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Mahmoud Khalil Files Suit Alleging a ‘Public-Private’ Conspiracy To Target Israel’s Critics
By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil is suing the federal government and…
#EuropeSays #Headlines #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Israel #betar #canarymission #federalgovernment #HeritageFoundation #Israel-Hamaswar #MahmoudKhalil #pro-Palestinian #ProjectEsther
https://www.europesays.com/iran/209926/
https://www.europesays.com/iran/209926/ Mahmoud Khalil Files Suit Alleging a ‘Public-Private’ Conspiracy To Target Israel’s Critics #betar #CanaryMission #FederalGovernment #HeritageFoundation #Israel #IsraelHamasWar #MahmoudKhalil #ProPalestinian #ProjectEsther
Mahmoud Khalil files suit alleging a ‘public-private’ conspiracy to target Israel’s critics
NEW YORK — Mahmoud Khalil is suing the federal government and several private groups, alleging they were part of a…
#EuropeSays #Headlines #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Israel #betar #canarymission #conspiracy #critic #HeritageFoundation #leader #MahmoudKhalil #NewJersey #presidenttrump #studentactivist #suit #trumpadministrationcrackdown #u.s.citizen #vigilantegroup
https://www.europesays.com/iran/206647/
https://www.europesays.com/iran/206647/ Mahmoud Khalil files suit alleging a ‘public-private’ conspiracy to target Israel’s critics #betar #CanaryMission #conspiracy #critic #HeritageFoundation #Israel #leader #MahmoudKhalil #NewJersey #PresidentTrump #StudentActivist #suit #TrumpAdministrationCrackdown #USCitizen #VigilanteGroup
Drop Site names top content producers tied to Canary Mission: five American Israelis listed as Megamot Shalom’s highest‑paid employees, linked to the pro‑Israel doxxing operation and U.S. donor flows. Read: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/canary-mission-israel-megamot-shalom-highest-paid-employees #CanaryMission #Investigative 🕵️♂️
Good to confirm that Caryma got paid to target her enemies. Not yet on the list, but definitely provided a bunch of profile content.
She absolutely would have done it for free, jsyk.
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In January, Drop Site reported on unlisted websites used by Canary Mission to plan and execute its doxxing operation and was able to confirm that the site is operated in Israel. The unlisted website data revealed that an employee paid by the Israeli nonprofit Megamot Shalom as a writer provided content for Canary Mission’s dossiers of targets, confirming earlier reporting by The Forward that Megamot Shalom’s only known activity appears to be providing support to Canary Mission.
Drop Site has now identified five more people whom Megamot Shalom has employed as content writers, editors, and consultants. These individuals—Elihu David Stone, Yehuda HaKohen, Abigail Bornstein, Aharon Dikel, and Alexander Malbin Duncan—were identified through a review of Megamot Shalom’s business filings with the Israeli government from 2016 to 2024, where they were listed as the nonprofit’s highest-paid employees. They are all Americans who moved to Israel and are connected to one another and individuals reported to be involved with Canary Mission.
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https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/canary-mission-israel-megamot-shalom-highest-paid-employees
#CanaryMission #GenocideIsNotDefence #CarymaSad #CarymaNgo #AdamLeeWasserman #CreepySpouseInDaHouse
“BlackNest: Inside Canary Mission’s Secret Web of Unlisted Sites”
by Jacqueline Sweet in Drop Site News on Substack
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“One (pro-Israel doxxing) Canary Mission-affiliated website, BlackNest, reveals the group's internal operations, plans to expand, and how they celebrate deportations and firings”
#Press #US #Israel #Genocide #CanaryMission #Doxxing #BlackNest #SecretWebsite #Trump ##ProPalestine #Speech #Deportation
Notorious pro-Israel doxxing outfit Canary Mission’s Secret Web of Unlisted Sites
One Canary Mission-affiliated website, BlackNest, reveals the group's internal operations, plans to expand, and how they celebrate deportations and firings
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/canary-mission-blacknest-doxxing-israel-potestors-united-states
from #DropSiteNews
Jacqueline Sweet
Jan 06, 2026
#CanaryMission has an army of anonymous doxxers, international tech vendors, marketing plans, and a secret website called BlackNest, where the group celebrates deportations and firings as “company impact” metrics, according to a collection of unlisted websites discovered by Drop Site.
