GOD BLESS THE CANARY MISSION for exposing
Antisemitic Jew-Hatred among Westerners who should know better yet are
supportive of Islamic terrorists such as Hamas, PLO and ilk.
May the people of the world be informed of the results of
blessing or cursing Israel:
Genesis 12: 1-3; 50:
24; Deuteronomy 30: 1-7, 19-20; Romans 11: 25-27 NKJV
[Genesis]
12 Now the Lord had
said to Abram:
“Get out of your country,
From your family
And from your father’s house,
To a land that I will show you.
2 I will make you a great nation;
I will bless you
And make your name great;
And you shall be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you,
And I will curse him who curses you;
And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
From your family
And from your father’s house,
To a land that I will show you.
2 I will make you a great nation;
I will bless you
And make your name great;
And you shall be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you,
And I will curse him who curses you;
And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
[Genesis 50:24]
24 And Joseph said to his
brethren, “I am dying; but God will surely visit you, and bring you out of
this land to the land of which He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to
Jacob.”
[Deuteronomy 30:1-7]
30 “Now it shall come to pass, when all these things
come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you,
and you [a]call them to
mind among all the nations where the Lord your God drives you, 2 and you return to
the Lord your God and obey His voice, according to all that I command
you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your
soul, 3 that
the Lord your God will bring you back from captivity, and have
compassion on you, and gather you again from all the nations where
the Lord your God has scattered you. 4 If any of
you are driven out to the farthest parts under heaven, from
there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there He will bring
you. 5 Then
the Lord your God will bring you to the land which your fathers
possessed, and you shall possess it. He will prosper you and multiply you more
than your fathers. 6 And the Lord your God will circumcise
your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the Lord your
God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.
7 “Also the Lord your
God will put all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you,
who persecuted you.
19 I call
heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have
set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life,
that both you and your descendants may live; 20 that
you may love the Lord your God, that you may obey His voice, and that
you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of
your days; and that you may dwell in the land which the Lord swore to
your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.”
[Romans 11:25-27]
25 For I do
not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you
should be wise in your own [a]opinion,
that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of
the Gentiles has come in. 26 And so all Israel will
be [b]saved,
as it is written:
“The Deliverer will come out of
Zion,
And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;
27 For this is My covenant with them,
When I take away their sins.”
And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;
27 For this is My covenant with them,
When I take away their sins.”
JRH 12/20/18
So readers, I’ve been using a seven year old laptop to fulfill the
old blogging habit. My lovely wife sprang for an upgrade.
I’m a relatively small-time blogger but with a consistently
growing readership despite some token censorship from the
liberal-oriented blog and social platforms.
Still looking to defray Christmas costs.
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HOW HISTORIANS WILL SEE CANARY MISSION YEARS FROM NOW
Exposing some of the most venomous hate speech on the internet.
By Edwin Black
December 20, 2018
On a recent Thursday, at about 8 am, on a desk illuminated
by light from a nearby window, a paper cup of steaming coffee laden with cream
and sugar was nudged near an open laptop, thus beginning a ten-to-twelve-hour
day of mind-numbing monitoring by a Canary
Mission [CM] staffer at one of the organization’s several
locations. In endless social media searches, refreshes, clicks, video reviews,
forwards and saves, the Canary Mission staffer will capture the worst of the
openly anti-Semitic and anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions agitation
and hate speech erupting all across America’s campuses. Their work also
encompasses white nationalism.
BDS advocates often spew some of the most venomous hate
speech visible on the Internet, hate speech that Canary Mission captures and
re-publishes in personal profiles. For example, the tweet by a Chicago activist
with Students for Justice in Palestine who tweeted this joke:
“Why did Hitler commit suicide?........ He saw the gas bill. Pahhahaha.” Or the
UCLA protestor whose Twitter account
was captured with this remark: “Mmmaaaannnnnnnnnnn what's with
all this peaceful approaches!?? F**k that. I want terrorism and another
intifada.” The same UCLA student reportedly added a photo close-up of a gun and
bullets.
