The Media Accountability Project  

"Israel’s behaviour these past eight months has rightly triggered international outrage, and such outrage should not misrepresented by a CBC podcast.  Ms. Poisson should have done much better in ensuring that such context entered the discussion fairly."

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. 

"Kinsella repeatedly refers to a “secret plan” that was “leaked” to him: a document that comes from the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights’ (USCPR). However, the document is not secret at all."

"Your article offers a fresh perspective that is often absent in many Canadian news outlets: shedding light on the true nature of antisemitism and the paradox of those who claim to support Israel while harboring antisemitic beliefs."

"The term “Arab Israelis” has been propagated by Israel to downplay the identity and indigeneity of Palestinians, thus constituting a form of anti-Palestinian racism. The term “Israeli Arab” was never chosen by the Palestinian people, and it doesn’t take into consideration their separate identity from Arabs as a whole."

"To many, Zionism, therefore, represents dispossession, apartheid, and genocide. Perhaps Barber needs to look at these long-standing injustices to understand why so many people today adopt the cause of anti-Zionism."