Canary’s non-public websites promise expansion into new avenues to continue the group’s mission of punishing Americans for pro-#Palestine speech via doxxing, pressure campaigns, and now arrests and deportations carried out by allies in the State Department.
#DefendFreeSpeech
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#USA #USPol #politics
#news #israel
From Long Island to the Baltics: Drop Site Investigation Reveals New Details About Canary Mission's Operations
*#DropSiteNews uncovered new information about individuals, donor networks, and businesses helping Canary Mission, a pro-Israel organization serving the US's #deportation and #repression efforts.
Jacqueline Sweet
Oct 16, 2025
When #CanaryMission began “doxxing” people for expressing pro-#Palestine views a decade ago, the shadowy group mostly found traction among pro-#Israel advocates who lobbied, with mixed success, to put a blacklist into effect. The group’s dossiers on activists and students led to firings, harassment, and death threats against its targets. Canary Mission has since risen to become an influential organ in President Donald #Trump’s deportation machine, and its accumulated dossiers are now used by #US federal authorities and have led to #immigration arrests of students.
Israel’s attacks in Lebanon kill one and wound seven; Democrats block $852 billion in defense spending; John Bolton indicted
Drop Site Daily: October 17, 2025
Head of #Gaza Health Ministry says 170,000 wounded #Palestinians urgently need multiple surgeries, while #Israel restricts the inflow of all aid to Gaza. France, the #UK, and the #US are finalizing a #UN Security Council Resolution to authorize an “internal stabilization force” in Gaza. Israeli forces kill an 11-year-old playing soccer in the #WestBank. A new #DropSiteNews investigation traces the sources bankrolling the shadowy anti-Palestinian website “#CanaryMission".... Pakistani security forces “hunted and killed” anti-Israel protestors from the religious extremist TLP party; a new DropSite report details the scene. #India alleges #Trump fabricated a commitment on the part of PM Modi to cease buying Russian oil.
#SanctionIsrael
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#USpol
#news #politics @palestine
"From runaway slave lists to #CanaryMission, the state has long deputized citizens to enforce its will."
"For the past two decades, the #doxxing lists have drawn their power by diffusing an ambient sense of fear through the individuals being targeted and the anxious institutions that employed and educated them [...] But now, it’s clear that the list-makers have been granted an expansive new mandate: to serve as a key node in the enforcement of the U.S. government’s new citizenship regime."
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-theory-of-the-list/
#USpol #Palestine #Gaza #PalestineSolidarity #CanaryMission #CampusWatch #blacklists
"What happens when speaking out for #Palestine lands you on an anonymous online blacklist? In the first episode of #ThereIsAList, host Zahra Khozema speaks to Canadians targeted by #CanaryMission [...]
"In this episode we hear from a Palestinian-Canadian woman whose life and career were derailed after she was profiled almost a decade ago."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55nVst3gCkI
#PalestineSolidarity #Gaza #CdnPoli #doxxing #polCan #solidaritéAvecLaPalestine #mouvementÉtudiant #studentProtests #BDS
"[E]fforts to limit or counteract #CanaryMission and #Betar’s campaigns of #doxing and #harassment through the legislatures and courts have to this point proven fruitless. The same constitutionally protected rights that these and other groups seek to undermine for pro-#Palestine activists insulate them, to some extent, from legal retaliation from their victims. Where, then, might we go from here?"
https://thebaffler.com/latest/for-betar-or-worse-gais
#PalestineSolidarity #studentProtests #USpol #activism @palestine
Un haut responsable de l’ICE a récemment révélé qu’ils s’appuyaient sur le site anti-palestinien #CanaryMission (financé en partie par les services de renseignement israéliens) pour cibler les étudiants en vue de leur expulsion https://www.thenation.com/article/world/canary-mission-israel-covert-operations/
Canary Mission, an anonymous pro-Israel group and website, has been blacklisting pro-Palestinian students, professors and activists for more than 10 years.
