The Media Accountability Project  

Forced population transfer is a massive violation of international law. The report fails to use clear language such as ethnic cleansing or forced displacement, despite the proposal clearly meeting that threshold. The failure to accurately label the redevelopment plan as such reflects a lack of journalistic precision and normalizes dehumanizing language against Palestinians. Continue reading

Overall, your article is a much needed, human portrait of Canadians relationship to the ongoing impacts of violent imperialism in the Middle East. Continue reading

Mr. El Akkad’s book One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is crucially important to unpacking how we can respond to our current period of western complicity in genocide. I appreciate you giving program time to him and his thoughtful analysis of our politically corrupt climate. Continue reading

Will the CBC choose to do the right thing and air No Other Land, or will it continue its complicity? Continue reading

Given this context, these detainees are not conventional prisoners and it’s better to describe them as hostages. This distinction is critical, as it challenges the implicit narrative that Palestinians in Israeli prisons have all been convicted of criminal offenses, when in reality, many are held without charge or trial. Reframing their status as hostages better reflects the power dynamics at play and highlights the broader context of occupation and human rights violations by Israel. Continue reading

The coverage is overwhelmingly centered on the Israeli perspective, with extensive reporting on Israeli hostages and their families while omitting mention of the thousands of Palestinian detainees, including children, held in Israeli prisons—many without charge or trial. This one-sided approach fails to provide viewers with a full and balanced picture of the hostage-detainee exchanges. Palestinian hostages deserve coverage equal to that given to Israeli hostages. Continue reading

The segment uncritically repeated the Israeli military’s justification for an airstrike that killed three Palestinian policemen in Rafah, claiming they were "armed individuals moving toward forces." Meanwhile, the Gaza Interior Ministry reported that this was a breach of the ceasefire. By failing to question these competing narratives or provide independent verification, the broadcast effectively whitewashes Israeli war crimes. Continue reading

The term “resettling” is an inappropriate and misleading characterization of what is, in reality, a proposal for forcible displacement, at best, ethnic cleansing at worst. Language matters, and by using a neutral or even benign term such as “resettling,” your report obscures the severity of this proposal, which calls for the mass removal of over two million Palestinians from their homeland. Continue reading

Let’s go back to Journalism 101—every story needs the 5 W’s + H (Who, What, Where, Why, When, How). So why is the WHO—the key actors behind this policy change—nowhere to be found in your reporting? Continue reading

The use of “captured” vs “occupied” misleads readers into thinking that Israel has a legitimate claim to Palestinian territories, rather than acknowledging its illegal occupation. Palestinians are the indigenous peoples of Palestine – and media outlets should not be complicit in enabling the kind of language that softens Israel’s illegal colonization of Palestinian land. Continue reading