Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Canary Mission, a group that publishes information online about anti-Israel activists in an effort to punish them through a blacklist.
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News Canary Mission Dumped By Diller Foundation, But Critics Say It Doesn’t Go Far Enough
One of the U.S. charities that the Forward exposed as a funder of the online blacklist Canary Mission is trying to distance itself from the website, but alumni of its teen program say it isn’t going far enough. In a letter, senior staff of the Helen Diller Family Foundation acknowledged the foundation’s grant in support…
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Fast Forward LA Jewish Group Suspends Grants To Organization Tied To Canary Mission
(JTA) — The Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles will suspend grants from donors to a group that appears to support the controversial Canary Mission, although the foundation said it was not aware that previous grants had been used to fund Canary Mission and its efforts to blacklist anti-Israel activists on campus. In a statement…
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News Documents Reveal Board Of Shadowy Charity Linked To Canary Mission
The Israeli not-for-profit registered under the name Megamot Shalom was never meant to be found. Until early this month, its online footprint was almost nil. It has no official website, no public spokesman, and its listed address is an apparently empty office building on a rundown commercial strip in Beit Shemesh, west of Jerusalem. In…
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Opinion Why Federations Funding Canary Mission Shouldn’t Surprise You
This week, a series of exposés by Josh Nathan-Kazis in these pages revealed that an Israeli charity that appears to run the blacklist site Canary Mission received funding from a foundation controlled by the Jewish Community Federations of San Francisco. A second piece identified the Jewish Community Federation of Los Angeles communal fund as a…
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News Second Major Jewish Charity Admits Funding Group Tied To Canary Mission Blacklist
A second major U.S. Jewish charity has acknowledged to the Forward that it funded the Israeli charity that appears to run Canary Mission, the online blacklist of student activists that the Israeli government has used to interrogate and detain U.S. citizens. Between November of 2016 and September of 2017, the Jewish Community Foundation of Los…
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Israel News San Francisco Federation Funds Far-Right U.S. Groups, Not Just Canary Mission
The recent revelation that San Francisco’s Jewish Community Federation funneled $100,000 to the anti-BDS blacklisting website Canary Mission shocked many. But that donation was only one in a long list of controversial far-right fringe causes supported by the federation through one of its largest “supporting foundations” – the Helen Diller Family Foundation. The federation’s guidelines…
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Letters We Alumni Of The Diller Teen Foundation Call On The Federation To Do Teshuva
We are writing as alumni of the Diller Teen Fellowship in the San Francisco Bay Area along with dozens of Diller alumni from across the US and Canada. Last Thursday, we were devastated to learn that the Helen Diller Family Foundation — founders and major funders of the Diller Teen Fellows program in which hundreds…
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Opinion Canary Mission Protects Jews. It Should Be Thanked, Not Criticized
A recent exposé in these pages disclosed that Canary Mission, a website that collects the anti-Semitic and anti-Israel statement of activists, received funding from the San Francisco Jewish Federation. The Federation was forced by the report to promise that it would no longer fund Canary Mission. This is a mistake. Canary Mission provides a huge…
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