Now, the Trump administration has revealed that it has been using the list to target academics for deportation.
The police state is the barbed wire glove on the israeli fist.
From: @w7voa
https://journa.host/@[email protected]/114834393824112172
#usa #police #policestate #dhs #wired #mahmoudkhalil #zionism #ice #uspol #israel #canarymission
I am exhausted this morning.
I was up until midnight playing Peglin.
When I decided to go to bed, I then spent time watching TikTok until someone started talking about #CanaryMission.
Then it was about 3 hours reading through people they were doxxing along with some anonymous “ex-Canaries” with similar looking apologies.
And I mean, using the same template on random Blogspot blogs with only one or two posts (including the “apology” post).
Why do I do this to myself?
"“Most” of the names of student protesters Immigration and Customs Enforcement was asked to investigate earlier this year were plucked from a pro-Israel website that aims to blacklist pro-Palestinian students and academics, an agency official told a federal court Wednesday.
The testimony from Peter Hatch, a senior official in ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations, came during the third day in a trial in Boston over the Trump administration’s so-called ideological deportation policy, which a group of university professors say has chilled their protected political speech.
Hatch said during questioning from a lawyer for the professors that in early March he was given a list of names of students for his agency to investigate and that “most” of those names came from the website Canary Mission, but also from other places.
The list was produced by a Department of Homeland Security team created in March to gather reports on people involved in student protests to submit to the State Department."
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/09/politics/ice-homeland-security-canary-mission
#USA #Ice #Surveillance #PoliceState #Immigration #Deportation #Israel #Palestine #Zionism #CanaryMission
This pro-Israel group keeps a blacklist. Now it’s taking credit for deportations.
Canary Mission, the controversial organization targeting student activists, explained.
by Zack Beauchamp
Updated Apr 25, 2025, 7:19 AM MDT
#MAGA #Deportations #CanaryMission #DueProcess #Fascism #TrumpRegime #Project2025
While the abduction and attempts to deport every foreign student who participated in anti-genocide protests on American campuses are all important stories, I'm genuinely surprised Trump's targeting of Rumeysa Ozturk hasn't become a flashpoint in this larger story, the way the Abrego Garcia abduction has in the trafficking migrants to a torture prison in El Salvador scandal.
Frankly, demonizing anti-genocide protestors is a bipartisan sport in the American establishment, but the Ozturk abduction is unique in that she never participated in a protest; the regime is detaining and attempting to deport Ozturk because she wrote an op-ed calling for Tufts University to divest from Israel while it conducts a genocide, and the wrong people noticed. Specifically Canary Mission, a doxing group that specializes in harassing anti-genocide protestors in multiple Pig Empire nations. Soon after the group accused Ozturk of antisemitic activities; again, for writing an op-ed calling on Tufts to divest from Israel, she was snatched off the street by masked ICE agents in a video half the country watched and shared online.
This transcript of a recent interview with one of Ozturk's lawyers touched on the subject of the Trump regime obtaining target lists from an anonymous doxing group with unclear funding, and provides an update on Ozturk's legal fight; which appears to be going about as well as can be expected because all of this is fascist Calvinball bullshit designed to silence dissent and protect a genocide being conducted by an American client state.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/22/rumeysa_ozturk_vermont_ice_tufts
“The Doxxing-to-Deportation Pipeline”: Update on Abduction & Jailing of Tufts Student Rümeysa Öztürk
"JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And could you talk about the role of Canary Mission and others like it in, essentially, identifying for the government people that they should be deporting?
