The Media Accountability Project  

"I am mainly concerned about the portrayal of the events at Calgary University as merely "a clash" between police and students. In reality, it was a violent police raid resulting in the aggressive removal of protestors. The article fails to adequately address the power dynamics at play, concealing the suppression of freedom of expression, speech, and assembly." Continue reading

"This article presents false balance, pretending that the two sides are at all similar. Israel’s military is one of the most powerful in the world, and certainly the most powerful in the region. There is no symmetry between the power of Israel and Gaza or Lebanon. There is no symmetry in the level of destruction faced in these places." Continue reading

"There are countless testimonies provided by Palestinians who have been released from Israeli prisons since October 7. Every testimony is horrifying. Cases of physical and psychological torture, starvation, and sexual abuse are endless, yet CBC has chronically underreported these Palestinian accounts of arbitrary arrest and then acute abuse in prisons." Continue reading

"The term “clash” implies that the Calgary Police Service (CPS) and unarmed U of C students both engaged in violence in the midst of their confrontation. However, nonviolent protesters were brutally attacked and dispersed by riot police. There is a clear unequal power dynamic between heavily armed CPS and unarmed U of C students. Given how many readers only look at the headline, this has the potential to be highly misleading."   Continue reading

"In tandem with my point above, this article lacks critical context regarding Israel’s military assault on Gaza. Given that this article reports on allegations of antisemitism made against the student encampments, it would be appropriate to fully describe student motivations along with the circumstances in Gaza that have prompted the erection of these encampments."  Continue reading

"B’nai Brith Canada can be best described as a pro-Israel advocacy organization. By not describing it as such, you are presenting it as a representative of the Jewish community and their concerns, which is not fair or accurate to human rights activists against antisemitism and anti-Palestinian racism." Continue reading

"The ICJ has ruled that there is a plausible genocide and that Israel must do everything to prevent it. Yet, you chose to mention that Israel is under investigation for genocide and that it can take years to determine. You even add Israel’s position on the court when Israel has a history of falsely accusing human rights organizations of bias." Continue reading

"Palestine is even more necessary is not only outrageous, but it reinforces the lack of consideration of the 75-year-old grievances that Palestinians and allies have been voicing even before October 7 by wearing the keffiyeh in the Ontario legislature." Continue reading

"The suffocating, racist fog created by Western reporting of international conflicts is difficult to escape. Physical remoteness, paired with the imperious noise generated by major media outlets, repeatedly sheds doubt on our intuition that a grave injustice is being enabled and committed. Encampments that have spread like wildfire all over the world, however, have increased everyone’s proximity to the war machine’s wrath." Continue reading

"The omission of information about the Jewish Defense League in this article not only represents a failure to provide readers with the most basic context about what is happening at these encampments, but it is a dangerous omission that very well may embolden members and attract new ones who are not aware of the violent and terroristic history of this group." Continue reading