# Honest Reporting Canada - LLMs.txt > ENSURING FAIR AND ACCURATE CANADIAN MEDIA COVERAGE OF ISRAEL > Generated by MCPner LLMs.txt Generator for WordPress > Last updated: 2026-10-23T22:59:16+01:00 > Total items: 915 --- ## In Le Devoir, Former Foreign Affairs Advisor Jocelyn Coulon Spreads Egregious Claim That Israel Conducted Massacres In Gaza URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/in-le-devoir-former-foreign-affairs-advisor-jocelyn-coulon-spreads-egregious-claim-that-israel-conducted-massacres-in-gaza/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-10-23 Words: 1242 > Version française An editorial in Le Devoir marking the third anniversary of the Palestinian terrorist massacres of Israelis was used as an opportunity to spread unsubstantiated anti-Israel slurs. In his... Version française An editorial in Le Devoir marking the third anniversary of the Palestinian terrorist massacres of Israelis was used as an opportunity to spread unsubstantiated anti-Israel slurs. In his October 6 commentary, “What remains of October 7th?” Jocelyn Coulon, a former foreign affairs advisor to the Trudeau government, refers to the morning of October 7, 2023 and the “hundreds of Hamas militants” who invaded southern Israel. Chillingly, the true number was much higher, about six thousand terrorists, a figure that indicates the ambitious goals of the Palestinian mass murderers. Israel Accused of Planning a Massacre Without Evidence But after a brief acknowledgement of that attempted genocide against Israelis (with no mention of how it was supported by a large majority of Gazans), Coulon soon pivoted to discussions of Israel, claiming without even a whiff of evidence that “another massacre was being planned: that of the Palestinians in Gaza.” In case the point was not clear, he reiterated it, writing that “of course, we are no longer in the era when a crusader would say, ‘kill them all, God will recognize his own,’ but the Israeli response is not far removed from that time.” He offers precisely no evidence for this outlandish claim that Israel planned a massacre of Palestinians in Gaza, or that Israel’s counter-terrorism operations are “not far removed” from trying to “kill them all,” for no such evidence exists. Israel’s Civilian-Protection Measures Are Erased Despite Israel unquestionably possessing the capacity to “kill them all,” Jerusalem did no such thing, literally sacrificing its own soldiers in order to target Palestinian terrorists in Gaza, sending in mass amounts of food into the territory, warning Gazans in advance of strikes, and so on. None of this was mentioned by Coulon. Even according to Hamas’ own unverified and highly suspect casualty claims, amidst two years of intense urban warfare, some 98 percent of civilians survived. Thus, if Israel tried to kill all Gazans, as suggested by Coulon, it failed spectacularly. NAZA’s Allegations Are Presented as Established Fact Coulon cites the film NAZA, writing that as a result, “we know that collateral damage was factored into the monstrous calculations of the military high command.” Notably, and unmentioned by Coulon, Israel has formally rejected the film’s allegations in a point-by-point refutation. Firstly, while Coulon confidently claims that “we know” these claims, they are unproven allegations, not established facts. Secondly, and no less importantly, Coulon appears unaware that NAZA inadvertently disproves the central crux of the argument that Israel sought to massacre as many Palestinians as possible. A country seeking to commit genocide would not establish complex rules around collateral damage; they would simply, as put by Coulon, “kill them all.” Yet the evidence he marshals, ostensibly in support of his central thesis, ends up disproving his very argument. Coulon, regurgitating the “genocide” slur, refers to Israeli architect Eyal Weizman – a noted critic of Israel – writing that “testimonies are piling up.” Testimonies are indeed piling up, but in the opposite direction. The day following Coulon’s editorial, more than 75 retired American military leaders formally rejected the “genocide” allegations against Israel. Unsurprisingly, this open letter has received virtually no coverage in the Canadian mainstream media, and Jocelyn Coulon’s October 7 editorial likewise only served to repeat groundless anti-Israel claims without acknowledging the facts that defeat his arguments. Dans Le Devoir, l’ancien conseiller aux Affaires étrangères Jocelyn Coulon relaie l’accusation scandaleuse selon laquelle Israël aurait perpétré des massacres à Gaza Un éditorial publié dans Le Devoir à l’occasion du troisième anniversaire des massacres terroristes de civils israéliens perpétrés par les Palestiniens a servi de prétexte à la diffusion d’accusations infondées et diffamatoires contre Israël. Dans son commentaire du 6 octobre, intitulé «Que reste-t-il du 7 octobre ?», Jocelyn Coulon, ancien conseiller en affaires étrangères du gouvernement Trudeau, évoque la matinée du 7 octobre 2023 et les «centaines de combattants du Hamas» qui ont envahi le sud d’Israël. Or, le nombre réel était glaçant de par son ampleur : environ 6 000 terroristes, un chiffre qui témoigne de l’ambition démesurée des meurtriers de masse palestiniens. Mais après avoir brièvement reconnu cette tentative de génocide contre les Israéliens – sans mentionner qu’elle était soutenue par une large majorité de Gazaouis -, Coulon s’empresse de recentrer son propos sur Israël, affirmant sans la moindre preuve qu’«un autre massacre se préparait: celui des Palestiniens de Gaza». Comme si le message n’était pas suffisamment clair, il insiste en écrivant : «Bien sûr, nous ne sommes plus à l’époque où un croisé pouvait dire: “Tuez-les tous, Dieu reconnaîtra les siens”, mais la riposte israéli... --- ## HRC’s Mike Fegelman Discusses Media Bias Against Israel with News Forum and Alberta Jewish News, Three Years After October 7 URL: https://honestreporting.ca/hrcs-mike-fegelman-discusses-media-bias-against-israel-with-news-forum-and-alberta-jewish-news-three-years-after-october-7/ Type: post Modified: 2026-10-22 Words: 2148 > On October 7, HonestReporting Canada’s Executive Director Mike Fegelman joined a Forum Daily Special to examine how media coverage of the Israel-Hamas war has shaped Canadians’ understanding of the conflict and why... On October 7, HonestReporting Canada’s Executive Director Mike Fegelman joined a Forum Daily Special to examine how media coverage of the Israel-Hamas war has shaped Canadians’ understanding of the conflict and why accuracy, context and accountability remain essential three years after the October 7 terror attacks. Hosted by Theresa Skubic, the panel also featured News Forum contributor David Clement and National Post Editor-in-Chief Rob Roberts and explored the rush by journalists and news organizations to publish unverified claims, newsrooms’ dependence on wire services, and the ways editorial framing and bias by omission can distort public understanding. The panel also examined citizen journalism, social media’s influence, and the growing challenges of verifying footage in an age of AI and deepfakes. Throughout the discussion, Fegelman called for greater journalistic accountability, urging reporters to challenge claims before publication, scrutinize sources’ motives, and address bias by omission. He warned that inaccurate reporting can shape foreign policy and pressed journalists to ask tough questions about the spread of hate and extremism in Canada. To watch the entire discussion, click the link below: On October 8, the Alberta Jewish News featured an in-depth feature-length interview with Mike about media accountability, with a particular focus on CBC’s coverage of Israel following the October 7 terror attacks. Mike challenged the public broadcaster’s editorial direction, its failure to identify Hamas as a terrorist organization, and what he described as a pattern of amplifying anti-Israel perspectives without sufficient scrutiny or opposing voices. Fegelman also not only urged greater accountability from Canada’s public broadcaster, but called for an independent commission to investigate systemic bias in publicly funded media, highlighting concerns about the CBC Ombudsman’s independence and enforcement powers. Read the entire article below: Honest Reporting Canada pushes for fair media coverage on Israel By Mark Cooper, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter For more than 20 years, Mike Fegelman had strictly guarded the sanctity of Shabbat, keeping the Sabbath free from the demands of his working life as the executive director of Honest Reporting Canada. But the moment the observant Jew stepped into his Toronto orthodox synagogue on October 7, 2023, he was met with the most daunting crisis of his career that demanded his immediate action. The weight of his duty to Israel and the Canadian Jewish community instantly took precedence, forcing him to make the rare decision to override Jewish law and get to work. “I got in there and one of my good buddies who is the president of our shul was crying in the corner, and I asked him: what’s going on?” said Fegelman, who then learned the horrific details of the Hamas terrorist attacks on Southern Israel. “I remember going up to the rabbi and saying: I think I’ve got to go, and he said: Go!” For three consecutive days, away from family, devastated by the tragedy and fueled mostly by caffeine, Fegelman relied on his strong connections he had built with Canadian journalists over some 20 years. For those 72 hours, his work almost entirely focused on facilitating dozens of interviews with Israelis on the ground, ensuring Canadians could bear witness to the atrocities committed that day. He knew immediately his job would never go back to what it was prior to October 7. A Mission Born from Media Frustration Honest Reporting Canada was started in 2003 by some concerned Canadians who were frustrated by Canadian media coverage of Israel, putting the country under what they felt was an unfair microscope, disguising opinion as news and leaving out important context. “There was a sense that instead of just being fatalist and putting up their hands and saying ‘there’s nothing we can do’ … there were some key businesspeople and prominent stakeholders in Toronto and throughout Canada that said ‘what if we created an organized response mechanism, a professional organization that will engage with Canada’s journalists with professionalism, with moderation,” said Fegelman. He was hired by Honest Reporting Canada in 2004 from his job as a project manager at a marketing company to help do that work. Subscriptions have since grown from a couple hundred to more than 80,000 Canadians from coast to coast, comprised of people from many faiths, cultures and backgrounds. But with the rapid increase of followers since October 7, so has the workload of Honest Reporting Canada’s small but nimble six-person staff. “Prior to October 7 there was somewhat of a predictable pace, but I would say our work since then has escalated two to three times more.” Beyond the scale and rapid pace of the challenges his organization faces, the “egregious nature” of the narrative directed at Israel makes them complex to manage, he says. “In a certain sense, the hate that is traditionally on the margins of our soci... --- ## CBC Radio Program All in a Day Features Uncritical Conversation With Oxfam Canada Representative Dalia Al-Awqati, Who Twice Spread The “Genocide” Slur Without Challenge URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/cbc-radio-program-all-in-a-day-features-uncritical-conversation-with-oxfam-canada-representative-dalia-al-awqati-who-twice-spread-the-genocide-slur-without-challenge/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-10-23 Words: 569 > Once again, another CBC radio program, the Ottawa-based All in a Day, recently featured an uncritical conversation with a representative from the anti-Israel activist group Oxfam, where the guest spread... Once again, another CBC radio program, the Ottawa-based All in a Day, recently featured an uncritical conversation with a representative from the anti-Israel activist group Oxfam, where the guest spread misinformation without challenge. CBC Gives Oxfam an Uncritical Platform The October 9 episode, “Oxfam Canada reflects on one year of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire,” saw host Alan Neal speak with Dalia Al-Awqati, deputy director for humanitarian affairs at Oxfam Canada. Al-Awqati, who previously worked at Save the Children Canada, another organization that has engaged in anti-Israel activism, was there to discuss the supposed state of affairs in Gaza. Listen to the full episode below: But that did not stop her from spouting anti-Israel talking points as if they were factual, with no pushback from Neal. She twice matter-of-factly told Neal about the supposed “genocide” in Gaza, never acknowledging that no international court has ever found Israel guilty of it, nor admitting that Israel has never come even remotely close to attempting to destroy all of Gaza, and instead actively avoided civilian casualties as much as possible, even amidst an intense urban war. Neal could have pointed out to her that scores of international experts have debunked the “genocide” slur, though he did not. Elsewhere, Al-Awqati claimed that “over half the population is facing hunger,” though she did admit that “widespread famine doesn’t exist.” The culprit in Al-Awqati’s mind was made clear when she blamed Israel, claiming that “barely a trickle” of aid enters Gaza. Evidence From Gaza Tells a Different Story However, there is little evidence for the outlandish claim that more than half of Gazans are facing hunger, let alone about the supposed shortage of aid. Footage from inside Gaza regularly shows plentiful food inside the territory, and a new, gleaming mall recently opened, hardly indicative of a supposed widespread shortage of food. As for her absurd claim that aid into Gaza is “barely a trickle,” it is a veritable flood of goods, with literally hundreds of trucks entering the coastal territory each and every day. Yet even in the face of these repeated statements, Al-Awqati was never challenged by Neal, who never offered any semblance of pushback even in the face of her allegations, and nor did he even offer any corrections for the benefit of listeners, so that they could understand what they were hearing were expressions of opinion, not fact. Oxfam’s Anti-Israel Activism Is Hidden From Listeners Oxfam Canada is no stranger to anti-Israel activism. It is a registered charity, enjoys a mammoth budget, actively campaigns against Israel, and receives widespread sympathetic news coverage when doing so. Yet notably, during the January, 2026 massacres in Iran, when the Islamic Republic murdered tens of thousands of protesters, the organization was strangely quiet. Unsurprisingly, Oxfam Canada (and Al-Awqati) has been approvingly shared by anti-Israel pressure groups like Canadians for Justice & Peace in the Middle East (CJPME). However, at no point in the conversation Neal did tell listeners about Oxfam Canada’s controversies, and instead simply permitted Al-Awqati to level anti-Israel claims without challenge. All in a Day has been repeatedly documented by HonestReporting Canada for platforming anti-Israel guests, offering them uncritical interviews, and rarely interviewing opposing views, though he did interview Israeli survivors of October 7 to mark the three-year anniversary of the massacres. --- ## CBC Radio Program The 306 Features Interview With Michael Lynk Praising UN Official Navi Pillay Who Is Accused Of Being A “Hamas Ally” And Complicit In Genocide URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/cbc-radio-program-the-306-features-interview-with-michael-lynk-praising-un-official-navi-pillay-who-is-accused-of-being-a-hamas-ally-and-complicit-in-genocide/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-10-23 Words: 560 > When Navi Pillay, a controversial South African judge who has served on the United Nations Commission of Inquiry (CoI) recently won the Nobel Prize, a local CBC radio program brought... When Navi Pillay, a controversial South African judge who has served on the United Nations Commission of Inquiry (CoI) recently won the Nobel Prize, a local CBC radio program brought on labour lawyer Michael Lynk to discuss. On the October 9 episode of The 306 program, host Theresa Kliem introduced Pillay as “a leader of human rights and the rule of law,” never acknowledging at all any of the serious criticism and controversies surrounding Pillay. Listen to the full segment below: Swiss human rights organization UNWatch has accused Pillay of “complicity with genocide,” a claim that was also leveled by Emma Reilly, a human rights lawyer who formerly worked with Pillay. She has been accused of turning a blind eye to abuses in regimes such as North Korea, Sudan, Syria and elsewhere. When it comes to Israel, she has been accused of being a “Hamas” ally and of exhibiting an obsessive anti-Israel agenda. None of that was given even a second of airtime in Kliem’s broadcast, who instead interviewed Lynk for his opinions on Pillay. Uncritical Praise Replaces Meaningful Scrutiny Lynk told listeners that Pillay is a “fearless” and “energetic” defender of human rights, and that she “brought hope to the victims of violence and conflict,” offering zero insight into the very serious allegations of willful blindness towards actual human rights abuses by dictatorial regimes. At one point, Kliem asked Lynk about Pillay’s role in the CoI, which has accused Israel of “genocide” in Gaza in a 2025 report, which he called “authoritative.” Neither Kliem nor Lynk shared with listeners that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has not found Israel guilty of any genocide, and that allegation has been roundly rejected by a growing consensus of international and legal experts, most notably dozens of retired U.S. military officials. CBC’s Chosen Guest Has His Own Anti-Israel Controversies Lynk is not without controversies himself. As the former special rapporteur to the Palestinian territories, he has similarly been accused by UN Watch of ignoring Palestinian human rights violations, has been accused of acting “like an agent” for the Palestinians, accepted a medal from the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), and has shared a stage with anti-Israel activist Dimitri Lascaris – again accused by UN Watch of engaging in antisemitism – who has attended the funerals of terrorist leaders in Lebanon and Iran. Lynk is not an international lawyer, but a labour lawyer. Nonetheless, he has been a regular guest across multiple Canadian news media outlets, and has also been the subject of many HonestReporting Canada alerts for his commentaries, including claiming that the new Iranian hardline security chief could be a sign of Tehran’s “moderation,” spreading allegations of “mass hunger” in Gaza, and even falsely claiming that the ICJ found a “plausible” case of genocide in Gaza. The court did no such thing, as pointed out by Joan Donoghue, its former president. Two Controversial Figures, Zero Critical Questions Navi Pillay is a highly controversial figure who has been accused of turning a blind eye to human rights abuses by dictatorships, and the CBC radio program The 306 could have addressed, even briefly, the very serious charges made against her. Instead of doing that, host Therea Kliem interviewed Michael Lynk, an individual who has also been accused of anti-Israel activism, for an entirely uncritical, one-sided conversation. --- ## CBC News Reporter Raffy Boudjikanian Uses Access To Information To Pen Non-Story About ICC Warrants For Israel’s Prime Minister URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/cbc-news-reporter-raffy-boudjikanian-uses-access-to-information-to-pen-non-story-about-icc-warrants-for-israels-prime-minister/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-10-23 Words: 582 > CBC News continues to treat the scandalous claim that the proposed arrest of Israel’s prime minister as de facto credible, going so far as to pull documents from nearly 30... CBC News continues to treat the scandalous claim that the proposed arrest of Israel’s prime minister as de facto credible, going so far as to pull documents from nearly 30 months ago. In an October 16 article for CBC News by Senior Reporter Raffy Boudjikanian, “Trudeau government advised it would be expected to carry out ICC arrest warrants, including for Netanyahu,” Boudjikanian cited a memorandum from June, 2024 by Nathalie Drouin, currently Canadian ambassador to France, who was at the time national security adviser to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, where she claimed that Ottawa was bound to abide by the International Criminal Court (ICC)’s arrest warrant of Israel’s prime minister. As Boudjikanian revealed in his article, the story was apparently deliberately searched for, with the writer noting that the memorandum was released following an access to information request. Boudjikanian is no stranger to HonestReporting Canada, having been the subject of many alerts for transforming anti-Israel complaints into news articles. The ICC’s Position Is Presented as Authoritative In the article, Boudjikanian quoted Drouin as writing that “upon a request to co-operate, should one ever be received, Canada would be expected to seek an arrest warrant in a Canadian court.” However, it was only in the 10th paragraph that readers were given any idea that the ICC’s arrest warrants, rather than seen as unquestionably legitimate, were in fact highly controversial, but even then, most of the story was missing. Boudjikanian simply wrote that “Israel rejects the charges against Netanyahu and Gallant. The three Hamas leaders have all since been killed by the Israeli Defence Forces.” This is hardly the full story. The then-chief prosecutor of the ICC at the time the warrants were issued was Karim Khan, whom The Wall Street Journal alleged received unspecified promises from the oil-rich Qatari regime that it would “look after” him if he targeted Israel’s leaders. Khan, who was facing sexual harassment allegations from a subordinate at the time, was also accused by critics of targeting Israel in a deliberate attempt to deflect from his own personal and professional scandals. Qatar’s Alleged Role Is Also Erased The Guardian newspaper also revealed that Qatar – which hosts the senior leaders of the Hamas terrorist group – set up a sting with the intended goal of discrediting Khan’s alleged victim. Nevertheless, Khan was eventually removed from his role in the ICC as a result of the scandal. Yet none of these details found their way into any part of Boudjikanian’s article, as if they were utterly irrelevant, when in fact they strike at the very heart as to whether the ICC’s arrest warrants of Israeli leaders could be legitimate at all, or were simply tools of weaponized international law, as some scholars have alleged. CBC Returns to Its Netanyahu Flight Obsession The article ended with an extended discussion of Israeli government flights over Canadian airspace, a topic that has been the subject of repeated CBC News articles from Senior Reporter Evan Dyer, who has treated the story as ostensibly scandalous, without also providing any insight to readers about the controversies surrounding the ICC and Karim Khan. This article by Senior Reporter Raffy Boudjikanian, like so many other reports from Canada’s taxpayer-funded broadcaster, demonstrates what happens when CBC News goes digging for documents to ostensibly build a story about Israel: it doesn’t necessarily find anything actually newsworthy, but simply yet another cudgel to wield against Jerusalem. --- ## CBC News Journalist Saša Petricic Produces Trio Of Reports Giving Undeserved Credibility To Absurd Claims Of Food Shortage In Gaza URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/cbc-news-journalist-sasa-petricic-produces-trio-of-reports-giving-undeserved-credibility-to-absurd-claims-of-food-shortage-in-gaza/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-10-21 Words: 876 > Any reporting on the anniversary of the Palestinian terrorist invasion of Israel and the atrocities its terrorists committed on October 7, 2023, ought to include mention of their raison d’être:... Any reporting on the anniversary of the Palestinian terrorist invasion of Israel and the atrocities its terrorists committed on October 7, 2023, ought to include mention of their raison d’être: an ongoing existential threat to Israel. But in a trio of recent reports, CBC News failed to include this critical background. Despite producing three reports, Senior Correspondent Saša Petricic focused on Gazan suffering while ignoring the threat Palestinian terrorists pose to Israel, effectively blaming Israel instead. Petricic has a long history of problematic reporting which has been documented by HonestReporting Canada. For example in September, he claimed there were “food shortages” in Gaza, without evidence. These three broadcasts continued his theme. The October 7 broadcast, “Israel marks 3 years since Oct. 7 attacks as Palestinians mourn Gaza’s destruction,” introduced Petricic’s segment by saying that “the war in Gaza triggered by the Hamas attacks of 3 years ago.” Hamas’ Existential Threat to Israel Is Minimized Click below to watch the full report: The war in Gaza was not triggered only by the Hamas attacks, but by the genocidal threat the terror group demonstrated to Israel, necessitating a defensive response. While Petricic noted that “Hamas militants have not disarmed as they promised to do, leaving Gazans in limbo,” he failed to clarify the direct threat this poses to Israeli lives and Hamas’ declared goal of repeating its October 7 atrocities until Israel is destroyed. Hamas’ Control of Gaza’s Media Narrative Goes Unmentioned Petricic was introduced as reporting from Toronto. His footage was unsourced, and part of it was reminiscent of allegedly staged scenes of Gazans reaching for food. The terror organization Hamas controls the messaging coming out of Gaza, as former Gazan photographer Motaz Azaiza described in a recent podcast. Yet Petricic did not mention this vital context. Petricic claimed that the “UN’s World Food Program still calls daily life here brutal.” The World Food Program has been charged with supporting Hamas. Petricic also featured Gazans, including Mohammad al-Arabid saying that “we have been squatting here for 3 years now.” He did not describe the conflict’s impact on Israelis, for example reservists leaving families for extended periods of time, or a nation living under constant threat. CBC Anchor David Common also said that “Gaza’s health ministry says more than 74,000 Palestinians have died and two million others continue to face a critical humanitarian situation including widespread hunger, mass displacement, and severe destruction,” and Petricic mentioned that “Israeli airstrikes continue almost daily, violating the ceasefire agreement and killing more than 1,400 Palestinians since it went into effect, according to Gaza officials.” Hamas-Supplied Statistics Repeated as Fact All of this data was presumably sourced from the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, whose reports throughout the war have been repeatedly discredited for unreliable data collection methods and inaccurate reporting. Sharing it as fact is unconscionable. Furthermore, as Hamas is Gaza’s governing body, its total responsibility for Gazan well-being was conveniently ignored by CBC. Also on October 7, another broadcast, “Life in Gaza remains dire 3 years after Hamas-led Oct. 7 attacks,” included Petricic’s unsourced video footage, and featured an on-air interview of Petricic who said that “Israel’s put restrictions on what it considers dual-use products and these are things that it considers could be used for the military…includes things like heavy machinery, which could be used to get rid of some of the unexploded ordinances, could be used to fix some of these teetering buildings, but can’t make it in…Some medicines are not being allowed in either… some tents.” Click below to watch the full report: Prior to October 7, 2023, Hamas stole much of the aid entering Gaza and repurposed it or used it directly to create a tunnel network larger than the London Underground to house its terror activities and later abuse Israeli hostages. Israel’s fears regarding dual-use items are fully grounded in reality and can be directly laid at Hamas’s door. Entirely unmentioned was any acknowledgement of the enormous amount of aid coming into Gaza in a single day, such as engine oil, incubators and other medical equipment. Hundreds of trucks bearing aid enter Gaza daily. This detailed documentation highlights Israeli efforts to facilitate humanitarian assistance. Yet during the war, Hamas stole aid and hoarded baby formula to falsely accuse Israel of starvation tactics while its own civilians suffered. Where was Petricic’s finger-pointing at Hamas, the true initiators of the war and perpetrators of Gazan and Israeli suffering? CBC again managed to showcase Petricic’s video footage and accompanying narration, this time on The National on October 8, entitled “Life is brutal inside Gaza, one year into the ceasefire,” which offered more o... --- ## Complaint Filed: CBC News Airs Video On October 7 Showing Context-Free Footage Of Funeral In Gaza URL: https://honestreporting.ca/complaint-filed-cbc-news-airs-video-on-october-7-showing-context-free-footage-of-funeral-in-gaza/ Type: post Modified: 2026-10-21 Words: 673 > CBC News’ anti-Israel bias has already been extensively documented, with a recent professional analysis of their reporting finding “an overwhelming narrative imbalance of the Hamas-Israel war, which minimizes and abstracts... CBC News’ anti-Israel bias has already been extensively documented, with a recent professional analysis of their reporting finding “an overwhelming narrative imbalance of the Hamas-Israel war, which minimizes and abstracts Israeli and Jewish experiences while privileging Palestinian perspectives and views.” Their October 7 broadcast, “They died in 2023, they were only buried last week,” was a case in point. Click below to watch the report: A Funeral Presented Without Meaningful Context To the background of melancholic music and visuals of a funeral in Gaza, the following text appeared, “they died in 2023 but were only buried last week. This is a mass funeral in Gaza. The deceased were killed at the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war but no one could bury them until this month.” CBC showed the relatives of those said to be dead under the rubble, for example, Sumaya Bukhit, who said, “fifteen members of the family are inside this building, I am the only survivor in the family.” All loss of civilian life is tragic and it is valid news. Yet in this broadcast, significant context was absent, presenting a skewed report. Hamas’ Massacres and Genocidal Intent Are Erased Hamas invaded Israel on October 7, 2023. The murders, kidnappings and atrocities it committed against Israel were bestial and beyond description. But what triggered Israel’s response was not October 7 alone; it was Hamas’s genocidal commitment to repeat the event until Israel was emptied of its Jewish inhabitants. Hamas’ actions did not stop on October 7. As of October 25, 2023, day 19 of the war – the date at which the broadcast alleged the IDF hit the residential complex where those buried were found – thousands of rockets, drones and other incendiary devices had already been fired at Israel. Curiously, in the video CBC News provided, other apartment buildings remained standing surrounding the rubble. Yet no journalistic inquiry was evident: why was this particular building targeted? CBC News made no mention that on October 25, 2023, Israel struck Hamas tunnel shafts and weapons storage areas underneath Gaza. Yet no mention was made of the possibility that this building may have been more than a mere residential tower. Israel’s Humanitarian Efforts Are Left Out This apparent lack of curiosity belies CBC News’ assumption that Israel purposely caused the humanitarian harm. Nothing could be further from the truth. Israel worked throughout the war on facilitating humanitarian aid into Gaza. And despite fighting an existential war on multiple fronts, by December 16 2023 – just two months into the war – Israel had facilitated the entry of over 70,000 tonnes of aid into Gaza. Additionally, Israel chose to conduct a ground operation, losing the lives of many of its troops in its endeavor to target terrorists and limit civilian harm, despite its ability to operate from the air alone in a less targeted fashion. CBC News made no mention of any of this, instead stating, “Palestinian authorities say that more than 74,000 people have been killed in Israel’s assault on Gaza. That includes at least 1,400 since a ceasefire was declared last October.” CBC did not explain that these figures are sourced from the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, whose data conflates fighters and civilians, is gathered through unreliable methods, and has been widely debunked. Nor did the network explain that Hamas has not respected the ceasefire, which forced Israel to act defensively. Finally, after over two minutes into the broadcast, a mere 12 seconds were used to show the statement, “the war in Gaza began following the October 7, 2023 attack that killed over 1200 people” with the background of Israelis mourning. There was no mention of atrocities, no mention of 251 abused hostages, and no mention of an invasion. Adding insult to injury, CBC News chose to air this skewed report on the anniversary of October 7, the greatest massacre against Jews since the Holocaust. By stripping away crucial military context and repeating unverified assertions, Canada’s national broadcaster failed to accurately inform Canadians. --- ## In Globe & Mail Column, Representative From Taxpayer-Funded Caritas Canada Charity Blames Israel – Not Radical Islamism – For Disappearance Of Palestinian Christians URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/in-globe-mail-column-representative-from-taxpayer-funded-caritas-canada-charity-blames-israel-not-radical-islamism-for-disappearance-of-palestinian-christians/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-10-21 Words: 600 > Christmas appears to have arrived early in the pages of The Globe and Mail. Typically around Christmastime, the Canadian news media airs and publishes content chronicling the situation in Bethlehem,... Christmas appears to have arrived early in the pages of The Globe and Mail. Typically around Christmastime, the Canadian news media airs and publishes content chronicling the situation in Bethlehem, where a once-Christian majority has been reduced to a small rump. The culprit is not identified as Palestinian Islamists, but Israel and its security measures, which are often depicted as being the cause of Bethlehem’s woes. In an October 16 opinion column in The Globe and Mail, “Palestinian Christians share the fate of all Palestinians,” Dean Dettloff – a writer focused on issues such as “Christian anti-capitalism, Christianity and Marxism, and prison abolition,” attempted a bigger argument, to portray all Palestinian Christians (to the degree that many continue to exist at all) as victims of supposed Israeli aggression. Dettloff, research and advocacy officer for Development and Peace – Caritas Canada, a taxpayer-supported registered charity and official arm of the Catholic Church, continually raised the spectre of “settler violence,” depicting Israelis as the cause of suffering for Palestinian Christians. Dettloff’s characterization of Israelis living in Judea as “settlers” was particularly eyebrow-raising, given his own organization’s Catholic affiliation, and his reference to Jesus’ habitation in the region. Would Dettloff also refer to Jesus, a Jew living in Judea, as a “settler?” Israel’s Growing Christian Population Is Erased Dettloff referred to a small village in Judea & Samaria (“West Bank”), writing that “it is the last remaining Palestinian community made up entirely of Christians,” clearly recognizing that Palestinian Christians – like Christians across the Middle East – are increasingly an endangered species. Except Israel. The Jewish State is the only place in the Middle East with a growing Christian population, a towering fact that was nowhere to be seen anywhere in Dettloff’s opinion column. Israel – unlike the Palestinian territories – offers freedom of religion and association to its citizens, but rather than acknowledge this obvious reality, and how it points to the Palestinians, not Israel, as the cause of the decline in Judea & Samaria (“West Bank”), Dettloff made zero mention of this. Islamist Persecution of Christians Goes Unmentioned Dettloff did not share with readers anything relating to the widespread abuse, harassment, intimidation and theft of Christian land by Islamist radicals, including instances of kidnapping, sexual harassment and even forced marriage, and that is under the supposedly moderate Palestinian Authority (PA), not the terrorist government of Hamas. Predictably, the column praised the anti-Israel steps taken by the Carney government, with Dettloff thanking Ottawa for the Canada Revenue Agency’s revocation of charities connected to Israel, a campaign that has been termed a weaponization of the federal government targeting Jewish organizations. Given that Caridas is a registered charity enjoying the benefits of Canadian taxpayers, all while apparently engaging in admittedly non-charitable endeavours by praising the federal government’s anti-Israel policies, his appreciation for the targeting of Jewish charities is particularly problematic. If Dettloff and Development and Peace – Caritas Canada wish to chronicle the suffering of the small number of Palestinian Christians, they are free to do so, but any accurate assessment would acknowledge the central role played by Islamist radicals, while recognizing that Israel remains the singular country anywhere in the region where Christians can live, work, worship and associate with freedom. Dettloff’s Central Thesis Collapses Under the Missing Facts That Dettloff did not share any of this with readers, alongside his failure to point out the three millennia of Jewish presence in the land, serves as a fatal defeater for his central thesis that Israel is the reason for the woes of Palestinian Christians. --- ## Concordia University Student Newspaper Marks 3 Years Of October 7 By Spreading Anti-Israel Slurs URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/concordia-university-student-newspaper-marks-3-years-of-october-7-by-spreading-anti-israel-slurs/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-10-19 Words: 589 > To mark the third anniversary of the Palestinian terrorist massacres of October 7, 2023, the Concordia University campus newspaper The Link penned a rambling anti-Israel screed which accused Israel of... To mark the third anniversary of the Palestinian terrorist massacres of October 7, 2023, the Concordia University campus newspaper The Link penned a rambling anti-Israel screed which accused Israel of virtually every crime under the sun and somehow did not even mention what actually took place three years earlier. October 7 Erased From an Editorial Published on Its Anniversary The editorial “Three years of genocide, decades of occupation” began by writing that “since Oct. 7, 2023, 73,470 Palestinians have been killed,” without bothering to acknowledge what precisely happened on October 7 (namely, the massacres by thousands of Palestinian terrorists against Israelis) to actually start the war in the first place, akin to writing an article about the supposed evils of the Allied forces in fighting Nazi Germany, while omitting any mention of Hitler’s invasion of Poland. Beyond citing unproven Hamas-provided casualty claims, and making zero distinction between civilians and combatants, the editorial then told readers that it was “78 years since the Nakba—meaning catastrophe in Arabic—which led to the forced displacement of over 700,000 Palestinians from their homes in the conflict that eventually formed the State of Israel.” Once again, the devil is in the details, left entirely unsaid by The Link. The so-called “nakba” began when Israel’s Arab neighbours (and Arabs inside Israel) refused to accept the Jewish State’s independence, and insisted on launching an attempted war of annihilation against it instead, and creating a number of consequences, including refugees. Had the Arabs succeeded, it would have undoubtedly been a mass genocide of Jews in Israel, and thus, the “nakba” was a victory over an openly-genocidal attempt at another Holocaust. Elsewhere, the editorial’s author takes aim at Zionism, claiming without evidence that “Even Zionism changes definitions depending on the speaker. To some, it means that the Jewish people deserve a homeland; to others, it means the state of Israel is operating without consequence.” Zionism is widely seen as the Jewish People’s national liberation movement; the right to self-determination in their ancestral lands, and it is unclear whether any legitimate voice has ever argued that Zionism means Israel can operate “without consequence.” But that did not stop The Link from presenting it anyway. Conveniently, The Link fails to actually provide a single example of any self-described Zionist who ascribes to that definition, raising serious questions about whether this is anything more than a straw man logical fallacy, meaning a deliberate misrepresentation of one’s opponent’s views. The “Genocide” Slur Repeated Without Proof As with so many other similar commentaries over the last three years, the editorial repeatedly levels the “genocide” slur against Israel, all without ever actually proving it. Instead, it cites the United Nations Commission of Inquiry (COI) as having made that claim, though it did not mention the highly controversial nature of the commission’s members. More importantly, scores of legal experts and military scholars have thoroughly rejected the genocide claims against Israel, though these voices have been almost universally ignored in the Canadian news media. Anti-Israel Activism Presented as Campus Journalism The Link is not simply another newspaper; it is a publication located at Concordia University, a school with tens of thousands of students, and has a long track record of regurgitating anti-Israel narratives and framing it as news. The Link claims that it “pledges to report with full accuracy, avoiding misinformation and disinformation.” Can The Link seriously claim that this editorial comes anywhere close to that standard? --- ## Radio-Canada Reporter Rania Massoud Authors 2 Articles, Repeating Unfounded Anti-Israel Claims, Often Without Even A Whiff Of Background URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/radio-canada-reporter-rania-massoud-authors-2-articles-repeating-unfounded-anti-israel-claims-often-without-even-a-whiff-of-background/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-10-19 Words: 1268 > Version française In a special October 7 commemorative article for Radio-Canada, “In Israel, the shadow of October 7, 2023 ‘is immense,’” journalist and columnist Rania Massoud addressed the ongoing ripples... Version française In a special October 7 commemorative article for Radio-Canada, “In Israel, the shadow of October 7, 2023 ‘is immense,’” journalist and columnist Rania Massoud addressed the ongoing ripples from the Palestinian massacres from three years earlier. Nuance Gives Way to Familiar Anti-Israel Narratives And while the article did feature some nuanced views of Israeli society, it also offered a largely uncritical platforming of outlandish anti-Israel allegations, as previous alerts documenting Massoud’s writings have noted. Early in her article, Massoud wrote that after the October 7 massacres, “the government of Benjamin Netanyahu, the most right-wing since the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, launched a merciless war against the Islamist movement in the Gaza Strip, killing more than 74,000 Palestinians, mostly civilians, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health.” While the Netanyahu coalition is widely-seen as the most right-wing in history, this is also highly misleading, given that the coalition partners who are the reason for this descriptor do not serve in the government’s war cabinet, and thus in reality, this detail is something of a non sequitur. Hamas’ Casualty Claims Receive Inadequate Scrutiny While Massoud did importantly acknowledge that the supposed death toll from Gaza comes from the “Ministry of Health” that is part of the Hamas terrorist network, by adding the addendum that it is “mostly civilians” offers little insight into the widespread data manipulation by the terrorist group or how it is has widely used its own population as human shields. Elsewhere, she repeated claims from a United Nations Commission of Inquiry (COI) accusing Israel of “genocidal acts,” and while she notes that Israel denies those allegations, she did not share that scores of experts and scholars have similarly debunked claims of genocide, not just the Israeli government. The following day, Massoud was back with another article, this time focusing on Gaza, “‘We can’t take it anymore, enough is enough!’ Journalists in Gaza confide in us.” In that report, Massoud repeated her repetition of Hamas’ casualty claims, writing that it is “considered reliable by the UN.” But Hamas’ figures are questionable, regardless of whether they have a UN seal of approval or not. As scholars have pointed out, the UN has previously cut in half its estimates of women and children killed in Gaza, proof positive that relying on terrorist groups for casualty data is problematic. Similarly, the “genocide” claims leveled by anti-Israel activist groups are balanced only by denials by Israel, and not the enormous amount of experts in warfare or international law who could have been cited. Massoud cited the UN in claiming widespread destruction in Gaza, though she did not share that this was precisely a result of Hamas’ enormous tunnel system stretching underneath much of Gaza, and that the displacement of Gazans which she mentions was a measure specifically aimed at avoiding civilian casualties. Terrorists With Press Badges Counted as Journalists Joining other such reports, Massoud informed readers that Reporters Without Borders (RSF) argued that more than 220 “journalists” have been killed in Gaza, without bothering to share that many supposed journalists in Gaza have turned out to be Palestinian terrorists with press badges. Rattling off a litany of largely debunked anti-Israel claims, in some cases without offering readers even the most essential context, not only fails to inform the public, but fundamentally can offer a seriously false picture of events. La journaliste de Radio-Canada Rania Massoud signe deux articles reprenant des allégations anti-israéliennes infondées, souvent sans même un soupçon de mise en contexte Dans un article spécial publié le 7 octobre pour commémorer les événements, intitulé «En Israël, l’ombre du 7 octobre 2023 est immense», la journaliste et chroniqueuse Rania Massoud s’est penchée sur les répercussions persistantes des massacres perpétrés par les Palestiniens trois ans auparavant. Si l’article présentait effectivement certains points de vue nuancés sur la société israélienne, il accordait également une tribune largement dépourvue de regard critique à des accusations anti-israéliennes extravagantes, comme l’ont souligné de précédentes alertes portant sur les écrits de Massoud. Au début de son article, Massoud écrit qu’après les massacres du 7 octobre, «le gouvernement de Benjamin Netanyahu, le plus à droite depuis la fondation de l’État d’Israël en 1948, a lancé une guerre impitoyable contre le mouvement islamiste dans la bande de Gaza, tuant plus de 74 000 Palestiniens, majoritairement des civils, selon le ministère de la Santé du Hamas». Bien que la coalition de Netanyahu soit largement considérée comme la plus à droite de l’histoire du pays, cette présentation est également très trompeuse. En effet, les partenaires de coalition qui justifient cette caractérisation ne siègent pas au cabinet ... --- ## Taxpayer-Funded Magazine The Walrus Publishes Article On October 7 Falsely Claiming No Aid Entering Gaza URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/taxpayer-funded-magazine-the-walrus-publishes-article-on-october-7-falsely-claiming-no-aid-entering-gaza/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-10-16 Words: 549 > The Walrus, a magazine that claims it “provokes new thinking…on matters vital to Canadians,” has received more than one million dollars in taxpayer funds in 2025 alone, and continues to... The Walrus, a magazine that claims it “provokes new thinking…on matters vital to Canadians,” has received more than one million dollars in taxpayer funds in 2025 alone, and continues to publish incessant anti-Israel propaganda. It is also a registered charity that counted more than six million dollars in revenue in 2025. Another Uncritical Platform for Anti-Israel Claims In an October 7 article, “One Year On, Gaza’s Ceasefire Deal Remains Stalled,” Senior Editor Samia Madwar interviewed Walid Batrawi, “an award-winning journalist and media trainer” now living in Canada. The magazine published the transcript of the discussion. Madwar has been repeatedly flagged by HonestReporting Canada for her taxpayer-funded publication spewing what we regard as anti-Israel disinformation, such as her recent article referring matter-of-factly to “Israel’s genocidal retaliation against Palestinians in Gaza,” apparently unaware that no international court has found Israel guilty of genocide, and scores of legal and military experts likewise say no genocide has taken place. Indeed, in previous interviews conducted by Madwar, the tone was set from the beginning, including one instance when she claimed in passing that “Israel has violated the ceasefire almost daily,” conveniently making no mention of the documented violations by Palestinian terrorists. A Demonstrably False Claim About Humanitarian Aid In the October 7 interview, Batrawi made the utterly false claim that “Israel is not allowing humanitarian aid” into Gaza. This is brazenly untrue. Each and every day, literally hundreds of aid trucks enter the coastal territory bearing food, medicine, sanitary supplies and other goods. However, even in the face of Batrawi spreading easily disproven propaganda, Madwar offered no challenge whatsoever, even though he repeated his disinformation soon after. In one question, Madwar asked Batrawi about the recent announcement from the Carney government that it would ban the importation of goods from “illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank,” blurring the line between her apparent personal opinion, and the mountain of evidence, including thousands of years of history and legal title, that challenges the idea that Israel’s presence in its historic lands is somehow “illegal.” Unsurprisingly, Batrawi praised the Carney government for the move, saying it was “very important” and that it sent “a message that Israeli settlements are illegal.” Once again, this was an opportunity for Madwar to challenge her guest on Israel’s extensive historic and legal claims to the land, or even the Palestinian Arab rejection of Israel’s right to exist long preceded the Jewish State’s presence in Judea & Samaria (West Bank) that was won in the 1967 Six Day War. She said nothing of the sort and instead permitted Batrawi’s anti-Israel talking points to remain entirely unchallenged. Taxpayer-Funded Anti-Israel Activism Is Nothing New Despite being a recipient of taxpayer largesse, The Walrus has consistently produced what we regard as anti-Israel disinformation, and has published a glowing profile of anti-Israel ‘rabbi’ David Mivasair, who has claimed without evidence that “the supposed ‘antisemitism crisis’ in Canada is completely manufactured” by the Israeli government. The Walrus has also parroted the obscene “genocide” slur in its pages as if it were established fact, rather than debunked disinformation. Why are Canadian taxpayers continuing to underwrite the anti-Israel propaganda continually being spread by outlets like The Walrus? --- ## On 3rd Anniversary Of October 7 Massacres, Professor Mira Sucharov Claims In Globe Op-Ed That Jew-Hate & Antizionism Should Not Be Conflated URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/on-third-anniversary-of-october-7-massacres-carleton-university-professor-mira-sucharov-claims-jew-hate-antizionism-should-not-be-conflated/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-10-19 Words: 636 > On October 7, exactly three years after Hamas’ devastating terrorist attacks against Israel, The Globe and Mail published an opinion piece by Carleton University political science professor Mira Sucharov entitled:... On October 7, exactly three years after Hamas’ devastating terrorist attacks against Israel, The Globe and Mail published an opinion piece by Carleton University political science professor Mira Sucharov entitled: “Anti-Zionism and antisemitism should not be conflated.” Sucharov argued that Public Safety Canada’s recent recognition of antizionism as a manifestation of antisemitism represents a dangerous conflation of political criticism with anti-Jewish bigotry. And yet, her argument contains an important truth: criticizing Israeli politics/politicians/policy is not inherently antisemitic; like criticizing Canadian politics is not anti-Canadian. But from that reasonable premise, Sucharov constructs a deeply misleading account of Zionism, antisemitism and the threats confronting Canadian Jews. The distinction matters, particularly because The Globe and Mail has recently published commendable editorials confronting antisemitism, including “The courage needed to face down hatred,” addressing the recent Yom Kippur eve terrorist attack at a Belleville synagogue. Sucharov’s contribution, however, moves in a decidedly different direction. This is not the first time HonestReporting Canada has raised concerns about Sucharov’s commentaries. Her latest column warrants similar scrutiny. A False Choice Between Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism Sucharov’s headline itself presents a false choice. Anti-Zionism and antisemitism should not automatically be equated, but they absolutely can overlap. The question is not whether criticism of Israel is permissible, but when opposition to Zionism crosses into hostility toward Jews and their right to national self-determination. Public Safety Canada’s report identifies antizionism among contemporary manifestations of antisemitism, referencing the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) framework. Crucially, the report also explains that the IHRA definition is non-legally binding and does not criminalize expression or behaviour. That is an important distinction Sucharov’s argument obscures. Recognizing that antizionist rhetoric can constitute antisemitism is not equivalent to prohibiting criticism of Israeli government policies. Indeed, the IHRA definition explicitly states that criticism of Israel comparable to criticism directed at any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic. What Sucharov glosses over is how anti-Zionism can be weaponized to demonize Jews more broadly and delegitimize the State of Israel. When protesters direct hostility toward Jewish people and communities under the banner of anti-Zionism, such as shouting “free Palestine” while attacking Israelis, antizionist political rhetoric becomes a vehicle for antisemitism. Chants calling for “death to Israel” go beyond ordinary criticism of government policy and can reasonably be understood as advocating the destruction of the Jewish state and people within. Zionism Is More Than a Political Ideology What’s more, Sucharov reduces Zionism to a “political ideology” comparable to capitalism or socialism. While Zionism has political dimensions and emerged as an organized political movement, at its most fundamental level, it is about Jewish national self-determination in the Jewish people’s ancestral homeland. One can criticize Israeli governments, advocate for a Palestinian statehood or a two-state solution without denying Jews that same right. In fact, according to the Anti Defamation League, one can do all these things and still be a Zionist. Sucharov’s comparison conveniently sidesteps this distinction. Capitalism and socialism concern economic and political organization. Zionism concerns, centrally, the national aspirations of a people in their ancestral homeland. Israel’s Founding Stripped of Its Historical Context Her historical discussion is similarly selective. She attributes Palestinian displacement in 1948 to Zionism without acknowledging the broader context of the 1947 UN partition proposal, its rejection by Arab leaders and the war initiated and launched by pan-Arab armies surrounding Israel’s establishment which sought the Jewish state’s destruction. Acknowledging Palestinian suffering does not require erasing the circumstances of Israel’s founding. On the 3rd anniversary of October 7, Canadian readers deserved a more rigorous discussion of antisemitism than one that minimizes the distinction between criticizing Israel and rejecting Jewish self-determination. --- ## How Radical Islamist Movements Are Making Inroads In Canada: An Insightful Conversation With Researcher Charles Asher Small Of ISGAP URL: https://honestreporting.ca/podcasts/how-radical-islamist-movements-are-making-inroads-in-canada-an-insightful-conversation-with-researcher-charles-asher-small-of-isgap/ Type: podcast Modified: 2026-10-15 Words: 147 > You may have never heard of the Muslim Brotherhood, but it has big plans for Canada. The Muslim Brotherhood is a fundamentalist Islamic movement founded 100 years ago in Egypt... You may have never heard of the Muslim Brotherhood, but it has big plans for Canada. The Muslim Brotherhood is a fundamentalist Islamic movement founded 100 years ago in Egypt that seeks to infiltrate Western countries to promote its fanatical ideology. And they’re doing very well. That’s according to a recent report from ISGAP, the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP), which has chronicled Muslim Brotherhood-aligned networks in Canada. In this conversation, we sit down with Charles Asher Small, founder, director, and president of ISGAP, where he walks us through the chilling successes of these radical movements. Thanks for listening to The Honest Report. Now level up—subscribe, leave a review, and spread the word. Want to stand with us even louder? Tap the link and become a sponsor. Listen to the audio-only version now! --- ## SaskToday.com Provides Free Advance Publicity For Tiny Anti-Israel Rally URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/sasktoday-com-provides-free-advance-publicity-for-tiny-anti-israel-rally/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-10-15 Words: 562 > As HonestReporting Canada has repeatedly documented over the last three years, on many occasions, anti-Israel activists have been able to count on local news media outlets to provide them with... As HonestReporting Canada has repeatedly documented over the last three years, on many occasions, anti-Israel activists have been able to count on local news media outlets to provide them with effectively free publicity for their antics, typically without any whiff of challenge. That was the case once again on September 26, when SaskToday.com published an article, “Saskatoon Palestine Coalition plans rally, march ahead of Oct. 7 anniversary,” which promoted an upcoming “Rally and March for ‘Palestine.’” In significant detail, the article chronicled demands and complaints from the ‘Saskatoon Palestine Coalition,’ including its allegations of “genocide and Israeli oppression,” though the newspaper did note that these descriptors were on the part of the organizers, rather than stating them matter-of-factly, as so many outlets have done. An Advertisement Masquerading as News Nevertheless, the article in our view was little more than an extended advertisement for the October 3 protest, offering little to no challenge about the organizers, their outlandish allegations or demands, and providing zero broader context, challenge or even a diversity of voices. Among the demands listed on the group’s website, and helpfully repeated in the article: “the withdrawal of Israeli, U.S. and foreign troops from Gaza, an end to all attacks and bombings, lifting the blockade of Gaza, an arms embargo on Israel, an end to Israeli settlement construction and the confiscation of Palestinian land, and a right of return for Palestinians.” The article could have mentioned that, prior to the Palestinian massacres of October 7, 2023, there were no Israeli troops in Gaza, and that the so-called “right of return” effectively spells the end of Israel, though these details were notably absent. As for the event itself, though the article mentioned that organizers said it would be “peaceful,” it featured what appeared to be an effigy of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyhu in chains, with blood over his eyes and pouring out of his mouth. A Slogan Widely Understood as Calling for Israel’s Elimination The event also featured a sign calling for ‘Palestine’ to be present “from the river to the sea,” in what is widely seen as a call for the elimination of Israel. However, despite SaskToday’s promotion of the event, it did not appear to have made a meaningful difference on attendance, with footage of the event suggesting that it was miniscule, attracting perhaps a couple dozen attendees. The Organizers’ Affiliations Remain Unexamined Little information about Saskatoon Palestine Coalition was provided by the article, though it did link to the group’s website. Had the article divulged more to readers, it could have shared that among the group’s endorsers is Canadians for Justice & Peace in the Middle East (CJPME), an anti-Israel pressure group whose president, Yara Shoufani, has posted content to social media appearing in our view to glorify the October 7 massacres. Another endorser, a group called Moms of Anarchy, has content posted to its Instagram page comparing Canada Day to “bigotry maxxing.” If there is so little content needing to be shared with SaskToday readers that a tiny anti-Israel protest merits an advance article, then that is the prerogative of the outlet to publish what it wishes. However, if it decides to do so, then it owes readers a full picture introducing them to the scandalous claims being made and the controversial organizations involved. --- ## In Hill Times Column, Gwynne Dyer Mocks Idea That Iranian Regime Wants Nuclear Weapons URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/in-hill-times-column-gwynne-dyer-mocks-idea-that-iranian-regime-wants-nuclear-weapons/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-10-15 Words: 546 > England-based columnist Gwynne Dyer’s October 1 commentary, published in The Hill Times, Hamilton Spectator and a number of other newspapers across Canada, was noteworthy in how little relevant information the... England-based columnist Gwynne Dyer’s October 1 commentary, published in The Hill Times, Hamilton Spectator and a number of other newspapers across Canada, was noteworthy in how little relevant information the writer actually shared with readers, particularly given how central those details are in defeating his central argument. Iran’s Nuclear Threat Mocked and Minimized Dyer’s column, “Iran’s virtual nukes,” mocked the very idea that the Islamic Republic of Iran would have nuclear weapons, sarcastically writing that “those Iranians are evil geniuses.” Claiming that Iran’s nuclear weapons are “imaginary but very useful,” Dyer cites instances where American intelligence official Tulsi Gabbard said Iran did not appear to be weaponizing uranium, but making no mention of scores of other pieces of evidence, including from the US Central Command, offering very stark warnings about Tehran’s nuclear program. At no time did Dyer share with readers that Israel ever claimed Iran was in current possession of nuclear weapons; simply that the fanatical Islamic regime should be prohibited from possessing them. Iran’s Global Terror Network Disappears From the Story While Dyer asked rhetorically “how did Iran become the pariah of the world,” he failed to acknowledge any of Iran’s longstanding support for Islamic terrorist groups around the world, including Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthi movement or Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), its dangerous ballistic missile program or its widely-repeated rhetoric promising to commit genocide against Israel. Within Iran itself, Dyer avoided any mention that the regime massacred tens of thousands of Iranians for daring to protest against the Islamic Republic earlier this year. These omissions on Dyer’s part would be striking in their own right, and are made all the more notable considering the trust of his opinion column was not only that Iran was not developing any nuclear weapons, but scoffing at the very idea that Tehran’s leaders should be considered the most dangerous country in the world. Iranian Expatriates Know the Regime’s True Nature Dyer only needed to look at the response from Iranian expatriates around the world, who have been the loudest voices in calling for the removal and overthrow of the Islamic Republic, to recognize that concerns over the regime’s violence and support for terrorism is not an issue of sole concern to Israel or the United States, but to those who know Iran intimately. This is hardly the first time that Gwynne Dyer’s anti-Israel writings have left themselves so widely open to criticism. He has previously shared what we regard as an obscene and completely baseless conspiracy theory that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was a Mossad spy, and claimed without evidence that Israel – a tiny country barely larger than Lake Ontario – was somehow able to hoodwink the White House into war with Iran. In fact, long before the war with Iran, Dyer spread the unfounded conspiracy theory that Israel is the “tail that wags the American dog.” As HonestReporting Canada has previously noted, “what Gwynne Dyer’s writings lack in geopolitical expertise, he more than makes up for in baseless conspiracy theories,” and it is remarkable that his opinion columns, despite making robust claims and failing to acknowledge even the most basic contrary evidence, continue to be printed by multiple Canadian newspapers. --- ## CTV News Provides Overtly Sympathetic Interview With Writer Sally Armstrong, Who Spread Outlandish Claims Of Israel Trying To Steal Land In Lebanon URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/ctv-news-provides-overtly-sympathetic-interview-with-writer-sally-armstrong-who-spread-outlandish-claims-of-israel-trying-to-steal-land-in-lebanon/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-10-15 Words: 599 > Fresh off her September 20 opinion column in The Toronto Star, where she lamented the impact of war on Lebanon while only offering minimal reference to the Hezbollah terrorist group,... Fresh off her September 20 opinion column in The Toronto Star, where she lamented the impact of war on Lebanon while only offering minimal reference to the Hezbollah terrorist group, writer Sally Armstrong was given fawning coverage in a recent interview on CTV News, where host Kiran Dhillon gushed about her guest’s “beautiful story” before giving her an unfettered platform to in our view, demonize Israel and spread unsubstantiated allegations without any challenge whatsoever. 🚨 Sally Armstrong, who HRC just profiled for writing an opinion piece in the @TorontoStar on Lebanon while ignoring Hezbollah, was given airtime on CTV News to talk about the impact of war on children in Lebanon. In the interview, she made no mention of Hezbollah, its starting… pic.twitter.com/UKutTekZ2c — HonestReporting Canada (@HonestRepCanada) October 2, 2026 Hezbollah’s Responsibility Is Pushed Aside As HonestReporting Canada noted in its original alert, “Armstrong continued to frame the war in Lebanon almost exclusively as a conflict waged by Israel, with only minimal reference to Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed, openly genocidal Islamist terrorist group that calls for Israel’s annihilation.” In the October 1 interview, Armstrong was discussing her recent visit to Lebanon with Save the Children, a self-described “humanitarian” group whose anti-Israel activism has been well-documented by HonestReporting Canada. On multiple occasions throughout the interview, Armstrong made in our estimation salacious comments without any context whatsoever, such as claiming that “they were blowing up her village,” referring to a Lebanese girl. Presumably referring to Israel, Armstrong did not share what the village was, why it was being targeted, or whether it was being used by Hezbollah terrorists. But perhaps the most egregious comment by Armstrong is near the end of the interview, when she told Dhillon that “power hungry people are trying to grab land and breaking international law to do it.” Yet nowhere amidst this broadside did Armstrong state how precisely Israel is “breaking international law” by combatting Hezbollah, an internationally-recognized Islamic terrorist group that proudly and unapologetically calls for the destruction of Israel. A Baseless Accusation of Israeli Land-Grabbing As for her comments that Israel was seeking to “grab land,” Armstrong offered not a whiff of evidence that Jerusalem is seeking to take a square inch of Lebanese territory. Nor did she acknowledge that it was Hezbollah, not Israel, which began the last two rounds of fighting. On October 8, just a day after the massacres from Palestinian terrorists in southern Israel, Hezbollah began firing rockets at Israel in solidarity with the terrorists. And in early March of 2026, Hezbollah once again fired a barrage of rockets into the Jewish State, this time in support of its patron, the Islamic Republic of Iran. None of these details were to be found anywhere in Armstrong’s opinion column in The Toronto Star, nor in her sympathetic interview on CTV News. CTV Offers Praise Instead of Pushback Dhillon made no apparent effort to challenge or fact-check any of Armstrong’s absurd allegations against Israel and instead concluded the segment by telling her that “we appreciate all of your work on this as a human flights activist,” and saying that “I encourage people to read your article in The Toronto Star.” This is striking. Armstrong presents outlandish anti-Israel allegations, along with zero evidence to buttress her remarkable claims, and rather than receiving any pushback from CTV News, host Kiran Dhillon showers her with praise and even goes so far as to encourage viewers to read Armstrong’s opinion column. Is this what counts for thoughtful interviewing at CTV News? --- ## Hamilton-Based “Communications Consultant” Margaret Shkimba Spreads Debunked “Genocide” Slur In Hamilton Spectator Column URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/hamilton-based-communications-consultant-margaret-shkimba-spreads-debunked-genocide-slur-in-hamilton-spectator-column/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-10-14 Words: 493 > Margaret Shkimba is a Hamilton-based “communications consultant specializing in public relations, strategic planning and communications management.” And, apparently, international law and urban warfare, at least according to her repeated anti-Israel... Margaret Shkimba is a Hamilton-based “communications consultant specializing in public relations, strategic planning and communications management.” And, apparently, international law and urban warfare, at least according to her repeated anti-Israel opinion columns in The Hamilton Spectator, where she is a columnist. Shkimba, who has previously appeared to argue (while mis-translating the Hebrew Bible, no less), that Israel does not have the right to defend itself against Palestinian terrorists, who has referred to former Ontario MPP Sarah Jama’s anti-Israel extremism and conspiracy theorizing as being “pro-peace,” returned with another commentary on September 29. A False Claim Opens the Column In her latest column, “We need to stand up for peace or fall for war,” published in The Niagara Falls Review, Hamilton Spectator at St. Catharine’s Standard, Shkimba’s column begins by making a demonstrable falsehood, citing a Palestinian doctor allegedly unable to go back to Gaza, spurring her to claim that “those who leave Palestine (sic) have no right to return.” Had Shkimba conducted a simple Google search, she might have avoided making this patent falsehood, given that many Palestinians leave, and are then able to return. The “Genocide” Slur Repeated Without Evidence But she did not end there; she writes that “I follow the lead of the many organizations, including those of genocide scholars, who have declared that what is happening in Gaza, and now the West Bank and quite possibly Lebanon, as a genocide of the Palestinian people.” It is unclear which “genocide scholars” she refers to, and whether it is the widely-mocked International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS), comprised of anyone willing to pay $30 USD and call themselves a scholar, or Amnesty International, which effectively sought to redefine the term “genocide” in order to accuse Israel of it. While Shkimba engages in the logical fallacy of appeal to authority, simply citing supposed experts, she made zero mention of scores of actual experts, including the world’s leading voice on urban warfare, countless of whom have found no evidence of “genocide” in Gaza. Instead, selectively citing unmentioned experts, and not bothering to present actual arguments lest she would be compelled to defend them, Shkimba repeats the debunked “genocide” slur. Israel’s Genocidal Enemies Disappear From the Story Shkimba writes that “I am not a supporter of armed conflict, of military aggression, or of war, however you care to classify it.” But she failed to tell readers that, in fact, those who have attacked Israel very much support war, and in the case of the fanatical Islamist terrorists, they seek Israel’s total destruction, a detail she makes no mention of in her column. Bizarrely, her commentary ends with an advertisement for readers to consider anti-Israel protests, including at venues which she claims are “selling components to the Israeli military,” making no acknowledgement that the “Israeli military” exists only because of the openly genocidal enemies who seek the destruction of the Jewish State. --- ## La Presse Provides Effective Free Publicity To Miniscule Anti-Israel Protest URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/la-presse-provides-effective-free-publicity-to-miniscule-anti-israel-protest/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-10-14 Words: 1157 > Version française Another day, another Canadian news media outlet that is providing free, uncritical publicity for a marginal group of anti-Israel activists. On September 27, Léa Lemieux of La Presse... Version française Another day, another Canadian news media outlet that is providing free, uncritical publicity for a marginal group of anti-Israel activists. On September 27, Léa Lemieux of La Presse authored an article, “A pro-Palestinian demonstration took place upon the arrival of the cyclists,” which chronicled a small anti-Israel protest in Montreal against the participation of two Israeli cyclists in the city’s UCI Road World Championships. Photos published in the newspaper suggested perhaps a dozen demonstrators, consistent with the paltry sizes at many other anti-Israel rallies, but that did not stop La Presse from devoting a full article and five photographs to the gathering. A “Genocide” Accusation Goes Unchallenged Lemieux quotes Tatiana Harker, spokesperson of Palestine Vivra, claiming that Israel was a “genocidal regime.” Despite the obscene and repeatedly debunked nature of this rhetoric, Lemieux offered readers no challenge, context or even a basic statement that might have helped them understand that Harker’s allegations were opinion, not fact. The Organizers’ Extremist Background Is Omitted The article noted that organizers of the miniscule protest included multiple groups: Bikers4Palestine, Invest in Palestine, as well as the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM). Once again, readers were left in the dark by Lemieux as to the true nature of PYM. PYM is one of the most prominent organizers of anti-Israel demonstrations over the last three years, and planned an event just days after October 7, 2023, which called on attendees to celebrate the mass murders which had just taken place. One of PYM’s key leaders, Yara Shoufani (now the president of Canadians for Justice & Peace in the Middle East, CJPME), took to social media just one day later to say that “Palestinians have a right not only to resist, but to liberate our land from zionist colonization and western imperialism,” in what can very reasonably be construed in our view as rhetorical support for Palestinian terrorism. Israeli Athletes Targeted Because of Their Nationality One protester, Sarah Shah, was quoted as saying that the Israeli cyclists “don’t deserve to be here,” an openly discriminatory position that apparently sought to target all Israelis based on their citizenship. Describing one attendee, local councillor Alex Norris, Lemieux wrote that he had “supported a motion of solidarity with the Palestinian people” earlier in the summer. What she left unmentioned was that the motion – which failed spectacularly – was hardly one of “solidarity” with the Palestinians; it was an unapologetically anti-Israel effort that sought to boycott ties with Jerusalem. Incidentally, Sarah Shah was also among those involved in that effort. As HonestReporting Canada has repeatedly documented over the last three years, despite the shrinking size of anti-Israel demonstrations in Canada, many news outlets continue to provide them with effectively free publicity, often uncritical and even outwardly sympathetic, all while failing (or refusing) to offer Canadians a real picture into the radical rhetoric and affiliations of those involved. Montreal is a metropolitan area home to nearly 4.5 million people, and a small gathering of a dozen anti-Israel demonstrators would hardly seem to merit coverage from La Presse, particularly when the article offers readers so little background on the controversial nature of the protest organizers. La Presse offre une publicité gratuite à une minuscule manifestation anti-israélienne Encore une fois, un média canadien offre une publicité gratuite et complaisante à un groupe marginal de militants anti-israéliens. Le 27 septembre, Léa Lemieux, de La Presse, a signé un article intitulé «Une manifestation propalestinienne à l’arrivée des cyclistes», qui relatait une petite manifestation anti-israélienne à Montréal contre la participation de deux cyclistes israéliens aux Championnats du monde de cyclisme sur route de l’UCI. Les photos publiées par le journal laissent croire qu’une douzaine de manifestants tout au plus étaient présents, ce qui correspond à la faible participation observée lors de nombreux autres rassemblements anti-israéliens. Cela n’a pourtant pas empêché La Presse de consacrer un article complet et cinq photographies à cette manifestation. Lemieux cite Tatiana Harker, porte-parole de Palestine Vivra, qui affirme qu’Israël est un « régime génocidaire ». Malgré le caractère outrancier et maintes fois réfuté de cette affirmation, Lemieux n’offre aux lecteurs ni mise en contexte, ni remise en question, ni même une précision élémentaire permettant de comprendre que les propos de Harker relèvent de l’opinion et non d’un fait établi. L’article précise que plusieurs groupes étaient à l’origine de cette minuscule manifestation, notamment Bikers4Palestine, Invest in Palestine et le Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM). Une fois de plus, Lemieux laisse les lecteurs dans l’ignorance quant à la véritable nature du PYM. Le PYM est l’... --- ## Success! After HonestReporting Canada Complaint, CBC Adds Attribution To Casualty Claims From Gaza URL: https://honestreporting.ca/success-after-honestreporting-canada-complaint-cbc-adds-attribution-to-casualty-claims-from-gaza/ Type: post Modified: 2026-10-14 Words: 531 > In an October 7 article for CBC News, “Montreal Jewish community marks 3 years since Oct 7. attacks,” the public broadcaster chronicled the ongoing effects of the October 7, 2023... In an October 7 article for CBC News, “Montreal Jewish community marks 3 years since Oct 7. attacks,” the public broadcaster chronicled the ongoing effects of the October 7, 2023 massacres in southern Israel on the Jewish community in Montreal, an important acknowledgement. CBC Repeats a Disputed Gaza Death Toll as Fact However, in the article, readers were told that, following that day, “Israel has launched a retaliatory campaign in Gaza that has killed more than 70,000 people – including more than 1,400 since a ceasefire was signed last October.” The claim that “70,000 people” killed in Gaza is widely claimed and disseminated in many corners of the Canadian news media, but it is not a fact, but an allegation leveled by none other than the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health. It is not just that the source of that claim is highly suspect, being an openly genocidal Islamic terrorist organization, but scholars have noted that its casualty reports show evidence of serious data manipulation and propaganda. While HonestReporting Canada has documented such important studies, they have been overwhelmingly ignored by virtually all Canadian news media outlets, including CBC News. Consequently, HonestReporting Canada filed an official complaint with CBC News leadership about the lack of attribution, writing that they lacked any attribution. CBC News Corrects the Record Following that outreach, CBC News quickly amended the article. The revised version had a clarification appended at the bottom, reading that “this story has been updated to include attribution of the reported death tolls.” The article was then updated, noting that it was the “local health ministry in Gaza” which alleged the death toll. This is an important improvement by CBC News, as it informs readers that claims of death tolls in Gaza are not by themselves factual, but simply allegations. However, it remains critically important that the Canadian public understands that the “local health ministry in Gaza” is not a detached humanitarian or healthcare entity, but one fully under the auspices of a banned terrorist organization, Hamas. Curiously, in late 2024, then-CBC Ombudsman Jack Nagler authored a review where he recognized that “there is no question that it is accurate to say that the Gaza Health Ministry of Health is run by Hamas,” before equivocating, writing that “the constant repetition of saying ‘Hamas run’ anytime the Health Ministry comes up risks contributing to a belief that every single Gazan” is connected to the terrorist group. As HonestReporting Canada noted at the time, telling Canadians the truth that the health ministry is operated by Hamas does not impugn every Gazan; it simply informs readers, viewers and listeners, so that they can recognize the true source of the allegations that are consistently repeated in many corners of the Canadian news media. A Welcome Correction—and a Call for Greater Clarity HonestReporting Canada thanks CBC News for their prompt attention to this lack of attribution in their October 8 article, as well as the important coverage their article provided to readers, while at the same time continuing to call for more transparency with the Canadian public about the Gaza health ministry’s connections to the Hamas dictatorship within the Gaza Strip. --- ## CBC News Senior Reporter Evan Dyer – For At Least The Third Time – Transforms Complaints Into Israeli Flights Over Canada Into Headline News URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/cbc-news-senior-reporter-evan-dyer-for-at-least-the-third-time-transforms-complaints-into-israeli-flights-over-canada-into-headline-news/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-10-13 Words: 610 > Once again, CBC News Senior Reporter Evan Dyer has published an article closely mirroring the talking points of anti-Israel activists. Dyer – whose reporting has been repeatedly flagged by HonestReporting... Once again, CBC News Senior Reporter Evan Dyer has published an article closely mirroring the talking points of anti-Israel activists. Dyer – whose reporting has been repeatedly flagged by HonestReporting Canada for effectively regurgitating anti-Israel activist campaigns – returned once again with an October 3 article, “Netanyahu is flying freely over Canada as his international arrest warrant remains in place,” which led by telling readers that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanuahu was “once again routinely taking a more direct path – through Canadian airspace – when traveling to the United States despite the international arrest warrant that Canada has committed to enforce.” The ICC Warrant Treated as Beyond Question Rather than addressing whether the “international arrest warrant” in question is valid at all, Dyer’s article takes it as a given that there is little question on the matter. The warrant referred to by Dyer is from the International Criminal Court (ICC), issued under then-chief prosecutor Karim Khan. Left entirely unsaid by Dyer, but reporting from the Wall Street Journal earlier in 2026 made the explosive allegation that Qatar, the oil-rich Gulf kingdom which hosts Hamas’ leaders, offered to “look after” Khan if he targeted Israel’s leaders with warrants. Other critics have charged Khan with deliberately targeting Israel in an effort to distract from the own sexual harassment claims leveled against him by a subordinate. He was later fired from his role over those allegations. This too, was completely absent from Dyer’s reporting. Rather than offering even the most basic acknowledgement that the ICC’s warrant against Israel was highly questionable, Dyer relied exclusively on statements and quotes framing them as beyond reproach, and demanding that Canada ban Netanyahu. One-Sided Sources, No Counterweight Dyer quoted Ardi Imseis of Queen’s University, who accused Canada of having “breached its obligations” under international law. While there are undoubtedly many qualified individuals who could comment, Imseis’ own background offers insight into why he may have been chosen. Imseis – whose social media features posts criticizing Israel – is also representing Nicaragua (led by autocratic Daniel Ortega, who recently banned elections in his country) in its case against Germany, which has sold armaments to Israel so it can defend itself against Palestinian terrorists. However, Dyer did not apparently see fit to inform readers that his selected expert on international law, Ardi Imseis, is representing a repressive anti-Israel regime that actively oppresses its own people in violation of international law. Click below for larger images: No Caption No Caption No Caption Elsewhere, Dyer wrote that “some countries, such as Slovenia and Turkey, have publicly stated that their airspaces are closed to the Israeli leader,” relying on outdated information, and failing to note that since then, Slovenia’s newly-elected Prime Minister Janez Jansa has overturned all his predecessor’s anti-Israel policies, and lifted its ban on Netanyahu. The Same Story, Recycled Again Evan Dyer’s reporting continues to closely mimic anti-Israel talking points, and he has shown particular interest in the issue of Netanyahu’s flights over Canada, authoring multiple such articles. Dyer’s recent report on Netanyahu’s overflight is a repeat of his previous article in 2025, avoiding any mention of the scandal-plagued ICC and citing no critics of the arrest warrants, and citing the anti-Israel pressure group Canadians for Justice & Peace in the Middle East (CJPME). Since then, Dyer has platformed the baseless “Greater Israel” conspiracy alleging that Israel is seeking to take over the Middle East, authored an article about the Iran war exclusively quoting critics of military action against the Islamic Republic of Iran, among scores of other such problematic reports. --- ## CBC Radio Program Ideas Sees Host Nahlah Ayed – Yet Again – Feature An Hourlong Anti-Israel Discussion. Zero Balance, Zero Challenge, Zero Opposing Voices URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/cbc-radio-program-ideas-sees-host-nahlah-ayed-yet-again-feature-an-hourlong-anti-israel-discussion-zero-balance-zero-challenge-zero-opposing-voices/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-10-13 Words: 840 > Just one day after the third anniversary of the Palestinian massacres by Hamas of October 7, 2023, the CBC radio program Ideas saw host Nahlah Ayed devote nearly an hour... Just one day after the third anniversary of the Palestinian massacres by Hamas of October 7, 2023, the CBC radio program Ideas saw host Nahlah Ayed devote nearly an hour to uninterrupted anti-Israel allegations, with virtually zero mention of either the impact of the war on Israel, or why there was a conflict at all. Ayed is no stranger to HonestReporting Canada and to our readers. Her program “Ideas,” despite claiming to be a “deep-dive into contemporary thought and intellectual history,” has repeatedly been a platform for extreme one-sided anti-Israel vitriol, consistently lacking in balance, context or even basic challenge for disinformation from guests. Five Doctors, One Uninterrupted Narrative The October 8 episode, around 53 minutes long, “Bearing Witness: Canadian Doctors in Gaza,” featured interviews with the following five Canadian physicians discussing their opinions about Gaza: Mel Brecknell, Rizwan Minhas, Eman Loubani, Noor Amin, and Ben Thomson. Listen to the full episode: While she did not share this with the public, most of the doctors are connected via the group Glia, an anti-Israel activist organization which has spread absurd propaganda about mass graves on-air that even promoted a CBC correction. Thomson is listed as the group’s senior medical consultant, Minhas has sat on panels with other Glia members, and Eman Loubani’s brother, Tarek, is the organization’s medical director. The episode began with Ayed telling listeners that “according to the World Health Organization, the majority of Gaza’s hospitals are no longer functioning.” This is patently false. According to the WHO, as of September 24, more than half of the territory’s hospitals – 19 out of 36 – are still operational. An Hour About Gaza Without “Hamas,” “Terrorist” or “October 7” At no time anywhere in nearly an hour were the words “Hamas,” “terrorist” or even “October 7” spoken a single time. In fact, the closest that listeners would have gotten to understanding how the war started was a comment by Ayed about the number of Palestinians hurt or killed “since October, 2023,” without acknowledging what actually happened that day. This total omission of anything related to Hamas or October 7 is not a small oversight; it is akin to an hourlong segment about the deaths of German civilians in World War Two while failing to mention Adolf Hitler or his invasion of other countries. For the guests’ complaints about alleged conditions in Gaza, and the impact on Gazan hospitals, there was zero mention of how Hamas widely uses healthcare facilities to store weapons, terrorists and hostages and repeated use of the “genocide” slur (again, with no challenge whatsoever by Ayed). 🔎 NOW REVEALED: Armed Hamas terrorists at Kamal Adwan Hospital, which continues to serve as a major hub for Hamas terrorist activity. As previously revealed, the hospital and its surrounding area have been used by Hamas and Islamic Jihad in recent years to advance terrorist… pic.twitter.com/3pDTBJcvaP — Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 11, 2026 While the “genocide” allegation has been repeatedly made by anti-Israel activists, it continues to be debunked by military scholars and experts of international law, a point that conveniently remains almost entirely left unsaid by CBC programs. Other incendiary and unsubstantiated allegations platformed by the program included claims that the Israeli army targeted Palestinian children with weapons for field testing purposes. Along with spreading the famine falsehood. One of the doctors interviewed by Ayed, Ben Thomson, is a nephrologist in the Toronto area who began his comments by invoking the Hippocratic Oath, saying that “I try first to do no harm.” Ayed did not apparently see fit to share with listeners that Thomson was suspended in 2023 by his employer, Mackenzie Richmond Hill Hospital, for spreading the unfounded conspiracy theory that there were no rapes in Israel on October 7, 2023. In fact, these sexual assaults were widely-documented. Rizwan Minhas’ Anti-Israel Activism Also Went Unmentioned Minhas, meanwhile, signed a November 2023 petition (under the name Mohammad Rizwan Minhas) accusing Israel of “genocide,” which somehow made zero mention of either Hamas or the Israeli hostages being held in Gaza. In previous interviews, Minhas has claimed that Israel is “bombing hospitals,” with no acknowledgement of the terrorist infrastructure inside. The October 8 episode of Ideas was produced by Naheed Mustafa, whose now-deleted profile on X (Twitter) had, as documented by HonestReporting Canada, previously posted anti-Israel content such as claims that Israel “murders” civilians in Gaza and spreading the obscene “genocide” slur. Nahlah Ayed is not an independent commentator who is not bound by journalistic standards or principles. Her program is part of CBC, Canada’s taxpayer-funded public broadcaster, and her repeated platforming of anti-Israel narratives, amplification of anti-Israel guests, and virtually no challenge, ... --- ## CBC Radio Program Just Asking Features Host Saroja Coelho Failing To Challenge Anti-Israel Propaganda By Callers, Pushing Guest To Call Israel’s Leader A War Criminal URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/cbc-radio-program-just-asking-features-host-saroja-coelho-failing-to-challenge-anti-israel-propaganda-by-callers-pushing-guest-to-call-israels-leader-a-war-criminal/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-10-08 Words: 569 > A recent CBC radio call-in show became yet another opportunity for Israel-bashing, with no challenge from the host. On the September 26 episode of Just Asking, host Saroja Coelho spent... A recent CBC radio call-in show became yet another opportunity for Israel-bashing, with no challenge from the host. On the September 26 episode of Just Asking, host Saroja Coelho spent an hour on the topic: “What role does the UN play in global security today?” Predictably, a conversation about the United Nations (a body with a documented anti-Israel obsession) soon became something of a microcosm of that same entity. Listen to the entire episode now: In addition to callers, Coelho spoke with three guests: Richard Gowen with the International Crisis Group, Marie-Joëlle Zahar from the University of Montreal, and Margaret Besheer, of Voice of America. The “Genocide” Slur Aired Without Challenge One caller began an anti-Israel rant about “three years of genocide, killing, bombing civilians,” and complained that Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas was not granted a visa to visit the United Nations. No challenge was made by Coelho about the scandalous and debunked “genocide” slur by the caller, nor did she even note the bare-bones context, such as that no international court has found Israel guilty of any such crime, and that Jerusalem rejects such allegations. In response to the caller’s ramblings, Zahar told listeners that “the UN has actually, investigated what is happening in Gaza and has actually, identified acts as acts akin to genocide.” In fact, it was not “the UN,” but the Committee of Inquiry (CoI), a controversial group that has long been accused of aggressive anti-Israel antagonism. A Clearly Defined Crime Treated as a Matter of Opinion However, no such details were forthcoming, though Zahar added that “a lot of people disagree” on the definition of genocide, a curious comment given that the crime is clearly defined by the United Nations, though groups like Amnesty International – who have accused Israel of genocide – have apparently sought to effectively redefine the term itself. Similarly, when another participant, identified as Carolyn Stupple from Hamilton, asked “why is a war criminal like (Israeli Prime Minister) Benjamin Netanyahu invited to participate in the General Assembly,” – appearing to be unaware that actual dictators such as the leaders of Iran, Turkey and other regimes visited the General Assembly – Coelho only added legitimacy to the absurd framing, asking Gowen, “is he not a war criminal, Richard?” And when Gowen did not make a declarative statement on the matter, Coelho pressed the point further, saying that “I just wanted to help our listeners with that. Back in November, 2024, an arrest warrant was issued for Benjamin Netanyahu by the International Criminal Court over alleged war crimes in Gaza.” The ICC Warrant Stripped of Critical Context Of course, Coelho did not share with listeners that the warrant was issued under then-prosecutor Karim Khan, who reports say was offered unspecified support from the regime of Qatar for having done so, with other critics saying he did so to distract from his own sexual assault allegations, for which he was later fired. Such anti-Israel segments are nothing new for Just Asking. On multiple occasions, Saroja Coelho’s program has been the subject of HonestReporting Canada alerts, with previous episodes featuring guests accusing Israel of “genocide,” an hour of nonstop assaults on Israel, and a false veneer of balance by hosting an Arab and a Jew, though conveniently, both are anti-Israel activists. This latest broadcast only further telegraphs the anti-Israel bias at Just Asking. --- ## Why Is The Manitoba Arts Council Funding Herizons, A Supposedly “Feminist” Outlet That Embraces Boycotts Of Israel? URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/why-is-the-manitoba-arts-council-funding-herizons-a-supposedly-feminist-outlet-that-embraces-boycotts-of-israel/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-10-08 Words: 574 > Yet another publicly-funded media outlet is spreading what we consider to be anti-Israel disinformation, paid for by the ever-generous Canadian taxpayer. Herizons, a Winnipeg-based quarterly magazine “dedicated to feminist social... Yet another publicly-funded media outlet is spreading what we consider to be anti-Israel disinformation, paid for by the ever-generous Canadian taxpayer. Herizons, a Winnipeg-based quarterly magazine “dedicated to feminist social commentary,” published an article in its September edition, “Pages of Palestine,” written by Charlie Henderson-Bachand, described in the biography as “an autistic non-binary writer with a bachelor of arts in psychology.” Henderson-Bachand comments approvingly that Herizons has featured “multiple issues about the ongoing (sic) genocide in Palestine.” It is unclear what “genocide” is being referred to by Henderson-Banchand, given that no international court has found Israel guilty of any genocide, and that by no metric has Israel’s counter-terrorism operations in Gaza met the most elementary definition of “genocide,” namely an intent to destroy the people there. Instead, as in so many other Canadian news media outlets, the “genocide” slur is presented matter-of-factly, as if it were settled and established truth, rather than an outlandish allegation repeatedly and extensively debunked. Henderson-Banchand is correct, though, in that Herizons has indeed featured “multiple issues” fixating on Gaza, though curiously, the word “Hamas” appears nowhere on its website. Fixated on Gaza, Silent on Hamas No less obscenely, Henderson-Banchand then alleges without any evidence that “most mainstream coverage still treats the situation through a Western, pro-Israel framework.” Zero evidence was presented by Henderson-Banchand for this claim, simply because there is no such evidence. As HonestReporting Canada has repeatedly documented, particularly over the last three years, most Canadian news media outlets has demonstrated a relentless fixation on Israel, often while devoting proportionally little coverage to other global conflicts, often with far higher casualties. But the anti-Israel bias of most of the Canadian news media is demonstrated not simply in its selective outrage, but by refusing to describe Palestinian terrorists as such, by denigrating the presence of Jews in their ancestral lands, by omitting key information, providing anti-Israel activists with a sympathetic platform, all while supporters of Israel are rarely seen or heard, and even (in the case of CBC) appearing to punish a Jewish journalist for daring to report on an anti-Israel mob. Henderson-Banchand’s column comes on the heels of a July article written by Christina Hajjar, Horizon’s editor-in-chief, where she announces that the magazine had, “amid the ongoing genocide at the hands of the Israeli state,” announced that it had committed to a formal boycott of Israel, including boycotting Israeli cultural institutions, boycotting normalization with groups who refuse to exclusively blame Israel, and to “advocate for divestment from Israel.” The Editorial Team’s Own Anti-Israel Record Horizon’s masthead notes that its Copy Editor is Shenaz Kermalli, a freelance journalist and lecturer at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) who has appeared, in our view, to tacitly glorify the Houthi terrorist movement in Yemen, and who suggested that Israel should be expelled from the Olympic Games. In April, 2025, Herizons received nearly $40,000 from the Department of Canadian Heritage, though it has not received a similar grant yet in 2026. Herizons also receives current funding from the Manitoba Arts Council, amounting to almost $24,000 in 2026 alone. It is highly inappropriate that Manitoba taxpayers should be required to help subsidize an outlet that not only repeatedly spreads the pernicious “genocide” slur against Israel, but actively promotes the hateful and discriminatory boycott of Israel. --- ## Globe Film Editor Barry Hertz ­– For 2nd Time In Six Weeks – Accuses Israel Of “Murdering” Palestinians URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/globe-film-editor-barry-hertz-for-2nd-time-in-six-weeks-accuses-israel-of-murdering-palestinians/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-10-08 Words: 521 > For the second time in six weeks, Barry Hertz, The Globe and Mail’s staff film editor and deputy arts editor, spread the unfounded slur that Israel has “murdered” Palestinian civilians.... For the second time in six weeks, Barry Hertz, The Globe and Mail’s staff film editor and deputy arts editor, spread the unfounded slur that Israel has “murdered” Palestinian civilians. First, in his August 13 review of the movie ‘American Doctor,’ Hertz wrote that the film “depicted Palestinian children murdered in a strike by the Israel Defense Forces,” making no distinction between the allegation that civilians died in war, and the scandalous claim that Israel deliberately murdered them. Another Film Review, Another Accusation Against Israel And again on October 1, Hertz reviewed the film Naza in his column, “Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor’s documentary decodes Israel’s war machine,” a film that purports to show how Israel has permitted collateral damage in Gaza. In his column, Hertz referred to an alleged Israeli intelligence officer who is anonymously shown on screen and writes that he “will divulge how his country has systematically murdered thousands upon thousands of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.” Notably, Hertz did not actually demonstrate that this subject ever actually accused Israel of murdering anyone, but of accepting collateral damage, a significant distinction that he fails to explain. Nor did Hertz ever explain anything about the level of Hamas’ infiltration of civilian infrastructure in Gaza, Israel’s extraordinary measures to protect civilians in Gaza and its historically-low proportion of civilian casualties. These, it seems, are utterly irrelevant. Loaded Language Replaces Serious Analysis Hertz’s column was replete with what we regard as drive-by attacks on Israel’s military, referring to its “brutal methods” and referring to calls by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to strip the filmmakers of their citizenship, writing that he was “daring his fellow democratic world leaders to wonder to themselves if they’d ever be able to get away with issuing such a fascistic decree.” Apparently unbeknownst to Hertz, other world leaders get away with a lot worse, and with little consequence: in Turkey, a comedian was recently arrested for the crime of insulting Turkish President Ergodan, though this has not stopped Prime Minister Carney from planning a visit there. Perhaps the most enormous elephant in the room missed by Hertz in what we regard as his sympathetic review of NAZA is how the film actually – and quite likely inadvertently – ends up dismantling the “genocide” slur that has been repeatedly leveled against Israel. The crime of genocide requires an intent to systematically kill as many people in a targeted group as possible. Permitting civilian casualties as part of collateral damage proves neither, and in fact proves, very much the opposite. If Israel sought to carry out widespread murders in Gaza (or genocide), it would not have developed complex rules of engagement, including permitted amounts of collateral damage. It would have simply killed all Gazans. In reality, some 98 percent of Gazan civilians survived two years of intense urban combat. A Film Review Becomes an Anti-Israel Indictment By spreading the dangerous slur that Israel has murdered Palestinians, in our view Barry Hertz uncritically repeated unfounded anti-Israel vitriol from activist filmmakers, and left readers in the dark as a result. --- ## Three Years After October 7: Jewish Pride Stands Strong In Canada URL: https://honestreporting.ca/videos/three-years-after-october-7-jewish-pride-stands-strong-in-canada/ Type: videos Modified: 2026-10-09 Words: 83 > Three years after October 7, rising antisemitism has changed Jewish life in Canada. But in the face of that hatred, Jewish pride, solidarity and support for Israel remain strong. HRC’s... Three years after October 7, rising antisemitism has changed Jewish life in Canada. But in the face of that hatred, Jewish pride, solidarity and support for Israel remain strong. HRC’s Molly Morris reflects on how antisemitism post-October 7, 2023, has changed everyday life, and why remaining proudly Jewish and standing with Israel matter more than ever. Dive into our newest video, hit that share button, and smash the like button to amplify our message and skyrocket this video to viral fame! --- ## How October 7 Unmasked the Ugly Face of the Pro-Palestinian Movement URL: https://honestreporting.ca/how-october-7-unmasked-the-ugly-face-of-the-pro-palestinian-movement/ Type: post Modified: 2026-10-07 Words: 790 > Three years ago, as the sun dawned on Israel on Simchat Torah, a Jewish holiday celebrating the end of the annual Torah reading cycle, alerts roared throughout the country as... Three years ago, as the sun dawned on Israel on Simchat Torah, a Jewish holiday celebrating the end of the annual Torah reading cycle, alerts roared throughout the country as Palestinian terrorists fired thousands of rockets, indiscriminately into the Jewish State. It turned out to be a cover for the real attack that was about to take place: thousands of Palestinian terrorists, accompanied by ‘civilians’ from Gaza, invading southern Israel and engaging in a medieval-style campaign of rape, torture, murder and kidnappings. October 7 carnage inside Israel by Hamas terrorists – Reuters Palestinian children spit on the corpses of dead civilians. Never forget October 7th. pic.twitter.com/YcVDJPyCzV — Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) October 6, 2026 October 7 Exposed a Much Deeper Rot But while the massacres that day unmasked the true barbarism of Palestinian terrorism, it also lifted the rock on what had been transpiring underneath: the deep rot in both Palestinian society, and throughout the West. Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, has counted nearly 30,000 individuals known as Righteous Among the Nations, who put their safety, comfort and often their very lives on the line to rescue Jews. Incredibly, a review of Gaza tells a very different story. As noted by the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, “no one tried to help the hostages who were so brutally abducted on October 7. This is unprecedented among societies under terrorist rule. While thousands in 1940s Europe took great risks to help Jews, in Gaza—under Hamas’s rule—not one person, as far as is known, chose to take a moral stand.” The think tank added that “this absence cannot be explained solely by fear or coercion. It reflects a much deeper social and cultural phenomenon in which an entire society, collectively, has either actively joined the cycle of violence and hatred, or silently come to terms with it.” The response from Palestinians over many years bears out this theory. Long before October 7, Palestinian terrorists had constructed complex and sophisticated terror tunnels measuring more than 500 kilometres long. Constructing such a massive network would have taken years of dedicated effort, and it is inconceivable that Palestinians were unaware of what these tunnels would be used for: namely, the storing of terrorists, weapons, and eventually Israeli hostages. Yet Palestinians permitted the tunnels to be constructed for many years. The Myth of Complete Separation Between Hamas and Gazans While much of the discourse over the last three years has framed Gazans as hapless victims held hostage by their Hamas captors, evidence suggests far less daylight remains between Hamas and the people of Gaza than has been suggested. Indeed, surveys immediately following the October 7 massacres found that nearly 75 percent of Gazans believed that the mass killings were “correct.” Palestinians in West Bank city of Nablus celebrate Hamas infiltration operation into Israel – Associated Press Some of the most iconic footage from that day chronicled the arrival of the bodies of murdered Israelis into Gaza, met by crowds of Gazans. But rather than be met with outrage, the terrorists were greeted as heroes, and the bodies of dead Israelis were hit, spat on and beaten by throngs of Palestinians. Jenin, West Bank: Palestinians celebrate following the invasion of southern Israel by Hamas-led armed groups. pic.twitter.com/ynNajbDpvz — Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) October 7, 2023 And then came the response throughout the Western world, including Canada. Rather than demonstrating revulsion at the massacres perpetrated by Palestinians, the pro-Palestinian movement rushed to explain, rationalize and sometimes even justify the mass killings. From university campuses to street demonstrations and the news media alike, supposedly progressive voices became apologists for the openly genocidal, misogynistic, homophobic and retrograde ideology embodied by Palestinian terrorists: radical Islam. Canadian Institutions Failed the October 7 Test Hamas flag at a pro-Palestinian rally in Toronto And perhaps most telling of all, even more than the alacrity with which pro-Palestinian voices defended or justified terrorism, was the failure of many of the institutions Canadians hold dear, and their apparent unwillingness to show the real picture to Canadians. In the news media specifically, CBC, Canada’s taxpayer-funded public broadcaster, continues to refuse to characterize the October 7 massacres as terrorism, and even reportedly penalized a Jewish employee, Neil Herland, for daring to chronicle an anti-Israel mob outside Toronto synagogue services. Palestinian terrorists – and most of Palestinian society – weren’t the only ones to show their true faces three years ago. If October 7 was a test to show not just factual accuracy, but morality, then it represented a stinging failure for all too many Canadian newsrooms who have failed to acknowledge the uncomfortable truth about a dan... --- ## Success! CBC Corrects Article Claiming Israeli Settlements Were Attacked By Hamas Terrorists On October 7 URL: https://honestreporting.ca/success-cbc-corrects-article-claiming-israeli-settlements-were-attacked-by-hamas-terrorists-on-october-7/ Type: post Modified: 2026-10-02 Words: 269 > On September 15th, CBC News published an article by Paul Forsyth entitled “Anti-racism association surveys Niagara candidates on race-related topics ahead of Ontario municipal vote,” which made the erroneous claim... On September 15th, CBC News published an article by Paul Forsyth entitled “Anti-racism association surveys Niagara candidates on race-related topics ahead of Ontario municipal vote,” which made the erroneous claim that Israeli settlements were attacked by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023. The article incorrectly stated the following: “The survey also notes that municipal governments in Niagara have shown support for Ukraine after it was invaded by Russia in February 2022, and for Israel following the attack on Israeli settlements by Hamas members.” This description was inaccurate. The October 7, 2023, terror attacks, which saw the maiming, torture, rape and murder of 1,200+ Israelis and the kidnapping of 250+ into Gaza, occurred in sovereign Israeli territory, throughout many kibbutzim in the southern part of the country, including Kfar Aza, Be’eri, Nir Oz, and many more. By using the word ‘settlements’, which is commonly understood to refer to communities outside of Israel proper and where Israeli administration of land is tenuous at best, this CBC News article obscured a fundamental fact about where the massacres occurred. To wit, Israel unilaterally removed all 21 Gaza settlements and uprooted 8,500 Jewish settlers in the 2005 Disengagement Plan. As such, HonestReporting Canada launched a formal complaint with our public broadcaster, stating that a correction is warranted to set the record straight and we are pleased to note that CBC agreed. The story was amended and a correction was published which states: “This story has been updated to accurately reference the Hamas-led attack on Israel in October 2023.” We thank the CBC for this corrective measure. --- ## Canadian Press Article Ignores Scandals Associated With International Criminal Court URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/canadian-press-article-ignores-scandals-associated-with-international-criminal-court/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-10-02 Words: 544 > In the latest episode of the Canadian media effectively regurgitating anti-Israel complaints and turning them into a news story, a recent Canadian Press article shared with readers that Israel’s prime... In the latest episode of the Canadian media effectively regurgitating anti-Israel complaints and turning them into a news story, a recent Canadian Press article shared with readers that Israel’s prime minister might be flying over Canada on his way to address the United Nations. The Same Manufactured Controversy, Recycled Yet Again This is hardly the first time an outlet has promoted this story, with CBC News’ Evan Dyer publishing virtually the same report on multiple occasions previously, on the heels of complaints from anti-Israel activists. In this year’s instalment, “Anand to see if Netanyahu is crossing Canadian airspace with arrest warrant in effect,” published September 23, Dylan Robertson – whose writing has been repeatedly documented by HonestReporting Canada – led by telling readers that Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand “says she is checking” to see whether Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may be flying over Canada towards the United States. No other world leader that visited the United Nations was the subject of such a report from the Canadian Press confirming whether they would (or would not) transit over Canadian air space. An Anti-Israel Activist Presented as a Neutral Legal Expert Readers were told that the issue was because of an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant for Netanyahu, before citing “legal experts” such as Mark Kersten, an assistant professor of criminology at one of Canada’s lowest-ranked universities, the University of the Fraser Valley. Robertson did not mention that Kersten is a vocal anti-Israel activist who has accused Jerusalem of “genocide” and whose social media is replete with anti-Israel posts. Robertson quoted Kersten as saying that “respect for the ICC” demands that Canada “prevent suspects from flying over their territory.” At no time anywhere in the article did Robertson acknowledge that the ICC warrant is highly contested. It was issued under then-prosecutor Karim Khan, who allegedly received promises from the oil-rich Islamist regime of Qatar that it would “look after” him if he issued warrants against Israel. The Scandals Surrounding Karim Khan Were Left Out Other critics of the ICC have argued that his pursuit of Israeli leaders was an attempt to deflect from his own personal scandals, namely accusations of sexual assault from a subordinate. The story does not end there. According to an investigation in The Guardian newspaper, Qatar went so far as to target Khan’s alleged victim in a secret operation, apparently aimed at discrediting her testimony. Khan was later fired as a result of those allegations. Incredibly, none of these details were ever presented to readers. Instead, the ICC was discussed as if it were an entirely credible organization whose actions were de facto legitimate and beyond reproach. Beginning with the very premise of the article, suggesting that the presence of Israel’s prime minister in Canadian airspace was controversial, to relying on a source like Kersten (notably, with no counterweight quoted), all while omitting any mention of the scandals plaguing the ICC, Dylan Robertson’s September 23 article for The Canadian Press not only failed to accurately inform readers, it fundamentally presented them a highly misleading picture instead. Dylan Robertson and The Canadian Press must do better to present what’s truly important, rather than parroting manufactured outrage. --- ## Gaza Journalist’s Explosive Admissions About Hamas Control of Journalists in Gaza Go Virtually Unreported by Canadian Media URL: https://honestreporting.ca/gaza-journalists-explosive-admissions-about-hamas-control-of-journalists-in-gaza-go-virtually-unreported-by-canadian-media/ Type: post Modified: 2026-10-02 Words: 564 > On countless occasions throughout the last three years, when a “humanitarian” group, author or other public figure released a report leveling accusations against Israel, it merited coverage, often entirely uncritical,... On countless occasions throughout the last three years, when a “humanitarian” group, author or other public figure released a report leveling accusations against Israel, it merited coverage, often entirely uncritical, from many corners of the Canadian news media. And yet, when studies debunk claims of genocide or famine in Gaza, or expose Islamic radicalism in the country, they are routinely ignored. A Celebrated Gaza Photographer Makes Explosive Admissions In recent days, a series of scandalous acknowledgements were made by Motaz Azaiza, a celebrated Gaza-born photographer now living in Qatar who has been praised by entertainer Ms. Rachel, and has met New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. He was also listed by Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in 2024 as “the world’s eyes and ears in his native Gaza.” As first reported in The New York Post, Azaiza – who has been accused of repeatedly glorifying Palestinian terrorism – was recently a guest on the Arabic-language Taqarrab podcast, where he said that “every journalist in Gaza” was on a Hamas-run WhatsApp group that oversees what gets reported from the territory. October 7 Atrocities Filmed—Then Concealed Azaiza was present when, during the October 7, 2023 massacres, Israeli hostages – dead and alive – were paraded back into Gaza, where crowds of ‘civilians’ began to abuse them. As Azaiza admitted, he filmed the footage: “people got out, watched, beat them (hostages), and I followed them and filmed. But I did not publish those videos,” he said, because he did not want Israel to “identify” the perpetrators and thus “ruin the lives of the people who were filmed.” Elsewhere in his interview, Azaiza told his interviewer that in cases when a Gazan condemned Hamas for bringing war to the coastal territory, “photographers in Gaza have become accustomed to lowering their cameras the moment” someone begins criticizing Hamas because “anyone who dares to show reality is persecuted relentlessly.” Incredibly, there appears to have been virtually no coverage of Azaiza’s interview in the Canadian mainstream media, despite the enormous significance of his revelations, and what it means about the veracity of the coverage that Canadians have been getting from Gaza. How many millions of Canadians have consumed images, videos and reports from Gaza that were filtered through the Hamas-run WhatsApp group that the terrorist groups apparently uses to help keep tabs on what leaves the enclave? How many Canadians are getting a picture from Gaza that is not only skewed, but censored to make sure that it conforms with the whims and desires of an openly genocidal Palestinian terrorist group? Even before Azaiza’s admissions, there have already been serious questions about the sources of our news coverage coming from Gaza. HonestReporting Canada has previously documented the case of Mohamed El Saife, who despite posting anti-Israel propaganda to social media, continues to work for CBC, Canada’s taxpayer-funded public broadcaster, as its videographer on the ground in Gaza. Canadian Audiences Deserve Answers These are not minor or incidental revelations from Motaz Azaiza; they go directly to the credibility of the information reaching Canadian audiences from Gaza, and Canadian news outlets have a responsibility to report them. Instead, the same media organizations that routinely amplify allegations against Israel have overwhelmingly remained silent when a prominent Gazan journalist admits to concealing evidence and describes Hamas’ oversight of what information leaves Gaza. --- ## Exposed: Gaza Photographer Motaz Azaiza Admitted That He Didn’t Take Pictures Of Terrorists Bringing Hostages Into Gaza To Protect Them. Will CBC News Apologize For Relying On His ‘Journalism?’ URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/exposed-gaza-photographer-motaz-azaiza-admitted-that-he-didnt-take-pictures-of-terrorists-bringing-hostages-into-gaza-to-protect-them-will-cbc-news-apologize-for-relying-on-his-jou/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-10-02 Words: 543 > In recent days, Motaz Azaiza, a photographer from Gaza who has been honoured by Time Magazine and has been called a “friend” by children’s entertainer and anti-Israel activist Ms. Rachel,... In recent days, Motaz Azaiza, a photographer from Gaza who has been honoured by Time Magazine and has been called a “friend” by children’s entertainer and anti-Israel activist Ms. Rachel, made a number of startling and even scandalous admissions while a recent guest on the Arabic-language podcast Taqarrab. He admitted that, on the morning of October 7, 2023, he did not take photos as Israeli hostages, both alive and dead, were paraded into Gaza and were assaulted by locals because he did not want to help “identify” the terrorists involved and thus “ruin the lives of the people who were filmed.” No less incredible, Azaiza also called into question the credibility of every single “journalist” operating in Gaza when he stated that “every journalist in Gaza” is on a Hamas-run WhatsApp group that oversees all reporting that comes out of the coastal enclave. Explosive Admissions Met With Near-Total Media Silence Some two weeks have transpired since Azaiza made those incredible admissions, yet they have been almost universally ignored by the Canadian news media, despite the enormous repercussions they have. CBC News, in particular, owes Canadians an answer. On at least two occasions since the Palestinian terrorist attacks of October 7, 2023, the taxpayer-funded public broadcaster has relied on Azaiza for reporting from Gaza, and now must provide the public with transparency. CBC Presented Azaiza as a Credible Source First, on December 6, 2023, reporter Keena Alwahaidi (now no longer with the CBC) authored an article, “Internet, phone outages have cut off Gazans from the outside world — and even their loved ones,” where she repeatedly cited Azaiza as a credible war photographer amidst the ongoing war between Hamas and Israel in Gaza. The following month, Senior Writer Nick Logan featured a full report on Azaiza with his article, “Journalist Motaz Azaiza showed the world what Palestinians endure in war. Now he’s left Gaza.” In his report, Logan profiles Azaiza, calling him an “independent Palestinian photojournalist” amidst regurgitating other accusations from groups like the Committee to Protect Journalists, which accused Israel of “an apparent pattern of targeting of journalists and their families.” It is not as if Azaiza was not already a controversial figure, having already appeared to post content to social media on the morning of October 7 that critics have called glorification of Palestinian terrorism. This did not stop CBC News from twice citing and relying on him, and in both cases the broadcaster failed to share this information with readers. CBC News has been repeatedly exposed by HonestReporting Canada for its reliance on videographer Mohamed El Saife in Gaza, who has posted anti-Israel propaganda to social media, and yet continues to serve a critical role for how millions of Canadians understand the war. El Saife’s role serves as something of a microcosm of CBC’s documented and pervasive anti-Israel bias. CBC Must Explain How It Vets Its Sources in Gaza With photographer Moataz Azaiza’s recent admissions about Hamas’ control over journalists in Gaza, and his own acknowledgement that he avoided taking images of terrorists lest they be targeted by Israel’s counter-terrorism operations, CBC News owes all Canadians an answer about how they will properly vet future journalistic sources. --- ## Complaint Filed: CBC News Article Depicts Anti-Israel Children’s Entertainer Ms. Rachel As Human Rights Advocate, Making Zero Mention Of Her Controversies URL: https://honestreporting.ca/complaint-filed-cbc-news-article-depicts-anti-israel-childrens-entertainer-ms-rachel-as-human-rights-advocate-making-zero-mention-of-her-controversies/ Type: post Modified: 2026-10-01 Words: 595 > The controversy over US rapper Macklemore’s anti-Israel on-stage rambling continues to reverberate, with coverage by CBC News – Canada’s taxpayer-funded broadcaster – treating anti-Israel antics as humanitarian. In a September... The controversy over US rapper Macklemore’s anti-Israel on-stage rambling continues to reverberate, with coverage by CBC News – Canada’s taxpayer-funded broadcaster – treating anti-Israel antics as humanitarian. In a September 18 article, “Ms. Rachel pledges $1M US in Palestinian aid to match Macklemore’s donation following Sheeran tour exit,” journalist Kayla McLean begins by telling readers about children entertainer Ms. Rachel (real name Rachel Accurso), saying that she will donate $1 million US to a Palestinian charity following Macklemore saying that he will do likewise. Macklemore was dropped as an opening act for pop superstar Ed Sheeran after outrage regarding his anti-Israel comments at a September 4 concert. Celebrity Accusations Against Israel Demand Scrutiny, Not Automatic Credibility Curiously, Accurso – in a social media post – is then quoted as calling on “every wealthy white celebrity” to do likewise, and to condemn the non-existent “genocide” in Gaza. While McLean does quote this eyebrow-raising statement about why White (and only White) celebrities are obligated to donate to Gaza, but she noted this without background. At no point did McLean note that, contrary to Accurso’s outlandish claims, no international court has found Israel guilty of genocide, and indeed, scholars have noted that it has taken unprecedented steps to avoid civilian casualties in Gaza. Instead, Accurso’s claims of “genocide” were permitted to stand without challenge, context, balance, or even basic background. Humanitarian Fundraising Does Not Exempt Recipients From Scrutiny The intended recipient of Accurso’s largesse, the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF) is not without significant controversy. NGO Monitor has pointed out that a Hamas document lists the group as being “subject to Hamas’ diktats” in Gaza,” and argues that it “systematically erases Palestinian terror attacks against Israeli civilians.” The article made no mention of PCRF’s controversies. Nor does it refer to any of Accurso’s, omitting entirely her apparent friendship with Motaz Azaiza, a Gazan photographer who later admitted to not publishing images of Hamas’ hostage takers, lest these terrorists be targeted by Israel. Instead, McLean refers to Accurso as “a vocal advocate for the protection and rights of children in Gaza.” This is in sharp contrast to how McLean refers to Robert Kraft, a Jewish business magnate who spoke out in opposition to the anti-Israel chants opening Sheeran’s shows. Kraft is described simply as “a staunch supporter of Israel,” making zero mention of his own major support for Jewish causes and other human rights campaigns. Grave Allegations Against Israel Cannot Be Reduced to “Solidarity” Despite the entire article being ostensibly about the continued fallout from Macklemore’s anti-Israel ramblings on stage, little is actually offered to readers about them. It quotes him as leveling claims of “apartheid” and “genocide” against Israel, at no point actually explaining the obscenity of such allegations and how vociferously Israel and scores of experts dispute these points. McLean also did not point out that the extent of the temerity of accusing Israel – the Jewish State – of genocide, a crime against humanity that the Jewish People have experienced on a greater scale than any others in the last century. Instead, Macklemore’s comments were boiled down to “expressing solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank.” In July, an article written by McLean was documented in an HonestReporting Canada alert, where she quoted a Lebanese man as calling the terrorist group Hezbollah “resistance,” a term that can very reasonably be seen as conferring legitimacy upon the openly-genocidal Islamic organization. Photo credit: Ms. Rachel --- ## Globe & Mail Calls On Canadians To Admit That Antizionism Is At “Core” Of Anti-Jewish Hate Since October 7 URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/globe-mail-calls-on-canadians-to-admit-that-antizionism-is-at-core-of-anti-jewish-hate-since-october-7/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-10-02 Words: 541 > In the face of yet another act of violent anti-Jewish hate in Canada, this time an attempted terrorist attack at the Sons of Jacob synagogue in Belleville, Ontario, taking place... In the face of yet another act of violent anti-Jewish hate in Canada, this time an attempted terrorist attack at the Sons of Jacob synagogue in Belleville, Ontario, taking place on Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, The Globe and Mail produced an important editorial calling on Canadians to muster the courage to stand up against the pernicious hostility towards their Jewish neighbours. Protecting Jewish Life Requires Confronting an Escalating Campaign of Hate The September 23 editorial, “The courage needed to face down hatred,” began by noting that the shooting attack – which took place as congregants inside were about to begin their prayers – marked a “dangerous escalation in a cycle of antisemitic violence in this country.” Indeed, from attacks against synagogues and Jewish businesses in the middle of the night, to a brazen assault against worshippers, with the ostensible aim at killing as many as possible, is a striking escalation that, the newspaper notes, could easily have been the scene of dozens dead, if not for the heroic actions of Constable Jeff Smith. But, as the newspaper reminded readers, the attempted terrorist attack is not simply a standalone incident, but just the latest installment of attacks and shootings. But not all assaults are physical; some seek to effectively render Jewish life impossible, and the editorial noted that “extreme adherents of anti-Zionism have gone so far as to harass residents of some Jewish neighbourhoods. Some have organized to decertify Jewish summer camps, an example we have used before because it plainly shows the attempt to make Canada unliveable for Jews, including Jewish children.” One prominent group that has sought to decertify Jewish summer camps is Just Peace Advocates, an organization that has called on Canada to remove Hezbollah from its banned terrorist watchlist, and is even currently engaged in a project with another banned terrorist entity, Samidoun. Jewish Self-Determination in Israel Deserves Recognition and Respect But what makes The Globe and Mail’s editorial important is not simply for pointing out the scourge of antisemitism, but calling on Canadians to admit that “anti-Zionism has been the core of the antisemitism problem in Canada and elsewhere since Oct. 7.” Zionism is not, as its detractors claim, anything nefarious, but the simple worldview that the Jewish People have a right to self-determination in their historic and ancestral homeland, Israel. Just days later, The Globe and Mail’s Staff Columnist Marcus Gee echoed that very point in his own column, “Say its name,” calling on readers to admit that antizionism is “the ideology that is feeding the wave of hate sweeping this country.” Canada’s Leaders Must Defend Jewish Safety and Israel’s Right to Exist These are important acknowledgements and mark an important step towards beseeching Canadians to recognize the obvious reality: that denial of Israel’s very right to exist is an act of anti-Jewish bigotry, and when tolerated or even embraced, creates an atmosphere where hostility towards Jews becomes, if not inevitable, then certainly far more likely. That moral clarity in the pages of The Globe and Mail, both in its editorial and in Gee’s column, are important, and must now be matched by elected officials on all three levels of government. --- ## Success! Kingston Whig-Standard Corrects False Description Of Gaza As “Israeli-Occupied” And Adds Context That Hamas Is A Banned Terrorist Organization After HRC Complaint URL: https://honestreporting.ca/success-kingston-whig-standard-corrects-false-description-of-gaza-as-israeli-occupied-and-adds-context-that-hamas-is-a-banned-terrorist-organization-after-hrc-complaint/ Type: post Modified: 2026-09-30 Words: 526 > Following the antisemitic terrorist attack against Jewish congregants on Yom Kippur at a synagogue in Belleville, Ontario – fortunately averted due to the quick thinking and heroic action of police... Following the antisemitic terrorist attack against Jewish congregants on Yom Kippur at a synagogue in Belleville, Ontario – fortunately averted due to the quick thinking and heroic action of police constable Jeff Smith, who fatally wounded the alleged shooter, but remains in serious condition in a local hospital – The Kingston Whig-Standard published an article profiling the Jewish community of Kingston, less than an hour’s drive away, and about the impact of the terror attack on them. The article quoted local Jewish community members, including one who rightly pointed out that the attack was simply the latest manifestation of hate directed at Canadian Jews over the last three years. However, in seeking to provide context to what happened three years ago, the article omitted a critical detail and made a false statement alongside it. Fortunately, and to their credit, the newspaper acted quickly in rectifying that mistake following outreach by HonestReporting Canada. In the original version of the September 22 article, “Kingston’s Jewish community in shock, but remains unified, strong following Belleville shooting,” reporter Maegen Kulchar wrote that, in providing context to the Palestinian terror invasion of southern Israel on October 7, 2023 and the accompanying massacres, “Hamas is a Sunni Islamist Palestinian nationalist political organization…” However, what was absent was that Hamas is not simply a “Palestinian nationalist political organization,” but a terrorist organization, and remains listed as a banned terrorist entity by the Canadian government, among many others. This is critical information that is highly relevant to the story, given that Hamas is a fanatical Islamist terrorist organization dedicated to the annihilation of Israel, and which seeks to replace it with an Islamic State-style totalitarian regime. In recent days, even the United Nations has acknowledged the widespread misogynistic practices inside Gaza, where reports say women are being traded for food and being forced to marry their rapists. The original article also stated that Hamas has “governed the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip since 2007.” In fact, Israel fully withdrew from Gaza during the much-publicized 2005 disengagement, when Israel forcibly evacuated all Israeli civilians and soldiers from the coastal territory, giving it to the Palestinians in the hope that such a move would help advance the cause of peace. Tens of millions of dollars were raised to provide high-tech greenhouses for Gaza to develop state-of-the-art agriculture. Observers hoped that Gaza would become the next Singapore, an economically-advanced city-state. Regrettably, that move was entirely unrequited, with Gaza soon being transformed by Hamas into a terrorist state and a launching pad for rocket attacks and other violence directed against Israel. Subsequent to the publishing of the article, HonestReporting Canada filed an official complaint with The Whig’s editorial team, who then took corrective action and edited the report. The corrected version reads as follows: “Hamas is a Sunni Islamist Palestinian nationalist political organization officially listed as a terrorist organization in Canada,” which adds that Hamas is a banned terrorist organization, and removes the false claim that Israel has occupied Gaza since 2007. HonestReporting Canada thanks The Kingston Whig-Standard for their quick response in correcting their September 22 article. --- ## Toronto Star Column By Sally Armstrong Laments Effects Of War On Lebanese Children, Ignoring Hezbollah’s Responsibility In Starting Conflict URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/toronto-star-column-by-sally-armstrong-laments-effects-of-war-on-lebanese-children-ignoring-hezbollahs-responsibility-in-starting-conflict/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-09-30 Words: 590 > Sally Armstrong’s September 20 opinion column in The Toronto Star, “Lebanon hosts more refugees per capita than anywhere else, but its children are caught in wars,” begins by lamenting the... Sally Armstrong’s September 20 opinion column in The Toronto Star, “Lebanon hosts more refugees per capita than anywhere else, but its children are caught in wars,” begins by lamenting the impact of wars on children, “who have been caught in conflicts they didn’t start,” with a specific focus on Lebanon. A War Framed Around Israel, With Hezbollah Reduced to a Footnote But while the commentary began with an ostensibly unobjectionable thesis, Armstrong continued to frame the war in Lebanon almost exclusively as a conflict waged by Israel, with only minimal reference to Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed, openly genocidal Islamist terrorist group that calls for Israel’s annihilation. Hezbollah Started the Wars—A Fact Left Unmentioned Nowhere does Armstrong mention that it was Hezbollah, not Israel, which began both recent rounds of war, firstly on October 8, 2023, when it launched rockets unprovoked into the Jewish State out of solidarity with Hamas in Gaza, and again in early March, 2026, in solidarity with its patron, the Islamic Republic of Iran. It is not as if Armstrong avoided condemning politicians, with Israeli minister Itamar ben-Gvir being the only official named in the entire piece for bellicose statements he has made about Lebanon (and making no mention that Ben-Gvir was not actually in Israel’s war cabinet). Thousands of Hezbollah Rockets Disappear From the Story Throughout her column, Armstrong mentions the impact of war on Lebanese children, not once acknowledging the thousands of rockets fired by Hezbollah terrorists indiscriminately into northern Israel. While her focus may have been Lebanon, it is inconceivable that an article would omit such towering details about how the country was dragged into war in the first place. Israeli Warnings Recast While Hezbollah’s Human Shields Go Unmentioned In one case, Armstrong cites the example of Israel issuing evacuation orders to much of Lebanon, overlooking that such directives are actually meant to minimize civilian casualties, rather than exacerbate them. However, she failed to inform readers of this. Nor did she mention how Hezbollah has widely utilized civilian infrastructure, including perhaps most egregiously ambulances, in order to continue its warmaking against Israel. Anti-Israel Advocacy Presented as Neutral Humanitarianism The sources referenced by Armstrong include Danny Glenwright, CEO of Save the Children Canada, presenting him simply as a representative of a humanitarian organization. However, it is notable that despite Glenwright’s repeated spreading of what we regard as anti-Israel disinformation in the Canadian news media, including the false “famine” slur, Save the Children Canada has remained strikingly silent about the egregious human rights violations committed by the Iranian regime. Controversial Sources, Crucial Context Withheld Another source quoted by Armstrong was Human Rights Watch, another organization which critics have accused of presenting reports reflecting “the absence of professional standards, research methodologies, and military and legal expertise, as well as a deep-seated ideological bias against Israel.” She did not offer readers any insight into the controversial reputation of either Human Rights Watch or Save the Children Canada, instead presenting them as reputable humanitarian groups. It is entirely legitimate for writers like Sally Armstrong to bring attention to the impact of war on children all around the world, including in Lebanon. But that is not all her column did. She repeatedly referenced Israeli counter-terrorism strikes, omitted critical details about how Hezbollah started and perpetuated a war against Israel (to say nothing of how it deliberately placed Lebanese civilians in harm’s way), all while quoting anti-Israel activist groups as the supposed voices of neutral humanitarianism. --- ## Toronto Star Columnist Justin Ling Complains Israel Is Using AI To Target Terrorists In Gaza URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/toronto-star-columnist-justin-ling-complains-israel-is-using-ai-to-target-terrorists-in-gaza/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-09-30 Words: 630 > In his September 21 opinion column, “It’s the nuclear bomb of the 21st century. This is how we can control it,” commentator Justin Ling tackled the potential threats posed by... In his September 21 opinion column, “It’s the nuclear bomb of the 21st century. This is how we can control it,” commentator Justin Ling tackled the potential threats posed by artificial intelligence, calling for more global cooperation and planning to avoid catastrophic results. And yet, amidst a column that had absolutely nothing to do with Israel, Ling made sure to insert a condemnation of the Jewish State, writing that “we know that Israel has aggressively used AI to make targeting decisions in its war on Gaza, so far without consequence,” adding that it was “fundamentally inhumane, particularly where those decisions may constitute a war crime. Current global chaos may make that kind of diplomacy seem unlikely. But accepting defeat is merely not an option.” China Leads in AI Surveillance—But Israel Gets the Condemnation This insertion of Israel as a cautionary tale of AI seems bizarre, particularly when China is the world leader in using such tools to universally surveil its own population. Curiously, Ling mentions China only once, in an unrelated and passing reference, though Israel is given an extended condemnation. Israel’s Targeting of Terrorists Is Presented as the Problem As for his allegations that Israel has “aggressively used AI to make targeting decisions,” bemoaning “without consequence,” he neglected to mention that Gaza is a densely-populated urban jungle where thousands of Hamas terrorists (and countless other ‘civilians’ invaded Israel on October 7, 2023), for whom Israel had entirely legitimate desire to target. Notably, Israel’s use of AI in targeting terrorist combatants is a direct repudiation of the “genocide” slur that has been popularly leveled against it, demonstrating that Jerusalem has used advanced tools in order to target combatants and minimize civilian casualties as much as possible, a point that Ling – who has previously amplified the unfounded “genocide” slur in The Toronto Star – curiously did not acknowledge. Serious Accusations Without a Scintilla of Evidence Not once does Ling explain why Israel should have faced “consequence” for using advanced technologies aimed at minimizing civilian casualties in Gaza, admittedly a herculean task given Gaza’s density and the propensity for Hamas and other terrorist groups deliberately embedding their weapons and fighters within civilian infrastructure. Nor does Ling explain how using AI to fight openly genocidal Islamist terrorist groups is somehow “fundamentally inhumane” or how they “constitute a war crime.” These are deadly serious accusations lobbed by Ling against Israel, yet he offers no fulsome articulation of his allegations, let alone providing even a scintilla of evidence for his claims. Instead, Ling simply raises the spectre of “war crime(s)” and lets the mere accusation sit in the minds of readers, without having to defend any actual argument. A Familiar Pattern of Attacking Israel This is not the first time that Justin Ling has used falsehoods to assail Israel at The Toronto Star. He has previously demanded that the Carney government sever ties with Israel – while making no mention of genocidal dictatorships – and has in our view brazenly misrepresented an International Court of Justice (ICJ) provisional ruling, falsely claiming that it called on Israel to stop fighting in Gaza (it did no such thing). In another instance, Ling falsely claimed that Israel’s striking of a hospital where Hamas was operating was a war crime, when it is not. In fact, that falsehood prompted HonestReporting Canada to file an official complaint with The Toronto Star, which subsequently printed a correction, noting that such attacks are not illegal. Drive-by accusations against Israel are nothing new, be they “genocide,” “famine” or the more generic “war crime.” But The Toronto Star would do well to insist that their columnists avoid leveling broad accusations of war crimes, all while complaining about Israel using technology to more precisely target terrorists and avoid civilians. --- ## CBC News Article & Video Appear To Imply – Without Evidence – Israel Committed “War Crimes” In Gaza, Relying On Anti-Israel Activist Group As Source URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/cbc-news-article-video-appear-to-imply-without-evidence-israel-committed-war-crimes-in-gaza-relying-on-anti-israel-activist-group-as-source/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-09-29 Words: 602 > Even by CBC News’ own highly problematic track record when it comes to covering the Hamas-Israel war in Gaza over the last three years, its September 25 article and accompanying... Even by CBC News’ own highly problematic track record when it comes to covering the Hamas-Israel war in Gaza over the last three years, its September 25 article and accompanying video broadcast were particularly egregious, employing circular reasoning and strongly implying that Israel is guilty of war crimes, all while failing to present actual evidence, and instead relying on what we regard as an anti-Israel “research” entity. Israel Deserves Evidence-Based Reporting, Not Headlines That Imply Guilt The article, “Is Israel erasing evidence of alleged war crimes in Gaza? A Visual investigation,” just by its headline alone, was framed as effectively a rhetorical accusation towards Jerusalem, and was written by Ivan Angelovski, Yasmine Hassan, Christian Paas-Lang & Jordan Pearson, with files from Mohamed El Saife, CBC’s Gaza videographer who has posted anti-Israel propaganda to social media. Ivan Angelovski and Yasmine Hassan have both been the subject of HonestReporting Canada alerts for their coverage of Gaza. Relying on its “visual investigation” of imagery from Gaza purporting to show Israel “removing rubble and debris from Gaza,” the article claims that it suggests “potential evidence of war crimes still trapped under it.” The circular reasoning spelled out in the article is as follows: Israel is required, according to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to preserve alleged evidence of war crimes, and by removing debris, it is in violation of that order. But that is only if Israel actually committed war crimes, an assumption that appears to be taken as something of a given by CBC News. The article cites Júlia Nueno Guitart with Forensic Architecture, described as “an independent research group tracking developments in Gaza,” as corroborating CBC News’ apparent findings. Unsurprisingly, the taxpayer-funded broadcaster did not share with readers that Forensic Architecture has been accused of using “slick graphic presentations…to mask analyses that are consistently misleading, blatantly biased and based on unverifiable ‘evidence.’” Forensic Architecture has also reportedly collaborated with Al-Haq, which is a banned terrorist entity in Israel. Rather than educate readers about the manifold controversies raising serious questions about the legitimacy of Forensic Architecture, CBC News made zero mention of any of this, instead treating it as an unquestionably credible outfit. Israel’s Response and Hamas’ Conduct Deserve Meaningful Attention While the article does include a denial by Israeli officials, the overwhelming focus was on Israel’s alleged war crimes, and these denials become subsumed under that framing. The article is also notable that it wholly omits any acknowledgement whatsoever of Hamas’ war crimes in Gaza, focusing its attention exclusively on Israel, a practice that has been consistently documented over the last three years. The article also cites Gazan Dalal Faraj, writing that on October 8, “an Israeli strike hit her home,” though it does not provide evidence for this contention, instead treating it as fact. CBC Must Clearly Distinguish Allegations Against Israel From Established Findings The accompanying video report was no better. Narrated by Christian Pass-Lang, who began by telling viewers that “Israel is supposed to preserve evidence of potential war crimes,” while apparently taking it for granted that Israel has actually committed such acts. Watch the full segment below: Just days after reports say and allege that CBC News instituted disciplinary procedures against a Jewish journalist for documenting an anti-Israel mob which was protesting outside synagogue services in Toronto, CBC News ought to be ensuring that their journalistic standards are befitting a taxpayer-funded broadcaster, rather than in our view regurgitating unfounded allegations of “war crimes” without evidence, and relying on an anti-Israel “research” outlet in doing so. --- ## Jewish Canadians Are Under Attack: It’s Time For Action URL: https://honestreporting.ca/videos/jewish-canadians-are-under-attack-its-time-for-action/ Type: videos Modified: 2026-10-09 Words: 72 > Jewish Canadians are under attack. That is not rhetoric. It is the reality confronting Jewish communities across this country. And after this past weekend, our leaders cannot claim they do... Jewish Canadians are under attack. That is not rhetoric. It is the reality confronting Jewish communities across this country. And after this past weekend, our leaders cannot claim they do not understand the stakes. Condemnations are no longer enough. The time to act is now. Dive into our newest video, hit that share button, and smash the like button to amplify our message and skyrocket this video to viral fame! --- ## CBC Article Platforms Multiple Accusations Against Israel Without Critical Context, HRC Files Complaint Calling For Corrective Action URL: https://honestreporting.ca/cbc-article-platforms-multiple-accusations-against-israel-without-critical-context-hrc-files-complaint-calling-for-corrective-action/ Type: post Modified: 2026-09-25 Words: 555 > Once again, CBC News, Canada’s taxpayer-funded public broadcaster, is amplifying baseless allegations against Israel, all while providing only minimal context with which readers could assess the absurdity of those claims.... Once again, CBC News, Canada’s taxpayer-funded public broadcaster, is amplifying baseless allegations against Israel, all while providing only minimal context with which readers could assess the absurdity of those claims. The September 16 article, “Top Democrat on foreign affairs committee opposes Trump-proposed $2.8B arms sale to Israel,” originally published by the Thomson Reuters news wire, chronicled objections by an American politician against particular arms sales to Israel, telling readers about a group of “highly destructive” bombs, and how Congressman Gregory Meeks was concerned with how they would be used in Gaza. Israel’s Military Operations Cannot Be Understood While Hamas and Hezbollah Are Omitted According to the article, “the 2,000-pound bombs have been regularly used by Israel in Gaza as well as in Lebanon, drawing scrutiny from human rights experts.” What precisely are the nature of these complaints from these supposed “human rights experts” are not noted, nor is any context provided about why Israel would use such large bombs, namely due to the widespread use of subterranean tunnels in Gaza by Palestinian terrorists, and in Lebanon by Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorists. Destroying such enormous tunnels is not possible with smaller munitions, but these details are nowhere to be found in the article, which instead relies on vague references to “scrutiny from human rights experts,” providing readers with an impression of Israeli guilt. In fact, the words “Hamas” and “Hezbollah” do not appear a single time anywhere in the article. The article states that “more ​than 73,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s military campaign, according to Gaza ⁠health authorities. A UN inquiry determined that Israel had committed genocide in ⁠Gaza, a charge Isarel (sic) rejects.” Citing “Gaza health authorities” without disclosing that the so-called “Gaza Ministry of Health” is an apparatus of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas is deeply problematic in its own right, as is the article’s failure to acknowledge that Israel says tens of thousands of those killed in Gaza were combatants. UN Accusations Against Israel Deserve Scrutiny, Not Automatic Credibility But perhaps the most egregious inclusion is the drive-by slur that of “genocide in Gaza.” Nothing is noted about the “UN inquiry” by CBC News, including the controversial composition of its members, including one who spread anti-Jewish conspiracy theories. Years before the commission ever accused Israel of “genocide,” expert observers said that its then-chairwoman, Navi Pillay, had a long-documented hostility towards Israel and should have been removed from her position. Worse yet, platforming the repeatedly-disproven slur of “genocide” while offering only a perfunctory denial by Israel not only fails to provide any meaningful background to readers, but instead simply raises the “genocide” allegation without having to defend it. The crime of genocide is a legal definition, requiring intent to destroy a people, which Israel, despite enormous military capability to do precisely that – has never, by any stretch of the imagination – has sought to achieve. Indeed, in three years of intense urban warfare against a terrorist enemy that widely uses civilian infrastructure for its purposes, and even according to that terrorist group’s own figures, around 98 percent of Gazan civilians survived the supposed “genocide.” But rather than sharing this with readers, CBC News instead simply shared the accusation and left that slur inside their imagination. --- ## Is CBC News Punishing A Jewish Journalist For Daring To Document Local Anti-Israel Hate Mob? URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/is-cbc-news-punishing-a-jewish-journalist-for-daring-to-document-local-anti-israel-hate-mob/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-09-25 Words: 814 > Is CBC News punishing a Jewish journalist for daring to document a local anti-Israel hate mob? When Neil Herland was attempting to enter synagogue services in Toronto on September 21... Is CBC News punishing a Jewish journalist for daring to document a local anti-Israel hate mob? When Neil Herland was attempting to enter synagogue services in Toronto on September 21 on Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar (and coming less than a day after an anti-Jewish terrorist attack in Belleville, Ontario) he was met with a mob of anti-Israel demonstrators, screaming epithets because the place of worship (a rented venue used by the Song Shul) was featuring special remarks by Mark Regev, a former senior official in Israel who had once served as the Jewish State’s ambassador to the United Kingdom. Herland – a CBC News journalist – posted the exchange to social media, which depicted screaming (and some masked) protesters holding Palestinian flags, with him writing that they were seeking to intimidate and taunt him, and saying they attempted to prevent him from entering the building for prayers. The video shows protesters telling Herland he was going to Hell and screaming “Zionist alert” when he approached. I'm a journalist. And I happen to be Jewish. On Yom Kippur I went to a synagogue service in Toronto and was met by protesters trying to taunt and intimidate me from entering the building. 