Canary Mission is a pro-Israel doxxing operation that has systematically targeted American students, professors, activists, and professionals for engaging in constitutionally protected speech critical of Israeli government policy. The operation compiles detailed dossiers on US residents, distributes these profiles to employers, universities, donors, and government actors, with the foreseeable and intended outcome of punishing and deterring lawful political advocacy.

Per a January 6, 2026 investigation by Drop Site News journalist Jacqueline Sweet, Canary Mission's operations are run out of Israel by a large Israeli team. Internal system timestamps correspond to Israeli time zones. The investigation uncovered over 100 gigabytes of data from Canary Mission's backend, including a secret internal website called "BlackNest" hosted on an intranet URL called "Kaloustropous."

BlackNest reveals Canary Mission as a disciplined, hierarchical, and professionalized operation. The site celebrates deportations, firings, and denials of entry as "company impact" metrics. A "Team Overview" page lists staff achievements, and a "Content Strategy Team" operates four sub-teams: profiles, editorial, reports, and social media, with a KPI of 5 posts per day.

A 21-page strategic planning document found on BlackNest outlines the group's mission to "fight those who hate the Jewish people" with a niche of "dismantle the anti-Israel network by attacking the messenger, not the message." Core targets from 2021-2024 included AMP, SJP, INN, JVP, CAIR, WOL, and FJP. For 2025, goals included 150 new profiles per week and sharing data with donors.

The operation's 2024 plan noted "facial rec software combined with scraping is efficiently producing named POIs" (persons of interest). Over 30 unique doxxers appear to have created fake Facebook and social media accounts to track targets, uploading information to a content management system using anonymous emails.

Unsealed court records from a 2025 federal trial revealed that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) relied extensively on Canary Mission's database when compiling dossiers on pro-Palestinian foreign students and academics for deportation and visa revocation. A DHS "tiger team" used data sourced from Canary Mission to identify more than 75% of the names targeted for enforcement actions.

On February 2, 2026, 70 organizations — Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Unitarian, civil rights, academic, legal, peace, and human rights groups — submitted a formal request to the DOJ National Security Division's FARA Unit seeking an investigation into whether Canary Mission qualifies as an agent of a foreign principal under FARA.

The Israeli nonprofit Megamot Shalom has been reported to be running Canary Mission's operations for years. Israeli tech company Shefing (owned by French-Israeli Philippe Cohen, based in a Jerusalem WeWork) built code for both Canary Mission and a spinoff called the Museum of Online Antisemitism.

Public disclosures filed abroad reportedly show that Canary Mission received approximately $1 million in foreign donations in a single year — far exceeding what has been disclosed in U.S. tax filings. Investigative reporting by Jewish Currents documented substantial donations from individuals closely connected to major pro-Israel institutions, including Michael Leven, a hospitality executive who served on the boards of Birthright Israel.