This is happening online but with serious real-world consequences for people who don’t support Israel or genocide.
Canary’s non-public websites promise expansion into new avenues to continue the group’s mission of punishing Americans for pro-Palestine speech via doxxing, pressure campaigns, and now arrests and deportations carried out by allies in the State Department.
BlackNest’s web development content reveals how Canary Mission thinks of its “wins” in its efforts to influence U.S. policy. The website categorizes the group’s impacts into categories: “Change of behavior,” job loss, denials of entry to the U.S., arrests, and “deportation/forced to flee.” The site also collects mentions of Canary Mission in media, mostly from U.S. news outlets, and celebrates mentions of their impact.
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In the PDF, the group lists its core values as: Follow daas torah (a concept in Orthodox Judaism about rabbinical authority), integrity, passion for the cause, anonymity, no-ego team player, and rosh gadol (or Hebrew slang for someone “seeing the big picture”).
“Fight those who hate the Jewish people” is the listed purpose, and the group’s niche is “dismantle the anti-Israel network by attacking the messenger, not the message.”
The DHS testified in court that they use Canary Mission to choose targets for deportation, so this is a very serious threat.
The frustrating thing is they genuinely believe they’re the good guys
No they don’t. They believe they are superior, supreme. They believe they are better because they are more advanced and have more money, they don’t care about goodness.
I would say by their judgment that is what makes them “good”.
this has also been the case for prior genocidal projects
I’d be hard pressed to think of one that wasn’t, yeah.
this is the problem rooting a system of ethics in an authoritative morality. morality is socially assigned where as ethics are derived based on reaching consensus. whether or not something is morally right or wrong is nearly indistinguishable from whether or not something is legally allowed or disallowed. the Israelis have been programmed for 80 years to believe that theirs is the most moral army because their interpretation of the torah tells them it must be so. the nazis believed they were right, and so did the americans and british they were drawing inspiration from.
much better to focus on ethics derived on features of what it means to be human and what dignities we must all have respected as we navigate the world