The Media Accountability Project  

"On what basis does Israel claim that the targets were operating a drone, or that the drone was “affiliated with Hamas?” For that matter, what exactly does it mean for a drone to be “affiliated with Hamas” and what threat did the alleged drone pose to Israeli troops?"

Media outlets have a responsibility to distinguish fact from assertions, and provide adequate, balanced context to the reader.

Why does this article use “Hamas-led” when describing Gaza Health Ministry statistics of Palestinians killed by Israel during the “ceasefire”? In Canada, the press would not use “Liberal-led” to describe any federal level ministry. I have also never seen the press use “Likud-led” in describing any of Israel’s ministries. 

It is also important to point out that for Palestinians there is no “ceasefire”. This is part of the complacency that Mr. Khan speaks of and which the article feeds into somewhat by focussing on a mental health program while de-emphasizing the widespread carnage and the destruction of so much of Gaza's infrastructure.

Rather, Israel inflicted a well-documented mass displacement and dispossession of more than 700,000 Palestinians starting in 1948, and has continued with illegal settlements, evictions, land confiscation, home demolitions and deadly settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, along with many other ongoing injustices suffered by Palestinians due to Israel’s illegal, military occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. Palestinians are indisputably legitimate victims of the policies and actions of Israel.

If the Financial Post purports to be a serious media outlet, then it should immediately withdraw this shameless, paint-by-numbers recitation of the canon of fact-free hasbara repeated by propagandists for almost 80 years. Any media outlet worthy of the name must have a non-negotiable policy of printing only the truth. It should also give voice to Palestinians, who have endured unimaginable suffering for generations, so as to give Western audiences a dose of reality that they so desperately need.

There is a serious lack of context that removes accountability from Israel, the occupying power that has been denying the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza, and most importantly which has been causing the “human catastrophe” in Gaza in the first place.

One of our MAP media advocates Debbie Hubbard wrote a powerful letter to the editor that was published in the Toronto Star on July 24, 2025. In her piece, Debbie condemns the lack of Canada’s silence regarding Israel’s systematic targeting of civilians in Gaza through the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

In her letter, she urges the Canadian government to take immediate meaningful action, imposing a two-way arms embargo on Israel, sanctioning Israeli leaders currently under investigation by the ICC for war crimes and crimes against humanity, and banning business with companies complicit in the illegal occupation of Palestinian territories.

You can read her letter here.

Calling it the “Israel-Hamas war” suggests two equal sides, when in reality Israel is an occupying power with one of the most advanced militaries in the world, and Palestinians are a stateless, besieged population living under apartheid. This framing erases the power imbalance and diminishes the reality of Palestinian suffering under a genocidal campaign.