The Media Accountability Project  

"Given these points, I urge Game Rant to revise the article to include this critical context. Acknowledging that the character's name is tied to the Sabra and Shatila massacre is essential to understanding why Sabra is perceived as a symbol of anti-Palestinian propaganda."

"It is remarkable that nowhere in the article does it mention the profound asymmetry in the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in the past year. An October 13, 2024 Al-Jazeera report found that since October 7, Hezbollah and its allies attacked Israel 2,370 times, whereas Israel attacked Lebanon in the same period 11,238 times."

Even more troubling, Ms. Jabakhanji makes an unfounded and racist assertion that Palestinians watch and celebrate missile strikes on Israel, while Israelis seek shelter in bomb bunkers. This type of harmful editorializing misrepresents the Palestinian experience and perpetuates anti-Palestinian racism.

On September 26, 2024, following a complaint from CJPME Media Analyst Fatima Haidar, CJPME learned that Radio-Canada corrected inaccuracies in a video interview with a Middle-East analyst discussing the deaths of Druze children in Majdal Shams. The original report incorrectly referred to the Druze victims as Israeli citizens and failed to clarify that Majdal Shams is located in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, which is internationally recognized as Syrian territory.

In response to CJPME’s intervention, Radio-Canada updated the caption, noting that the victims' citizenship could not be confirmed and adding Israel's claim that Hezbollah was responsible for the attack. However, Radio-Canada omitted Hezbollah’s denial, leaving a one-sided narrative that fails to meet journalistic standards of balance and accuracy.

While, CJPME appreciates Radio-Canada’s partial correction, the current webpage for the video calls for further improvements in ensuring accurate and unbiased reporting on such sensitive issues. CJPME will continue pushing Radio-Canada for an updated caption that full reflects the narrative of the situation.

"My primary concern is the overall lack of skepticism regarding the numerous claims made by the university administration and McGill’s President and Vice-Chancellor Deep Saini. I take issue with the assertions that the students were violent, that “most of the people there were not students,” and that there had been overdoses and illegal drug use at the camp."

"While I am not here to argue how Housefather must have felt seeing this poster, it is inaccurate and unfair to report it as an antisemitic incident. To further your framing of this incident as antisemitic, you fail to fully quote his response to the poster and exclude the part where Housefather explicitly writes on social media that he “will keep being a proud Jew and a Zionist.” While the poster clearly condemned Housefather for his Zionist (not Jewish) ideology, Housefather’s response on social media demonstrates his tendency to deflect any legitimate criticism by deeming it as antisemitic."

"The framing of why the match drew protesters is problematic. You describe the pressure to boycott the game to be because of 'Israel’s invasion of Gaza in response to Hamas terrorism.' This is misleading. Israel's military invaded Gaza and then besieged the strip, and by omitting this context, you whitewash Israel’s genocidal actions against Palestinians in Gaza. Your sentence should read rather,'…Israel’s invasion and subsequent siege and genocide in Gaza.”

To make your article less one-sided, I ask you to add context about Gaza and the West Bank and add voices from the Pro-Palestinian protesters so that their intentions are clearly stated and not further mischaracterized.

"The dinner you reported about featured a conversation with actress Mayim Bialik who identifies as a Zionist – a supporter of the Israeli colonial project to establish a Jewish national home by ethnically cleansing Palestinians from their homeland. The demonstrators were protesting against funding Israel’s colonial project, making this incident a case of anti-zionism, not antisemitism. Conflating anti-zionism with antisemitism is misleading and does not accurately represent the motivations behind such protests."

"The lack of contextualization results in a one-sided narrative about the image used by the encampment. Your voices seem to conflate Palestinians and their supporters as terrorist sympathizers. There is a double standard at play here, as similar historical images featuring Israeli soldiers with guns would likely not be scrutinized in the same manner. I also believe this framing meets the standard legal definition of Anti-Palestinian Racism as defined by the Arab Canadians Lawyer Association. Anti-Palestinian racism dehumanizes Palestinians and their allies, slandering them as inherently antisemitic or as terrorist sympathizers."