The Media Accountability Project  

These words not only dehumanize Palestinians' deaths but obscure Israel’s noncompliance with its obligations as an occupying power, which is the reason behind these deaths: failure to discriminate between civilians and combatants, and failure to allow humanitarian aid to reach civilians.  In fact, there are recent reports that Israel may be deliberately starving Palestinians. Continue reading

Opening your news segment with such a sentence implies a bias against the action of the protesters. It undermines the intentions behind the protest, which was to push the Canadian government to implement an arms embargo on Israel, because of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Continue reading

Shedding light on the use of starvation as a weapon of war by Israel, in violation of international humanitarian law (IHL), is particularly important. Canadian news outlets often overlook crucial information, like the destruction of Gaza’s flourishing agricultural landscape by Israeli forces, which has exacerbated the starvation crisis. Your coverage underscored the failure to adequately deliver aid and the urgent need to open all entry points into Gaza to address this crisis effectively. Continue reading

In this radio segment, you give voice to Minister of International Development Ahmed Hussen to ask him what more Canada can do to help people in Gaza. While Cullen mentions Canada increasing its funding to the WFP and questions the freezing of Canada's funding to UNRWA, she does not question Hussen’s answer about Canada considering air-dropping aid to Gaza with skepticism. Continue reading

In fact, the call came from around 300 Muslim institutions and mosques. Given that SmartScrapers estimates that there are roughly 620 mosques in Canada, this means that – already – almost half of Canada’s Muslim community is in agreement with this call, which the word “several” downplays. Continue reading

Overall, I found the article, centered around the reactions of Hamiton’s residents to Israel’s assault on Rafah, nicely held together, thanks to all the elements mentioned above.  I hope CBC will continue to cover local reactions to Israel’s bombardment campaign, especially by giving voice and space to Palestinian-Canadians.   Continue reading

Thank you for highlighting how difficult it is for Palestinians to apply as refugees by providing information about Qudaih’s path to Saskatoon and a discussion about the Canadian temporary visa program’s limit. Continue reading

Since the organizers and the protesters are given space after people who did not attend the protest, the central issue of the article turns around false accusations of antisemitism. Continue reading

By consistently placing comments from one group above comments from another, CBC inevitably suggests a hierarchy of perspectives to the reader. Relegating voices that are critical of Israel or sympathetic to Palestinians to disadvantageous locations in the article, whether unintentional or on purpose, further marginalizes Palestinian narratives. Continue reading

Thank you for reporting on updates of district policy to address concerns of anti-Palestinian racism and Islamophobia. The news segment’s use of the term “anti-Palestinian racism” (APR) is particularly appreciated, as mainstream media tends to conflate racism against Palestinians with Islamophobia, which erases Palestinian identity and perpetuates the generalization of Arab populations.  Continue reading