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Opinion | I’m A Zionist. Canary Mission Targeted Me Anyway.

JL;DR SUMMARY David Biale, a Zionist and Jewish history professor, critiques the Canary Mission, a secretive group labeling individuals as anti-Israel and anti-Semitic often based on flimsy connections or opposition to Israel's policies towards Palestinian territories. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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ZionismAcademic FreedomJewish StudiesPeter BeinartOccupationBdsDavid BialeCanary Mission

Places mentioned

Irvine, California, United States
"My specific sins appear to have been the following: (1) to have signed a petition against criminal charges for a group of students at UC Irvine who disrupted a speech by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren"
New York, United States
"Or consider the cases of Katherine Franke of Columbia University and Vincent Warren of the Center for Constitutional Rights, who were leading a delegation of civil rights lawyers and were deported on flimsy or non-existent grounds."
Davis, California, United States
"David Biale is Emanuel Ringelblum Distinguished Professor of Jewish History at the University of California, Davis and the author or editor of eleven books in the field of Jewish Studies."
Israel
"Over the past half year, various individuals have been either denied entry to Israel or have undergone long interrogations at the border."
San Francisco, California, United States
"So says the Canary Mission, a secretive website funded in part (as The Forward has reported) by a foundation affiliated with the San Francisco Jewish Federation."

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