Online database 'exposes' pro-Palestinian college students in bid to block future jobs

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/1.658325?

A new website is publicizing the identities of pro-Palestinian student activists to prevent them from getting jobs after they graduate from college. But the website is keeping its own backers’ identity a secret.

“It is your duty to ensure that today’s radicals are not tomorrow’s employees,” a female narrator intones in a slick video posted to the website’s YouTube account.

Called Canary Mission, the site has posted profiles of dozens of students and recent graduates, alongside those of well-known activists like Omar Barghouti, founder of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. Some of the students are active in Students for Justice in Palestine; others were involved in recent pro-BDS resolutions at campuses in California. Many of them have relatively thin activist résumés.

“The focus on young people and students is an effort to try to tell people that there will be a price for you taking a political position,” said Ali Abunimah, founder of the pro-Palestinian website The Electronic Intifada. “It’s an effort to punish and deter people from standing up for what they believe.”

Daniel Pipes, president of the Middle East Forum, defended the tactic as a way of forcing people to understand the seriousness of their political stands.

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See also

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/27/website-targets-pro-palestinian-students-harm-job-prospects

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29 replies	Author	Time	Post
Online database 'exposes' pro-Palestinian college students in bid to block future jobs (Original post)	Lagom	May 2015	OP
That it is endorsed by Daniel Pipes is kind of all you need to know	Scootaloo	May 2015	#1
Absolutely. eom	BlueMTexpat	May 2015	#10
+1. Probably Pamela Geller too.	closeupready	May 2015	#25
Post removed	Post removed	May 2015	#2
Pro Palestinian means anti semite?	CBGLuthier	May 2015	#4
calling someone "anti-semitic" who is simply against the atrocities in Gaza, etc is an old canard	Lagom	May 2015	#5
And yes, I would oppose a website designed to stop Republicans from getting jobs	nxylas	May 2015	#9
Ridiculous...	Oktober	May 2015	#14
Lynchings and child abuse are not considered protected speech under the first amendment	nxylas	May 2015	#24
No one is talking about that...	Oktober	May 2015	#29
SVAPP	daredtowork	May 2015	#3
Orwellian as shit.	peecoolyour	May 2015	#6
The precident was set at Mozilla	AngryAmish	May 2015	#18
Mozilla? The makers of the Firefox browser?	starroute	May 2015	#19
Brendon Eich was forced to resign because of his anti gay views.	AngryAmish	May 2015	#21
So unless you supported a bigot you have no right to complain about bigotry	starroute	May 2015	#22
Not quite.	AngryAmish	May 2015	#23
Yeah, why blame fundamentalists when you can blame Democrats?	closeupready	May 2015	#27
Come on. Any employer using this is begging for a lawsuit.	DetlefK	May 2015	#7
It won't be the "employer"	Jesus Malverde	May 2015	#12
Oh, you are so delightfully naive	spinbaby	May 2015	#13
Pro-Palestinian means	Unknown Beatle	May 2015	#8
absolutely disgusting and they of course keep themselves secret	azurnoir	May 2015	#11
Not a good move for the anti-Palestinian folks. Mentally I just moved closer to the Pals side nt	okaawhatever	May 2015	#15
Vile and disgusting.	Scuba	May 2015	#16
here in Wisconsin. the word is if you signed the recall forget many state jobs	dembotoz	May 2015	#17
It's the stalkerish part that's most chilling	starroute	May 2015	#20
It's revenge porn, and highly illegal. A lawsuit could shut them down.	closeupready	May 2015	#26
BDS = Bad!	Scurrilous	May 2015	#28

Response to Lagom (Original post)

Thu May 28, 2015, 03:01 AM

Scootaloo (25,699 posts)

1. That it is endorsed by Daniel Pipes is kind of all you need to know

Also endorsed by a few posters on DU.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1134103667

...interestingly i did not know that that OP got hidden.

Online database 'exposes' pro-Palestinian college students in bid to block future jobs

1. That it is endorsed by Daniel Pipes is kind of all you need to know

10. Absolutely. eom

25. +1. Probably Pamela Geller too.

4. Pro Palestinian means anti semite?

5. calling someone "anti-semitic" who is simply against the atrocities in Gaza, etc is an old canard

9. And yes, I would oppose a website designed to stop Republicans from getting jobs

14. Ridiculous...

24. Lynchings and child abuse are not considered protected speech under the first amendment

29. No one is talking about that...

3. SVAPP

6. Orwellian as shit.

18. The precident was set at Mozilla

19. Mozilla? The makers of the Firefox browser?

21. Brendon Eich was forced to resign because of his anti gay views.

22. So unless you supported a bigot you have no right to complain about bigotry

23. Not quite.

27. Yeah, why blame fundamentalists when you can blame Democrats?

7. Come on. Any employer using this is begging for a lawsuit.

12. It won't be the "employer"

13. Oh, you are so delightfully naive

8. Pro-Palestinian means

11. absolutely disgusting and they of course keep themselves secret

15. Not a good move for the anti-Palestinian folks. Mentally I just moved closer to the Pals side nt

16. Vile and disgusting.

17. here in Wisconsin. the word is if you signed the recall forget many state jobs

20. It's the stalkerish part that's most chilling

26. It's revenge porn, and highly illegal. A lawsuit could shut them down.

28. BDS = Bad!