The Media Accountability Project  

"However, the use of “capturing” rather than “occupying” risks misleading readers into thinking that Israel has a legitimate claim to the Palestinian territories. Palestinians are the indigenous people of Palestine, and media outlets should not be complicit in normalizing Israel’s illegal colonization through misleading language."

Treating the results as directly comparable is a polemic tactic designed to create a damaging narrative of guilt-by-association, which the Israeli government and its allies in the media have been using as an excuse to indiscriminately killing civilians en masse for almost two years.

"Irresponsibly, the article then platforms Israel’s denial of its own actions, without providing essential context, in stating "Israel disputes the hunger fatality figures given by Gaza's Health Ministry, arguing that deaths were due to other medical causes." It is both unfair and inaccurate not to also mention that famine has been officially declared in Gaza, and there is ample evidence that people with underlying medical causes are the most susceptible to malnutrition and therefore among the first to die in a famine."

Yet, the article left out the insidious reasons why “conditions in the Palestinian enclave [have] descended further into hunger and desperation” and why there is a “struggle to find food”. 

"Simply put, repeating what “Israel says” misinforms and misleads listeners. CBC has a responsibility to distinguish fact from assertions, and provide adequate, balanced context to the listener."

"In light of the above, referring to it as “disputed” misleads readers and violates the journalistic imperative of accuracy. I urge you to revise the article in question and to adopt the terminology “occupied West Bank” in all future reporting on this issue. Using accurate language is essential to uphold the journalistic principles of accuracy, impartiality, and fairness expected from professional journalists."

"Decolonization begins from within—by liberating our minds and language. I urge all journalists to confront this bias and explicitly name Israel for the atrocities it is committing against Palestinians in their reporting."

"The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the United Nations, and leading human rights organizations have consistently affirmed that Israel remains the occupying power in Gaza."

"It’s amazing to me that when it comes to Israel, and only Israel, Canadian governments suspend all our supposedly cherished values of multiculturalism, racial and religious equality, and rule of law."

I particularly appreciated the naming of Israel’s actions as genocide, the clear explanation of the conflation of antisemitism and anti-Zionism, and the acknowledgement of the draconian protest bubble bylaws being applied around the country as a direct attempt to suppress pro-Palestine organizing under the pretext of preventing antisemitism.