attack. This again involves X. Canary Mission has a knack for retweeting its attacks multiple times in a single day.
Who Are Some Of The Targeted Students?
Among the thousands of students targeted, one in particular got the attention of faculty and students. Her name is Layla Sayed, an Egyptian-American student who one day received an alarming text message from a friend.
Immediately, Sayed opened the Canary Mission website and was in shock when she found a picture of herself from October 16. The photo was taken when she was participating in a rally at the University of Pennsylvania. Red arrows point at her in the picture as one of the demonstrators.
Beyond the photo, the post also included personal information about her, including her name, the two cities she resides in, what she studies, and her social media accounts. They also posted about her on their X account, calling her a “Hamas War Crimes Apologist.”
The comments were ruthless as they included hateful declarations like “no future for that c.nt,” or “candidate for deportation to Gaza.”
Who Is Behind The Canary Mission?
That has to be the million-dollar question on everyone’s minds, yet, unfortunately, no one knows the identity of the creators of the Canary Mission.
Knowing how their identity is concealed and they are continuing their attacks, some sort of action needs to be taken to halt their operations, knowing that they are harming students and faculty.