Jacqueline Sweet
Oct 16, 2025

When Canary Mission began “doxxing” people for expressing pro-Palestine views a decade ago, the shadowy group mostly found traction among pro-Israel advocates who lobbied, with mixed success, to put a blacklist into effect. The group’s dossiers on activists and students led to firings, harassment, and death threats against its targets. Canary Mission has since risen to become an influential organ in President Donald Trump’s deportation machine, and its accumulated dossiers are now used by U.S. federal authorities and have led to immigration arrests of students.

Canary Mission issued a statement in April that it did not actively share its dossiers with the Trump administration: “Our investigations of anti-U.S. and antisemitic extremists are all publicly available on our website.” In July, however, according to new court testimony, Peter Hatch, a senior official in ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations, testified that “most” of the names on a list of students for his agency to investigate came from Canary Mission’s website.

From Long Island to the Baltics: Drop Site Investigation Reveals New Details About Canary Mission's Operations

Drop Site uncovered new information about individuals, donor networks, and businesses helping Canary Mission, a pro-Israel organization serving the U.S.'s deportation and repression efforts.

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