The Media Accountability Project  

Unfortunately, your reporting does a disservice to your readers as you fail to accurately represent the specific context and identity of the victim. This omission not only undermines the severity of the incident, but also overlooks the intersectional nature of the hate crime, which is both islamophobic and anti-Palestinian.

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.

"To read about an app that was intentionally designed as a tool to report incidents of Islamophobia anonymously to the NCCM was incredibly refreshing and reassuring. The infrastructure for reporting antisemitism is relatively well-developed and robust because of the wide range of Canadian civil society and lobbying groups dedicated to this cause. Self-reporting methods for victims of Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism are far less developed, however."

Please help us thank Toronto Star and Faisal Kutty for an excellent opinion piece about the Western media’s role in our perception of Muslims and Palestinians.

"The infrastructure for reporting antisemitism is relatively well-developed and robust because of the wide range of Canadian civil society and lobbying groups dedicated to this cause. Self-reporting methods for victims of anti-Palestinian racism are far less developed, however."

"Seventy percent of the 22,000, dead and 53,000 wounded are women and children. Most of Gaza's population has been displaced, thanks to unending orders to evacuate yet again to so-called safe zones which are then bombed. The few hospitals that can still function are overwhelmed and can only provide minimal care."

"Importantly, your article includes reference to the rise in antisemitism as well as  Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism associated with the violent events in Israel and Gaza. Such balance is necessary at this time as individuals of all religions in this violence are feeling threatened along the lines you express."