The Media Accountability Project  

"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."

"This rhetoric also erases the presence of Christian communities, or even Christian Arabs as myself, and Christian Palestinians that are deeply involved in numerous pro-Palestine solidarity movements across North America. By singling us out and other-ing us as terrorist sympathizers, Kinsella spotlights his own apathy through his selective outrage."

At a point when the world’s leading organizations for human rights and international law have concluded that Israel practices apartheid, illegal occupation, and genocide, and when the International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Israel’s leaders for crimes against humanity and war crimes, to label pro-Palestinian activists, many of whom are Jewish, as jihadist, is a base form of Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism.

Even more troubling, the article links to a pro-Israel website, Canary Mission, which publicly exposes the personal information of professors and students involved in the encampment. By sharing this link, the National Post is effectively engaging in doxxing, a violation of ethical journalism principles in Canada that risks serious harm and breaches the right to privacy.

Rubenstein asserts that October 7 was a “fanatical desire, rooted in Muslim religious beliefs and buttressed by fake history, to exterminate the Jews of Israel.” This is blatant Islamophobia.

On May 16, 2024, CJPME volunteer Walter Thomas Beckett was published in the Toronto Sun, Ottawa Sun, and Winnipeg Sun. His letter was edited in letters to the editor sections, but also published in full as an op-ed. Beckett argued against an article by Lorrie Goldstein, which claimed that Hamas practices “Taqiyya.” Goldstein’s article totally misunderstands the Islamic concept and relied on problematic sourcing.

On May 15, 2024, CJPME’s Jason Toney was published in the Hill Times pushing back against false claims made in an op-ed by Andrew Caddell, a public official in Quebec and former staffer at the Department of Global Affairs. Caddell baselessly claimed that Russia and Iran are funding protesters.

As such, I demand the Toronto Sun publish a clarification of the true meaning of “Taqiyya” as founded in the writings of many Muslim scholars. Clearly, the Muslim culture is willfully misunderstood and misrepresented by Ms. Goldman so as to make such a clarification mandatory.

"I highly doubt that most Jewish people see the keffiyeh as the modern swastika since some of them wear it to send a clear message of their refusal to let genocide happen again. To claim that they see it as the modern swastika is not only anti-Palestinian racism, but it is a form of antisemitism."

"This is a matter of your obligations as journalists, editors, and members of the National NewsMedia Council. Marking Joe Warmington’s opinion columns appropriately is a basic and non-controversial journalistic responsibility. Nothing exceptional is being asked of you other than doing your job."