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Today, an anonymous pro-Israel group and web database, Canary Mission.

They've seen this opportunity to not just have people be shamed and excluded,

but to actually have the hammer of the state brought down on them.

It's been blacklisting pro-Palestinian students and professors.

Now the Trump administration is using it to silence and potentially deport them.

I'm Manuel Rappalo, and this is The Take.

My name is Darrell Lee, and I teach anthropology and law at the University of Chicago.

Daryl, first of all, I should say that you yourself are on the Canary

mission's so-called blacklist. I know that it's anonymous and it's somewhat obscure, but do we

have any sense of who is behind Canary Mission? In short, no. We have no idea who is behind this website.

It seems to have popped out of nowhere in 2014.

And it sort of represents an attempt to build not just a blacklist, but almost like a comprehensive

online directory for people operating on campuses in the United States

who the Zionist movement deems to be enemies. Now, some of the people on the website are

well-known activists who are also students and professors and workers at universities. Other people have very limited or incidental connections to Palestine activism.

Maybe they just signed a petition once or did something to support their students who they thought were being unfairly treated.

So this is a very, very wide-ranging sort of operation.

And as far as we can tell, completely untraceable.

But it's quite astounding that after being in operation for over a decade, we still don't really know who's behind Canary Mission.

Investigative journalists have spent months, if not years, digging into it.

They've found a few donors here and there,

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