The Media Accountability Project  

"The glaring disparity between Canada’s response to white European Ukrainians and Arab Palestinians raised by CJPME’s report suggests that IRCC’s statements cannot be taken at face value. The article clearly needs follow-up interrogating the government's claims and challenging its inaction. I would suggest at the very least including some of the criticism I’ve raised regarding the flaws of the Gaza visa program." Continue reading

"Canada must take this opportunity to demonstrate to the world that we have learned from our own colonial past and become a true champion of peace. Carney must immediately retract his remarks, apologize, and commit to a foreign policy rooted in justice not unconditional support for occupation and apartheid." Continue reading

"In presenting only Israel’s view of Iran’s nuclear capabilities, and in not questioning the legality of Israel’s actions, the segment legitimizes Israel’s and the U.S. 's escalatory military action against Iran, without criticism. The segment would have benefited from expert analysis and more balanced, factual reporting, as laid out in a recent CJPME fact sheet." Continue reading

"However, I must respectfully point out that while the article correctly identifies Sabra as a Mossad agent in the Marvel comics, it overlooks the central reason many view the character as offensive and emblematic of anti-Palestinian propaganda: her name." Continue reading

"By airing only this partial quote, the CBC segment risks whitewashing Carney’s stance, leaving listeners with the false impression that he is advocating for peace. In reality, his vision legitimizes the position of the occupier—one that aligns with Israel’s ongoing genocide, apartheid, and dispossession of Palestinians." Continue reading

"Both the writers of this piece, and Minister of Foreign Affairs Anita Anand refer to “the West Bank,” as opposed to the Israeli Occupied West Bank. The failure to mention the context of Israeli occupation obscures the fact that Palestinian Canadians there face the added difficulties of settler and Israeli military violence, numerous Israeli checkpoints, and travel restrictions before they can access safety outside the country." Continue reading

"While Hanes makes the important distinction between criticism of Israel and antisemitism, quoting former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that Israel is committing war crimes,an implicit bias is evident as she quotes only Israel boosters like Warren Kinsella. Why are Palestinian Canadian voices or anti-Zionist Jewish Canadian voices absent from this piece?" Continue reading

"By failing to inform readers that the Madleen was intercepted in international waters — and that such an act violates multiple instruments of international law — your reporting presents Israel’s abhorrent actions as permissible, rather than as grave breaches of international humanitarian law that is supposedly designed to protect civilian vessels and humanitarian missions." Continue reading

"By framing Israel’s aggression as the start of the conflict without this legal context, the article suggests a false moral equivalence between unlawful aggression and retaliation." Continue reading

"Whether inadvertent or on purpose, closing the segment in this way further serves to legitimize Israel’s actions - yet Israel has derailed the U.S.-Iran nuclear negotiations that were actively underway at the time of their military action against Iran, killed Ali Shamkhani, a senior Iranian official tasked with overseeing the negotiations, and interrupted the ongoing dialogue and verification being undertaken by the IAEA with Iran." Continue reading