MUDASSAR TOPPA: Yeah, and, you know, I think at this point there’s been a clear connection that we can draw — right? — from the doxxing organizations, the pro-Israeli doxxing organizations. And there is a clear doxxing-to-deportation pipeline that’s taking place.
And in Ms. Öztürk’s case, it’s even more apparent, because Ms. Öztürk was not a known organizer or advocate for any cause, really. And Ms. Öztürk’s sole sort of publicly identifiable association to the movement against the genocide and the movement for Palestinian human rights was this co-authored op-ed in her school newspaper that was really just asking the university to respect the wishes and the vote of the student Senate. And, you know, all of the sudden, in February of 2025, almost a year after she’s written — she’s co-written this op-ed, Canary Mission publishes a page on her, doxxing her and alleging that she’s engaged in antisemitic behavior because of this co-authored op-ed. And less than a month later, she’s abducted by ICE.
And so, it’s very chilling that the government seems to be taking their marching orders from these private doxxing organizations with mysterious funding and backing. And I think it underscores why the government’s actions are simply unconscionable."
#Fascism #Trump #RumeysaOzturk #CanaryMission #Doxing #ICE #DHS #Courts #Kidnapping #Genocide #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Tufts #FreeSpeech
I think at this point you have to be using some kind of motivated reasoning to pretend a Trump regime full of literal nazis who're kidnapping anti-genocide student protestors legally living and studying in the United States, is doing so to fight "antisemitism." This regime doesn't care about antisemitism, it cares about its genocidal settler colonial client state in the Middle East, Israel, but the administration, which frequently dabbles in open antisemitism, is happy to use the fight against really existing hatemongering against Jewish people as a cudgel to accomplish its fascist goals; namely allowing Israel to complete its genocide in Gaza, purging student dissidents with experience fighting the regime, and seizing control of higher education as part of a Yarvinite scheme to create a fascist dictatorship under Trump. As many, including some of the students quoted in the article I'm about to share have noted, weaponizing antisemitism to do fascism is in and of itself a form of antisemitism, and it's certainly not doing anything to help keep Jewish American students safe.
If any of that seemed controversial to you, I'd ask that you please consider the case of Mohsen Mahdawi, a Columbia student organizer who was lured in for seizure by the promise of a citizenship interview after being marked out by fascist, pro-genocide doxing groups Canary Mission, and Betar for having the nerve to go on 60 Minutes to talk about the occupation of Gaza and why the fight for Palestinian liberation and the fight against antisemitism "go hand-in-hand."
https://zeteo.com/p/jewish-students-slam-trump-arrest-moshen-mahdawi
'New Kind of Antisemitism': Jewish Students Slam Trump's Detention of Mohsen Mahdawi
"Mahdawi, like Mahmoud Khalil, reportedly wrote to the university asking for help finding a safe location to live, away from ICE. As with Khalil, the university appears to have ignored the repeated pleas. Mahdawi’s requests came after months of anti-free speech groups like Betar USA and Canary Mission targeting him, amid his involvement in the Columbia anti-war and pro-Palestine protests over the last 18 months.
The groups pointed to things like his appearance on CBS’ ‘60 Minutes’ – where he discussed not viewing Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack in a vacuum – as proof of his villainy. In that same appearance, Mahdawi condemned antisemitism, recounting an instance during a student walkout when he told off a campus non-affiliate saying antisemitic phrases.
“To be antisemitic is unjust,” Mahdawi said during the segment. “The fight for freedom of Palestine and the fight against antisemitism go hand-in-hand because injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
And so Mahdawi becomes the latest in a string of students the Trump administration has targeted nationwide in the name of “student safety” and “combating antisemitism” – while Jewish peers of these students express feeling safe and heard around them."
