#CANARY MAIL PRO VS FREE FREE#
Since it first splashed on the web three years ago, the blacklist has taken a remarkable toll on activists’ mental health and ability to engage in free speech and public advocacy on Palestine. is one of more than 1,000 students, professors, and activists that the website has placed in its crosshairs.
“ updates the page, so I know there’s someone who looks for me online and updates every few months, which just feels incredibly scary.”Ĭanary Mission’s growth coincides with the increasing strength of the Palestinian rights movement in the United States, and S.A. “My anxiety is so bad I literally have put off applying to grad school for the past two years because I’m afraid that this will be part of the reason I’m rejected,” she told The Intercept. And when she contemplates her future, S.A.’s anxiety flares up again because of her profile on Canary Mission, which focused on, among other things, her criticism of her school system’s support for Israel and her participation in protests condemning Israel’s use of force on Palestinians. She hasn’t created a LinkedIn, even though that could hinder future job searches. S.A. was placed on the website Canary Mission, which compiles dossiers on Palestinian rights advocates and labels them racists, anti-Semites, and supporters of terrorism.īeing placed on Canary Mission led her to close all her social media pages to the public. At the time, she was the head of a campus Students for Justice in Palestine group and advocated for boycotting Israel. Her paranoia and anxiety blew up again in 2015.
Still, a year later, she felt comfortable enough to get back online. was a threat.įederal agents responded to the call and questioned S.A about terrorism, after which she grew paranoid about government surveillance and deleted her Facebook. One of her classmates called the FBI to report that S.A. It was 2010, and the federal government’s security apparatus had taken a particular interest in New York Muslims like herself. was a high school sophomore when she had her first personal encounter with the post-9/11 surveillance state.
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