1/5 pic.twitter.com/2eH3MaC9QB — Neil Herland (@NEWSneil) September 22, 2026 The video exchange soon went viral, with his post amassing more than three million views within days and garnering media coverage. Anti-Israel Pressure Group Targets the Journalist Who Documented the Protest Almost instantly, Canadians for Justice & Peace in the Middle East (CJPME), an anti-Israel pressure group whose president, Yara Shoufani, has posted content to social media appearing in our view to glorify the October 7 massacres, launched a campaign, though not to condemn the actions by anti-Israel protesters, but to condemn Herland for documenting it. Their letter – ostensibly sent to CBC News – accuses him of creating a “misleading” narrative and of allegedly violating the taxpayer-funded broadcaster’s journalistic standards. Alleged Discipline Raises Questions About CBC’s Treatment of a Jewish Journalist Incredibly, according to a confidential source within CBC News corresponding with HonestReporting Canada, it now seems that the broadcaster, rather than standing behind Herland and his right (some might argue, obligation) to document an anti-Israel hate mob protesting outside his synagogue services, he was allegedly hauled into an investigative hearing and was reportedly subjected to disciplinary action. Additionally, and according to the source, Herland has been removed (perhaps temporarily) from his on-air position. It is unclear what, if anything, Herland has done wrong beyond documenting the ongoing harassment by anti-Israel agitators against Canadian Jews. HonestReporting Canada reached out to CBC News, but was told they could not comment on internal personnel matters citing the need to respect employee privacy rights. Toronto Sun investigative journalist Warren Kinsella was the first to report on the story of CBC’s apparent and alleged punishment of Herland, writing that the broadcaster’s “management quietly pulled Herland off the air – because he had documented a newsworthy event. One they apparently didn’t want documented.” No less scandalously, Kinsella wrote that, when a synagogue representative went outside and smiled at protesters, they were told to stop “antagonizing” the mob. Subsequent to Kinsella’s reporting, CBC has told Canadians that: “we are aware of reporting on this matter that contains errors and mischaracterizations.” When asked by HonestReporting Canada to explain the CBC’s position and how it is disputing present reporting on this issue, CBC declined to comment. CBC Must Explain Its Standards on Antisemitism and Anti-Israel Intimidation This is just the latest scandal to hit CBC News. Days before the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the broadcaster became the subject of global news coverage after an internal memorandum from Senior Director of Journalistic Standards Basem Boshra was leaked, where he informed staff not to describe the murder of some 3,000 civilians as terrorism. Following widespread outrage, it backtracked. However, it continues to refer to Palestinian terrorists as “militants,” avoiding the word “terrorist” unless attributed, for reasons that remain unclear and open the CBC to accusations of selective bias. Importantly, in September 2025, CBC/Radio-Canada suspended its journalist, Élisa Serret, for engaging in antisemitism by uttering antisemitic tropes on air. And now, CBC has reportedly and allegedly suspended its Jewish journalist Neil Herland for the crime of reporting on apparent antisemitism at anti-Israel hate mobs. CBC News, as a major recipient of Canadian taxpayer funds, owes Canadians an answer as to whether they are penalizing one of their journalists simply because he documented an anti-Israel mob harassing him as he attempted to enter synagogue services.... --- ## Global News Program Alleges Without Any Evidence That Gaza Building Collapse Caused By “Israeli Bombings” URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/global-news-program-alleges-without-any-evidence-that-gaza-building-collapse-caused-by-israeli-bombings/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-09-25 Words: 548 > When a building collapsed in Gaza, a Global News broadcast left little doubt as to who was responsible, proclaiming Israel’s guilt without any evidence. The September 16 report on Global... When a building collapsed in Gaza, a Global News broadcast left little doubt as to who was responsible, proclaiming Israel’s guilt without any evidence. The September 16 report on Global National told viewers that a building that collapsed in Gaza “had been damaged during past Israeli bombings.” Watch the full segment below: Israel Blamed Before the Evidence Was Established In fact, Israel says it has never struck the building in question, a towering detail that went completely unmentioned. Even if Global News did not have this information, their unfounded assertion that the building was damaged by “Israeli bombings” was apparently made in the total absence of any actual evidence. Not only did Israel say it had nothing to do with the building collapse, an Arabic-language Telegram chat appearing to be from an anti-Hamas Gazan suggested that the building became structurally unsound as a result of the terrorist group building tunnels underneath. As Honest Reporting noted, commenting on media coverage of the collapse, “the IDF’s categorical denial that it struck the building? Not even mentioned. The possibility that tunneling beneath it caused the collapse? Hardly considered. Because once Israel is assigned responsibility, evidence pointing elsewhere becomes an inconvenience.” A Familiar Pattern of Framing Israel as the Aggressor Viewers were then shown a report from correspondent Redmond Shannon, whose broadcasts about the Hamas-Israel war have been the subject of multiple HonestReporting Canada alerts, including creating five reports in a single week framing Israel as the aggressor, and erasing the country’s millennia-old ties to Judea & Samaria (“West Bank”). While Shannon did not repeat the unfounded allegations that Israel was responsible for the collapse, his report focused on Israeli counter-terrorism measures in Gaza without any detailed explanation as to what they were aiming to achieve. Shannon stated that, this year, “Israeli strikes have killed hundreds in Gaza despite a ceasefire.” He offered no context as to who has been struck or why. Had he done so, he might have shared that among those who have been killed in Gaza in 2026 were Sharif Shadi Ibrahim Labad, a member of Hamas’ Nukba division, and who participated in the October 7, 2023 massacre. The day of Shannon’s report, Israel announced it killed three combatants with both Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), who it says were actively planning “shooting and explosive attacks” against Israeli troops. Also on the day of Shannon’s broadcast, Israel shared that it killed Jihad Samih Mahmoud Ismail, also a member of Hamas’ Nukhba squad who invaded Israel during the October 7 massacres. The Terrorists Missing From Global’s Narrative That Shannon saw fit to mention “hundreds” being killed in Gaza this year, without providing a single word as to who they were, what they did, or why Israel says they were targeted, is to omit absolutely critical context that needed to be shared. In fact, by simply referring broadly to “Israeli strikes” and the numbers of people killed, the report could very well leave most viewers with the impression that these were civilian deaths caused by Israel, rather than terrorist combatants. That is precisely the kind of misleading impression that providing critical context can avoid, but which in this instance, Global News failed to offer. Photo credit: Redmond Shannon --- ## Radical Islam, Far-Left Extremism & A World Gone Mad: An Insightful Conversation With Author Israel Ellis URL: https://honestreporting.ca/podcasts/radical-islam-far-left-extremism-a-world-gone-mad-an-insightful-conversation-with-author-israel-ellis/ Type: podcast Modified: 2026-09-29 Words: 123 > The last three years have unmasked the chilling intersection between radical Islam, far-left extremism, and Jew-hate manifesting throughout the Western world. In this week's podcast, we sit down with Toronto... The last three years have unmasked the chilling intersection between radical Islam, far-left extremism, and Jew-hate manifesting throughout the Western world. In this week’s podcast, we sit down with Toronto author Israel Ellis to discuss his new book, “The Wake Up Call: Global Jihad and the Rise of Antisemitism in a World Gone MAD,” where he speaks with HonestReporting Canada assistant director Robert Walker about both the challenges of radical Islam and how civilized Canadians can take responsibility. Thanks for listening to The Honest Report. Now level up—subscribe, leave a review, and spread the word. Want to stand with us even louder? Tap the link and become a sponsor. Listen to the audio-only version below: --- ## Complaint Filed: CBC Article About Israeli Strike Killing 2 Men In Gaza Omits Any Mention In Headline That They Were Hamas Terrorists URL: https://honestreporting.ca/complaint-filed-cbc-article-about-israeli-strike-killing-2-men-in-gaza-omits-any-mention-in-headline-that-they-were-hamas-terrorists/ Type: post Modified: 2026-09-23 Words: 576 > On Sunday, September 13, an Israeli airstrike struck a vehicle in Gaza, killing Hassan Ali Abu Nada and Abd al-Rahim Ahmad Khalil Khawa, two members of the engineering unit of... On Sunday, September 13, an Israeli airstrike struck a vehicle in Gaza, killing Hassan Ali Abu Nada and Abd al-Rahim Ahmad Khalil Khawa, two members of the engineering unit of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. Incredibly, when CBC News, Canada’s taxpayer-funded public broadcaster, republished an article originally from the Thomson Reuters news wire, this essential information was nowhere to be seen in the headline, and only made an appearance in the third paragraph. CBC’s Headline Conceals the Victims’ Hamas Identities The September 13 article, “Israeli strike kills 2 people in Gaza, medics say,” simply stated that an Israeli strike “kills 2,” making no apparent effort to note that they were Hamas terrorists, or at bare minimum, that Israel had stated as such. The text in the third paragraph stated that “the Israeli military said the strike targeted two Hamas militants, without giving further information.” In the article, readers were told that “more than 1,300 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have been killed ‌in Gaza ⁠since the ceasefire took effect, according to the territory’s health officials, while the Israeli military says four Israeli soldiers have been killed.” It added that “Hamas does not usually disclose information about fatalities among its fighters.” While Hamas may not publicly share the names of its deceased terrorists, Israel has documented these identities, a curious omission on Thomson Reuters (and CBC News’ part). Israel Publicly Identifies Terrorists Eliminated in Gaza Just two days before this article, Israel shared that it had eliminated Moamen Jabr Al-Sayed Abu Labda, the head of a sniper cell in southern Gaza. The same day, it announced the death of Muhammad Yazouri, the commander of a Hamas brigade, and Hudheifa Muammar, a company commander, and Muhammad Bahjat Rashi, a member of the same brigade. Another such terrorist killed over the last year include Ismail Ibrahim Darwish Kandil, a member of Hamas who participated in the October 7, 2023 massacres in southern Israel, and was filmed doing so. This is all easily-accessible public information, and Israel frequently even shares the faces and other pertinent information of these deceased terrorists, which Thomson Reuters and CBC News could have shared with readers. But they chose not to do so, instead simply stating that Hamas does not disclose this information. However, this does not minimize the obligation of Canadian news media outlets to inform Canadians, rather than providing them with only part of the story. The Strike’s Precision Challenges the Media Narrative The other remarkable feature of the September 13 event (and what was not mentioned) is the remarkable precision on Israel’s part, of striking two terrorists in a densely-populated urban zone, and killing only them. This ability to strike terrorists offers yet more evidence that – contrary to widely-parroted claims in the news media and elsewhere – Israel has not been cavalier about civilian casualties in Gaza, and in fact has made concerted efforts to target only combatants, not innocents, unlike Palestinian terrorists, who have deliberately targeted civilians. However, this relevant detail was not highlighted as evidence of Israel’s focused counter-terrorism operations. Instead, the headline – which failed to mention the terrorists’ identity – and the article itself, which did not acknowledge that Israel has identified many of the deceased terrorists – left significant and indeed central details out of the story. Accordingly, HonestReporting Canada filed a complaint with CBC News directly calling for corrective action. Stay tuned to this page for future updates. --- ## Complaint Filed: CBC’s Crystal Goomansingh Reports On NAZA Film Controversy, Fails To Recognize That It Debunks “Genocide” Allegations URL: https://honestreporting.ca/complaint-filed-cbcs-crystal-goomansingh-reports-on-naza-film-controversy-fails-to-recognize-that-it-debunks-genocide-allegations/ Type: post Modified: 2026-09-23 Words: 546 > A documentary that has made explosive allegations against Israel for its counter-terrorism operations in Gaza continues to make headlines, but a recent CBC News article failed, in our view, to... A documentary that has made explosive allegations against Israel for its counter-terrorism operations in Gaza continues to make headlines, but a recent CBC News article failed, in our view, to properly hold those claims up to scrutiny. In her September 16 article, “These documentarians got a standing ovation in Venice, but their fellow Israelis are furious,” correspondent Crystal Goomansingh told readers about NAZA, a film that “got a special jury prize and a 25-minute standing ovation when it premiered at the Venice International Film Festival last week.” NAZA did indeed win a prize at Venice, just as the Nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Will did in 1935, demonstrating that film festivals are neither indicators for factual accuracy or moral righteousness. CBC Treats Disputed Allegations as Established Facts Goomansingh’s article began by quoting everyday Israelis expressing their opposition to the film, but failing to offer meaningful context or challenge to it, and instead providing its unfounded allegations with a basis of legitimacy. She wrote that NAZA “details Israeli war tactics used in Gaza.” Whether it “details” said tactics or “alleges” certain tactics is precisely the issue that is disputed, and to use such verbiage falsely implies that the filmmakers’ claims are based in factual accuracy is highly misleading. A Shocking Claim Is Presented Without Crucial Context Goomansingh writes that one of the most noted claims in the film, namely that the Israeli military approved up to 500 collateral deaths in a particular strike, was disputed by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), though she added that the official “does say he does not know exactly how many died because there was no official count.” It is unclear what specific strike Goomansingh was referring to, but at no point during two years of war in Gaza were 500 people actually killed, a pertinent point that she did not make. Arguably the most critical detail overlooked by Goomansingh is that the very allegations in the film – that Israel was too accepting of collateral civilian casualties in Gaza – is a direct repudiation of the genocide claims leveled against Jerusalem over the last three years. Genocide refers to the attempted wholesale destruction of a people, and the very idea that Israel set boundaries for collateral damage and evaluated strikes on an individual basis (as opposed to trying to annihilate as many people as possible) is, quite literally, the precise opposite of what a supposedly genocidal military would do. Rather than noting the significance that a film being embraced by anti-Israel activists actually serves to discredit the most prominent talking point by pro-Palestinian campaigners over the last three years, Goomansingh instead failed to connect the dots. A Broader Pattern of Uncritical Anti-Israel Reporting On multiple occasions, Crystal Goomansingh’s reports have been flagged by HonestReporting Canada. She has previously used a real estate dispute in Jerusalem to castigate Israel, has given undeserved amplification to anti-Israel UN allegations, has provided an uncritical platform to Hamas spokesperson Ghazi Hamad to lie in claiming that his terrorist group does not target civilians, and has amplified false “famine” claims in Gaza, all while ignoring both evidence and experts who could have disproven those claims. Accordingly, HRC filed a complaint with CBC News calling for corrective action to be undertaken. --- ## Complaint Filed: CBC News Amplifies UN’s Ongoing Complaints Against Israel, Omitting The Scandalous Backgrounds Of Their Officials URL: https://honestreporting.ca/complaint-filed-cbc-news-amplifies-uns-ongoing-complaints-against-israel-omitting-the-scandalous-backgrounds-of-their-officials/ Type: post Modified: 2026-09-22 Words: 580 > Once again, complaints leveled against Israel have been turned into a news story for CBC News, Canada’s taxpayer-funded public broadcaster. The September 15 article, “UN rights chief says uncovered remains... Once again, complaints leveled against Israel have been turned into a news story for CBC News, Canada’s taxpayer-funded public broadcaster. The September 15 article, “UN rights chief says uncovered remains in Gaza raise concerns of war crimes,” originally written by the Thomson Reuters news wire, informed readers about complaints by Volker Türk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, who alleged that the recovery of bodies in Gaza following two years of war has “raised fresh concerns about possible war crimes,” as CBC News described it. Israel’s Response Buried, UN Accusations Foregrounded It was only in the fifth paragraph that the article noted briefly that “Israel has repeatedly rejected allegations that it deliberately targets civilians and says it acted in accordance with international law while fighting Hamas militants in Gaza.” However, the main theme of the article was not the nature of the dispute, but Türk’s complaints about Israel. At no time anywhere in the article were readers told that Türk has a long and controversial track record. He has been accused of “softness” towards the Islamic Republic of Iran and having ignored its regional aggression, and UN expert Hillel Neuer has stated that Türk has placed “political considerations over human rights, and turn(ed) a blind eye to hundreds of millions of victims of the world’s most oppressive regimes.” These are serious allegations leveled against Türk, but the article acknowledged none of them, simply presenting him as an unbiased expert in human rights. Anti-Israel Allegations Make Headlines—Contrary Evidence Does Not Repeating Türk’s accusations and turning it into a news article is just the latest salvo from the news media, which has regularly treated complaints against Israel as newsworthy, all while rarely if ever sharing reports and studies which found widespread manipulation of casualty data in Gaza, no evidence of genocide or no evidence of famine in the territory. Meanwhile, when groups like Amnesty International accuse Israel of “genocide,” even going so far as to effectively redefine the term, many corners of the Canadian news media provided them with uncritical news coverage. Francesca Albanese Presented Without Her Record Volker Türk wasn’t the only controversial UN official to be mentioned in the article without acknowledgement of their background. Francesca Albanese, referred to as the world body’s “expert on the Palestinian territories,” was referenced as part of her bizarre complaint that Israel should not be permitted to clear debris in Gaza. Albanese has been accused of “knowingly” supporting Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups, and has even spoken remotely at an event for the terrorist organization, where she told those in attendance that it was their right to “resist” Israel. She has also referred to Israel as “the incarnation of evil.” Yet, as with Türk, readers were given no indication that Albanese is a deeply controversial figure whose rhetoric has been widely condemned as antisemitic by governments around the world, and whom the Trudeau government itself refused to meet when Albanese visited Canada in 2024. That a United Nations official would condemn Israel is nothing new; in fact, it would be unusual if the perpetually hostile global body did not fixate on the tiny Jewish State. And while Thomson Reuters and CBC News can decide to turn such complaints into news if they so desire, it cannot be done without any acknowledgement of the controversial nature of these figures, or the ongoing failure to share studies that refute common anti-Israel tropes. --- ## CBC News Covers Controversial Windsor Municipal Candidate Rasha Zaid, Fails To Explain The Dangers Of Her Anti-Israel Rhetoric URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/cbc-news-covers-controversial-windsor-municipal-candidate-rasha-zaid-fails-to-explain-the-dangers-of-her-anti-israel-rhetoric/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-09-22 Words: 607 > As first documented by Leviathan, a social media user documenting radical anti-Israel extremists on social media, Rasha Zaid is a pro-Palestinian activist in Windsor, Ontario, where she is running for... As first documented by Leviathan, a social media user documenting radical anti-Israel extremists on social media, Rasha Zaid is a pro-Palestinian activist in Windsor, Ontario, where she is running for a position on city council in the city’s upcoming municipal election. As noted by Leviathan, Zaid is a regular protester and has reportedly stated that Zionists “must be locked up” and chillingly, stated that “we are not free until they are not amongst us,” and has spread other chants such as “allahu akbar” and “all the Zionists are racists” at protests. She has also reportedly traveled to Toronto to protest the Walk with Israel event. From Calls to Imprison Zionists to a Bid for Public Office After the story became international news following a report in The Jerusalem Post, CBC News covered the controversy in a September 11 article by Dalson Chen, “Windsor city council candidate defends past anti-Zionist comments.” However, rather than making the focus of the article about what can reasonably be called Zaid’s radical anti-Israel rhetoric, the article began by appearing in our eyes to frame her as the victim, writing that “a candidate for Windsor city council says she’s been dealing with threats over her past public comments against Zionism.” It continues by telling readers that Zaid “has organized protests in support of Palestinians,” and quotes her as saying that she is “vocally anti-Zionist.” CBC Buried the Most Disturbing Rhetoric Yet it was only in the seventh paragraph that readers are given any indication into the serious nature of Zaid’s rhetoric, including her call that Zionists “must be locked up,” and referring to “Zionists” as “serial killers on the loose.” While the article did quote representatives from Windsor’s Jewish community, it failed to acknowledge the seriousness of Zaid’s rhetoric, and instead treated it as something of a dispute, writing that she “feels the Jerusalem Post and the (Windsor Jewish Federation) are both confusing her anti-Zionism with anti-Judaism,” and quoting her as saying that she has “friends that are Jewish.” Anti-Zionism Is Not a Harmless Political Label At no time did the article explain what Zionism is, being the belief that the Jewish People have the right to self-determination in their historic and ancestral lands. Thus, denying the right of Jews to self-determination – while affording it to others – is a literal textbook definition of antisemitism, according to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition, which has been widely accepted, including by the Government of Canada. This would have been critical information to share, but it was omitted, and the consequence being that readers were left with little to no understanding as to why calling for all “Zionists” to be thrown in jail is so dangerous and is not simply a polite expression of a political view, or opposition to Israeli government policies. Zaid’s anti-Israel rhetoric is hardly an isolated case. The last three years in particular have seen a proliferation of extremist anti-Israel protests, often characterized not by calls for peace between Israelis and Palestinians, but of hateful anti-Jewish caricatures, burning of Canadian flags, harassment, violence and other acts of intimidation against members of the public. Thus, if CBC News wanted to cover the controversy of Rasha Zaid, it would have been beneficial to explore both the meaning of antizionism (and how it is widely used as a smokescreen for anti-Jewish hate), and the widespread social unrest caused by anti-Israel demonstrations over the last three years. Unfortunately, while it could have provided readers with a comprehensive picture, it failed to do so. --- ## CBC Radio Program Day 6 Marks September 11 With Segment On Settler Violence URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/cbc-radio-program-day-6-marks-september-11-with-segment-on-settler-violence/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-09-22 Words: 573 > On the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the CBC radio program Day 6 featured an extended conversation that we regard as having cast aspersions on Israel’s... On the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the CBC radio program Day 6 featured an extended conversation that we regard as having cast aspersions on Israel’s presence in its historic lands. The segment saw host Brent Bambury (who has been the subject of repeated HonestReporting Canada alerts for his repeated platforming of anti-Israel guests and failure to challenge their incendiary claims) interview Dahlia Scheindlin, whom he introduced as a “writer, pollster and political analyst who’s based in Tel Aviv.” Listen to the full episode below: An Anti-Israel Voice Presented as a Neutral Analyst Bambury did not tell listeners that Scheindlin, while Israeli, is a co-founder of +972 magazine, an outlet that has spread the obscene “genocide” slur, and which critics have said “promote(s) a marginal agenda from the fringes of Israeli discourse.” Scheindlin, unsurprisingly, has been a repeat guest on CBC radio shows. The topic of the segment was on settler violence, which CBC has shown extensive interest in in recent weeks, though frequently providing a picture that omits Palestinian terrorism and presents only critics of Israel. This segment was no different. Scheindlin told Bambury that the government (and many Israelis) “reflexively fuses criticism of Israel’s policies with underlying hatred of Israel.” This characterization by Sheindlin suggests that millions of Israelis are effectively unable to receive fair and honest criticism. But that is not what Israelis have received in recent years, and instead have been the subject of a merciless campaign of double standards, demonization and delegitimization that far exceeds any other country in the world, even those who have practiced objectively far worse human rights abuses than anything Israel has done. But instead of acknowledging the documented and overwhelming anti-Israel focus at, for instance, the United Nations, Scheindlin simply suggested that Israelis “reflectively” act defensively over any criticism of Israel. Predictably, the conversation soon turned to settler violence, a favourite topic at CBC in recent weeks, with no mention whatsoever of the enormous proliferation of Palestinian terrorism in Judea & Samaria (“West Bank”) or the fact that studies have shown the incidence of such attacks are extremely overstated. Bambury, as with other interviews, did not challenge Sheindlin with her characterizations. On September 11, CBC Looked Everywhere Except at Islamist Extremism The discussion about Israel wasn’t the only segment to be featured on September 11; other topics included sperm whales, a weekly musical news quiz and “how pop stars use name changes to reinvent and rebel.” However, there was one segment dedicated to the terrorist attacks of September 11, but it was not about Osama bin Laden or Islamist extremism, but a discussion with American journalist Garrett Graff about how that day “laid the groundwork for Donald Trump.” Not once did Bambury mention the words “Islamist,” “bin Laden” or “Al Qaeda” in his line of questioning, and instead the discussion surrounded the “impunity” of American order services and allegations of “misconduct,” and ended with Graff telling listeners that many Americans “are more afraid” of immigration enforcement “than they are of the threat of foreign terrorists.” CBC’s Selective Framing Is the Story On the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, CBC managed to make the Islamist terrorist attacks largely about U.S. President Donald Trump and immigration enforcement, all while continuing to devote selective coverage giving considerable attention to amplifying the familiar settler violence narrative. Photo credit: Brent Bambury --- ## In La Presse, University Of Montreal Professors Vincent Pouliot And Frédéric Mérand, Lay Exclusive Blame For Gaza’s Woes At Israel, Ignoring Gaza’s Annihilationist Ideology URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/in-la-presse-university-of-montreal-professors-vincent-pouliot-and-frederic-merand-lay-exclusive-blame-for-gazas-woes-at-israel-ignoring-gazas-annihilationist-ideology/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-09-18 Words: 1230 > Version française In their September 6 opinion column in La Presse, “What Gaza Teaches Us About the Failures of the Multilateral System,” Vincent Pouliot and Frédéric Mérand, professors of political... Version française In their September 6 opinion column in La Presse, “What Gaza Teaches Us About the Failures of the Multilateral System,” Vincent Pouliot and Frédéric Mérand, professors of political science at the University of Montreal, attempted to lay near-exclusive blame for the conflict in Gaza at Israel’s feet, writing that “Israel’s military power and that of its American protector largely explain the inability to end the bloodshed.” Israel Is Blamed While Hamas’ War Aims Go Unaddressed In their column (which mentioned Israel seven times, and Hamas just twice), Pouliot and Mérand made no admission of Hamas’ explicit calls for Israel to be annihilated and replaced with an Islamic State-style regime. What, precisely, ought to be Israel’s actions faced with a well-armed terrorist army that seeks nothing short of the total destruction of Israel that would satisfy these two academics in Montreal? Regrettably, the authors do not say. Instead of acknowledging the annihilationist worldview espoused by Hamas and other Islamist terrorist groups, Pouliot and Mérand lament what they characterize as the “selective adherence to international law shown by several Western countries,” pointing to the International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrants for Israeli officials and complaining that “no arrests have been made.” While Pouliot and Mérand appear to take the credibility of these entities as a granted, they presented readers with zero information regarding the serious controversies dogging the ICC in particular. Serious Allegations Against the ICC Prosecutor Are Omitted The arrest warrants were issued under Karim Khan, the then-chief prosecutor of the ICC, who in recent weeks was ousted by member states due to allegations by a subordinate who claimed that he sexually assaulted her. Critics of the ICC have long maintained that Khan’s issuing of warrants against Israel was driven in part by an attempt to distract from his own legal troubles. No less scandalously, The Wall Street Journal also reported that, according to a witness statement in his disciplinary hearings who stated that Qatar, the oil-rich Gulf kingdom that hosts Hamas’ leaders – promised Khan that it would “look after” him if he targeted Israel’s leaders with arrest warrants. The ICC’s targeting of Israel has been condemned as “weaponization of international law” by international lawyer Natasha Hausdorff. Incredibly, none of this was ever acknowledged nor even alluded to by Pouliot and Mérand, who instead treated the ICC’s arrest warrants against Israel as inherently credible, when in fact there remain serious and perhaps damning reasons to dismiss the ICC’s credibility, at least as it pertains to its targeting of Israel. The “Colonial” Label Erases Jewish History Twice in their column, the authors refer to the supposed “colonial situation” in which the Palestinians find themselves. In reality, there is no such colonial situation by any stretch of the imagination. Israel is the world’s sole Jewish State, inhabiting lands where Jews have lived for three millennia, yet by using false and inflammatory language like “colonial,” Israel is effectively compared to a colonial enterprise like Belgium in Congo, when there is quite literally nothing in comparison. If the authors were interested in addressing the shortcomings of international law, they could address the United Nations’ well-documented fixation on Israel, where it receives an overwhelmingly disproportionate amount of condemnation. Instead, their column only reflects that very same disproportionate condemnation. Photo credit: Vincent Pouliot and Frédéric Mérand Dans La Presse, les professeurs de l’Université de Montréal Vincent Pouliot et Frédéric Mérand font porter à Israël la responsabilité quasi exclusive des malheurs de Gaza, ignorant l’idéologie exterminationniste qui anime les terroristes palestiniens Dans leur chronique d’opinion publiée le 6 septembre dans La Presse, «Ce que Gaza nous apprend sur les défaillances du système multilatéral», Vincent Pouliot et Frédéric Mérand, professeurs de science politique à l’Université de Montréal, ont tenté de faire porter à Israël la responsabilité quasi exclusive du conflit à Gaza, écrivant que «la puissance militaire d’Israël et celle de son protecteur américain expliquent en grande partie l’incapacité à mettre fin au bain de sang». Dans leur chronique (qui mentionne Israël à sept reprises, contre seulement deux mentions du Hamas), Pouliot et Mérand ne reconnaissent aucunement les appels explicites du Hamas à l’anéantissement d’Israël et à son remplacement par un régime de type État islamique. Quelles mesures, précisément, Israël devrait-il prendre, face à une armée terroriste lourdement armée qui cherche ni plus ni moins que la destruction totale d’Israël, pour satisfaire ces deux universitaires montréalais? Malheureusement, les auteurs ne le précisent pas. Plutôt que de reconnaître la vision du monde exterminationniste prônée par le Hamas et d’autr... --- ## Macklemore Hijacked Ed Sheeran’s Stage – Then Played The Victim URL: https://honestreporting.ca/videos/macklemore-hijacked-ed-sheerans-stage-then-played-the-victim/ Type: videos Modified: 2026-09-24 Words: 86 > Macklemore wants you to believe he was kicked off Ed Sheeran's tour simply for saying “Free Palestine.” But this controversy was never really about just two supposedly forbidden words. It... Macklemore wants you to believe he was kicked off Ed Sheeran’s tour simply for saying “Free Palestine.” But this controversy was never really about just two supposedly forbidden words. It was about Macklemore’s longstanding anti-Israel activism, and his decision to commandeer someone else’s concert stage to advance it. Our Digital Director, Rick Firth, explains. Dive into our newest video, hit that share button, and smash the like button to amplify our message and skyrocket this video to viral fame! --- ## In Big Story Podcast, Former Canadian Envoy To Israel Jon Allen Blames Jerusalem Exclusively For Lack Of Peace, Completely Omitting Any Mention Of Palestinian Terrorism Or Incitement URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/in-big-story-podcast-former-canadian-envoy-to-israel-jon-allen-blames-jerusalem-exclusively-for-lack-of-peace-completely-omitting-any-mention-of-palestinian-terrorism-or-incitement/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-09-18 Words: 576 > In a recent podcast episode, former Canadian ambassador to Israel Jon Allen repeatedly blamed Israel (and Israel exclusively) for the lack of peace with Palestinians, called for more Canadian sanctions... In a recent podcast episode, former Canadian ambassador to Israel Jon Allen repeatedly blamed Israel (and Israel exclusively) for the lack of peace with Palestinians, called for more Canadian sanctions on Israel, and denied Israel’s legal rights in its own lands, all while he was not challenged on his allegations. The September 14 episode, “Why now? Canada’s new sanctions on West Bank settlers” for CityNews’ The Big Story podcast, featured Allen in conversation with host Maria Kestane, discussing recent sanctions leveled by the Carney government against Israel for its construction of homes in Judea & Samaria (“West Bank”). Listen to the full episode below: Allen is a repeated and vocal critic of Israel, and has been granted extensive and overwhelmingly uncritical coverage in our view for his opinions, which continued in this segment. CityNews Treats Disputed Palestinian Claims as Settled Fact The introduction began with Kestane telling listeners about the “occupied West Bank” and Israel’s presence in the “Palestinian territory,” and thus presenting Palestinian claims as undisputed facts, when in fact Israel possesses extensive legal title and ancestral claims to the lands in question. This practice of effectively accepting Palestinian claims as the basis for narratives has been a common theme in many printed reports and broadcasts. Allen referred to settler violence stating that 1,000 Palestinians in Judea & Samaria have been killed over the last three years, failing to explain that many of them were killed quite literally in the process of trying to commit acts of terrorism. Meanwhile, acts of Palestinian terrorism far outpace any such incidents of settler violence, a detail that was mentioned at no time anywhere in the interview. Allen told listeners that Israel’s construction plans in suburban Jerusalem would be something of a death knell for a Palestinian state because it would cut the region in two, making no mention that if it were given to a Palestinian state, it would render tens of thousands of Israelis completely isolated within that new country, a point that that appeared to be not worth mentioning. Ottawa–Jerusalem Tensions Are Blamed Entirely on Israel Blaming Israel for the poor relationship between Jerusalem and Ottawa, Allen dismissed any idea that tensions are because Prime Minister Mark Carney is seeking closer ties with the European Union, and castigated Israel’s government as “racist” and because it is “blatantly challenging the idea of two states.” At no time did he ever acknowledge the ongoing support for Palestinian terrorism from the Palestinian Authority (PA) via its ‘Pay for Slay’ program, or its continuing incitement against Israel’s very existence in school textbooks, Palestinian media, mosques and elsewhere. Nor was there a single question asked of Allen from the host about the Palestinian responsibility to foster peace, to stop construction of Palestinian illegal settlements, or even about the unmet conditions laid out by Ottawa for its 2025 recognition of a Palestinian state, which did not stop the Carney government from recognizing it anyway. A One-Sided Interview Ends Without a Single Challenge While many of Allen’s assertions could have been assertively challenged – from his claims of widespread settler violence to the idea that Israel’s presence in its historic lands is illegal, to his complete ignoring of Palestinian culpability for violence and terrorism – host Maria Kestane failed to offer any such pushback, and instead simply concluded the interview by thanking him for “breaking this all down for us.” Photo credit: Jon Allen --- ## Belleville Intelligencer Promotes Local Anti-Israel Group’s Event, Omitting Palestinian Terrorists’ Use Of Kites To Set Arson Fires In Israel URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/belleville-intelligencer-promotes-local-anti-israel-groups-event-omitting-palestinian-terrorists-use-of-kites-to-set-arson-fires-in-israel/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-09-17 Words: 607 > A recent article in The Belleville Intelligencer provided uncritical promotion for a local anti-Israel group while failing to shine a critical light on them, all while casting aspersions on Israel’s... A recent article in The Belleville Intelligencer provided uncritical promotion for a local anti-Israel group while failing to shine a critical light on them, all while casting aspersions on Israel’s counter-terrorism operations. The September 8 article, “Fly a kite for the children of Gaza,” encouraged “all kite flyers and those who have always wanted to be” to attend a “family-friendly event” aimed at providing a “message of peace and solidarity” with Gaza. The article continues by offering purported context, noting that “in late August, Israel declared any wayward kites drifting toward Israel from Gaza would be treated as a hostile military act.” Zero explanation is provided about why Israel would have declared kites flying from Gaza to Israel a hostile act, and why it would have caused concern. Israel’s Security Concerns Deserve Explanation, Not Omission Even a cursory Google search on the part of Intelligencer staff would have provided the critical background: that Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups have used kites and balloons, not as harmless children’ s toys, but as incendiary devices and acts of terrorism that caused large fires within Israel, risking both property and life. It is unclear why The Intelligencer saw fit to not provide any information whatsoever on the history of Palestinian terrorists using kites as a means to set fires within Israel, particularly when it is so widely-documented. Anti-Israel Organizers Deserve Scrutiny, Not Uncritical Promotion Instead of giving context to readers, the article instead promoted the activities of a local anti-Israel group, quoting Angela Maracle, who complained that “children should see their kites in the sky and have a respite from the ongoing fear and surveillance they face daily in Gaza.” Maracle is a leader of local anti-Israel group Belleville for Justice & Peace, a local organization which appears to recruit a small number of individuals for repeated miniscule protests, including outside the Jewish-owned Indigo Bookstore and at the local Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) office, a protest which led one commentator to mock the group as “Geriatrics4Gaza.” Maracle is listed as working as Senior Director of Operations and Chief Administrative Officer for Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte. The Intelligencer could have shone a critical light on Maracle’s group and its controversial activities, or even provided the bare minimum of context so readers could understand that while Canadians may think of kites as a children’s toy, for Palestinian terrorists they