The Media Accountability Project  

It was irresponsible to quote Mr. Rustad’s accusatory statement without providing the additional context for readers.

"In fact, conflating legitimate criticism of Israel—an apartheid state and occupying power currently waging an ongoing genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip—with antisemitism is itself a form of antisemitism, as it erases the distinction between a political ideology and Jewish identity."

"The present article reads like a summary of the CAM report with some quantum leaps in applying the data and conclusions without adequate description of the source of the data and the assumptions made in analyzing it. Surely future opinion pieces will  have better standards than that."

"Take a hypothetical example: if Muslims were to create a “nation of Islam” on Palestinian land, forcibly displacing Palestinians and occupying Palestinian land in the process, I would condemn it just as strongly— even as a Muslim— because it would involve colonizing the land of the indigenous people."

"There is no justification for a “journalist” to write that APR “threatens to destroy all that it touches,” or to blame antisemitism in Canada solely on Muslim immigrants, or to fearmonger about “Islamism,” or misrepresent survey data, or invent fake data, misrepresent police claims, or lie about protest actions, just to name a handful of the violations contained in this article. The Free Press promotes values on its About page, but it appears they were thrown aside in this case. Corrective action is more than necessary to resolve these issues."

"These distortions undermine productive discourse and pander to a narrow, one-sided narrative as Mr. Gordon conflates criticism of Israel with antisemitism. He does so by vilifying dissent as dangerous and hateful and defaming pro-Palestine Jewish groups as 'Israel haters' for 'dusting off their Jewish membership card to use as a shield against criticism, or appropriating Jewish names to lend credibility to their causes.'" 

Using the words ‘anti-Israeli-intimidation’ or ‘anti-Israeli related intimidation’ to frame your headline and opening statement is blatant misinformation and a factual inaccuracy.This is a very tense time especially for the Jewish, Arab, Muslim and Palestinian communities. Using language that is inaccurate and inflammatory does not help to ease the tension and does a disservice to both the Minister and the public in general.

"I commend your courageous effort to fact-check CIJA’s false accusations of antisemitism against Jackman and the different points of view you included on the difference between criticism of Israel and antisemitism. Holding different groups and individuals accountable for their claims is one core value of impactful journalism."

The use of this figure without evidence erodes public trust in the media. I urge you to retract or clarify this claim and provide a more accurate reflection of the situation based on local data.