I think one of the students quoted in this article summed up the situation best when he pointed out that Palestinians shouldn't have to be model minorities in American society for folks to treat them like human beings and care about their rights, but by all accounts, including those from school faculty and Jewish students who knew him, Mohsen Mahdawi was in fact that person. Indeed at the time of his kidnapping Mahdawi was actively working to bridge whatever rift exists between Palestinian and Jewish students at Columbia and in the surrounding community; so to claim you're fighting antisemitism by confining and attempting to deport such a person is a particularly crass and odious weaponization of one vulnerable minority to persecute another; which is probably why it appeals so much to a fascist regime full of imperialist Islamophobes and antisemites.
Look, as much as the regime (and society at large) wants to divide us all and put us into little boxes, the reality on the ground is that none of this serves the interests of everyday people in our society, be they Palestinian, Jewish, or neither. Weaponizing Jewish students and the safety of American Jews to install fascism *is* as one student put it, "the new kind of antisemitism." Targeting foreign students legally studying in the United States for opposing a genocide the regime wants to profit from, *is* fascism in action. Using foreign policy as an excuse to expel non-white people *is* part of a fascist project to establish a white ethno-state in America. Whether Americans want to hear it or not, we all have a vested interest in stopping the persecution of folks like Mohsen Mahdawi, Rumeysa Ozturk, and Mahmoud Khalil; not just because we could be next, but because a failure to do so will be a terrible stain on our common humanity, and diminish all that is worth saving about our shared society.
#Fascism #Columbia #Genocide #CanaryMission #MohsenMahdawi #Betar #Trump #StudentProtests #PoliceState #ICE #DHS #Israel #Gaza #antisemitism #Imperialism #Islamophobia #SettlerColonialism #RumeysaOzturk #MahmoudKhalil
In a sign that the Trump regime plans to continue its fascist repression of student protestors legally in the US and dissent in general, even as its authority to do so is being challenged in court, ICE has kidnapped another Columbia University anti-genocide protest leader. Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian who has legally been studying in the United States for the past 10 years, was arrested by ICE as he arrived for a citizenship test; now the regime seems intent on deporting him under the familiar Calvinball argument that Marco Rubio can deport anyone he deems "detrimental to U.S. foreign policy interests" on a whim; a tactic the administration has used to justify prior attempts to deport political prisoners Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk, among others:
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/14/ice-columbia-student-mohsen-mahdawi-citizenship-interview/
Palestinian Student Leader Was Called In for Citizenship Interview — Then Arrested by ICE
"Even before his friend and fellow Columbia activist Mahmoud Khalil was arrested by immigration authorities, Mahdawi asked university administrators to help him find a safe place to live so he would not be taken by ICE agents, according to emails reviewed by The Intercept. The school did nothing in response, Mahdawi said.
After ICE abducted Khalil last month, Mahdawi sheltered in place for more than three weeks for fear of being picked up himself.
Instead of taking him off the street, however, immigration authorities scheduled the citizenship test at the Colchester USCIS office and took Mahdawi into custody when he arrived.
Now, Mahdawi is facing an order to deport him to the occupied West Bank, where escalating attacks from both the Israeli military and Jewish settlers have led to increased casualties among Palestinians.
“It’s kind of a death sentence,” Mahdawi said. “Because my people are being killed unjustly in an indiscriminate way.”
Please also note that a number of other kidnapping targets taken by ICE, Mahdawi was previously marked out for reprisal by pro-Zionist smear group Canary Mission, and Betar, a far right hate group that's widely considered a fascist organization even in Israel; because apparently US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is now taking foreign policy and national security advice from ultra-Zionist extremist hate groups that openly advocate for violence against Palestinians and protestors. Like all of the other anti-genocide protestors the regime has kidnapped, there is no evidence that Mahdawi is a "terrorist" or committed any serious crimes, except of course the Trump administration's argument that protesting a genocide is in and of itself, domestic terrorism.
#Trump #Fascism #Columbia #ICE #MohsenMahdawi #MarcoRubio #Betar #CanaryMission #Kidnapping #PoliceState #StudentProtests #Gaza #Genocide #Israel
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/02/penn-israel-canary-mission-peisach/
Pro-Israel Group That Attacked #UPenn Was Funded by Family of UPenn Trustee
The University of Pennsylvania has been a target of #CanaryMission, a pro-Israel “blacklist” group. #Gaza
This is a long shot, but are there any pro-Palestine international students who have been doxxed because of #canarymission?
