The Media Accountability Project  

"By repeating these unverified and inflammatory claims, the Toronto Star not only fails to meet journalistic standards of accuracy but contributes to a harmful narrative that unfairly vilifies peaceful demonstrators. I demand that the Star issue a correction or clarification acknowledging that the protest did not block or endanger a medical emergency and that paramedics and police acted appropriately." Continue reading

"Investigating war crimes is not a political attack. Saying so is weaponizing fear to shield individuals complicit in genocide from accountability and to delegitimize any effort to pursue justice for Palestinians—undermining the fight against real antisemitism." Continue reading

"Lastly, in general, the article fails to frame Israel’s tactics and actions as potential war crimes. At a minimum, the article should indicate that Israel has clear obligations under international humanitarian law to agree to and facilitate humanitarian aid, while also strictly adhering to humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence." Continue reading

"As you rightly say in the video, the students gave us the courage to act as we needed to. They reminded us that the most important weapon any nation possesses is its conscious, educated youth—those who will ultimately rebuild and lead it." Continue reading

"My concern is with the missing context for why the words ‘Feed Me’ were chosen to be the subject of the vandalism. The article clearly references Israel and the ‘conflict in the Middle East’ with quotes from both Deborah Lyons and Lawrence Greenspon." Continue reading

"Will you be covering this important story that informs and educates Canadians on your hourly news cycles or will you continue to suppress this story and others like it?" Continue reading

"En droit international, l’occupation ne prend pas fin tant que ce contrôle est maintenu. Le fait de décrire le départ des soldats israéliens comme un “retrait unilatéral” donne une fausse impression de souveraineté palestinienne sur Gaza, alors qu'en réalité Israël maintient un contrôle forcé sur l'ensemble du territoire." 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

"Absenting Palestinian perspectives from issues that directly affect them reinforces the idea that they are untrustworthy, or worse, dispensable." Continue reading

"Long before October 7, Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah had consistently emphasized the group’s commitment to resisting Israel’s illegal occupation and to standing against Israel’s abhorrent expansionist project. Hezbollah’s actions are rooted in this broader political and moral position — not merely a tactical alliance with Hamas." Continue reading