are used for a different purpose entirely. Instead, readers were presented with an entirely one-sided narrative in which Israel’s response was mentioned without any explanation whatsoever, all while the organizers’ supposedly humanitarian motivations were repeated uncritically. Previous Coverage Also Omitted Concerns About Anti-Israel Activism This article is not the first time that The Intelligencer published an article that omitted details central to the understanding of a story. In March, 2025, reporter Derek Baldwin covered a cancelled event (organized by the same group, Belleville for Justice and Peace), where he wrote that the program aimed “to raise awareness about the dire plight of doctors in Gaza.” The article completely neglected to mention that the event’s keynote speaker was scheduled to be Yipeng Ge, an Ottawa-area physician who has posted content to social media appearing to glorify the October 7, 2023 terrorist attacks. Fair Coverage of Israel Must Explain the Threats It Faces It is bizarre enough for The Intelligencer to act as a free promoter for a local anti-Israel group, and worse yet when it publishes an article about Israel’s counter-terrorism operations, utterly omitting the very reason for its actions. --- ## CBC Reporter Crystal Goomansingh Continues To Ignore Wave Of Palestinian Terrorism URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/cbc-reporter-crystal-goomansingh-continues-to-ignore-wave-of-palestinian-terrorism/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-09-17 Words: 587 > A recent CBC News broadcast continued the taxpayer-funded broadcaster’s recent negative coverage of Israel’s presence in its historic lands of Judea & Samaria (“West Bank”). The September 5 report by... A recent CBC News broadcast continued the taxpayer-funded broadcaster’s recent negative coverage of Israel’s presence in its historic lands of Judea & Samaria (“West Bank”). The September 5 report by Correspondent Crystal Goomansingh (whose reporting on the region has been repeatedly documented by HonestReporting Canada) told viewers about an Arab village in Judea & Samaria visited by U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee. The report was initially published online, but was then removed. Watch the full clip below: Goomansingh began by referring to 14-year-old Amer Rabea, a teenager who “was killed at the hands of an Israeli settler,” paraphrasing Rabea’s father. Curiously, Goomansingh did not see fit to mention that news reports say Rabea was killed while throwing rocks at Israeli troops. This towering detail is central to the story, yet it was completely omitted by Goomansingh. Israel’s Historical Ties and Legal Arguments Deserve a Fair Hearing Throughout the broadcast, Goomansingh’s language closely mimicked pro-Palestinian talking points in our view, referring to “the occupied West Bank,” to “settlements encroach(ing)” on Arab villages, and even featured her pressing Huckabee about “illegal settlements under international law,” making no apparent effort to acknowledge that Israel and many legal experts say Israel’s presence in its land has extensive legal basis under international law. Instead, the report’s framing and language presented Palestinian claims as inherently valid, while Israel’s presence in land that has seen some three thousand years of uninterrupted Jewish habitation as illegal and objectionable. Israeli Victims of Palestinian Terrorism Must Not Be Ignored Goomansingh cited the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and its allegation of settler attacks, mentioning the agency without any challenge, and failing to note that Israel has argued that it found “clear evidence of Hamas affiliations within OCHA’s ranks,” and has called it a “Hamas propaganda arm.” While Goomansingh mentioned OCHA’s claims of settler attacks, she did not offer a single word about ongoing Palestinian terrorism against Israeli civilians in the area. In fact, incidents of Palestinian violence far outpaces claims of Israeli attacks, with the Israeli government noting that “the number of attacks by Palestinians against Israeli civilians in Judea and Samaria which result in damage or injuries is consistently higher than the number of attacks against Palestinians by Israeli civilians,” conclusions which were substantiated in other studies. It goes without saying, but bears repeating, any attack carried out by Israelis on innocent Palestinian-Arabs is abhorrent and should be met by the full force of Israeli law. Yet Palestinian terrorism was completely ignored by Goomansingh, part of an ongoing CBC News trend of repeatedly covering allegations of Israeli settler attacks. Canadians Deserve Reporting That Takes Israel’s Perspective Seriously Crystal Goomansingh is no stranger to producing deeply problematic reporting. She has previously amplified outlandish accusations against Israel, reported about Gaza relying exclusively on a “humanitarian” staffer who spread anti-Israel claims, and perhaps most absurd of all, a 2023 broadcast from her time at Global News, which featured extended airtime of Hamas spokesman Ghazi Hamad, where he spread the lie that the Palestinian terrorist group did not seek to actually murder Israelis. If CBC News and Correspondent Crystal Goomansingh wishes to devote such significant attention to Israel and allegations of settler violence, then they ought to actually provide Canadians with the full picture, rather than a highly sanitized version that closely mimics pro-Palestinian talking points that omits an enormous amount of relevant details. --- ## One Year Ago, Prime Minister Mark Carney Said Recognizing A Palestinian State Would Help Advance Peace. Instead, It Only Mocked Canada’s Diplomatic Standing URL: https://honestreporting.ca/one-year-ago-prime-minister-mark-carney-said-recognizing-a-palestinian-state-would-help-advance-peace-instead-it-only-mocked-canadas-diplomatic-standing/ Type: post Modified: 2026-09-17 Words: 596 > When Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on September 21, 2025 that his government was recognizing the State of ‘Palestine,’ his office defended the decision, saying that it “empowers those who... When Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on September 21, 2025 that his government was recognizing the State of ‘Palestine,’ his office defended the decision, saying that it “empowers those who seek peaceful coexistence and the end of Hamas,” and denied any suggestion that its decision was a reward for Palestinian terrorism. Recognition Without Results: Ottawa’s Promise Collides With Reality One year later, it is virtually impossible to see how that recognition has helped empower moderate Palestinian voices or helped usher in the “end of Hamas.” In fact, it has only helped solidify Palestinian obstructionism. Hamas has not disappeared as a military or political force either in Gaza or Judea & Samaria (“West Bank”), and to the degree that Hamas has been degraded militarily, it is only because of Israel’s counter-terrorism operations, which have been roundly (almost incessantly) condemned by the same Carney government. No serious observer should be surprised that Hamas has not been sidelined as a result of Canada’s recognition of a Palestinian state. In fact, the very suggestion was absurd from day one. Hamas is a widely-integrated Palestinian organization, enjoying significant support among Palestinians who embrace its fanatical Islamic doctrine and its stated desire to destroy Israel. Moreover, Hamas is not the cause, but a symptom of Palestinian rejectionism and hate, which have been allowed to fester for decades in local schools, including those paid for with Canadian tax dollars. UNRWA, the United Nations agency which is funded in part by Canadian taxpayers, has long produced school textbooks for Palestinian children spreading vile anti-Israel and anti-Jewish hate, in effect helping to poison an entire generation of Palestinians against any possibility of peace. Conditions Announced, Conditions Ignored Prime Minister Carney told Canadians at the time that the recognition was “predicated on the Palestinian Authority’s commitment to much-needed reforms, including the commitments by Palestinian Authority President Abbas to fundamentally reform its governance, to hold general elections in 2026 in which Hamas can play no part, and to demilitarize the Palestinian state.” One year later, none of those conditions have taken place, but that did not stop the Carney government from moving forward with its ill-advised recognition of a Palestinian state. Indeed, what was the purpose of even stating those preconditions if the recognition was going to come, no matter what the Palestinians did? Rather than actually standing by the conditions that it set, Ottawa instead simply surrendered the concessions without getting anything in return. It is not as if the federal government was not warned. Before Ottawa made its decision, critics warned that the decision was a reward for Palestinian terrorism, given that it was coming less than two years after the Palestinians’ October 7, 2023 massacres, demonstrating for the world that committing acts of terrorism would carry significant diplomatic benefits for the Palestinians. But despite dismissing those concerns as unfounded, that is precisely what the Carney government has done, sending an unmistakable message that terrorism – at least against Israel – does work. Statehood Without Peace: Canada Gave Everything and Received Nothing In the end, Ottawa’s own policy exposes the fatal flaw in its decision. If Palestinian statehood was truly intended to be a tool for achieving peace, why were the Palestinians not required to first demonstrate a commitment to peace, such as accepting one of Israel’s repeated offers? The Carney government established conditions on the Palestinians, watched those conditions go unmet, and then granted recognition anyway, and rather than demonstrate Ottawa’s credible role on the international stage, made a mockery of it instead. --- ## How Woke Ideology Has Infested Public Schools: An Insightful Conversation With TDSB Trustee Weidong Pei URL: https://honestreporting.ca/podcasts/how-woke-ideology-has-infested-public-schools-an-insightful-conversation-with-tdsb-trustee-weidong-pei/ Type: podcast Modified: 2026-09-29 Words: 116 > A trickle has become a wave, with a growing number of troublesome incidents where 'woke' indoctrination has become the norm throughout public schools. How did this infiltration happen, and who... A trickle has become a wave, with a growing number of troublesome incidents where ‘woke’ indoctrination has become the norm throughout public schools. How did this infiltration happen, and who is behind it? And no less important, how can parents and the public take it back from the ideologues who had so much success? In this week’s podcast, HonestReporting Canada Assistant Director Robert Walker sits down with Dr. Weidong Pei, TDSB school trustee. Thanks for listening to The Honest Report. Now level up—subscribe, leave a review, and spread the word. Want to stand with us even louder? Tap the link and become a sponsor. Listen to the audio-only version below: --- ## CBC News Reporter Saša Petricic Claims Without Evidence There’s “Food Shortages” In Gaza URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/cbc-news-reporter-sasa-petricic-claims-without-evidence-theres-food-shortages-in-gaza/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-09-17 Words: 578 > Israel may comprise just 1/800th of the world’s population, but it continues to receive extensive and ongoing coverage from the taxpayer-subsidized broadcaster, CBC News. CBC’s Gaza Coverage Begins With a... Israel may comprise just 1/800th of the world’s population, but it continues to receive extensive and ongoing coverage from the taxpayer-subsidized broadcaster, CBC News. CBC’s Gaza Coverage Begins With a Loaded Premise In a September 3 broadcast, “No solution for Gaza without removing Palestinians: Israeli defence minister,” CBC News Senior Correspondent Saša Petricic (whose reporting has been repeatedly documented by HonestReporting Canada) begins a segment about Gaza by telling viewers about “a Gaza where Israeli airstrikes routinely bring death, and food shortages hinder life.” Watch the full segment below: Despite introducing the segment by referring to “bring(ing) death,” he offered zero statement as to who precisely is being targeted or killed in Gaza by Israeli counter-terrorism operations. Had he done so, he might have shared that, just the day before his broadcast aired, Israel killed two senior Hamas operatives, including a commander. But no details were offered, just generalized rhetoric. A “Food Shortage” Claim Without Supporting Evidence As for his remarkable claim about “food shortages hinder(ing) life,” Petricic offered no evidence for his statement, and whether it could be backed up by proof, or whether it was simply his personal opinion. He did not tell viewers that in the two weeks prior to his report, Hamas’ own regime in Gaza shared that it had destroyed some 30 tonnes of food, and that Israel’s humanitarian agency in Gaza stated that “the volume of food entering Gaza significantly exceeds the population’s needs,” adding that “Gaza is flooded with food.” Still other footage from inside Gaza shows enormous amount of food aid, a United Nations report showing low malnutrition in Gaza, and newly-opened sweet shops. All this evidence directly contradicts any claim from Petricic of “food shortages,” let alone such supposed shortages actually hindering life. Yet Petricic provided his claim without even a scintilla of evidence to support it. The theme of the report was that some Israeli politicians continue to muse about encouraging the (voluntary) emigration of Palestinians from Gaza. The fact that about half of Gazans say they want to leave the territory was never mentioned. Petricic also did not mention that, despite rhetoric from some corners, there is no official Israeli government policy to encourage emigration, though this did not stop Petricic from featuring a clip of anti-government protesters in Israel labeling the acts of some Israeli “settlers” (ie Israelis who live in the ancestral lands of Judea & Samaria) as “Jewish terrorism,” part of an ongoing theme from CBC News featuring such reports. At no point in his broadcast did Petricic share why many Israelis would support the voluntary emigration of Gazans, other than featuring claims that “settlers” would want to live in the area, ignoring that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanuyahu has explicitly nixed the idea. Israeli Security Concerns Disappear From the Story Petricic might have shared that large numbers of Gazans support the violent destruction of Israel, and that there remain deadly serious threats posed to Israel as a result. But he offered no such details, instead only framing the issue as being driven by the ambitions of so-called Israeli “settlers.” Polls after the October 7, 2023 massacres found a large majority of Gazans supported the rape, murder, torture and kidnapping of Israeli civilians. Yet again, CBC News continues to devote an inordinate amount of focus to Israel’s alleged misdeeds, repeatedly omitting key information and framing Israeli rhetoric as driven by radicalism. --- ## Complaint Filed: In Article About Antisemitism Accusations Against Hollywood Actor Mark Ruffalo, CBC News Devotes Article To Largely Fringe Group Of Anti-Israel Activists URL: https://honestreporting.ca/complaint-filed-in-article-about-antisemitism-accusations-against-hollywood-actor-mark-ruffalo-cbc-news-devotes-article-to-largely-fringe-group-of-anti-israel-activists/ Type: post Modified: 2026-09-17 Words: 624 > A recent CBC News article continued the taxpayer-funded broadcaster’s documented practice of amplifying fringe anti-Israel voices. A Familiar CBC Pattern: Marginal Voices, Maximum Exposure The September 1 article by Copy... A recent CBC News article continued the taxpayer-funded broadcaster’s documented practice of amplifying fringe anti-Israel voices. A Familiar CBC Pattern: Marginal Voices, Maximum Exposure The September 1 article by Copy Editor Hanna Lee, “Hannah Einbinder, Ilana Glazer and other Hollywood stars defend Mark Ruffalo against antisemitism accusations,” informed readers about a controversy involving Hollywood actor Mark Ruffalo, a vocal anti-Israel activist, over his controversial statements condemning recent comments he made which critics have said are reminiscent of historic anti-Jewish tropes. The article leads by stating that “more than 170 Jewish members of the entertainment industry… have signed an open letter defending American actor Mark Ruffalo from what they called an ‘outrageous smear campaign.’” It continues by elaborating that the signatories say Ruffalo has been tarnished by the “false and dangerous weaponization of charges of antisemitism.” CBC Puts 170 Ruffalo Defenders Ahead of 1,000 Critics Perhaps the oddest part of the story is that Lee prioritizes a list of 170 signatories defending Ruffalo from antisemitism charges, while it is only in the eighth paragraph that she states that a much larger group of entertainment executives, a collection of some 1,000 individuals, condemned Ruffalo for what they described as his “singling out Jewish executives” with “terms lifted from centuries-old antisemitic conspiracy theories.” If 170 signatories is the headline and leading paragraph, why is a much larger collective significantly less important to mention? The makeup of the respective letters is even more apparent. While the 1,000 signatories condemning Ruffalo for alleged antisemitism is replete with major figures in Hollywood, the much smaller list is distinctly different, and many appear to have no connections to “the entertainment industry.” While it does feature a handful of Hollywood creatives, most of it is composed by an eclectic mix of others, including an astrologer, professors and a “public health advocate,” among others. Other names on the list include David Mivasair, a Hamilton-based anti-Israel activist who has claimed that “the supposed ‘antisemitism crisis’ in Canada is completely manufactured by Israeli propagandists,” and who has appeared to suggest that an arson attempt against a Montreal synagogue may have been a “Zionist false flag.” This same Rabbi was previously charged after steps were defaced in front of Israeli consulate in Toronto. Yet it was that list, featuring individuals such as David Mivasair, which CBC News saw fit to lead with, and using as the basis for an apparent ‘news’ story. This choice in framing speaks volumes matters because the story was not simply reporting that two competing letters existed. By leading with the smaller group and presenting its accusations of a “smear” campaign before introducing the substantially larger group much later on, CBC News effectively established the narrative before readers encountered the big picture. Selective Framing Is Not Balanced Journalism Of course, CBC News is entitled to report on Ruffalo’s defenders. What is more curious is why those defenders (many of whom with no clear relevance) were given the prominence of the article, while the far larger group raising concerns about alleged antisemitic rhetoric was relegated to a side story. This practice of amplifying fringe anti-Israel voices, particularly Jewish ones, has been a well-documented practice by CBC. For example, when small numbers of Israeli soldiers have refused to serve, citing their ideological opposition to Israel’s counter-terrorism operations against Palestinian terrorists in Gaza, they have been given an uncritical platform to spread their allegations, all while the vast majority of Israeli Jewish conscripts have not refused to serve. But those voices, unlike the marginal ones, have not been given such platforms at Canada’s taxpayer-funded public broadcaster, which appears to prioritize headline-grabbing stories featuring marginal voices instead. --- ## Complaint Filed: CBC News Article Amplifies Bizarre Claims From UN Official Francesca Albanese While Omitting Her Most Outlandish Conspiracy Theories URL: https://honestreporting.ca/complaint-filed-cbc-news-article-amplifies-bizarre-claims-from-un-official-francesca-albanese-while-omitting-her-most-outlandish-conspiracy-theories/ Type: post Modified: 2026-09-17 Words: 569 > In a September 7 article by the Thomson Reuters news wire and republished by CBC News, “Israeli clearance of Gaza rubble could destroy evidence of ‘atrocity crimes,’ says UN expert,”... In a September 7 article by the Thomson Reuters news wire and republished by CBC News, “Israeli clearance of Gaza rubble could destroy evidence of ‘atrocity crimes,’ says UN expert,” readers were informed that Francesca Albanese, a United Nations official, had complained that cleaning up rubble following two years of war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas terrorists was “a way to erase traces of atrocity crimes and another means to entrench Israel’s illegal occupation.” The article did note some of the criticisms surrounding Albanese noting that she “has emerged as one of the most vocal critics of Israel’s military actions in Gaza.” It also added that France, Germany and Italy had condemned “what they said were her overly negative statements about Israel,” and that the United States had sanctioned her. Reuters and CBC Omit Albanese’s Most Damning Record However, while these were important details to be included, the article did not address the most scandalous and controversial statements actually made by Albanese, and what has made her such a highly questionable figure. As documented by UNWatch, Albanese has claimed the United States is controlled by the “Jewish lobby,” has compared Israelis to Nazis and has promoted statements calling Israel “the incarnation of evil,” and the group has stated that she “knowingly supports Hamas and other terrorist groups.” Albanese even spoke at a Hamas-organized conference by video, telling attendees that “you have the right to resist this occupation.” It is thus unsurprising that Albanese has found support from within Hamas. Indeed, the article notes that the Palestinian terrorist group said it appreciated Albanese’s warning. This endorsement by Hamas speaks volumes about Albanese, but readers were given little context for why a United Nations official whose comments are welcomed by a Palestinian terrorist should be treated as an authoritative voice on Israel and Gaza. A “Vocal Critic” Is Not a Credible or Neutral Authority Thus, to describe Francesca Albanese simply as a “vocal critic” of Israel significantly overlooks the serious controversies which continue to dog her. But Albanese is not an isolated individual; she enjoys a major platform with the United Nations, and news media outlets have continued to present her statements as if they were inherently credible. While this article did note (at least in broad terms) some of the criticisms of Albanese, that does not make up for the fact that her bizarre complaint (echoed by Hamas, no less) was nevertheless elevated to the status of a standalone news story. This is hardly the first time that the Canadian news media has provided Albanese with uncritical coverage and a platform where she has leveled outlandish anti-Israel allegations. Outlets ranging from CTV News, Le Devoir, CBC radio, and even the Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy have all interviewed or cited Albanese as a credible official, all while failing to note her controversies or challenge her. If Albanese’s Allegations Are Newsworthy, So Is Her Extremism Francesca Albanese’s history of making anti-Israel statements is certainly nothing new. However, the Canadian news media has a responsibility to consider carefully whether her words are newsworthy simply because she made them. And if outlets are going to publish her condemnations of Israel, then it also ought to share her conspiracy theories, rather than simply obliquely referring to criticisms being made against her. Failing to do so bestows undeserved credibility upon her. Photo credit: Francesca Albanese --- ## Taxpayer-Funded Halifax Publication The Coast Produces Sympathetic Portrayal Of Anti-Israel Activist Dana Elborno, Who Has Scandalously Claimed Israel Tried To Kill “Millions” Of Palestinians URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/taxpayer-funded-halifax-publication-the-coast-produces-sympathetic-portrayal-of-anti-israel-activist-dana-elborno-who-has-scandalously-claimed-israel-tried-to-kill-millions-of-pales/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-09-15 Words: 573 > The taxpayer-funded publication The Coast has previously referred to “Israel’s occupation of Palestine” (sic) and published an uncritical report on a local activist’s “solidarity quilt for Palestine,” has once again... The taxpayer-funded publication The Coast has previously referred to “Israel’s occupation of Palestine” (sic) and published an uncritical report on a local activist’s “solidarity quilt for Palestine,” has once again published another profile of a pro-Palestinian campaigner, alongside zero criticisms or context. The September 2 article, “‘My mind and my art:’ This Palestinian-Canadian artist is creating space for marginalized voices,” by Warren D’Silva, profiled Dana Elborno, a Palestinian artist living in Halifax, about her artwork. D’Silva had authored a previous article profiling anti-Israel activist Kelly Bee. Jewish History and Israeli Perspectives Deserve Inclusion The article begins by stating that Elborno “became involved in activism at 17, following the events in Sheikh Jarrah in 2021.” D’Silva does not share what precisely were “the events in Sheikh Jarrah in 2021.” The neighbourhood in Jerusalem was the site of Palestinian squatters who refused to pay rent to the rightful landlords, and refused to vacate the premises, even after being ordered to do so by a Jerusalem Magistrate Court. The neighbourhood in Jerusalem – which was ethnically cleansed of Jews by the Jordanian occupation from 1948-1967 – is also known as Shimon HaTzaddik. Those “events” became a cause celebre for pro-Palestinian activists, including Palestinian terrorists who used it as an opportunity to launch two weeks of war against Israel. Yet none of these details were provided to readers. Rhetoric Denying Israel’s Legitimacy Warrants Scrutiny The article further notes that Elborno “saw what she described as a lack of local organizing and awareness around Palestine and began working to amplify Palestinian voices in Halifax,” though it offers no exploration into what precisely Elborno has done to supposedly “amplify Palestinian voices in Halifax.” Her Instagram feed, for example, features Elborno favourably profiling a local business in Halifax, Tal al Zaytoun, offering artwork that erases the existence of Israel. She has taken to social media to decry “75 years of occupation,” thus referring to Israel in its entirety – not simply the so-called “occupied” territories – as illegitimate. In October, 2023 – less than 10 days after the Palestinian massacres in southern Israel, and even before Jerusalem launched a ground invasion of Gaza – Elborno spoke at an anti-Israel protest, where she was already spreading the slur of “genocide,” spreading the groundless claim that “millions” in Gaza are facing extermination. However, rather than shining a critical light on Elborno’s anti-Israel rhetoric, D’Silva provided no critical context and instead offered what we regard as an entirely sympathetic portrayal, featuring such sentences as “as a Palestinian, Elborno sees existence itself as resistance against attempts to erase Palestinian identity and history.” Despite the scandalous nature of the claim that nefarious actors are attempting to “erase Palestinian identity and history,” neither Elborno nor D’Silva provide any such evidence, and in fact, given Elborno’s presence on social media, speaking engagements, a platform at a DEI conference at Dalhousie University, and in the taxpayer-funded news media, it seems that far from being erased, such anti-Israel voices are being given extensive opportunities, while pro-Israel voices continue to face cancellation and harassment. Taxpayer-Funded Journalism Must Hold Anti-Israel Advocacy Accountable If The Coast wants to profile local anti-Israel activists like Dana Elborno, then it owes readers – and the Canadian taxpayer – more than just a glowing portrayal, but an uncomfortable look into the controversial statements and actions of individuals like Elborno. --- ## Canadian Accountant Magazine Relies On Just Peace Advocates, A Group Criticized For Defending Two Terrorist Organizations, To Cast Suspicion On Jewish Charity URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/canadian-accountant-magazine-relies-on-just-peace-advocates-a-group-criticized-for-defending-two-terrorist-organizations-to-cast-suspicion-on-jewish-charity/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-09-15 Words: 689 > In multiple articles and broadcasts, the Canadian news media has uncritically repeated allegations by anti-Israel activists who have targeted Jewish charities in Canada. And now Canadian Accountant magazine, a publication... In multiple articles and broadcasts, the Canadian news media has uncritically repeated allegations by anti-Israel activists who have targeted Jewish charities in Canada. And now Canadian Accountant magazine, a publication representing accountants in Canada, has done precisely the same, relying on anti-Israel groups for an article that in our view portrayed a Jewish charitable foundation as worthy of suspicion. Supporting Israeli Causes Should Not Make Jewish Philanthropy Suspect In a September 7 article, “Philanthropists critical of Nakba exhibit donated $4.8M to groups later sanctioned,” writer Brett McKay, a reporter with the taxpayer-funded Investigative Journalism Foundation, devoted an entire article to telling readers that the Asper Foundation of Winnipeg, which paused its funding for the controversial “nakba” exhibit at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, is a major supporter of Israeli causes. It is unclear why McKay or Canadian Accountant felt this was particularly newsworthy, given that the Aspers have been prominent philanthropists for many years, supporting a variety of causes, including charities in Israel. But that charitable giving was treated, in our view, with undue suspicion by McKay, who led the article by writing that the foundation “has given more than $4.8 million to charities that were later sanctioned for sending funds to the Israeli military or illegal Israeli settlements.” Anti-Israel Activists Deserve Scrutiny Before Their Claims Are Amplified The article relied on a roster of anti-Israel interviewees: Becca (Rebecca) Steckle, research and policy analyst for Just Peace Advocates, and Miles Howe of Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), who has vocally called for a number of Jewish organizations to lose their charitable status. Steckle has also sponsored a parliamentary petition calling for Ottawa to implement “economic sanctions on Israel.” While McKay referred to Just Peace Advocates as a “human rights group,” he made zero mention of its controversies, including what critics like NGO Monitor have called its role “at the forefront of attacks on Canadian Jewish institutions.” Incredibly and according to NGO Monitor, the group Just Peace Advocates has previously called for Hezbollah to be “removed from Canada’s terror list,” and has previously defended Samidoun, a now-banned terrorist organization. It is currently listed as being engaged in a project with the terrorist group Samidoun to target Jewish charities. Jewish Charities Deserve Fair Coverage and Full Context That Canadian Accountant magazine should publish an article parroting the allegations of anti-Israel activist groups and referring to Just Peace Advocates, an organization criticized for having defended at least two banned terrorist entities, as a “human rights group,” is a deeply troubling development for a professional publication purporting to represent Canadian accountants. Nowhere did the article mention anything of Just Peace Advocates’ controversies, or allegations that the CRA has weaponized charity law against Jewish organizations. Instead, it was the Asper donations which were positioned as suspicious, with McKay writing that the foundation “defended its donation history,” as if it required being defended at all. If Brett McKay, the Investigative Journalism Foundation or Canadian Accountant magazine was interested in pursuing allegations of charitable malfeasance, they could explore claims that some Canadian Islamic and other “humanitarian” groups are helping to fund terrorist organizations. In 2024, investigative journalist Warren Kinsella argued that the Canadian Palestinian Foundation, Hands for Charity, International Development and Relief Foundation (IDRF) and Medical Aid for Palestine “have been funding – or have possible links to – Palestinian extremist or terror groups.” For their part, International Development and Relief Foundation’s and Hands for Charities’ disagreed with the contents of Kinsella’s article and the Toronto Sun published their detailed responses which can be read here and here. Incredibly, rather than focus on these questions, the article relied on Just Peace Advocates, an organization accused of running a campaign of harassment against Jewish organizations, and which NGO Monitor observed has defended at least two terrorist groups. Canadian Accountant has every right to investigate charitable giving if it so desires. What it should not do is repurpose the talking points of anti-Israel activists as impartial scrutiny, portray support for Israeli causes as inherently suspicious, and omit the serious controversies surrounding the very activists it relies upon. --- ## In Hill Times Column, Samira Mohyeddin Claims Jewish Groups Trying To Silence Her URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/in-hill-times-column-samira-mohyeddin-claims-jewish-groups-trying-to-silence-her/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-09-14 Words: 876 > In her August 26 opinion column in The Hill Times, Samira Mohyeddin, who we regard as being an anti-Israel YouTuber, claimed she was being “attacked” and “silenced.” And it’s not... In her August 26 opinion column in The Hill Times, Samira Mohyeddin, who we regard as being an anti-Israel YouTuber, claimed she was being “attacked” and “silenced.” And it’s not just about her, she alleged; it’s about “the environment in which all Canadian journalists work.” But it’s actually not. The focus on journalistic freedom obscures the real controversy: the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) has accused a publicly funded museum of secrecy, one-sided curation, and shutting out meaningful Jewish and pro-Israel input. A Publicly Funded Museum Must Take Jewish and Pro-Israel Concerns Seriously When media flocked to the “Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present” exhibit at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) in Winnipeg this summer, it was no surprise that Mohyeddin joined, as well. What was surprising was that CMHR’s CEO Isha Khan and exhibit curator Isabelle Masson agreed to speak to Mohyeddin, whose YouTube channel offers a steady stream of what we consider obsessively anti-Israel clips. With recent channel headlines like “Israeli drones systemically target children,” “Israel and Morocco collude to create migrant problem for Spain,” and “Israeli right-wing extremist deputy mayor coming to Toronto,” Khan and Masson had plenty of indication of the coverage Mohyeddin was likely to provide. CIJA was justifiably concerned, but not just about those interviews. In an open letter to CMHR, CIJA explained that it had reached out during the exhibit’s planning stages with offers of assistance and support. It hoped to ensure balance and historical accuracy within the exhibit. CIJA said that CMHR not only shut it out, but also kept its own Board of Trustees at a distance. CIJA’s core points were that the museum lacked transparency, failed to consult broadly, and presented an unbalanced narrative while sidelining other relevant perspectives. The letter briefly mentioned Mohyeddin, referring to her as an “Iranian regime apologist,” but wasn’t primarily about her at all. Mohyeddin’s Record Raises Questions About the Museum’s Media Choices Mohyeddin’s public track record helps explain why CIJA saw her inclusion as part of the wider problems with the “Nakba” exhibit. Despite portraying herself as a journalist, Mohyeddin in our view has appeared to downplay anti-Jewish hate crimes, called Judaism “vile patriarchy” and spread the obscene falsehood that Jewish women are “removed from the home when menstruating,” and that Jews have sex through a hole in the sheet, claims that have zero basis in reality. HonestReporting Canada has repeatedly documented what we regard as her making misleading claims and an obscene comparison between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Israel. Her slanted commentary brought a reprimand while she worked at CBC. She reportedly ultimately left CBC over her refusal to moderate her anti-Israel rhetoric. (Which The Hill Times conveniently failed to mention, noting only that Mohyeddin was a “former host and producer” with CBC.) In recent days, Mohyeddin even took to Instagram to complain about a memorial for the Israeli Bibas family, murdered by Palestinian terrorists, leading one journalist to call her “depraved,” and for her to be pilloried online as a “pro-Hamas activist.” In our view, as a taxpayer-funded institution, CMHR should not have treated Mohyeddin as a credible media voice while shutting out critics who were asking for balance and transparency. Accusations Against Israel Demand Scrutiny, Not a Sympathetic Platform And Mohyeddin’s coverage from the “Nakba” exhibit showed exactly why those concerns mattered. Mohyeddin opened her video interview with exhibit curator Masson by claiming, without providing evidence, that Canadian pro-Israel groups “want to continue the erasure of Palestinian voices.” She also called controversy around the exhibit “manufactured,” saying pro-Israel groups “should be ashamed of themselves.” In another video interview from the event, Palestinian Authority (PA) ambassador to Canada Feda Abdelghady claimed it was “anti-Canadian” to oppose the “Nakba” exhibit. Instead, Abdelghady said, protestors should “be angry at the state that exploits their traumas, their tragedy, the tragedy of the Holocaust, and their fears… to justify these crimes, to justify atrocities, to justify apartheid, to justify genocide.” To which Mohyeddin nodded along rather than question these claims. Obviously, this is a false dichotomy. Canadians can support human rights for Palestinians and still hold the CMHR to reasonable standards of fairness and accuracy. And, as CIJA explained in its letter, Canadians have a right to transparency from our federally funded institutions. In her Hill Times column, Mohyeddin attempted to depict herself as a journalist being silenced. She called this a “chilling effect” driven by advocacy groups. Yet she offered no examples beyond her own experience and named no advocacy groups other than CIJA. And as the Hill Times article and Mohyeddin’s YouT... --- ## The Muslim Brotherhood’s Long Game In Canada, And Why It Matters URL: https://honestreporting.ca/videos/the-muslim-brotherhoods-long-game-in-canada-and-why-it-matters/ Type: videos Modified: 2026-09-14 Words: 134 > 100 years ago, a new group formed called 'The Muslim Brotherhood '... and while you may never have heard of this group before, it has big plans for Canada. The... 100 years ago, a new group formed called ‘The Muslim Brotherhood ‘… and while you may never have heard of this group before, it has big plans for Canada. The Brotherhood’s radical ideology is deeply hostile to Israel, Zionism and the Jewish people, and fundamentally at odds with the democratic values Canadians cherish. Canadians cannot afford to be complacent. When an extremist movement seeks influence within our institutions and communities, ignoring the warning signs only gives it room to grow. Our Assistant Director, Rob Walker, explains what the Muslim Brotherhood is, what it wants and why its presence should be setting off alarm bells across Canada. Dive into our newest video, hit that share button, and smash the like button to amplify our message and skyrocket this video to viral fame! --- ## With the 25th Anniversary of 9/11, The West Cannot Forget the Ongoing Threat of Radical Islamism URL: https://honestreporting.ca/with-the-25th-anniversary-of-9-11-the-west-cannot-forget-the-ongoing-threat-of-radical-islamism/ Type: post Modified: 2026-09-11 Words: 747 > [elementor-template id="98099"] Before the Al Qaida terrorist group launched the September 11, 2001 attacks against the United States, its leader Osama bin Laden made no secret as to his motivations,... KEY TAKEAWAYS Islamist terrorist groups’ stated beliefs matter. Their religious and ideological goals must be taken seriously to understand their actions.