A recent CBC News headline described “Israel-Palestinian protests” in Canada.
CJPME complained that referring to “Israel” but not “Palestine” constituted a double-standard.
CBC News edited the headline so it now reads: “Ottawa police blame $6.5M of budget deficit on cost of policing Israeli-Palestinian protests.” The story summary also reflects the new language. An editor’s note was also added to the article.
CBC’s editors explained that they “slightly adjusted the headline and story summary to align with the language used in the story itself,” which used the Israeli-Palestinian framing, rather than one of competing states. They added that their internal guidance for the word “Palestine” has been updated, but did not share the nature of those updates.
CJPME will continue for Palestine to be named, as we push to end the double-standards in media coverage of the region.