Thanks for providing important historical context to explain recent events in Gaza
"It is essential to provide viewers with basic background and context surrounding the recent events in Gaza."
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Re: “Responding to terror”
"A ground invasion inflicting mass civilian casualties and displacement looks almost inevitable. To advocate for anything beyond a proportional response by Israel is to call for the collective punishment of Palestinians in Gaza."
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Re: "FIRST READING: Terrorist sympathizers on Parliament Hill – Canada's Palestinian extremism problem"
"Constructive engagement with the world requires of Canadians that we broaden our sense of the facts and overcome the West’s traditional callousness on the question of Palestinian life."
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Fausse affirmation qu'Israël s'est retiré de Gaza
"Comme beaucoup d’organisations internationales humanitaires, le Comité international de la Croix-Rouge (CICR) identifie Israël comme pouvoir occupant ayant des responsabilités dans les territoires palestiniens occupés : la bande de Gaza et la Cisjordanie."
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Thanks for good coverage on the Pro-Palestinian rally held in Fort McMurray
"The current situation is a result of actions by a series of extreme right wing Israeli governments who have had their ‘foot on the neck’ of Palestinians through their 16-year blockade of Gaza and the 56-year occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem."
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Critical contextualization of Hamas and the Gaza Strip missing
"Not including a Palestinian voice and focusing on Israeli victims alone helps to reinforce the perception that Palestinians are less deserving of access to basic human rights."
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Inaccurate claims about violence in the occupied West Bank
"It is important that you make an on-air clarification that specifies 5 Israeli Border Police officers were injured by friendly fire in the Tulkarem refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, not in Nablus."
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Article lists the number of people killed and injured by Hamas without attribution
"Mr. Woods then reverts to the long standing IDF script and quotes Lt-Col. Jonathan Conricus as indicating Hamas “use civilian buildings for military purposes, which makes it a legitimate military target” without any accreditation to this charge. Why does Mr. Woods expect the civilian casualties will increase when civilian buildings allegedly used by Hamas fighters are bombed?"
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Re:“Joly says Canada will airlift citizens out of Israel in coming days”
"Surely journalistic ethics would require a fulsome indication of how Canadians in Gaza can be brought back to Canada. In fact, these Canadians are the most at risk of death or serious injury given the current bombing of Gaza and the proposed future invasion by the Israeli military."
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Unverified assertions made by Israel presented as facts
"That this suspect allegation was stated as fact is a clear violation of basic journalistic ethics and merits a prompt on-air correction."
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