I am working on a journalistic piece that touches on this.
Specifically looking for those who have had visas revoked (which is why this is a long shot)
Signal me via my username: BlueSpirit.13
#PineAndRoses #NewEngland #DSA protests #ICEDetentions
Posted by #MaineDSA and Wes Pelletier | Mar 27, 2025
"Last week, the #MaineCoalitionForPalestine organized a protest of ICE detention of #ColumbiaUniversity student leader #MahmoudKhalil. Since then, ICE has operated as the #Trump Administration’s #SecretPolice, abducting a growing number of immigrant organizers for exercising their right to #FreeSpeech and protesting the U.S.-sponsored #genocide in #Gaza. The list includes #RumeysaOzturk, #YunseoChung, #BadarKhunSuri, #MomodouTaal, #RanjaniSrinivasan, as well as #farmworker organizer #AlfredoJuarezZerefino. Maine DSA member and Portland District 2 City Councilmember #WesPelletier spoke at the Portland Mahmoud Khalil protest and DSA chapters around New England issued a joint declaration reprinted below against the ICE abduction of Rumeysa Ozturk.
New England DSA chapters demand freedom for Rumeysa Ozturk
"Yesterday, ICE agents abducted Rumeysa Ozturk, a graduate student and pro-Palestine activist at Tufts.
"The kidnapping comes after almost 400 #ICEArrests in Massachusetts, as well as the #doxxing of Ozturk by the pro-Isreal website #CanaryMission.
"ICE’s abductions—of Ozturk, Khalil, and many others—is an unprecedented attack on basic #CivilRights in the name of U.S. Empire, whether those detained are peaceful #PoliticalActivists or undocumented #migrants seeking safety, jobs, and a better life.
"We must stand up against this brazen attack on #Palestine, #FreeSpeech, and the #RightToProtest.
"We must stand in solidarity with our neighbors and communities under attack from Trump, ICE, and all agents of #imperialism.
"Governor Healey, the courts, and the Democratic Party establishment are not coming to save us—we must mobilize, agitate, and organize in our workplaces and campuses to defend working-class rights.
In Solidarity,
#BerkshiresDSA, #BostonDSA, #BostonUniversityYDSA, #CapeCodDSA, #ConnecticutDSA, #MaineDSA, #NortheasternYDSA, #RiverValleyDSA, #SimmonsYDSA, #SouthernNewHampshireDSA, #UpperValleyDSA, #WorcesterDSA"
Source:
https://pineandroses.org/news/new-england-dsa-protests-ice-detentions/
#ResistICE #ResistFascism #Resistance #District13 #District13Resists #Fascism #USPol #Authoritarianism #TurReich #CharacteristicsOfFascism
#CanaryMission are another pack of wankers targeting #proPalestinian students and activists
#DHS detains grad student who advocated for #Palestine and the "humanity of all people"
#RumeysaOzturk, a student at #TuftsUniversity, drew the attention of a pro-Israel group for co-authoring an op-ed
By Charles R. Davis
Published March 26, 2025 10:01AM Updated March 26, 2025 5:27PM (EDT)
"The Trump administration has detained a Tufts University graduate student exactly one year after she coauthored a plea for 'the equal dignity and #humanity of all people,' including Palestinians.
"Rumeysa Ozturk, a native of Turkey, was 'ambushed' late Tuesday outside her apartment, according to a statement that her attorney provided to The Boston Globe. Neighbors had seen agents in #UnmarkedCars monitoring her apartment for two days prior to the arrest, the outlet reported.
"'Her arrest comes after the #ProIsrael group #CanaryMission flagged Ozturk for having 'engaged in anti-Israel activism in March 2024.'"
