The Media Accountability Project  

These two uprisings resulted in the deaths of over 5,000 Palestinians and approximately 1,400 Israelis. Reducing the Intifada to mere violence overlooks its multifaceted nature; it encompassed a spectrum of social and political movements, many of which were peaceful.  Continue reading

You write simply that “After decades of enmity and proxy conflict, Iran directly attacked Israel for the first time on Saturday.” This incomplete picture is unfair and your readers deserve the same context provided to Israel in such circumstances. Continue reading

When Israeli authorities banned the Palestinian flag from 1967 until the 1993 Oslo Accords, the keffiyeh became an expression of Palestinian identity. In the 60s and 70s, during the anti-war movement, students and anti-war campaigners started to adopt it. The keffiyeh became an overarching symbol of anti-colonialism and anti-imperialism. In short, the keffiyeh symbolizes the Palestinian identity, struggle, and resistance. Continue reading

Please update “the scarf,” “cultural cloth,” and “black and white checkered scarf” to simply “keffiyeh,” as it can be deeply offensive to Palestinians and their allies to use reductive terms to allude to the keffiyeh without providing any proper description of it, especially amidst the rise of anti-Palestinian racism. Continue reading

In the sea of popular Canadian media indulging in the pro-Israel lobby’s narrative that teaching the Nakba somehow distorts history, this type of article is rare, refreshing, and much appreciated. Some articles that have been widely circulated across media outlets border on one of the most pervasive forms of anti-Palestinian racism: Nakba denial. Continue reading

In this case, Israel’s response to claims of mass graves was placed only after an in-depth description of the findings outside of these medical facilities, as well as the Palestinian testimonies by the director of the supply department at Gaza’s civil defense agency and aid workers. Continue reading

“Black-and-white scarves” is a term extensively used in racist context on social media. On X (formerly Twitter), a search for the phrase pulls up innumerable tweets of far-right individuals, such as this one, using the phrase in highly racist remarks. The mistake to use the phrase by Toronto Star is almost certainly accidental, but we would strongly advise against its use, as it serves as a dog whistle Continue reading

To maintain factual accuracy under international law, “occupied” should precede any occupied territory mentioned in your articles. Thus, please edit your paragraph to read “occupied West Bank.” Continue reading

Writing that “Half of Gaza’s 2.3 million people” are “gathered” in Rafah makes it seem like they are reuniting and having a gathering in Rafah because of voluntary choice, which is not true and obfuscates Israel’s responsibility and actions that led to Palestinians going to Rafah. Palestinians are being forcibly displaced to Rafah because Israel has been targeting everyone everywhere and has left no safe zone from its bombardment campaign Continue reading

The reality is that millions of people in the West are increasingly weary of Israel’s apartheid policies and oppose its genocidal campaign against Gazans. This should be the story we read every day in the news, but it is more than rare. Continue reading