Twitter Suspends Account Of Site That Blacklists Israel Critics
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By Josh Nathan-Kazis February 26, 2018
Twitter has suspended the account of Canary Mission, the shadowy group that publishes an online blacklist of pro-Palestinian student activists.
Founded in 2015, the site says that it aims to prevent pro-Palestinian students from finding work after college. It hides the identities of its own staff and funders.
Canary Mission did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the suspension. Twitter did not immediately say why it suspended the account, though common reasons include abusive tweets or other violations of Twitter’s terms of service.
Jewish academics have accused Canary Mission of “McCarthyite” tactics, and pro-Palestinian advocates have called it an online bullying campaign. But last year, a mainstream Jewish organization, the Israel on Campus Coalition, endorsed the group.
Canary Mission’s website includes dossiers on 300 professors and another 1400 people, many of them undergraduates.
Contact Josh Nathan-Kazis at [email protected] or on Twitter, @joshnathankazis.
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