The Media Accountability Project  

"From the very first sentence, Mr. Passifiume, you present your opinion as fact. For instance, referring to groups that advocate for Palestinian rights on campus as 'anti-Israeli extremists' is not only a baseless editorialization but also defamatory. Your labeling pressures and stigmatizes Palestinians and their allies, effectively framing them as terrorist sympathizers. This characterization is not only inaccurate and harmful but also a form of anti-Palestinian racism, as defined by the Arab Canadian Lawyers Association."

"The headline and the article offensively use the words of a Wall Street Journal op-ed to refer to Dearborn, a suburb of Detroit, Michigan, as 'America’s Jihad capital,' which is unnecessary and racist."

"I’m disappointed with the article’s paragraph which talks about the death toll in Gaza, as it fails to make clear that the Palestinians are the overwhelming victims in this conflict."

"First, you write that “student protesters at the University of Ottawa have cleared their encampment after more than two months of protesting the war in Gaza.” I take issue with your use of vague terms such as “war” instead of explicitly stating that Israel has been employing full-blown war tactics on Palestinians in Gaza, such as starvation, indiscriminate bombing of neighborhoods and hospitals, using Palestinians as human shields."

If indeed Mr. Warmington wanted to act like a real journalist, or if he believed what his said in his piece, that, “It is important that he [Dattani] get a full and fair hearing on this because no one wants to see someone tarnished on bad information,” he might have bothered to talk to Dattani himself, or quote from the CBC article that was published on Dattani the day before, where Dattani responds to all the criticisms leveled at him.

Israel is a settler colonial project built on an apartheid system and the suffering of Palestinians — whether Jew, Muslim, or Christian — to not see otherwise is a complete whitewashing of reality.

With this type of thinking, how do we explain the hundreds of millions of people who have rallied in support of Palestine and its liberation in the past eight months? In our thousands, in our millions, we are all Palestinian.

On May 16, 2024, CJPME volunteer Walter Thomas Beckett was published in the Toronto Sun, Ottawa Sun, and Winnipeg Sun. His letter was edited in letters to the editor sections, but also published in full as an op-ed. Beckett argued against an article by Lorrie Goldstein, which claimed that Hamas practices “Taqiyya.” Goldstein’s article totally misunderstands the Islamic concept and relied on problematic sourcing.

On May 15, 2024, CJPME’s Jason Toney was published in the Hill Times pushing back against false claims made in an op-ed by Andrew Caddell, a public official in Quebec and former staffer at the Department of Global Affairs. Caddell baselessly claimed that Russia and Iran are funding protesters.

On May 15, CJPME learned that Toronto Sun had finally agreed to correct an opinion article that falsely claimed one of the U.S. Campaign for Palestinians' Rights' toolkits was a leaked secret document. These subtleties perpetuate false claims that anti-genocide organizing in North America is run by nefarious forces and not grassroots. CJPME initially reached out to Warren Kinsella and relevant editors at Toronto Sun to request that words like "secret" and "leaked" be removed, as this toolkit was publicly available on USCPR's website at the time of publication. Lacking a timely response from the outlet, CJPME filed a complaint with the National NewsMedia Council to mediate and resolve the dispute. Toronto Sun insisted that at the time of writing the opinion column, March 16, 2024, the toolkit to which they refer could not be found. Using internet archives accessed on Wayback Machine, CJPME found that the "Stop Genocide in Gaza Toolkit" was accessible on USCPR's website as early as November 28, 2023. Following this back and forth, Toronto Sun communicated that they were prepared to amend the copy and append an editor's note to the column. All instances of the word "secret" were removed and the term "leaked to" was replaced by "obtained by." The appended editor's note reads as follows: 

This opinion column has been modified to indicate the "toolkit" was not a secret document. At the time of writing, it was not easily accessible to the author. 

"Instead of pointing out and picking apart every racist, bigoted, and fundamentally twisted thought he’s decided to express, I would just like to ask Kinsella: Do you think about Palestinian children in Gaza?"