The Media Accountability Project  

"In reference to Mr. Saravanamuttoo calling the atrocities in Gaza a genocide, the host says “he doesn’t know what he’s talking about”. The international consensus is that Israel has indeed committed and continues to commit genocide in Gaza." Continue reading

This is not the case. The screenshot below shows parts of the motion that were amended. The motion specifically cited international human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and others, that have characterized Israel’s actions as acts of genocide.    Continue reading

It is both unfair and misleading to readers that you use the term “disputed territory” in the same sentence as ‘occupied’ and then fail to provide any relevant background to help them understand these terms in the context of both International Law and the UN resolutions. Not qualifying the use of the phrase “disputed territory” makes it unclear to the reader that it is both a loaded and heavily contested term. Continue reading

As your piece points out, Ms. Sa’d is a well-known provocateur who has been found to engage in harassing and discriminatory conduct by the Law Society of Ontario. She has also been associated with racists and conspiracy theorists according to the Canadian Anti-Hate Network. Continue reading

However, the segment only quotes CIJA. This is unbalanced reporting. In the interest of balanced reporting, the segment should have included other perspectives as well. Continue reading

Nous insistons à ce que des articles traitant de déclarations et d'appels de groupes de la société civile incluent une diversité de perspectives, le devoir d'impartialité étant central au travail de journalisme. Continue reading

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"Ongoing in the real world translates to almost three years of daily killing, starvation, torture and destruction. These word choices minimize the monstrous history of Israel’s cruelty toward the Palestinian people." Continue reading

We applaud your Aug 21 segment on the West Bank Nightmare. Your interview with Maysa Hawwash, however horrific, is absolutely the type of information Canadians need to hear! Thank you for your thought interview questions and your heart felt shock at the current conditions Palestinian peoples in the West Bank face daily at the hands of Israeli settlers and the Israeli army.   Continue reading

The podcast was especially poignant for me as I have personal experience of wildfires. I live in the Okanagan valley of British Columbia and wildfires have become as our Premier recently said the ‘new normal’. I have come to appreciate the dangers that firefighters face in doing their work to protect forests and infrastructures. However, unlike Lebanese firefighters, none of the firefighters in the Okanagan have to worry about being targeted by drones. Continue reading