Canary Mission has established a database targeting student activists, labeling some as antisemitic. This initiative has led to heightened risks for those students, particularly at Columbia University, where they have faced increased harassment. The situation has escalated under the Trump administration, which has co-opted these lists for immigration enforcement, particularly against pro-Palestine protesters. Evidence from ICE's Homeland Security Investigations confirms that a significant majority of those being reviewed for deportation came from Canary Mission resources, highlighting the intersection of activist targeting and state action.
For nearly two years, students at Columbia University have warned that they're being targeted - and put in serious danger - by right-wing Zionist organizations like Canary Mission and Betar US.
Canary Mission's goal was initially to "expose" students it deemed antisemitic, ideally in the hopes that they'd be denied jobs and other opportunities.
Under Trump's brutal immigration enforcement regime, these doxing databases have turned into tools of the state, making protesters visible and vulnerable to immigration enforcement.
Peter Hatch, the assistant director of ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) division, testified in court that the Trump administration is using lists compiled by private groups to go after activists.
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