“Anti-colonial” framing can obscure extremist objectives. Recasting these movements as resistance groups downplays their antisemitism and hostility toward Israel.Canadians may underestimate religious motivations. Increasingly secular societies can struggle to understand how extremist beliefs motivate violence and glorify martyrdom.Remembering September 11 requires understanding the ideology behind it. Canadians and the media should examine what Islamic movements openly advocate, alongside the violence they commit. Before the Al Qaida terrorist group launched the September 11, 2001 attacks against the United States, its leader Osama bin Laden made no secret as to his motivations, releasing a statement to a Pakistani newspaper stating that “as long as I am alive, there will be no rest for the enemies of Islam.” The following year, bin Laden released his “Letter to America,” and beyond repeating a litany of complaints against the West, including calling AIDS a “Satanic American invention” and accusing the Jews of controlling the United States, he also encouraged Americans to convert to Islam. The ideology of Al Qaida, as with other Islamist terrorist groups and organizations, is unapologetically Islamic in nature, and sees its goal, not simply to fight the perceived injustices against the Islamic world, but to create an Islamic super-state and spread its extremist messages. Rebranding Bin Laden as an Anti-Colonial Voice Obscures His Extremism While bin Laden’s 2002 letter largely fell into oblivion for some 20 years, in 2023, it gained prominence again, particularly on TikTok. The letter found not just prominence, but support from those who resonated with bin Laden’s ramblings against homosexuals, Jews, the United States, and anyone else he found problematic. As scholar Paul Marshall, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, noted, the letter has gained traction “especially from those now trying to re-interpret him in their own truncated image as a representative of anti-colonialism.” Israel’s Islamist Enemies Must Be Understood Through Their Own Stated Goals The radical Islamist ideology of bin Laden – and other groups like Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and above all, the Islamic Republic of Iran – are now often inverted, with their overtly religious worldview being redrawn by ‘anti-colonial’ commentators in the West, claiming that, for instance, “Palestinian violence is properly understood as anti-colonial in nature,” despite the explicit insistence by Palestinian terrorists that their goal is not simply the destruction of Israel, but its replacement with an Islamic State-style caliphate governed by Islamic law. The insistence on the part of some leftist commentators that radical Islamic movements are not, in fact, driven primarily by radical Islamic ideology is perhaps a textbook example of ethnocentrism. But it is not difficult to explain why so many in the West fail to understand the religious motivations of Islamist terrorist movements. In Canada, recent surveys show that a record low proportion of Canadians – only 10 percent – attend religious weekly services. Against that backdrop, it may be inconceivable for millions of Canadians to truly comprehend that there are huge numbers of individuals who willingly embrace an Islamist ideology that produces scenes such as a Palestinian mother telling her son “not to return except as a shahid,” or to die as a martyr, or another who – at the funeral of her 16 year-old son who was killed fighting Israeli soldiers – said that “this is the first time I see joy in my heart.” The ongoing threat of radical Islamist ideology is not limited to simply terrorism, but represents an ongoing ideological war, as well, with think tanks chronicling the ongoing attempts by Muslim Brotherhood-inspired groups to gain major influence in Canada and the United States. Twenty-Five Years After September 11, Canadians Must Take Islamist Threats Seriously As the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the lesson should be clear: Canadians cannot effectively confront an ideology that we refuse to understand. Twenty-five years after Osama bin Laden launched the attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, Canadians must reject the temptation to explain away the religious ideology of the Islamist movements whose words and actions make their ideology unmistakable. If September 11 is to remain more than just another date on the calendar, Canadians (and our news media) should remember not only what radical Islamist movements have done, but what they have told us they believe, and above all, to take them seriously. --- ## Download Now: 2026 Third Quarter Impact Report! URL: https://honestreporting.ca/download-now-2026-third-quarter-impact-report/ Type: post Modified: 2026-09-11 Words: 175 > We are pleased to present our third-quarter Impact Report of 2026. Our Impact Report not only highlights our many successes in combating anti-Israel media bias, but it also demonstrates the efficacy... We are pleased to present our third-quarter Impact Report of 2026. 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Become a donor today and enable our important work of ensuring fair and accurate Canadian media coverage of Israel. --- ## Why Supporters Of Israel Must Stop Playing Defensive: An Insightful Conversation With Matthew Taub, Founder Of Unapologetically Jewish Podcast URL: https://honestreporting.ca/podcasts/why-supporters-of-israel-must-stop-playing-defensive-an-insightful-conversation-with-matthew-taub-founder-of-unapologetically-jewish-podcast/ Type: podcast Modified: 2026-09-29 Words: 121 > For the last three years (and beyond), the dynamic has been predictable: anti-Israel groups organize a campaign, protest, event or effort, and pro-Israel Canadians stand up to challenge the hate.... For the last three years (and beyond), the dynamic has been predictable: anti-Israel groups organize a campaign, protest, event or effort, and pro-Israel Canadians stand up to challenge the hate. But does it have to be that way? While it may be that anti-Israel activists enjoy foreign funding and support, that does not explain it all. So what must be done? In this conversation, HonestReporting Canada assistant director Robert Walker is joined by Matthew Taub, founder of Unapologetically Jewish. Thanks for listening to The Honest Report. Now level up—subscribe, leave a review, and spread the word. Want to stand with us even louder? Tap the link and become a sponsor. Listen to the audio-only version below: --- ## CBC’s Gaza “Yellow Line” Reports Push A One-Sided Narrative Of Palestinians In Gaza URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/cbcs-gaza-yellow-line-reports-push-a-one-sided-narrative-of-palestinians-in-gaza/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-09-09 Words: 813 > According to CBC News’ own journalistic standards, responsible journalism means “invest(ing) our time and our skills to learn, understand and clearly explain the facts to our audience.”Unfortunately, in our view,... According to CBC News’ own journalistic standards, responsible journalism means “invest(ing) our time and our skills to learn, understand and clearly explain the facts to our audience.” Unfortunately, in our view, that was not what was offered to Canadians in an August 20 CBC News report by Saša Petricic and Ivan Angelovski, “As Israel’s military advances its yellow line, Gazans fear they’re being pushed to the sea,” or an accompanying broadcast the same day, “Israel’s yellow line is moving, pushing Palestinians closer to the sea.” Watch the full clip below: CBC Casts Israel as the Aggressor While Downplaying Its Security Concerns CBC News says its visual investigations team used satellite imagery, eyewitness testimony and footage from freelancers in Gaza to document movement of the so-called yellow line separating Israeli-controlled and Palestinian-controlled areas. The article notes that it was produced with files from Mohamed El Saife, a videographer who has posted anti-Israel propaganda to social media, though this has not precluded Canada’s taxpayer-funded broadcaster from continuing to utilize him as a prism with which millions of Canadians read about Gaza. The broadcast similarly cites its use of “freelancers” on the ground. In these reports, rather than simply show where Israeli forces are operating, CBC News repeatedly used loaded language to advance a particular interpretation of why Israel is acting and where those actions are leading. The written headline says Gazans fear they are being “pushed to the sea,” but the accompanying video description goes further, declaring that Israel’s yellow line is “moving, pushing Palestinians closer to the sea.” The broadcast claims Palestinians are in a “scramble for survival,” an odd choice of language since 99.95 percent of Gazans have survived the last year’s ongoing skirmishes. Inside the story, readers are told that Israeli troops are “creeping west,” “squeezing two million Palestinians into an ever smaller area” and “forcing a scramble for survival toward the Mediterranean Sea.” Those are not quotations from Palestinians, but CBC News’ own words. There is nothing improper about interviewing Palestinians who have been displaced or reporting their fears. But journalism should distinguish those fears from conclusions independently established by reporters. Instead, the article repeatedly allowed the two to merge. One Palestinian quoted in the article claims Israeli tanks came “day after day to shoot at us.” Another says, “every day, we see more gunfire, to advance the yellow line.” Yet Petricic and Angelovski provide little indication that it attempted to establish if the event happened, why Israeli forces would be firing, whether hostile activity was taking place nearby, or how the interviewees could know the military purpose behind that fire. The article and video broadcast devote considerable attention to buildings demolished by Israeli forces, saying homes have been “systematically flattened” since the ceasefire. Both reports cite a UN commission condemning Israel for its operations on the ground, claiming it is deliberately trying to force Gazans to leave. Israel’s Duty to Protect Its Troops and Communities Deserves Serious Coverage What receives far less attention is Israel’s explanation. Both reports do quote the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) saying its measures are intended to “prevent infiltrations and hostile activity” and protect troops and nearby Israeli communities. But that raises obvious questions CBC News does little to answer. What hostile activity is occurring around the yellow line? What infiltrations is Israel trying to prevent? Why does Israel argue that these military positions are necessary? Both reports carefully document what Israel is doing, but provide remarkably little investigation into why Israel says it is doing it. That omission is especially glaring because the article itself acknowledges that Israel says its airstrikes target Hamas fighters and that the Israeli government has said it will not fully withdraw until Hamas disarms. Hamas Remains Armed, Yet Israel Takes Centre Stage in CBC’s Scrutiny Near the end, CBC News even concedes that Israel may be taking a harder territorial position to pressure Hamas to surrender its weapons. Yet Hamas’ activities on the ground are barely examined. The CBC News reports track Israeli positions, fortifications and demolished buildings in detail while offering audiences almost no comparable understanding of the armed group Israel says it is confronting. Readers and viewers are given a picture in which Israeli military activity is visible everywhere while its adversary largely disappears from view. To its credit, Petricic and Angelovski state that the Israeli government denies trying to expel Palestinians or annex Gaza, and acknowledges that some Israeli rhetoric may be electoral or aimed at pressuring Hamas, but those caveats are overwhelmed by the report’s framing and use of reporter-added ... --- ## CBC News Producer Yasmine Hassan Seemingly Downplays Threats Posed By Explosive Devices Flown By Palestinian Terrorists From Gaza URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/cbc-news-producer-yasmine-hassan-seemingly-downplays-threats-posed-by-explosive-devices-flown-by-palestinian-terrorists-from-gaza/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-09-09 Words: 745 > In a pair of new reports, CBC News Producer Yasmine Hassan – whose reporting has often consisted of transforming anti-Israel grievances into ‘news,’ continues to produce in our eyes deeply... In a pair of new reports, CBC News Producer Yasmine Hassan – whose reporting has often consisted of transforming anti-Israel grievances into ‘news,’ continues to produce in our eyes deeply misleading content for Canada’s taxpayer-funded broadcaster. CBC’s Kite Coverage Buries the Threat to Israeli Civilians In her August 25 article, “Netanyahu warns of ‘targeted strikes’ if Hamas doesn’t stop kites from flying toward Israel,” Hassan began by telling readers that “the Israeli government is threatening to increase “targeted strikes” on Gaza unless Hamas takes action to prevent kites used by Palestinians, including children, from flying toward Israel.” To most observers, the thought that a kite flown by children would pose a threat seems absurd, a point repeatedly emphasized in her article, which quoted Gazans saying things such as “We fly kites so we can change our moods” and “there is nothing left in Gaza to make us happy.” It was only in the 10th paragraph that Hassan acknowledged in passing that before October 7, 2023, “Israel said burning kites and balloons were sent from Gaza, causing fires and other damage.” Even in this most briefest of mentions of the actual context relating to incendiary kites, Hassan could not avoid stating that Israel “said” burning kites were sent, when in reality, the fires caused by Gaza’s fire kites were widely-documented and required no attribution. Virtually Hassan’s entire article was devoted to Palestinians condemning Israel, with almost no statements about the ongoing efforts by Palestinians to murder Israeli civilians, even going so far as to quote the terrorist group Hamas alleging a non-existent “genocide.” Palestinian Claims Become Headlines, Hamas Leaders Become “Officials” Days later, on September 1, Hassan was back with another article, “In search for senior Hamas operative, Israeli raid on Gaza City camp kills 3 children,” where she spread the claim from Palestinians that three children died amidst a counter-terrorism operation by Israel in Gaza. While this was an unproven allegation from Palestinians, this did not stop Hassan from presenting it as fact in the headline or in the first sentence. CBC News’ ongoing failure to label Palestinian terrorists as such remained on full display, with Hassan referring to a Hamas leader not as a terrorist, but as an “official,” language that serves to significantly misrepresent the murderous nature of Hamas and other Islamic terrorist groups. Hassan returned to the theme of kites from Gaza, writing that “last week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned of ‘targeted strikes’ because children were flying kites that landed in Israeli territory.” She did not offer a single word about the history of incendiary kites that started fires in Israel. Instead, Hassan – citing CBC freelance videographer and anti-Israel propagandist Mohamed El Saife – quoted a Palestinian man saying “have mercy on us. They’re children,” effectively replacing facts with emotional verbiage instead. CBC Mislabels Total Reported Deaths as Civilian Casualties Sure enough, the CBC News article by Yasmine Hassan was not complete without citing the so-called “Gaza Health Ministry” (run by Hamas, which she omitted), writing that it “notes that over 1,300 civilians have died since Oct. 11, when a U.S.-backed ceasefire took effect.” First, it should be clarified that the so-called “Gaza Health Ministry” does not “note” civilian casualties as if it were a credible organization. Instead, it makes claims and it does not distinguish casualties between civilians and combatants. Moreover, it is a complete falsehood that 1,300 civilians have died in Gaza over the last year. That assumes every single person who died is a civilian and ignores the scores of Palestinian terrorists who have been killed in counter-terrorism operations. Does Hassan consider these individuals – including the commander of a Hamas brigade – to be “civilians” too? Subsequent to HRC sending a complaint to CBC, the following correction was issued on September 4: “A previous version of this story said more than 1,300 civilians have died in the Gaza Strip since an October 2025 ceasefire took effect. In fact, Gaza’s Health Ministry does not differentiate between civilian and militant deaths, and the figure reflects the total deaths reported.” CBC News Producer Yasmine Hassan could have educated readers on the ongoing efforts by Palestinian terrorists to weaponize Gaza and test Israeli reactions, and its history pre-October 7, 2023 of terrorism, including incendiary balloons and kites. Instead, she falsely framed Israel as a wanton aggressor, and Palestinians as victims. --- ## CBC Reporter Margaret Evans Erases 3,000 Years Of Jewish History In Judea & Samaria (“West Bank”), Pushes Pro-Palestinian Talking Points Instead URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/cbc-reporter-margaret-evans-erases-3000-years-of-jewish-history-in-judea-samaria-west-bank-pushes-pro-palestinian-talking-points-instead/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-09-08 Words: 589 > As part of CBC News’ ongoing fixation on the presence of Israelis in their ancestral lands, a pair of CBC News reports provided continued coverage of tensions between Israelis and... As part of CBC News’ ongoing fixation on the presence of Israelis in their ancestral lands, a pair of CBC News reports provided continued coverage of tensions between Israelis and Palestinians in Judea & Samaria (or in media parlance, the “West Bank”), providing a dramatically skewed picture for Canadians. Two CBC Reports Sideline Israel’s Historical and Legal Claims The August 20 broadcast and accompanying August 22 news article, both from Senior International Correspondent Margaret Evans (whose deeply problematic reporting has been repeatedly documented by HonestReporting Canada) misleadingly framed the issue as Israel allegedly occupying Palestinian land. Watch the full clip: Evans repeatedly used the term “occupied West Bank,” and offered zero insight into Israel’s extensive legal and historical rights to the area, and Jewish presence there that far predates the advent of Islam. Instead of presenting the full unvarnished picture to Canadians, Evans effectively in our view laundered pro-Palestinian talking points into a pair of news stories, where Israel was depicted as having no right to be in its own lands. Allegations of Israeli Violence Presented Without Essential Context Her reports repeated a number of common phrases used in CBC News reports, such as allegations of “settler violence,” once again providing no context, such as citing reports that have found such claims are wildly overstated, and even include incidents of Palestinian terrorism, which Evans also completely omitted. It goes without saying that acts of violence initiated and committed by Israelis in Judea and Samaria is appalling and should be met with the full force of Israeli law. Evans’ broadcast was cartoonishly one-sided, featuring clips by four individuals (two Palestinians and a pro-Palestinian activist), while the other was US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, who, while a supporter of Israel, was featured condemning a group of Israelis. No voice was given who could have articulated the right of Israelis to live in their historic lands. In her accompanying news report, Evans used the inflammatory term “militant Israeli settlers,” a highly charged choice of words that mirrors how the taxpayer-funded broadcaster refers to Palestinian terrorists, who actively murder Israeli civilians. The supposed “militant Israeli settlers” in question, near the Arab village of Qusra, did not murder, rape, torture, nor kidnap anyone, but CBC News nevertheless apparently saw it fit to apply the same term to them as it does to the Palestinian terrorists who committed the October 7, 2023 massacres. Evans’ report did not present the news as it stands, but a specifically curated version which mimicked pro-Palestinian claims, using terms like “occupied West Bank,” as well as “hardline Jewish settlers,” and claiming that these “settlers” seek to push Palestinians “from their land.” Pro-Palestinian Claims Treated as Settled Fact Like a number of other reports in both CBC News and elsewhere documented by HonestReporting Canada, Margaret Evans’ broadcast and article did not provide even the barest of what could be reasonably considered balanced journalism, nor did she make any ostensible effort to present pro-Palestinian claims as anything but settled fact. Evans’ reports provided zero insight into the ancient Jewish ties to Judea & Samaria, nor why Israel considers it to be an inseparable part of the country. Furthermore, she provided viewers and readers no understanding about the total absence of any previous Palestinian state in the area, which did not preclude her from unabashedly referring to the territory as “Palestinian.” Evans’ reports continue to provide evidence of CBC News’ well-documented anti-Israel bias, paid for by the ever-generous Canadian taxpayer. --- ## CBC Day 6 Features Sympathetic Interview With Pro-Palestinian Oxfam Activist Bushra Khalidi URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/cbc-day-6-features-sympathetic-interview-with-pro-palestinian-oxfam-activist-bushra-khalidi/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-09-08 Words: 663 > In yet another instance of CBC – Canada’s taxpayer-funded broadcaster – featuring an entirely uncritical conversation with a pro-Palestinian activist and erasing essential details, the Day 6 program featured host... In yet another instance of CBC – Canada’s taxpayer-funded broadcaster – featuring an entirely uncritical conversation with a pro-Palestinian activist and erasing essential details, the Day 6 program featured host Brent Bambury interviewing Bushra Khalidi of the self-described “humanitarian” organization Oxfam, a group engages in anti-Israel activism. CBC Downplays Monument’s Reported Ties to Palestinian Terrorists The August 28 episode, “A Palestinian humanitarian worker says Israel is erasing the possibility of a Palestinian state,” began with Bambury featuring sounds from a recent visit by Israeli lawmaker Zvi Sukkot to an Arab village, where the host stated that he used a “sledgehammer used to destroy a monument in a Palestinian village.” While Bambury stated that “he says the monument glorifies violence against Israelis,” he then pivoted back to sharing that “his actions have been widely condemned.” Listen to the full segment: Bambury could have acknowledged that, according to news reports, the monument memorialized dead Palestinian terrorists, members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a banned terrorist entity in Canada. Instead of stating the facts as they are, Bambury’s phrasing put the focus on the Israeli action, rather than the Palestinians’ glorification of terrorism. That introduction served as a bellwether for the rest of the interview, which was as lamentable as it was entirely predictable. Palestinian Terrorism and Israel’s Security Concerns Left Out He told listeners about “attacks on Palestinians by Israeli settlers and soldiers,” completely omitting any mention of ongoing Palestinian terrorism there, nor about how many of the supposed “attacks” on Palestinians are actually counter-terrorism operations against Palestinian combatants. Moreover, he offered zero insight as to how such allegations of “attacks” are vociferously challenged by data collectors, who have found such claims to be wildly exaggerated. The sole focus of the segment was, once again, Israeli “settlers” who dare to live in their ancestral lands. Khalidi – a frequent guest in Canadian media, where she has previously spread the unfounded “genocide” slur, and did so again in this interview – did not disappoint. Khalidi claimed that proposed Israeli construction in suburban Jerusalem (an area that under any reasonable peace plan, would remain part of Israel) “threatens the prospects of a two-state solution,” as if Israeli homes were the biggest threat, and not the continued rejection by Palestinians of Israeli peace offers, no matter how generous or continued Palestinian terrorism. While Khalidi’s comments were entirely expected, it was Bambury’s responsibility to challenge her absurd characterizations, but in line with many of his past interviews offering what we regard as sympathetic platforms to pro-Palestinian activists and largely erasing Israeli voices, he failed to challenge her even once. Oxfam’s Anti-Israel Activism Deserves Media Scrutiny As documented by HonestReporting Canada, Oxfam (and its Canadian arm) enjoys what we consider to be overwhelmingly sympathetic treatment in the Canadian news media, where it is treated as a “humanitarian” organization and rarely – if ever – challenged to defend its own track record. Oxfam engages in anti-Israel activism spending large sums in social media advertisements targeting the Jewish State, purchasing ads on business television networks spreading the “genocide” slur, and using its repeated presence in Canadian media interviews to attack Israel almost exclusively, all while being conspicuously quiet about the Iranian regime’s massacre of its own people. This may not entirely be an accident, with NGO Monitor documenting what it says is Hamas’ near-total control of ‘humanitarian’ groups in Gaza, which may explain (at least in part) the organization’s apparent anti-Israel agenda. This August 28 interview on Day 6 featured host Brent Bambury doing what CBC has done far too many times: taking pro-Palestinian claims as the basis for a segment, featuring only an interview with a pro-Palestinian activist, and providing them with an entirely uncritical interview, and continuing to demonstrate an apparent allergy to guests who might dare to offer a view grounded in facts, rather than anti-Israel ideology. photo credit: Brent Bambury --- ## CBC News’ Adrienne Arsenault Calls Israeli Construction Near Jerusalem A “Settlement” While Ignoring Israel’s Legal And Historical Ties To Land URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/cbc-news-adrienne-arsenault-calls-israeli-construction-near-jerusalem-a-settlement-while-ignoring-israels-legal-and-historical-ties-to-land/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-09-06 Words: 556 > In an August 21 segment for The National program, CBC News Anchor Adrienne Arsenault presented Israel’s construction outside Jerusalem Like most news media outlets, CBC News has taken to acting as judge and jury when it comes to Israel’s presence in its ancestral lands, regularly using highly charged and disputed terminology and presenting it as factual. CBC Leads With Condemnation, Leaves Out Israel’s Case On the August 21 episode of CBC News’ The National program, host Adrienne Arsenault told viewers about Israel planning construction in a suburb outside Jerusalem, informing viewers about the “widely-condemned settlement project in the West Bank,” before adding that the Carney government had condemned it as a “serious breach of international law” and that it was “harming the integrity of the Palestinian territories.” Watch the full clip below: That Israel building apartments in a suburb of its ancient capital city should attract widespread international condemnation is absurd in its own right, a point that CBC News simply treated as obvious without ever failing to challenge the dominant narrative. Israel’s Historical and Legal Claims Go Unmentioned In fact, completely absent from Arsenault’s sharing of the news was any acknowledgement that Israel – pointing to its extensive historical and legal rights – disputes claims that the land is “occupied.” By unambiguously referring to the lands that Israel considers its own “occupied,” and completely erasing any semblance of nuance or even basic context, CBC News has effectively presented opinion as fact. There is nothing inherently wrong with CBC News reporting that the Carney government has condemned Israel’s presence in its own land. The problem is the failure to distinguish between a government’s position and an uncontested fact. By describing the project as a “settlement” and the territory as “occupied” without acknowledging Israel’s extensive legal and historical claims, CBC News has not reported the issue, but effectively adjudicated it. Viewers are left with the impression that there is no legitimate dispute over the underlying issues, when there plainly is. As Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar noted in a social media post castigating the British government for its condemnation on the construction, “the Jewish people have the right to live throughout the Land of Israel, just as the British have the right to live in London and throughout the United Kingdom,” adding that “the Jewish people’s connection and right to this land is the most extensively documented of any people in human history.” That point, though directed at the British government, applies no less to Ottawa. While the Carney government condemns Israel for its presence in its historic lands – claims repeated uncritically by the taxpayer-funded CBC News – Israel possesses far more historic ties to the territories than virtually any other country does in lands that it claims as its own. A Broader Pattern of Sidelining Israel’s Perspective Adrienne Arsenault’s report is just the latest in a long string of examples indicating a fixation with Israel’s so-called “settlements,” both by CBC News and in the broader Canadian news media. In recent days alone, Global News reporter Redmond Shannon produced multiple reports erasing Israel’s ancient ties to Judea & Samaria (“West Bank” in media parlance), The Toronto Star devoted some 2,000 words to portraying Israeli “settlers” as radicals, and CBC News has produced reports breathlessly covering reports of Israeli violence against Palestinians, while conveniently ignoring decades of terrorism by Palestinians against Israeli civilians. --- ## CBC’s The Current Pushes More “Israeli Settlers” Hysteria With Two Guests Echoing The Same Anti-Israel Talking Points URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/cbcs-the-current-pushes-more-israeli-settlers-hysteria-with-two-guests-echoing-the-same-anti-israel-talking-points/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-09-06 Words: 580 > On August 20, CBC’s The Current radio program once again presented a deeply skewed discussion on so-called “Israeli settlers As repeatedly documented by HonestReporting Canada, multiple CBC radio programs have displayed consistent pro-Palestinian editorial bias, both by selecting topics that closely cleave to such narratives, and by overwhelmingly relying on pro-Palestinian guests. The August 20 episode of the radio program The Current did so once again, reflecting CBC’s ongoing coverage of tensions between Israelis and Palestinians in an Arab village in Samaria (what the news media calls the “West Bank”). Listen to the full episode: Filling in for Matt Galloway, guest host Lyndsay Duncombe featured two guests to discuss the issue: Palestinian-American Loui Ridi, and Dahlia Scheindlin, an Israeli columnist. But lest listeners think they would get anything close to balance, both guests offered little in the way of diverse opinions, and instead, both articulated virtually the same view. Allegations Against Israelis Receive Little Scrutiny Duncombe introduced the segment by telling listeners about claims from the United Nations about alleged “attacks on Palestinians by ‘settlers.’” It goes without saying that violence initiated by Israelis in Judea and Samaria is abhorrent, but unsurprisingly, Duncombe offered no insight into studies which have found such claims to be significantly exaggerated, and which often include acts of Palestinian terrorism against Israeli civilians under the category of ‘settler violence.’ When asked whether it was “possible to come and go” from the area, Ridi (a Palestinian who lives in Ohio) told Duncombe “absolutely not,” despite being able to freely travel between the Middle East and the United States. Duncombe offered no challenge to this claim, nor did she provide any opportunity for listeners to get any deep insights at all beyond superficial anti-Israel claims. Instead, her line of questioning was gentle, and featured such softballs as “what do you want the international community to know about what’s happening in the West Bank right now?” Jewish History and Israeli Security Concerns Left Out To challenge the universally accepted media narrative of Israeli “settlers” gone amok, CBC could have chosen any number of guests to discuss the millennia of Jewish history in these supposedly “occupied” lands, Israel’s repeated peace offers to Palestinians (which have been rejected), or the scourge of Palestinian terrorism. CBC did no such thing. Instead, the program’s second guest, Dahlia Scheindlin, while Israeli, is a vocal critic of the country and unsurprisingly, a repeat guest on CBC programs. Scheindlin is a co-founder of +972 magazine, a media outlet that spreads the “genocide” slur, and which critics have noted “promote a marginal agenda from the fringes of Israeli discourse.” Rejected Peace Offers and Gaza’s History Go Unaddressed Scheindlin told listeners that “violence will always continue until Palestinians are able to govern themselves.” She did not acknowledge that Palestinians have been given multiple offers to govern themselves, with Israel presenting extraordinarily generous offers in 2000 and 2008 (both rejected by the Palestinians). Scheindlein need not look into a crystal ball to understand that Palestinians “govern(ing) themselves” is no antidote for violence. In 2005, Israel forcibly withdrew every Israeli soldier and civilian from Gaza, providing the Palestinians with an opportunity for self-governance. But rather than transforming the territory into an economic or social success, the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas helped make Gaza into a launching pad for terrorism against Israel. But Duncombe offered no challenge to either Scheindlein or Ridi. This episode of The Current offered listeners a familiar pro-Palestinian narrative, talking points and a carefully-curated roster of guests. Photo credit: Lyndsay Duncombe --- ## Canadian Press Gives Platform To Incoming Palestinian Authority Envoy Feda Ambdelhady URL: https://honestreporting.ca/canadian-press-gives-platform-to-incoming-palestinian-authority-envoy-feda-ambdelhady/ Type: post Modified: 2026-09-02 Words: 542 > The new envoy for the Palestinian Authority (PA) to Canada, Feda Abdelhady, was granted what we regard as an uncritical platform to spew unfounded allegations against Israel, in a recent... The new envoy for the Palestinian Authority (PA) to Canada, Feda Abdelhady, was granted what we regard as an uncritical platform to spew unfounded allegations against Israel, in a recent article published for the Canadian Press. The August 18 article by Dylan Robertson, “Palestinian envoy says Canada ‘pivotal’ in Mideast peace, urges more action,” featured an extended interview with Feda Abdelhady, the new envoy of ‘Palestine’ to Canada, where her installation provided a platform for what we regard as a barrage of highly misleading or even false allegations against Israel. Continuing the widespread Canadian media practice of refusing to call Islamist terrorists for what they are without attribution, the article refers to “Palestinian militants such as Hamas, which Canada deems a terrorist group.” Robertson wrote that the October 2025 ceasefire between Israel and Hamas “has marginally lowered the daily violence between Israel and Hamas militants, and pulled the territory out of an official famine delegation.” It has not “marginally” lowered the level of violence taking place; it has dramatically lowered the death toll by about 97 percent, though Palestinian violations take place virtually daily, necessitating Israeli strikes against Hamas and other Palestinian terrorists. Famine Was Declared. The Data Did Not Cooperate. As for the supposed “famine delegation,” Robertson presumably meant to write “designation,” though readers were not informed that famine never actually took place in Gaza, a point documented by mathematicians who studied the enormous amount of food aid that was delivered to Gaza, and buttressed by extensive footage from inside the coastal territory. Readers were still told that “the United Nations says there is still a ghastly humanitarian situation” in Gaza, though no details are provided on what precisely “ghastly” means, nor is there any context provided for readers to understand how claims of famine, for instance, have been completely dismantled. Instead, ongoing vague references to “famine” and “humanitarian situation” take the place of actual documented data. “Genocide” Alleged. Evidence Not Required. Abdelhady is quoted as alleging Israel is guilty of “genocide” in Gaza, though she provides zero evidence for her claim, nor does Robertson inform readers that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has not, in fact, made any such finding. Instead, her salacious claim is permitted to stand entirely unchallenged. While it may be newsworthy to cover the installation of the new Palestinian Authority envoy to Canada, particularly in light of the 2025 recognition of a non-existent Palestinian state by Prime Minister Mark Carney, this article in the Canadian Press instead offered extensive and uncritical opportunities for anti-Israel claims to be presented without any meaningful context that would help readers understand the emptiness of these allegations. The Canadian public must be served by news media outlets that refuse to simply uncritically repeat unfounded anti-Israel allegations. HonestReporting Canada has previously documented problematic coverage by Robertson, including an article where he appeared in our estimation to cast aspersions on Canadian citizens serving in the Israeli military, uncritically repeating allegations against Israel by the United Nations, and offering (on at least two separate occasions) what we regard as a sympathetic portrayal of anti-Israel activists, including Yipeng Ge, an Ottawa-area doctor who has previously spread what can reasonably be construed as overt pro-Hamas messaging on social media. --- ## Montreal City Hall Overwhelmingly Rejects Anti-Israel Motion URL: https://honestreporting.ca/montreal-city-hall-overwhelmingly-rejects-anti-israel-motion/ Type: post Modified: 2026-09-01 Words: 1267 > Version française With one week to go before the August 24 vote at Montreal city hall, pushed by a group of anti-Israel municipal legislators which called for Quebec’s largest city... Version française With one week to go before the August 24 vote at Montreal city hall, pushed by a group of anti-Israel municipal legislators which called for Quebec’s largest city to condemn Israel and to divest from the Jewish State, Le Devoir published an article informing readers that a group of “artists and cultural workers from Quebec” authored an open letter supporting the anti-Israel motion. The August 17 article by reporter Marco Fortier, “700 cultural figures call on Montreal to condemn Israel,” documented attempts by the ‘Quebec Artists’ Anti-Apartheid Club’ to promote the fringe effort, which it claimed would “reaffirm our city’s identity: united, inclusive, and true to its principles.” It is unclear how fixating on the tiny Jewish State would constitute being either “united” or “inclusive,” nor did the group or Le Devoir articulate which principles are reflected in an obsessive anti-Israel