"You write: “International law experts interviewed by CTV National News say this case may not meet the high bar of proving intent to commit genocide […]” Again, these words are highly misleading as you give voice and space to experts who say that it is possible to prove intent to commit genocide."
January 8, 2024
To:
Judy Trinh, Ottawa Correspondent, CTV News
Dan Taylor, Managing Editor, CTV News
Dear Judy Trinh and Dan Taylor,
I am writing to express concern about the article, “Pressure mounts on Canada to support South Africa’s legal battle for ceasefire in Gaza” published on January 7 in CTV News.
There are two significant issues in your article.
First, you write: “[…] more than three months after Hamas’ attack on southern Israel killed innocent civilians […]”
These words are highly misleading and don’t give the full picture. These words can mislead readers into thinking that Hamas’ attack was explicitly aimed at killing civilians, which is not true. On October 7, Hamas killed civilians and Israeli security forces.
To make your article more accurate, I, therefore, suggest adding the words and Israeli security forces after the word civilians.
Second, you write: “International law experts interviewed by CTV National News say this case may not meet the high bar of proving intent to commit genocide […]”
Again, these words are highly misleading as you give voice and space to experts who say that it is possible to prove intent to commit genocide, such as Jane Boulden, an international relations and security expert at Queen’s University, and Alex Neve, a human rights advocate and a senior fellow with the University of Ottawa’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs.
To make your article more accurate and less misleading, I therefore suggest changing the words may not to the words can.
I hope CTV News will make these changes and not further mislead its readers regarding Palestine-Israel.
Sincerely,
Fatima Haidar,
Media Analyst, Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East