MAP ALERT!: MAP Alert: National Post op-ed appears to incite violence against NDP leader

"Framing a political leader's public statements as deserving of divine or physical execution constitutes a clear threat and an alarming escalation for the National Post." Continue reading

 

MAP ALERT!: MAP Alert: Tell CBC's Values and Ethics Commissioner to hold its journalist to account!

Join us in writing to the Values and Ethics Commissioner for CBC/Radio-Canada, Sherry Perreault, to express serious concerns about apparent ethics violations by Neil Herland.   Continue reading

 

MAP ALERT!: CTV News whitewashes Israeli war crimes in Lebanon

"CTV News provides an unbalanced account of Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon, presenting the Israeli military's narrative about Hezbollah while failing to provide adequate context about the Lebanese civilians killed in the strikes." Continue reading

 

MAP ALERT!: National Post opinion claims Nakba is disputed

The National Post has yet again published an opinion piece by Terry Newman that reads as a mouthpiece for Israeli propaganda. Continue reading

 

MAP ALERT!: The Globe and Mail wants to silence Palestine activism

"In its recent editorial regarding Prime Minister Mark Carney's speech on antisemitism, The Globe editorial board falsely equates anti-Zionism with antisemitism in order to delegitimize peaceful advocacy for Palestinian human rights as hateful rhetoric aimed at the Canadian Jewish community." Continue reading

 

MAP ALERT!: Shame National Post for Nakba denial

"The National Post's latest article frames the Nakba as an event that never happened. In its coverage of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights exhibit, the piece claims the Nakba was a voluntary departure or a deserved consequence of war. This framing actively erases the documented mass displacement and forced expulsion of Palestinians from their homelands." Continue reading

 

MAP ALERT!: Challenge CNN’s Islamophobia on-air

"CNN recently aired an interview with Canadaland founder and publisher Jesse Brown in which he repeatedly blamed Muslims, immigrants, anti-Zionists, and Palestine solidarity activists for the rise of antisemitism in Canada. Rather than challenging Jesse Brown's Islamophobic rhetoric, CNN allowed it to pass unquestioned." Continue reading

 

MAP ALERT!: National Post op-ed spreads Nakba denial and victim-blaming

The National Post published an opinion piece engaging in anti-Palestinian racism through Nakba denial, historical erasure, and victim-blaming. In his column, David Bercuson reframes the mass displacement, dispossession and ethnic cleansing of more than 700,000 Palestinians during Israel’s establishment in 1948 as a simple consequence of war. Continue reading

 

MAP ALERT!: National Post op-ed uses Nazi comparisons to demonize Palestinians

The author invokes Hannah Arendt’s concept of the “banality of evil” to frame the alleged sexual violence perpetrated on October 7 as ideologically planned, drawing parallels between Hamas militants and Nazi officials through the portrayal of violence as calculated, bureaucratic, and systematically executed.  Continue reading

 

MAP ALERT!: MAP Alert: Toroton Sun reporter lobbied by pro-Israel groups promotes Zionist conference

"Toronto Sun reporter Bryan Passifiume published an article that includes multiple instances of editorializing, unverified claims, and a failure to disclose that he has taken sponsored propaganda trips to Israel. The article reads as a PR for the conference rather than journalism, violating core principles of accuracy, fairness, and transparency." Continue reading