After the massacre at Pittsburgh, calls
went out broadly to monitor, spotlight, and report hate
speech, especially since hateful acts of violence are often preceded by hate
speech. That is precisely what Canary Mission does. Canary Mission tracks
social media and videos, capturing BDS, anti-Zionist, and anti-Semitic
expressions, triangulating them into individual profiles that
expose and create permanent, highly-visible records of the words and images BDS
and SJP leaders actually use. The profiles are almost always incontestable
since CM links to actual videos,
tweets and other open documentation. Canary Mission’s intent is to shine an
indelible light on students, faculty, and others, thus creating a negative
incentive or at least a consequence for anti-Israel and anti-Semitic hate
speech.
Canary Mission began in 2015 with just 5+++0 profiles. By
December 2018, about 2,500 profiles have been listed. CM has received about
80-100 requests for removal. Very few have been made. One staffer explained,
“Even small errors are exceptionally rare due to our strict internal protocols.
On the handful of occasions that we found an error, we made an immediate
correction.”
Canary Mission has arguably proven itself the single most
effective effort against BDS and hate speech. A CM program called “Ex-Canary”
features remorseful hate speech purveyors. Thirteen reformed Ex-Canary individuals
previously featured “have since rejected the latent anti-Semitism prevalent
among anti-Israel organizations and activists,” explains a CM staffer, adding,
“These individuals have displayed the intellectual honesty to acknowledge the
problem of anti-Semitism within anti-Israel organizations such as Students for
Justice in Palestine (SJP), Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and the Boycott,
Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. They have shown moral courage to
recognize their earlier mistakes.”
A recent article in the pro-BDS publication, The
Intercept, was headlined: “It’s
Killing the Student Movement: Canary Mission’s Blacklist of Pro-Palestine
Activists Is Taking a Toll.” The article cited BDS activists
who have shut down their social media, fearing a Canary Mission profile. The
Intercept reported, “A survey of over 60 people profiled on Canary
Mission, conducted by the group Against Canary Mission,
found that 43 percent of respondents said they toned down their activism
because of the blacklist, while 42 percent said they suffered acute anxiety
from being placed on the website.”
Ironically, at a time when Canary Mission’s monitoring seems
the most needed, the organization is fighting a public relations war in the
Jewish media, the anti-Israel media, and the activist media. To me, it’s
confusing. Canary Mission is doing the very same thing that the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency and many other newspapers asked me to do in 2013 when, in an
award-winning syndicated series entitled “Funding Hate,”
I documented the virulent intersection of NGOs and anti-Jewish and anti-Israel
hate speech at a UN conference in Durban. That international hate fest
was replete with
Jewish caricatures, Nazi emblems and Hitler adulation, in large part funded by
the Ford Foundation. As a consequence of the series, the Ford Foundation revamped its
funding.
Early twentieth-century media defenders of Jewish rights,
such as Forverts, Der Tog,
and the Jewish
Daily Bulletin laid the ground work with their fearless
coverage of both Jew haters and those in the Jewish community who failed to
stand up to them. Typical was a blistering editorial in a 1933 edition of Der
Tog that bitterly attacked the American Jewish Committee and B'nai
B'rith for their "policy of fear and silence” during the rise of Hitler.
They even undermined anti-Nazi protest. “What [do they] propose?” Der
Tog asked. “Silence and nothing else! ... [Our] people are determined
to fight for their very life.”
Despite generations of precedent, a confusing picture of
Canary Mission now exists in some parts of the Jewish and larger media. The
admittedly press-shy organization is often negatively referred to as “shadowy.”
But when the group first emerged in late 2015, it took me only 34 minutes
communicating cold via their website to secure interviews for syndicated publication,
and eventually a photograph taken
in their office. That first request was only three words: “contact me back.”
Since then, I have monitored the group, especially as ominous news stories have
appeared in the Jewish media and they routinely reply at the same speed and
caliber as most other Jewish groups. Like other Jewish organizations, Canary
Mission admits to being selective in its media contacts. For this article, more
than two dozen routine written and verbal exchanges transpired—as routinely as
for any Jewish organization.
