The Media Accountability Project  

Please join us in criticizing this piece written by the Associated Press and published by CTV News. CTV News has been under fire for its biased coverage of Palestine.

"To report on the military targeting of the Hamas tunnels in the absence of any acknowledgment of Israel’s deliberate attacks on the Palestinian civilian population and their infrastructures dehumanizes the Palestinians. It also reinforces Israel’s impunity for the humanitarian crisis that they have created and continue to expand in total disregard for International Humanitarian Law."

Please join us in criticizing the Associated Press and the Peterborough Examiner for a one-sided article that reserves its harshest language for Palestinian actions while leaving Israeli atrocities unnamed.

"Stop reporting grave Israeli contraventions of law under photographs and ludicrous Israeli claims that provide cover for the war crimes about which you should be informing readers. Bias at this level debases your profession and deadens the soul."

"You must show more respect to Palestinian Torontonians amid this pain and hate. Look into the details as credible observers track Israel’s embrace of positively genocidal violence in Gaza, and start to report on these horrors with some basic human respect."

"Your article omits essential information, which is the blockade on Gaza. It is inaccurate and unfortunate not to mention it in your article since it is an essential piece of context to understand why everything is unfolding in the way it is."

"To fail to include these points is to aggravate the crisis of trust in journalism. In these difficult days, we expect you to provide readers with the facts, even when they are startling."

"Not including a Palestinian voice and focusing on Israeli victims alone helps to reinforce the perception that Palestinians are less deserving of access to basic human rights."

"Not only, however, to you omit the grim language of Gallant, who in this same statement disparaged the Palestinians of Gaza as “human animals.” You irresponsibly reproduce the language of the Israeli government whose announced war crimes you are covering."

"This article contains glaring inaccuracies. First, you seem not to acknowledge Palestinian deaths as deaths. You write: “The surprise weekend attack by Hamas left a death toll unseen since the 1973 war with Egypt and Syria,” you write. That is true only if Israelis alone count as part of the 'death toll'."