The Media Accountability Project  

"En ces temps où la division et la haine anti-palestinienne sont à l’heure, il faut éviter de répandre des informations non fondées qui ne font que les attiser. Malheureusement, cette chronique en fait partie et il est de votre devoir journalistique de vérifier les faits et de faire attention à ce que vous publiez." Continue reading

"I sincerely hope that our good-faith efforts as a civic community can help shepherd our city past the danger of unconstructive confrontation, and instead facilitate an inclusive, accurate civic exchange over the tragic events that have so many in our city feeling on edge." Continue reading

“The instructions issued by the Israeli authorities for the population of Gaza City to immediately leave their homes, coupled with the complete siege explicitly denying them food, water, and electricity, are not compatible with international humanitarian law.” Continue reading

"Israeli attacks have to date resulted in the death of more than 1,800 Palestinians, as you yourself report. You must clearly tell readers that these attacks constitute war crimes." Continue reading

"By the time you published this report, more Palestinians than Israelis had been killed in this week’s violence: now more than 1,800 Palestinians killed by Israel, and the number daily rises by the hundreds. Your emphasis on Israeli losses will be read as lopsided, i.e. racist." Continue reading

"Vous utilisez les mots tuées pour désigner les victimes israéliennes et morts pour désigner les victimes palestiniennes. Par souci d’intégrité journalistique, vous devriez considérer les victimes sur un même pied d’égalité et uniformiser votre langage." Continue reading

"Thinking Jews, in Montreal as elsewhere, join in seeing what you have written as a shanda, an unjustifiable shame. That you should be ashamed of yourselves is the politest thing one can say." Continue reading

"En effet, les actions d’Israël, depuis samedi 7 octobre, ne départagent pas entre les civils et les combattants du Hamas ce qui est contraire au droit international." Continue reading

"To fail to include these points is to aggravate the crisis of trust in journalism. In these difficult days, we expect you to provide readers with the facts, even when they are startling." Continue reading

"I insist that Canadian Press and CTV include a reference to the fact that Canadians in the Gaza Strip cannot access evacuation flights due to Israeli blockades." Continue reading