There seems to be much mythology about Canary Mission’s
physical presence on campus. One fallacy surrounds a purported visit Canary
Mission agents made to George Washington University’s campus during an April
2018 BDS vote. Canary Mission did remotely review and report on Internet
postings of BDS hate speech, such as claims that Israel is “poisoning
Palestinian water,” and one tweeted threat “to physically fight” Zionists “the
next time I see them." But then, two unverified images of individuals in yellow
bird costumes were circulated by some media, along with an
unverified student account of costumed or masked figures dancing ominously
outside the GWU BDS vote. On its face, it is implausible that Canary Mission
agents in bird costumes would make an appearance at an event where they are
reviled and subject to physical confrontation. Nonetheless, some publications
have prominently used a picture of a yellow
beak-masked person at GWU to symbolize the actual
organization. When asked about any GWU appearance, and the photos circulated, a
senior Canary Mission staffer chortled, “Definitely not us. We viewed it as
childish and unhelpful,” adding, “It seems more likely to be a couple of local
students.”
To date, the only legitimate known photo
of Canary Mission operatives is the one taken at my request—a
staffer’s hand over a laptop displaying the CM website.
Similarly confusing is a common media assertion that Canary
Mission’s tactics violate core “Jewish values.” One typical article cited a
list of student groups complaining the tactics are “antithetical to our
democratic and Jewish values” and “morally reprehensible.” To check that, I
asked the Coalition of Jewish Values, representing about 1,000 rabbis. CJV’s
president Pesach Lerner responded: “Everything Canary Mission reports is public
information, based upon statements at demonstrations and in social media. So on
the contrary, it is a mitzvah to protect the reputations, safety and lives of
innocent Israeli Jews against those who have, in their public statements and
actions, embraced anti-Semitic boycotts and demonization.”
Canary Mission is funded through tax-deductible entities.
The media campaign to undermine Canary Mission also includes seeking out CM’s
donors, trying to stigmatize those who are financially supporting the
blacklisting and documenting of hate speech and anti-Israel delegitimization.
Ironically, many of these media corporations are themselves tax-deductible
agencies that solicit donations hourly. All too often these publications
obscure their own funding and fund-raising activities—which can be triggered
with the click of the omnipresent “Donate” button. Anyone in any country can
click to pay via a credit card or PayPal. Some pre-set online buttons allow
$1,000 clicks. One such media button, when tested, allowed a $100,000 donation.
Major media grants are often solicited with written proposals promising
editorial slants or directions. Some media even seek funding for specific
investigations or features. Whereas major TV and print media, such as the Associated Press or PBS often
identify their funding, such transparency is commonly absent from the many
Canary Mission detractors in the Jewish media.
It all reminds me of the acrimonious divisions in the
American Jewish community that arose during the Hitler regime. Today—a
generation later--historians recognize that such defense-minded entities as The
Jewish War Veterans, the American Jewish Congress, Forverts and
the Jewish Daily Bulletin rose to the occasion and stood up
for Jewish rights. The silent and fearful leaders of B’nai B’rith and the American
Jewish Committee have been skewered in the lens of history for
their shameful lack of courage in the face of Nazi oppression, and even for
attacking or demonizing Jewish leaders who did dare to speak up.
A generation from now, when the chronicle of our era is
written, how will historians judge those who acted to defend against
anti-Jewish and anti-Israel bigotry—and those who did all they could to
frustrate those efforts? History’s analysis may repeat itself as historians
once more view harshly those in the Jewish community who used their power to
obstruct Jewish defense.
_____________________
Edwin Black
is the New
York Times bestselling
author of IBM and the Holocaust, Nazi Nexus, War Against the Weak, and The Farhud. In February 2016, he was
awarded the Moral Compass Award for
Lifetime Achievement by the Naples Holocaust Museum. He can be found at www.edwinblack.com.
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