The Media Accountability Project  

As an exigent Voice, Dave Gordon is speaking about issues directly related to Exigent’s advocacy and Israel’s interests. This breaks a fundamental journalistic standard of impartiality. Publishing his work as news and without a clear disclosure constitutes a violation of the CAJ's guidelines regarding independence.  Continue reading

"Zivo speculates that the strange phenomenon of LGBTQ+ Palestine solidarity must be due to lack of understanding of the developing world by western LGBTQ+ communities. Zivo says that we live in a bubble and can only think in a black and white, oppressor, oppressed framework, where the oppressed are morally righteous, and oppressors totally evil. We therefore can’t understand “moral complexity,” deny Muslim homophobia, and see Israel as evil." Continue reading

"Kindly keep this feedback in future reporting. 'Israel says X' is not journalism, particularly when the claims are issued by the Israeli military and government, whose Prime Minister and former Defence Minister are currently subject to arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court." Continue reading

This violates journalistic standards of balance and impartiality. Given the long history of blatant lies coming out of official Israeli sources we would expect a large degree of skepticism about their “claims”. This bias is also disrespectful to the loss and agony suffered by the Palestinians in Gaza. Continue reading

The existence of the State of Palestine is, in fact, a matter of both objective fact and public record. Its independence was declared in 1988 by the Palestine Liberation Organization, which the United Nations General Assembly had recognized in 1974 as “the representative of the Palestinian people.” Since then, while counts vary, Palestine has been recognized by at least 144 countries, including Canada. Continue reading

Serious debate from both-sides ought to be centered on how we can implement a two-way arms embargo and prevent further bloodshed by ending direct sales, closing these legal loopholes, and cutting ties with the war machine that is Israel’s defense technology. Continue reading

Joel Gotlib has repeatedly published and shared explicitly pro-Israel content on his social media pages. To be clear, this is not even run-of-the-mill pro-Israel content, much of it contains blatant anti-Palestinian racism. At the end of this letter is an appendix with some posts Gotlib made. In the section at the end of the letter, I do not include countless profoundly anti-Palestinian, racist posts that Gotlib shared from other accounts spreading demonstrably false misinformation, like the “beheaded babies” myth. Gotlib’s posts and re-shares can be seen by Global on his X account and Instagram account. Continue reading

While the article claims “some” of Michael Janz's “recent posts” are “misinformation that could be harmful,” there is only one such post whose factual veracity is in question. It is our understanding that the post is inaccurate, but it is Global’s journalistic responsibility to explain why and make clear what is true. Continue reading

The framework also grants Israel the right to attack with the approval of the Lebanese government if Israel assesses there are “hostile intentions” or a risk of imminent threat approaching them. The agreement as well stipulates that Israel will not be pursued for crimes it has committed in the past or may commit in the future. Continue reading

Virtually the entire segment is based on an unsourced claim regarding a supposed Israeli intelligence report on an alleged Iranian assassination plot against U.S. President Donald Trump. The use of multiple layers of wholly unsubstantiated assertions is inconsistent with basic journalistic ethnics and the report should accordingly be clarified. Continue reading