Read more:
https://www.salon.com/2025/03/26/dhs-detains-grad-student-advocated-for-palestine-and-the-humanity-of-all-people/
#BostonMA #Orwellian #Authoritarianism #CharacteristicsOfFascism
#Rumeysa #Ozturk #CanaryMission
A different angle showing the #kidnapping of Runeysa Ozturk by U.S. secret police in Massachusetts.
(via Daniel Boguslaw on Twitter)
The Trump administration has detained a Tufts University graduate student exactly one year after she coauthored a plea for "the equal dignity and humanity of all people," including Palestinians.
#Rumeysa #Ozturk, a native of Turkey,
💥was "ambushed" late Tuesday outside her apartment,
according to a statement that her attorney provided to The Boston Globe.
⚠️Neighbors had seen agents in unmarked cars monitoring her apartment for two days prior to the arrest, the outlet reported.
Her arrest comes after the pro-Israel group #CanaryMission flagged Ozturk for having "engaged in anti-Israel activism in March 2024."
That activism, according to the group, consisted entirely of co-authoring an op-ed in The Tufts Daily, a student newspaper,
in which she and three other graduate students called on the school to "acknowledge the Palestinian genocide" and divest from companies with ties to Israel, as called for in resolutions passed by the student Senate.
"We, as graduate students, affirm the equal dignity and humanity of all people," the students wrote in the article, published March 26, 2024.
Tufts University President Sunil Kumar acknowledged Ozturk's arrest in a Tuesday night statement that identified her only as an "international graduate student."
"From what we've been told subsequently, the student's visa has been terminated, and we seek to confirm whether that information is true," Kumar said.
Mahsa Khanbabai, Ozturk's attorney, told Salon that her client has a valid F-1 student visa and was "heading to meet with friends to break her Ramadan fast" when she was detained by DHS agents outside her home.
"We are unaware of her whereabouts and have not been able to contact her. No charges have been filed against [her] that we are aware of," Khanbabai said in a statement.
In a statement to Salon, a Trump administration spokesperson asserted, without providing evidence, that "DHS and ICE investigations found Ozturk engaged in activities in support of Hamas." The spokesperson did not suggest Ozturk had committed any crime, and confirmed that she had permission to be in the U.S. as a foreign student, but said that a "visa is a privilege not a right."
"Glorifying and supporting terrorists who kill Americans is grounds for visa issuance to be terminated," the spokesperson said. "This is commonsense security.”
As of Wednesday morning, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainee database identified Ozturk as being "In ICE Custody." It did not list a location.
The War on #Masks Has Taken on a New Meaning
This time, the masks have nothing to do with #COVID19.
By Henry Grabar
Feb 05, 20254:57 PM
"Last month, state legislators in New York introduced a bill that would create a new crime: 'masked harassment.'
"That, the law explains, is when you wear a mask 'for the primary purpose of menacing or threatening violence against another person' or 'placing another person or group of persons in reasonable fear for their physical safety.'
"If that seems like a bit of a niche offense—threatening violence is already a crime, after all—it’s because the language has been watered down to attract political support. It’s a sign of New York Democrats’ cautious new approach over masks in public life, and a retreat from last spring, when anti-Israel protests, on top of a widespread urban crime panic, pushed leaders from New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass to consider mask bans.
"In its original form, the New York bill would have banned masks at public assemblies entirely. But the outcry from #DisabilityRights advocates, #CriminalJustice reformers, #HealthCareWorkers, and #CivilLiberties groups was swift, and so New York wound up with this bill on 'masked harassment' instead.
"Elsewhere, the pandemic-era leniency on masking in public is over. #NorthCarolina Republicans overrode a gubernatorial veto last summer to once again #BanPublicFaceCoverings, except to stop the spread of contagious diseases. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost dusted off an old law to threaten #StudentProtesters with #felonies. Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has asked the state’s Senate to consider a bill to #unmask #protesters this year.
