The Media Accountability Project  

Your headline contradicts the story. The Israeli misinformation campaign targeted politicians and citizens. This ought to be reflected in the headline. As you know, many social media users, in particular, only read the headline. It’s unclear why the seriousness of these allegations would be downplayed. I am urging you to clarify your headline and make clear the campaign also targeted citizens.     Continue reading

"The headline vaguely and passively indicates that a hate crime occurred. This is clearly a case of anti-Palestinian racism. Nehal Al Tarhuni explicitly calls it “anti-Palestinian hate” in the article, yet this critical point is buried in the seventh paragraph. This is a journalistic sin and indicates a lack of confidence in the reporting by The London Press." Continue reading

In the same vein, you consistently refer to Palestinian captives who are being “treated” by Israel as “patients.” If one of the civilians or soldiers taken captive by Hamas on Oct. 7 were receiving treatment, shackled, and blindfolded on a bed in a tent in Gaza, I am certain that AP would refer to this individual as a hostage, not a patient. Continue reading

What separates this article from the better part of CBC’s body of reporting is the fact that no context regarding Israel’s genocidal campaign has been provided, thus rendering terms like “conflict” and “war” empty and useless to the reader. Continue reading

What is the National Post’s policy regarding Tweets in its articles? You share tweets that contain inflammatory and racist remarks by users with a history of racism. For example, the tweet from @l3v1at4an accuses people wearing keffiyehs of “pretending to be terrorists.” This is not a unique comment from this account but part of a long history of anti-Palestinian racism and Islamophobia. Including such content without context to bolster a journalist's argument is an alarming and seemingly bad-faith tactic. Continue reading

Simply put, the G7 summit is taking place during an active Israeli genocide in Gaza, and some G7 nations and their leaders are extremely concerned, while others – including Canada – refuse to take substantive action.  This point should have been emphasized far more strongly. Continue reading

It is easy for the world to forget that the enmity between Israelis and Palestinians did not start on Oct. 7, 2023.  Long prior to the Oct. 7 attack, among other warnings, Human rights organizations including Amnesty International (in 2022) and Human Rights Watch (in 2021) had issued detailed reports on how Israel had been imposing a situation of Apartheid on the Palestinians for decades.  Continue reading

It is highly concerning that an article about McGill University’s offers to student protesters would exclude any reaction from students. Not only does the article give significant space to the police chief, but it recaps the offer made by the university without giving any sense of how students feel about this. Why was a reporter not sent to include student testimony and balance the reporting on the issue? Continue reading

Given that this is a piece essentially advocating against protections for civilians in Gaza, an extremist position, I would urge Ottawa Citizen to clarify this is an op-ed. If not, this article constitutes numerous grave violations of journalistic standards. Continue reading

First, the term “violence” implies random acts of harm by Israel, which is an extremely inaccurate description of the events that unfolded in Tal-al Sultan in Rafah on the night of Sunday, May 26, 2024 where Israel unleashed seven 900kg bombs alongside missiles on Palestinian displacement camps. Referring to this atrocity as mere “violence” downplays the brutality of Israel’s missile that caused the tents in Rafah to catch fire, burning alive the civilians who were taking refuge there.  Continue reading