The Media Accountability Project  

"The article lists all the important events that occurred, from 1362 to 2022, on September 12. Overall, the article did a fine job of listing and describing the events, but was incorrect with the 2005 event listed. The article states that "in 2005, the Israeli army withdrew from Gaza, officially ending Israel’s 38-year occupation" which is completely false."

"The article frames Quebec’s decision to open an office in Tel Aviv as a business-as-usual action. It is alarming that Canadian Press would fail to include any context about Israel’s ongoing internal protests, escalating violence against Palestinians, settlement expansion, or the extremist, far-right coalition now in power."

"To uncritically label these raids as “arrest raids” and further frame them as being in response to “Palestinian attacks” falsely equates Palestinian armed resistance to occupation—a right which any occupied people has the legal right to—with Israeli institutional aggression against a besieged people. Such framing ignores the crucial context of Israel’s occupation, the absurd asymmetry of power at play, and unacceptably absolves Israel of any accountability for its ongoing brutality against the Palestinian people."

In particular, I take issue with your subjective characterization of Hamas as an “extremist” group. By using the term “extremist” you are stating an opinion as fact. While the United States and some Western countries consider Hamas a terrorist group, this is not universally agreed upon. 

While Israel belligerently occupied these territories in 1967, international law does not recognize the “capture” of territory by armed force. Article 2, section 4 of the UN Charter provides no avenue for a country to violate or infringe on the territorial integrity of another country.  Specifically, the UN Charter states that “all Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state.” 

First, the article states that “Canada and several countries reject” recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. This statement both downplays and misrepresents the international community’s near consensus against recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. In December 2017, a total of 128 nations voted at the General Assembly against the resolution to formally recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in which it declared any actions intended to alter Jerusalem’s character or status are “null and void.”

"I appreciate how you describe CUPW’s support of a boycott of Israeli products, but the description is limited in a couple of ways. The campaign that CUPW endorsed is more than a boycott, and it is a response to the mistreatment that Palestinians face as a whole, including refugees and Palestinian citizens of Israel (not just those in the occupied Palestinian territories)."

It is incredibly encouraging to see CUPW’s steadfastness in the face of B’nai Brith’s smear campaign. Their case is just one example of how organizations and activists who stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people are often unfairly targeted and defamed by being falsely accused of antisemitism or supporting terrorism.

The settlement of CUPW’s defamation lawsuit against B’nai Brith is a victory for all those who stand up in solidarity with Palestinians and should serve as a reminder for the need to continually oppose attempts to silence support for justice.

"Their case is just one example of how organizations and activists who stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people are often unfairly targeted and defamed by being falsely accused of antisemitism or supporting terrorism."