The Media Accountability Project  

"Mr. Moss’s interview with South African High Commissioner to Canada Rieaz Shaik highlights the staunchly pro-Israel and unfair response to ICC warrant applications on Netanyahu by Canadian officials, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Minister of Foreign Affairs Mélanie Joly. Shaik is right to believe that there is no false equivalency argument to be made by state officials in regards to Israel’s genocidal actions in Gaza and that there is no right of any state to exceptionalism, including Israel, when it comes to respecting international law."

On June 4, CBC published an Associated Press article that referred to Palestinians in Gaza as "facing catastrophic food insecurity." CJPME promptly wrote to CBC to condemn this weak language and emphasize that Palestinians in Gaza are not "food insecure," but instead facing forced starvation. In response to our complaints, CBC edited the sentence to the following: 

Israel's subsequent bombardments and assault on Gaza has killed more than 36,000 Palestinians in nearly eight months, according to Gaza health officials, and displaced at least 1.7 million of the 2.3 million people living in the territory - most of whom, according to the World Food Programme, are facing catastrophic hunger." 

CJPME appreciates that CBC edited this sentence to include their source for their terminology (the World Food Programme), linked the page in which the WFP uses this language, and, most importantly, changed "catastrophic food insecurity" to "catastrophic hunger." 

"Your language subtly undermines the scale of starvation and dehydration in the Strip. Earlier in the article, CBC outlines allegations that starvation of civilians is being used by Israel as a method of warfare. Yet, when CBC describes starvation in Gaza in its own terms, it settles for “catastrophic food insecurity.” The starvation, dehydration, and malnutrition preceding a famine do not fall under the scope of “food insecurity.” Palestinians in Gaza are not “food insecure.”"