The Media Accountability Project  

"Some of the inflammatory language in your article comes in the form of attributed quotes, e.g. Brad Bradford’s misleading reference to “Jewish-owned businesses” and Olivia Chow’s invocation of “antisemitism.” But you are still obliged to report the facts."

"Accuracy nevertheless demands that your emphasis of Israel’s October 2023 violation of its Fourth Geneva Convention obligations, with this medieval starvation warfare, also makes space for the illegal 16-year siege (2007–2023) that this collective punishment punctuates. Corrections to this story for accuracy are therefore a necessary correction for fact."

"In all these recent articles mentioned, Tonda MacCharles omits to mention Palestinian casualties, although she mentions Israeli casualties. Failure to include this information clearly shows the one-sidedness of your reporting, which is a breach of your journalistic obligations."

"To fail to include these points is to aggravate the crisis of trust in journalism. In these difficult days, we expect you to provide readers with the facts, even when they are startling."

"Mr. Woods then reverts to the long standing IDF script and quotes Lt-Col. Jonathan Conricus as indicating Hamas “use civilian buildings for military purposes, which makes it a legitimate military target” without any accreditation to this charge. Why does Mr. Woods expect the civilian casualties will increase when civilian buildings allegedly used by Hamas fighters are bombed?"

"Surely journalistic ethics would require a fulsome indication of how Canadians in Gaza can be brought back to Canada. In fact, these Canadians are the most at risk of death or serious injury given the current bombing of Gaza and the proposed future invasion by the Israeli military."

"I urge you to immediately update your article to make clear when statements are factual versus those alleged by Israeli military sources. As it stands, your article violates basic journalistic principles and requires prompt correction."

"Not only, however, to you omit the grim language of Gallant, who in this same statement disparaged the Palestinians of Gaza as “human animals.” You irresponsibly reproduce the language of the Israeli government whose announced war crimes you are covering."

"Use of that phrase, Islamic Resistance Movement, is a matter of basic journalistic balance. In the same sense that you credibly refer to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), whether or not this organization is focused on “Defense,” use of “the Islamic Resistance Movement” as the parallel description of Hamas is a matter of even-handed consistency of form."

"In two sequential sentences, this article reads as follows:'Israel captured east Jerusalem in a 1967 war and later annexed it in a move not internationally recognized. [Paragraph break.] There are roughly 15,000 Christians in Jerusalem today, the majority of them Palestinians who consider themselves living under occupation'. This is inaccurate: the status of Jerusalem is not a matter of subjective Palestinian opinion."