Blacklist of Pro-Palestinian Activists

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   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 r�sum�s.

�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.�

Daniel Pipes, president of the Middle East Forum, defended the tactic as a way of forcing people to understand the seriousness of their political stands.

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

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	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 r�sum�s. �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.� Daniel Pipes, president of the Middle East Forum, defended the tactic as a way of forcing people to understand the seriousness of their political stands. http://forward.com/news/308902/shadowy-web-site-creates-black-list-of-pro-palestinian-activists/