The Media Accountability Project  

"The headline for Andrew Phillips’ article should have read “The atrocities in Gaza are being ignored.” For weeks, we have witnessed civilians being shot as they try to access food. It is not only the Gaza Ministry of Health detailing the number of casualties. Palestinian and International doctors serving in Gaza are reporting on the casualties that are arriving daily at their hospitals. As of July 13, the UN confirmed 875 Palestinians were killed while seeking food, 201 on aid routes and the rest at distribution points. Thousands more have been injured."

"Israel has waged a nearly 22-month-long military siege on the Gaza Strip. Yet the article presents these claims as unchallenged fact, despite extensive documentation from international human rights organizations (including Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, UN bodies, and now two Israeli human rights groups) which have concluded that Israel’s actions in Gaza amount to genocide."

"Rather than center the piece on the plight of Palestinians in Gaza who are facing genocide and famine, the Globe and Mail is more concerned with Israel’s reputation and losing their 'war' against Hamas — not the fact they are committing war crimes."

"This crisis demands journalism that prioritizes facts over false equivalence."

"Were eyewitnesses contacted? Were United Nations officials or independent investigators consulted? The absence of these perspectives amounts to single viewpoint reporting from a military involved in the incident. This is another violation of Canadian journalistic principles of balance, fairness, and accountability."

"I urge your newsroom to provide appropriate journalistic skepticism toward official military sources, particularly those with a vested interest in minimizing civilian casualties and to properly contextualize attacks on civilian infrastructure within the broader scope of Israel’s conduct in Gaza, referencing the well-documented pattern of destruction."

"I kindly request that the article be amended to raise skepticism around Israel’s supposed military goals and statements in response to committing war crimes. By repeating Israeli talking points, your reporting risks whitewashing Israel’s war crime of indiscriminately bombing Palestinian civilians and places of worship in occupied Gaza."

"As it stands, the article presents a one-sided Israeli military narrative while excluding or minimizing Palestinian and humanitarian perspectives. I ask that The Globe and Mail and the Associated Press revise this article to include these perspectives, present Israel’s accusations as claims and not fact and properly contextualize the situation as genocide according to the growing body of evidence by human rights groups."

"If such extreme views are broadcast in a news segment without explicit clarification that they are personal opinions, it risks violating CBSC Clause 5 – News, which mandates that news be reported with “accuracy and without bias,” and that it not be shaped by the beliefs or desires of those involved in its production."

"To avoid such tropes, I’d revise the section to properly contextualize the reliance on clan networks within the breakdown of civil infrastructure due to war, rather than presenting them as a cultural default."