The Media Accountability Project  

"Étant donné qu'Israël contrôle toutes les voies d'accès aériennes, maritimes et terrestres à Gaza, l'eau, la nourriture, les médicaments et les autres produits de première nécessité sont incroyablement limités, laissant les Palestiniens déshydratés, affamés et non traités pour des blessures graves ou des maladies préexistantes. Telles sont les conditions désespérées qu'Israël a unilatéralement créées."

These words not only dehumanize Palestinians' deaths but obscure Israel’s noncompliance with its obligations as an occupying power, which is the reason behind these deaths: failure to discriminate between civilians and combatants, and failure to allow humanitarian aid to reach civilians.  In fact, there are recent reports that Israel may be deliberately starving Palestinians.

Opening your news segment with such a sentence implies a bias against the action of the protesters. It undermines the intentions behind the protest, which was to push the Canadian government to implement an arms embargo on Israel, because of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

"While it’s about the Israel-Hamas conflict, one would expect to see more Palestinian voices being given a platform than Dr. Amal Ismail as they are the main beneficiaries of a ceasefire and are also central to the negotiations for a ceasefire."

This article is a blatant example of the type of biased reporting about protests that we strongly oppose. Before Palestinian advocates are allowed to provide their motivations for a protest or blockade, media outlets mention how CIJA and other pro-Israel lobby groups feel about these protests.

"I counted six specific examples of supposed harassment, three of which were pro-Palestinian protestors. Why is there a disproportionate number of examples involving these types of protests? Further, some of the examples of actions perpetrated by “pro-Palestine protestors” are perfectly reasonable, peaceful forms of protest that you frame as violent or dangerous."

"Overall, your article lacks balance and impartiality. Your article gives hugely disproportionately more space and importance to antisemitic hate crimes than it does to Islamophobic ones. Good Journalism is based on fairness and balance, and this article fails to uphold even this most basic journalistic principle."

"The one-sided reporting of these controversial events gives the impression that they represent a surge of antisemitism, but this is only possible by ignoring the perspectives of others involved. Making this worse, the voiceover in the video claims that the country prides itself on diversity and inclusion but now is struggling to suppress rising hate, while showing images of pro-Palestine actions which put them in a bad light."

"The term “Arab Israelis” has been propagated by Israel to downplay the identity and indigeneity of Palestinians, thus constituting a form of anti-Palestinian racism. The term “Israeli Arab” was never chosen by the Palestinian people, and it doesn’t take into consideration their separate identity from Arabs as a whole."

"The effect of this is to paint Palestinians and pro-Palestine demonstrators as the reason behind the rising hate and surge of antisemitic cases, and as out of touch with Canadian values. This framing risks inciting hateful attitudes towards Palestinians and Muslims in Canada, in a context in which incidents of anti-Palestinian racism and Islamophobia are also skyrocketing."