The Media Accountability Project  

It is unacceptable for the National Post to be publishing such biased articles and presenting them as "news." As a member of the National NewsMedia Council, the National Post is obligated to meet a basic standard. It does not even come close with this article.

"You have run at least twenty articles on the Middle East crisis from this so-called “Wire Service” of yours since October 7, and not one has mentioned the Israeli killing of Palestinian civilians. This is not a news service; it is a source of pro-Israel commentary."

"On Sunday, October 15, observers reeled from the arrival of anti-Palestinian violence in North America: a six-year-old Palestinian child, Wadea Al-Fayoume, was that day stabbed 26 times in Illinois, killed for no reason other than that he was Palestinian. The very next day, you decided to publish an article representing Palestinians only as a hate threat, not, as is more factually the case, as targets of Israeli and overseas hate."

"Alongside all Christians of conscience, I look forward to the time when Canadians will join with Palestinian Christians in the quest for an inclusive future in the land of the Holy One. Jesus is still weeping over Jerusalem."

"However, it should be mentioned that the article’s emphasis on how uncommon it is for Israeli soldiers to be prosecuted obscures the outrage that 10 days of imprisonment is at all an adequate punishment. Human rights groups are understandably concerned by such light sentencing."

"Your readers do deserve to know that Smotrich is an advocate of hate speech and hateful policy. You write that after the mob assault on Hawara earlier this year, “Smotrich said the town should be ‘erased’”; he added, which you do not mention, that it was his intention to inflict such cruelty with state powers: “the state should do it,” he said."

"We want to thank you for providing readers with a nuanced overview of the criticism of Israel’s judicial overhauls. This has been all too rare in the coverage that has appeared in Canadian media to date."

“The article explains why some families in Gaza no longer have homes and how the turf between the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas is keeping them from being housed. It features some citations from the Zorob family, one of the affected families. Overall, the article did a fine job of outlining the situation, but the language used and context can be improved to give a more accurate description of Palestinian citizens’ treatment by Israel and Hamas.”

"The use of the word “captured” when referring to Israel’s occupation of the West Bank is misleading, suggesting that Israel has a strong claim to or ownership of these territories. International law never uses the term “captured” when referring to land appropriation, and the international community has never diplomatically acquiesced to Israel's ongoing military presence in the West Bank."

"The UN’s Partition Plan for Palestine was never fully realized. The proposal was adopted by the UN General Assembly on November 29, 1947 as Resolution 181, but no Arab states were established in accordance with the Plan in 1948, as the article suggests."