"For Republicans, it’s a chance to kill two birds with one stone. They can strike back against the perceived overreach of pandemic-era #HealthDirectives and make it easier to arrest #demonstrators at the same time.
"In #Ohio and North Carolina, the original statutes were written in the 1950s to stop demonstrations by the #KuKluxKlan, but had been ignored or suspended during the #pandemic and the #GeorgeFloydProtests. Many lawmakers have cited the recent demonstrations in defense of #Gaza as a reason to crack down again. Defending the proposed mask ban in New York, Anti-Defamation League [#ADL] president Jonathan Greenblatt said the demonstrators were using '#KKK tactics' to intimidate Jewish New Yorkers.
"That instinct was bolstered by the sense among many city residents and elected leaders that widespread masking was a factor behind the pandemic-era crime spike. That led to #Philadelphia banning #SkiMasks in parks, on trains, and in public buildings. A more recent, high-profile example came in December with the Midtown Manhattan killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO #BrianThompson by a #MaskedAssassin, which prompted New York Mayor Eric Adams to call for cab drivers and business owners to ask customers to remove their masks. The new New York bill has won over the liberal Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who endorsed the 'tailored' approach. As the police say: #NoFaceNoCase.
"For what it’s worth, there are too many confounding variables and too little data to be sure if mask-wearing is associated with crime, said Ernesto Lopez at the Council for Criminal Justice, which collects crime reporting statistics from various cities. 'From a theoretical statement it makes sense that could occur, but it has not been demonstrated that’s the case,' he told me.
"But if all that weighed in favor of more mask bans, there was also widespread resistance. Disability advocates mobilized to defend the right to mask; North Carolina had to write a medical exemption into their bill at the insistence of a GOP House member. #PoliceReformers observed that #MaskBans have often been used for pretextual #policing and racial profiling against #BlackAmericans. (#AtlantaGeorgia tabled a mask ban for that reason.)
"What looms largest, as the second Trump administration begins, is the role of protest. As Semafor’s Dave Weigel has noted, masks have become a badge of left-wing protest culture. That’s in part an extension of politicized COVID-era concerns about health and civility, but at this point it is mostly a tactic to preserve anonymity in an era of #FacialRecognition, streaming video, and #doxing. Last year, the anonymous #ProIsrael website the #CanaryMission posted photographs of hundreds of students and faculty at campus protests and posted their names and photos online, labeling some as supporters of terrorism.
"'The concern takes on new urgency as Donald Trump pledges to revoke the visas of pro-Palestine protesters, and the Trump-Musk GOP embraces the naming and shaming of otherwise private citizens. A conservative group called the American Accountability Foundation has begun circulating lists of federal workers, many of them Black, who should be
'targets' for their alleged involvement in #DEI initiatives at work.
"Clearly, the masked protest does not always sit well with an older generation, many of whom cut their teeth in the protests of the pre-internet age. As Georgetown professor Michael Kazin told the New York Times last year: 'I do think if you are going to demonstrate, and it’s something you feel deeply about, you should be willing to stand up and be counted.'"
Source:
https://slate.com/business/2025/02/mask-bans-new-york-los-angeles-crime-protests-criminalize-face-coverings.html?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
#Fascism #AuthoritarianRule #BigBrother #BigBrotherIsWatchingYou #SurveillanceState #SilencingDissent
@dbattistella I hope everybody considers following the #CanaryMission #hashtag
@dbattistella #CanaryMission is funded by the #GOP I’m guessing.
#TheIntercept November 2018
#CanaryMission’s Blacklist of Pro-Palestine Activists Is Taking a Toll
https://theintercept.com/2018/11/22/israel-boycott-canary-mission-blacklist/
I' m looking to see if #CanaryMission is designated as a #hategroup
It doesn't look like it's formally designated as a hate group, but there should be criteria to consider it a hate group
#TheNation
Who Is Funding #CanaryMission? Inside the Doxxing Operation Targeting Anti-Zionist Students and Professors | by #JamesBamford
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/canary-mission-israel-covert-operations/