worldview. On August 20, the same newspaper published an article covering opposition to the motion. The group’s website makes clear its extremist demands: to boycott not just Israeli government representatives, but “sports, academic, and cultural representatives,” in what can be best described as collective punishment. In seeking to give ostensible context to the controversy, Fortier writes that “recent remarks by Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir have revived the accusations of genocide against Israel for his attacks in Palestine: this influential member of the Netanyahu government has publicly advocated killing “30 to 40” people in Gaza every night…” As HonestReporting has pointed out, while we are not in the business of defending politicians, let alone Ben-Gvir, we are in the business of defending the truth. There is no evidence that Ben-Gvir was referring to civilians rather than Hamas terrorists. As distasteful as many of Ben-Gvir’s statements are, he did not call for the mass murder of Palestinians. He called for killing terrorists and those he considers complicit in terrorism. Few of the signatories of the anti-Israel effort were household names, with individuals such as Xavier Dolan, Luc Picard and Florence Longpre among those listed in the article. Montreal City Council Rejects the Activists’ Most Extreme Demands Despite the aggressive push by anti-Israel activists to have Montreal sever its ties with Israel and embrace such a radical agenda, the effort failed spectacularly. Montreal Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada spoke out against the motion. With other legislators, the motion was amended significantly to remove references to supposed “genocide,” “ethnic cleansing” and “apartheid,” by Israel, added in a condemnation to the October 7, 2023 massacres by Palestinian terrorists, and became a generic statement of solidarity with all peoples, including Israeli and Palestinian, enduring war and conflict. Montreal Voters Have Rejected This Agenda Before This is the second major failure of anti-Israel activists in Montreal in less than a year. In the fall of 2025, the city held a municipal election, which was preceded by similar efforts to have candidates sign a pledge against Israel. Mayoral candidate Luc Rabouin signed the pledge, and lost handily to Martinez Ferrada. In fact, some 80 percent of those who signed the pledge ended up losing their elections. A Message Anti-Israel Activists — And Canadian Media — Should Hear For anti-Israel activists, Montreal’s rejection of their radical agenda should serve as a clear reminder that their campaign to isolate Israel has little resonance beyond the activist bubble, a lesson that the Canadian news media would do well to remember in future. L’hôtel de ville de Montréal inflige une cuisante défaite aux militants anti-Israël À une semaine du vote prévu le 24 août à l’hôtel de ville de Montréal, des élus municipaux anti-Israël menaient campagne pour faire adopter une motion demandant à la métropole de condamner Israël et de se désengager de l’État juif. C’est dans ce contexte que Le Devoir a publié un article rapportant qu’un groupe d’«artistes et de travailleurs culturels du Québec» avait signé une lettre ouverte en faveur de la motion. Dans son article du 17 août, intitulé «700 personnalités du milieu culturel demandent à Montréal de condamner Israël», le journaliste Marco Fortier relatait les efforts du «collectif des artistes québécois contre l’apartheid» pour faire avancer cette initiative marginale. Selon le groupe, celle-ci devait permettre de «réaffirmer l’identité de notre ville : unie, inclusive et fidèle à ses principes». On voit mal en quoi cette obsession envers le petit État juif rendrait Montréal plus «unie» ou plus «inclusive». Ni le groupe ni Le Devoir n’ont d’ailleurs pris la peine d’expliquer quels «principes» seraient censés être incarnés par une vision aussi résolument anti-Israël. Le 20 août, le même journal a publié un article faisant état de l’opposition à la motion. Le site Web du groupe expose sans ambiguïté ses revendication... --- ## Excellence In Journalism: The Globe And Mail Gives Jewish Students The Serious Hearing They Deserve URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/excellence-in-journalism-the-globe-and-mail-gives-jewish-students-the-serious-hearing-they-deserve/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-09-01 Words: 731 > Good journalism does more than report that a controversy exists. At its best, it listens carefully to the people affected, examines the available evidence, and is willing to draw clear... Good journalism does more than report that a controversy exists. At its best, it listens carefully to the people affected, examines the available evidence, and is willing to draw clear conclusions when that evidence demands it. That is precisely what The Globe and Mail did in its August 27 editorial, “The betrayal of Jewish students needs to end.” The Globe’s editorial board deserves praise for taking seriously what Jewish students across Canada have been saying about their experiences on campus, and for grounding that concern by citing two substantial new reports rather than treating antisemitism as simply another political disagreement surrounding Israel. The first, the federal government’s recently released Campus Antisemitism and Student Experiences report, surveyed approximately 900 Jewish postsecondary students. The Statistics Reveal a Campus Climate That Should Alarm Canadians The numbers it records are disturbing. Among respondents, 84 percent said antisemitism is a serious problem on campus, 68 percent said their campus is not safe and inclusive for Jewish students, 71 percent reported antisemitic vandalism, 54 percent reported intimidation or threats directed at Jews, and 22 percent reported physical violence. Nearly 72 percent said they limit what they say in class about being Jewish. More than 72 percent reported negative effects on their mental health, while more than 60 per cent said they had lost friendships. Behind the Numbers Are Jewish Students Facing Intimidation and Exclusion To its credit, the Globe and Mail did not reduce those findings to abstract statistics. It allowed readers to hear what Jewish students themselves described. One student recounted a professor asking Jewish students in an international law class to identify themselves by raising their hands. Another reported being told by a professor that Jews belong in Poland. Other students described professors pressuring them toward political activity, including petitions and pro-Palestinian demonstrations. The federal report describes such behaviour as a betrayal of academic norms of fairness, integrity and responsibility. The Globe was right to highlight it front and centre for readers. The Globe also deserves credit for addressing another subject that Canadian coverage too often struggles to discuss clearly: the relationship between extreme anti-Zionism and antisemitism. A separate external review commissioned by Toronto Metropolitan University, led by retired Ontario Court of Appeal Justice Mary Lou Benotto, documented an environment in which hostility toward Jewish identity and Zionism could cross into intimidation, dehumanization and antisemitism. As Justice Benotto wrote, the redefinition of Zionism to incorporate genocide, combined with the insistence that those who refuse to embrace anti-Zionism are themselves culpable, has contributed to “an environment that has enabled antisemitism to flourish.” That is an important distinction for journalists to make. Criticism of an Israeli government, prime minister, military decision or public policy is not inherently antisemitic. Nor should criticism of Israel be placed beyond the bounds of vigorous debate. But treating Jews who believe in Jewish self-determination as morally suspect simply because of that belief is something else entirely. The Globe and Mail understood the difference. Universities Can No Longer Pretend the Problem Is Unclear The Globe similarly deserves praise for refusing to let universities hide indefinitely behind process. Justice Benotto’s review contains eight recommendations intended to address problems at TMU, including clearer behavioural expectations, consistent enforcement of university policies, stronger complaint mechanisms, measures addressing intimidation and online harassment, and the adoption of the IHRA working definition of antisemitism as an educational and policy framework. TMU has since announced an implementation task force chaired by former Canadian ambassador to the United Nations Bob Rae, which is expected to produce an implementation blueprint by March 2027. The newspaper’s response was refreshingly direct: The university commissioned the report, the problems have been documented and recommendations have been made. As the editorial put it, what is needed now is not another blueprint, but “a spine.” The debate should no longer be about whether Jewish students are reporting a problem. There is now substantial evidence documenting their experiences. The question is what Canadian universities intend to do about it and Canadian journalism has a role to play in ensuring those institutions answer. The Globe and Mail should be commended for showing what responsible coverage of antisemitism can look like: listen to Jewish students, examine the evidence, distinguish legitimate political disagreement from intimidation and discrimination, and hold powerful institutions accountable when they fail to protect members of their own communities. --- ## CBC News Finally Did The Right Thing And Called 9/11 Terrorism. Why Does It Refuse To Do The Same For Palestinian Terrorists? URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/cbc-news-finally-did-the-right-thing-and-called-9-11-terrorism-why-does-it-refuse-to-do-the-same-for-palestinian-terrorists/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-08-31 Words: 556 > After investigative journalist Warren Kinsella shared an internal memorandum from Basem Boshra, senior director of journalistic standards and public trust at CBC News, which instructed editorial staff to avoid referring... After investigative journalist Warren Kinsella shared an internal memorandum from Basem Boshra, senior director of journalistic standards and public trust at CBC News, which instructed editorial staff to avoid referring to the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States as acts of terrorism unless specifically attributed, the response was immediate. From global condemnation and mockery – including suggestions from the FBI that appeared to suggest consequences for intelligence-sharing with Canada – CBC News has walked back its policy. On August 28, Boshra responded on CBC News’ Editor Blog with an entry, “How and why CBC News will adjust its 9/11 language guidance,” where he acknowledged that the publicly-funded broadcaster’s new policy dictates that “direct attribution is not required for describing the historic events of 9/11 as terrorism.” Unsurprisingly, at least one prominent anti-Israel group took umbrage at referring to 9/11 as terrorism, with Jason Toney of the pressure group Canadians for Justice & Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) taking to social media to share that he would be filing a complaint with CBC’s ombudsman. One Standard for 9/11. Another for October 7? While CBC News’ new policy is as sensible as it is overdue, it reeks of inconsistency. In the hours after the Palestinian terrorist attacks on October 7, 2023, George Achi, who was Bassem Boshra’s predecessor, sent a memorandum to staff similarly instructing them not to call the wanton massacres of Israeli civilians terrorism, unless it was attributed. Even with attribution, he wrote, “we should add context to ensure the audience understands this is opinion, not fact.” In late 2023, even CBC’s then-ombudsman Jack Nagler conceded that “using almost any credible definition,” the actions of Palestinians on October 7 was, in fact, terrorism, adding that “if CBC were to describe events of that day as an act of terrorism, it would be an accurate description.” Yet CBC News has continued to avoid referring to Palestinian terrorists as such, and in so doing, fundamentally misrepresenting the true nature, not just of October 7, but of groups like Hamas, Hezbollah and others, which make no secret of their targeting of Israeli civilians and their stated goal of destroying Israel. Sanitizing Terrorism Has Consequences When CBC News, with its extensive network across Canada, refuses to call a spade a spade, it helps to create an atmosphere where truth is subjective. In early November, 2023, a group of lawyers and law students signed an open letter where they defended the idea that the mass murder of 1,200 innocents on October 7 could be somehow “contextualized.” Concurrently, a group of 74 students at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU)’s law school signed an open letter declaring their support for “all forms” of Palestinian resistance. Israeli Victims Deserve the Same Journalistic Clarity It is indefensible that any news media outlet in Canada refuse to call Palestinian terrorism as such, and is particularly egregious when that failure is official policy from Canada’s publicly-funded broadcaster. Now that CBC News has belatedly done the right thing and characterized the September 11 terror attacks as terrorism, it is time that they apply those exact same principles to Palestinian terrorism, as well. If not, it has a duty to explain why murdered Israel civilians are not considered to be victims of terrorism. --- ## CBC Provides Sympathetic Portrayal Of Palestinian Student In Winnipeg Tareq Barhoumeh, Who Spread Multiple Anti-Israel Falsehoods URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/cbc-provides-sympathetic-portrayal-of-palestinian-student-in-winnipeg-tareq-barhoumeh-who-spread-multiple-anti-israel-falsehoods/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-08-29 Words: 675 > On the same day that investigative journalist Warren Kinsella broke the scandalous news that CBC has told its staff to avoid referring to the 9/11 attacks as terrorism in their... On the same day that investigative journalist Warren Kinsella broke the scandalous news that CBC has told its staff to avoid referring to the 9/11 attacks as terrorism in their official reporting on the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks in the United States, Canada’s publicly-funded broadcaster produced a report providing what we regard as being a sympathetic portrayal of pro-Palestinian activism. The August 26 report, “Young Palestinian-Canadian fights censorship,” featured Tareq Barhoumeh, a Palestinian-Arab living in Winnipeg, telling his story about “censorship” while he was a student at an international school in China in 2023, which was created by CBC’s Creator Network, which “amplifies the voices of the next generation of Canadian storytellers.” The segment was acknowledged as having been written, edited and directed by the featured star, Tareq Barhoumeh himself, and which produced by CBC’s Robin Summerfield and Donna Carriero. At the end of the segment, the logo of the Winnipeg School Division also appears and it’s not clear of the involvement that organization had in the production of this report. Credit was also given to filmmakers Marcus Fowler and Jonathan Dyck-Lyons who have been previously described as being part of CBC’s Creator Network. An organization called Sisler’s Create Program was also credited, as was Is It On Studios. Watch the full segment below: October 7 and Hamas Disappear From CBC’s Story In the 5-minute broadcast, Barhoumeh spoke about trying to plan a fundraiser for Gaza in the immediate aftermath of Hamas’ October 7, 2023 massacres in southern Israel, though he made no mention of October 7 nor of Hamas, instead only making reference to Israel and “its bombing of Gaza,” as if Israel’s counter-terrorism operations simply arose out of thin air. That the school would not permit such a project was platformed by the CBC effectively as censorship. Telling viewers that he was a descendant of Palestinians from the “nakba,” which he described as “the mass displacement of Palestinians from Palestine.” He did not share that the “nakba,” or Arabic for catastrophe, came about when Israel’s neighbours (and many Arabs within the newly independent state) sought to destroy Israel, refusing to recognize its very existence, and launched a war against it. Like his failure to mention the October 7 massacres which precipitated the subsequent war in Gaza, in our view, this erasure grossly twisted history to frame Israel as the aggressor, rather than a country defending itself against openly genocidal enemies seeking its destruction. An ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ Accusation Goes Unchallenged In Winnipeg, Barhoumeh said he made a TEDx presentation which covered, as CBC dutifully noted on its screen, the “ethnic cleansing of Palestine,” from 1936 onwards. It is unclear what “ethnic cleansing” Barhoumeh or CBC is referring to, since the Palestinian-Arab population has grown significantly over the last 90 years, hardly indicative of “ethnic cleansing.” But, Barhoumeh complained, the TEDx talk was not highlighted on YouTube, which he attributed to – once again – censorship, never acknowledging that misinformation and historical revisionism might have played a factor. Rather than addressing at all any possibility that his content may have been false, misleading or otherwise misinformation, Barhoumeh instead blamed “racism,” a reaction which is consistent with claims from activist groups who attempt to position any opposition to pro-Palestinian activism as racist in nature, and claim that individuals who spread anti-Israel misinformation are victims of bullying or censorship, rather than simply individuals who face the consequences for their actions. CBC Platforms the Accusations Without Providing the Missing Context CBC could have offered critical context to help viewers make sense out of the highly misleading or false claims featured in the broadcast, but did no such thing, instead letting them stand completely unchallenged. Tareq Barhoumeh, who says he will be enrolling at Vancouver Film School (VFS) in the fall, has been given what we regard as a completely uncritical platform to spread half-truths and misinformation about Israel, courtesy of Canada’s taxpayer-funded broadcaster. --- ## In Winnipeg Free Press And Broadview Magazine, Writer Judith Dueck Defends Controversial “Nakba” In Winnipeg Exhibit While Misrepresenting Critics URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/in-winnipeg-free-press-and-broadview-magazine-writer-judith-dueck-defends-controversial-nakba-in-winnipeg-exhibit-while-misrepresenting-critics/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-08-28 Words: 601 > With criticism of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights’ continuing over its scandalous “nakba” exhibit, which critics say purports to frame Arabs in 1948 as the victims – rather than... With criticism of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights’ continuing over its scandalous “nakba” exhibit, which critics say purports to frame Arabs in 1948 as the victims – rather than the perpetrators – of the war against the newly reborn Israel, defenders of the Winnipeg museum are continuing to engage in what we regard as apologetics, and misrepresenting the actual problems with the exhibit. Judith Dueck previously served as a Director of Research, Content and Scholarship at the museum, and in an August 18 article in Broadview Magazine, a taxpayer-funded outlet we’ve critiqued for anti-Israel bias which is part of the Observer Publications charity, “The truth is never the whole story,” she wrote that “I found no fabricated evidence, invented testimony or erroneous facts” at the exhibit. But surely Dueck knows that fabricating evidence is not the only way to misrepresent a situation. Simply omitting key context does the job equally well. For instance, visitors have said that the museum focuses exclusively on what Jews allegedly did to Arabs in 1948, without acknowledging that the war began because Israel’s Arab neighbours attempted to destroy the newly-reborn State of Israel and commit genocide against its Jewish inhabitants. The 1948 War Cannot Be Told Without Explaining Why It Began Telling the story of Arabs who left Israel as a result of the war is valid, but it must be contextualized by informing visitors that many, if not most, did so at the behest of Arab leaders who expected a swift victory over the Jews. The same day, Dueck was also published in The Winnipeg Free Press, “The moral courage of public dissent,” where her opinion column claimed that fringe anti-Israel groups like Independent Jewish Voices (IJV) Canada were examples of “moral courage.” IJV claims to have some 1,000 members in Canada as of 2023, or about one in four thousand Canadian Jews, and it is unclear how many IJV members are not Jewish. Dueck claims that these groups deserve respect because they dare “to challenge the dominant institutions” of the Jewish community. But simply being fringe or unpopular does not in itself merit respect or demonstrate courage. IJV is little more than a run-of-the-mill anti-Israel group in our estimation. IJV’s Record Deserves Scrutiny, Not a Pedestal It has sponsored a Vancouver protest (alongside the extremist Palestinian Youth Movement group) that reportedly saw demonstrators praise the October 7 massacres, calls itself anti-Zionist (meaning that it denies the Jewish People a right to self-determination in their historic homeland), and has even been accused of promoting Holocaust denial and rationalizing Palestinian terrorism. If challenging the “dominant institutions” in a community demonstrates moral courage, than by Dueck’s own logic, pro-Israel organizations are the epitome of courageous because they stand up to the institutionalized anti-Israel disinformation spread by mainstream news media outlets, government agencies, universities and more. Moreover, if challenging the “dominant institutions” is to be praised, will Dueck also devote a future opinion column to calling on more Muslim Canadians to speak out in support of Israel, given that there are no mainstream Muslim organizations in Canada that dare to do so, and in fact, a worryingly high level of antisemitism in that community? She does not say. Selective History and Selective Praise for Anti-Israel Activism In her Broadview column, Judith Dueck defends the controversial “nakba” exhibit while misrepresenting what the actual criticisms are, and in her Broadview column, she places fringe organizations on a pedestal, giving them undeserved credit for courage simply for being unpopular. Photo credit: Judith Dueck --- ## HonestReporting Canada Puts Spotlight On CBC’s Anti-Israel Bias With Video Truck Outside Its Headquarters URL: https://honestreporting.ca/honestreporting-canada-puts-spotlight-on-cbcs-anti-israel-bias-with-video-truck-outside-its-headquarters/ Type: post Modified: 2026-08-27 Words: 300 > For years, HonestReporting Canada has documented a persistent pattern of one-sided, inaccurate and unfair coverage of Israel at the taxpayer-funded CBC. We’ve raised concerns directly with CBC journalists, challenged biased... For years, HonestReporting Canada has documented a persistent pattern of one-sided, inaccurate and unfair coverage of Israel at the taxpayer-funded CBC. We’ve raised concerns directly with CBC journalists, challenged biased reporting, and pressed our public broadcaster to do better. But when the same problems continue, sometimes you must take the message directly to the people responsible. That’s why this week, we rented an advertising video truck and parked it directly in front of CBC headquarters. The message was simple: Canadians deserve better than relentless anti-Israel bias from their public broadcaster. Watch our truck loop around the CBC building: Click below for more photos from outside CBC headquarters: This isn’t about asking CBC to be “pro-Israel.” It’s about asking for journalism that applies the same standards of fairness, balance & context to Israel that Canadians should expect when any other country is covered. Watch the full video play on the truck outside CBC headquarters: CBC is Canada’s public broadcaster, and with that role comes a special responsibility to serve all Canadians fairly. When coverage repeatedly omits important context, amplifies unverified allegations or presents Israel through a consistently negative lens, Canadians have every right to speak up. And this problem is especially acute in the CBC’s refusal to call Hamas a terrorist organization and to call terror by its rightful name. Watch the high-res version that played on the truck outside CBC headquarters: HonestReporting Canada will not sit quietly while this continues, and we will keep challenging problematic and myopic coverage, holding CBC and other media outlets accountable, and making sure our concerns are impossible to ignore. Thank you for your support of our critical work. If you’d like to underwrite future campaigns, please make a generous donation today. --- ## La Presse Columnist Louise Leduc Casually Refers To Non-Existent “Massacres” In Gaza, Offering Zero Evidence for Her Absurd Claim URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/la-presse-columnist-louise-leduc-casually-refers-to-non-existent-massacres-in-gaza-offering-zero-evidence-for-her-absurd-claim/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-08-26 Words: 1184 > version française Like all columnists, La Presse columnist Louise Leduc has a right to her own opinions, but as with so many of her past commentaries, she has shown a... version française Like all columnists, La Presse columnist Louise Leduc has a right to her own opinions, but as with so many of her past commentaries, she has shown a selective application of facts. Her August 13 column, “West Bank Washington criticizes the violence perpetrated by Israeli settlers,” focuses on the current cause celebre of much of the Canadian news media – a confrontation between a group of Israelis and a Palestinian man in Judea & Samaria (or in media parlance, the “West Bank”). There have been no deaths nor injuries as a result of the tension, but that has not stopped Leduc and other outlets from breathlessly reporting on the story, and making maximal conclusions as a result. Jews Become ‘Settlers’ While Israel’s Historic Rights Disappear Leduc referred to Israelis living in their ancestral lands as “settlers” (a term she appears to reserve only for Jews), before extensively quoting various United Nations bodies for their condemnations of Israel, without explaining why these organs are either credible or legitimate, and not bothering to share with readers that Israel has extensive legal and historical rights to its land. She dutifully repeats allegations of alleged “settler” violence, never sharing that studies have found such claims to be grossly inflated (and often count Palestinian terrorist attacks against Israelis in the total). Not content to discuss the “settlements,” Leduc then blithely refers to the supposed “massacres in Gaza,” though she does not specify to what she is referring, or what makes Israel’s counter-terrorism operations against openly genocidal Palestinian terrorists “massacres,” rather than the inevitable result of the very real massacres launched by those very same Palestinians on October 7, 2023. Anti-Israel Accusations Replace Meaningful Context To bolster her argument (if it can be said to be a coherent argument at all) of Israel’s alleged misdeeds, she offers a carefully curated cadre of quotes, including from retired Concordia University professor Henri Habib, who outlandishly claimed that Israel’s presence in its own land somehow “risks destabilizing the Middle East,” and UN official Ramiz Alakbarov, who claimed without evidence that Palestinians were being “forcibly displaced.” Leduc wraps up her column, which reads more of a disjoined litany of half-baked accusations against Israel without any semblance of relevant facts, by claiming that “according to the UN, 76 Palestinians in the West Bank, including 18 children, have been killed by Israeli security forces or settlers.” She does not share how many of the 76 Palestinians who died were killed attempting to murder Israelis or being complicit in the murder of Jews, nor the literally hundreds of attempted Palestinian terrorist attacks in the same time period. Among the Palestinians killed in 2026 were 31 year-old Amjad al-Natsha, who rammed his car into a group of Israeli pedestrians, injuring two of them, a Palestinian man who stabbed two Israeli soldiers, two Palestinians killed in an attempted shooting and car-ramming, and many others. The Palestinian Terrorism Missing From La Presse’s Narrative Had Leduc carried out a modicum of research, she would have discovered that the narrative of Israel supposedly oppressing Palestinians runs into fatal problems when one evaluates the nature of how these Palestinians were actually killed. But instead of offering readers the full picture, Leduc provided a far more simplistic storyline where Israel is the convenient scapegoat. Headline: La chroniqueuse de La Presse, Louise Leduc, évoque désinvoltement de prétendus «massacres» inexistants à Gaza, sans fournir la moindre preuve à l’appui de cette affirmation absurde Comme tous les chroniqueurs, la chroniqueuse de La Presse Louise Leduc a droit à ses propres opinions, mais, comme dans bon nombre de ses commentaires précédents, elle a fait preuve d’une sélection partiale des faits. Sa chronique du 13 août, «Cisjordanie : Washington critique les violences des colons israéliens», porte sur le sujet qui fait actuellement figure de cause célèbre dans une grande partie des médias d’information canadiens : une confrontation entre un groupe d’Israéliens et un Palestinien en Judée-Samarie (ou, selon la terminologie médiatique, en « Cisjordanie »). Cette tension n’a fait ni mort ni blessé, mais cela n’a pas empêché Leduc et d’autres médias de rapporter l’affaire avec force dramatisation et d’en tirer des conclusions maximalistes. Leduc qualifie d’«colons» les Israéliens vivant sur leurs terres ancestrales (un terme qu’elle semble réserver aux seuls Juifs), avant de citer abondamment divers organismes des Nations unies pour relayer leurs condamnations d’Israël, sans expliquer pourquoi ces instances seraient crédibles ou légitimes et sans prendre la peine d’informer ses lecteurs qu’Israël possède des droits historiques et juridiques étendus sur son territoire. Elle reprend consciencieusement les allégations de violence de prétendus «... --- ## Montreal Painter Raja Hammoud Publishes Another Anti-Israel Column In Le Devoir, Condemning So-Called Israeli “Settlers” For Daring To Live In Their Ancestral Lands URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/montreal-painter-raja-hammoud-publishes-another-anti-israel-column-in-le-devoir-condemning-so-called-israeli-settlers-for-daring-to-live-in-their-ancestral-lands/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-08-26 Words: 1178 > version française Montreal painter and purveyor of what we regard as anti-Israel disinformation Raja Hammoud – who just days earlier, complained about media coverage about the Israel-Hezbollah war in Lebanon... version française Montreal painter and purveyor of what we regard as anti-Israel disinformation Raja Hammoud – who just days earlier, complained about media coverage about the Israel-Hezbollah war in Lebanon while failing to mention the word “Hezbollah” a single time – authored another column in Le Devoir on August 19, where she jumped the media bandwagon in assailing the so-called Israeli “settlers.” In her column, “In the West Bank, the invisible cost of trauma passed on to future generations,” Hammoud refers to the supposed “tragedy” in Judea & Samaria (which she calls the “West Bank”), decrying “the expansion of illegal settlements” and the “daily attacks by settlers.” Israel’s Legal and Historical Rights Vanish From the Story The gall of Israelis living in their ancestral lands merits being labeled as “settlers” by Hammoud, a term that appears to be reserved exclusively for Jews. At no point in her column does she introduce readers to the extensive legal and historical rights that Israel has to the land in question, instead simply treating it as a foregone conclusion that Jews have no basis in Judea (the place where the word “Jew” originated). Despite widespread Islamist violence in many parts of the world, Hammoud is the latest addition to the ongoing Canadian obsession on Israel’s alleged misdeeds (and disinterest in Palestinian terrorism), spreading the claim of “violence committed by Jewish settlers,” and failing to inform readers that studies have found such allegations are not only wildly exaggerated, but in fact often count Palestinian terrorist attacks as part of their total. Israel’s Security Concerns Are Dismissed, Not Examined Hammoud offers almost no acknowledgement of the hundreds of attempted Palestinian terrorist attacks (to say nothing of the successful attacks on Israelis), and provides only the briefest and most superficial statement, writing that “Israel is trying to justify its operations in the West Bank by the need to protect its population from attacks by Palestinian armed groups,” before immediately dismissing those concerns “in the face of the questions and objections raised by international organizations.” However, at no point does Hammoud ever share why Israel’s security concerns do not “hold water,” given that in the first months of 2026, almost 300 Palestinian terrorist attacks were foiled, while in other cases, Palestinian terrorists stabbed, shot and rammed their cars into Israelis, terrorist attacks which Hammoud predictably ignores completely. Palestinian Incitement and ‘Pay for Slay’ Disappear From the Narrative These terrorist attacks have not arisen in a vacuum; they come as a result of decades of nonstop incitement by Palestinian officials, schools, media outlets and mosques, which demonize Israel and Jews and deny Israel’s very right to exist. The Palestinian Authority (PA), which Hammoud complained has been deprived of funds by Israel, continues to pay the families of terrorists via its ‘Pay for Slay’ mechanism, another towering fact yet again overlooked entirely. Raja Hammoud’s selective outrage at Israel for daring to live in the land of its ancestors could at least be seen as credible if it was matched by informing readers about the real threat of Palestinian terrorism, the millennia of Jewish presence in Judea & Samaria (and the associated legal rights Israel possesses), and the continued Palestinian incitement against Israel’s very existence. But instead of addressing these points at all, Hammoud’s opinion column transposes thoughtful commentary for righteous indignation. Une peintre montréalaise, Raja Hammoud, publie une nouvelle chronique anti-israélienne dans Le Devoir, condamnant les prétendus «colons» israéliens qui osent vivre sur leur terre ancestrale La peintre montréalaise Raja Hammoud – que nous considérons comme une propagatrice de désinformation anti-israélienne – qui, quelques jours auparavant, s’était plainte de la couverture médiatique de la guerre Israël-Hezbollah au Liban tout en omettant de mentionner le mot «Hezbollah» une seule fois, a publié une nouvelle chronique dans Le Devoir le 19 août, se joignant ainsi au concert de critiques contre les prétendus «colons» israéliens. Dans sa chronique, «En Cisjordanie, le coût invisible des traumatismes transmis aux générations futures», Hammoud évoque la prétendue «tragédie» en Judée-Samarie (qu’elle appelle la «Cisjordanie»), dénonçant «l’expansion des colonies illégales» et «les attaques quotidiennes commises par des colons». L’audace d’Israéliens vivant sur leur terre ancestrale mérite donc, aux yeux de Hammoud, qu’ils soient qualifiés de «colons», un terme qui semble être réservé exclusivement aux Juifs. À aucun moment dans sa chronique ne présente-t-elle aux lecteurs les vastes droits juridiques et historiques d’Israël sur les territoires en question. Elle traite plutôt comme une évidence que les Juifs n’ont aucun droit à vivre en Judée, précisément le lieu d’où vient le mot «Juif». Malgré les... --- ## HRC Op-Ed In National Post: “Iran Is Losing The War. Canada Must Help Ensure The Regime Cannot Rebuild” URL: https://honestreporting.ca/hrc-op-ed-in-national-post-iran-is-losing-the-war-canada-must-help-ensure-the-regime-cannot-rebuild/ Type: post Modified: 2026-08-27 Words: 1403 > Iran has suffered unprecedented military setbacks with its nuclear infrastructure, missile capabilities, air defences and terrorist proxy network significantly degraded. In a National Post op-ed, HonestReporting Canada Executive Director Mike Fegelman... Iran has suffered unprecedented military setbacks with its nuclear infrastructure, missile capabilities, air defences and terrorist proxy network significantly degraded. In a National Post op-ed, HonestReporting Canada Executive Director Mike Fegelman argues that these gains will matter only if Western governments maintain pressure and prevent Tehran from rebuilding. Iran’s objective is now survival: to outlast Western attention, regain access to money and time, and reconstruct the capabilities that have made it one of the world’s most dangerous regimes. As argued in the commentary, Canada has a critical role to play and Ottawa must recognize the connections between Iran’s nuclear ambitions, state-sponsored terrorism, transnational repression, cyberattacks and propaganda, rather than treating them as isolated issues. Canada should aggressively enforce sanctions, disrupt IRGC financing and prevent regime-linked wealth and operatives from finding refuge here. The West should neither invade Iran, nor prematurely rescue its regime through a weak diplomatic agreement; instead, it should sustain pressure while leaving Iran’s political future to the Iranian people. Read the op-ed in full by clicking here or below. Mike Fegelman: Iran is losing the war. Canada must help ensure the regime cannot rebuild For decades, Western governments feared the consequences of confronting Iran, the world’s foremost state sponsor of terrorism. Today, they should be equally concerned about the consequences of failing to capitalize on the significant damage inflicted on the Islamic Republic. Honest Reporting Canada has spent years documenting how Iran’s malign influence is too often ignored, not only through its terrorist proxies and human rights abuses, but through their insidious efforts at spreading propaganda in the West. Our work monitoring Canadian media has given us a front-row view of how easily the Islamic Republic’s activities can disappear from Western public discourse, even as their consequences reach directly into our own communities. The United States and Israel have severely degraded Iran’s military capabilities in recent months. Its nuclear infrastructure has been decimated, its ballistic missile arsenal degraded, its strategic air defence systems destroyed and 52 senior regime figures have been eliminated. Hezbollah and other members of Tehran’s terrorist network, including Hamas and the Houthis, have been weakened. More important, the premise underlying Iran’s strategy for three decades has been shattered. Tehran believed it could attack Israel through proxies and would therefore be immune from attack while simultaneously advancing its atomic program as a nuclear threshold state and threatening Western interests, all while serving to insulate Iran from the consequences of its nefarious actions. That calculation no longer holds. But military setbacks do not necessarily translate into lasting strategic defeat. Iran’s immediate objective is no longer victory, but outlasting the United States. If the regime can withstand the current pressure and eventually persuade Western governments to exchange sanctions relief for another diplomatic agreement, it may acquire the two things it needs most: money and time, both of which serve as patient pathways to acquiring atomic weapons and mitigating the regime’s existential concerns. That would be a serious mistake. Iran built its power painstakingly over decades: nuclear facilities, ballistic missiles and drones, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza, militias in Iraq and the Houthis in Yemen. Together, they gave Tehran strategic depth and geographic spread. Much of that architecture has now been damaged, degraded or destroyed. The challenge is ensuring it stays that way. Iran will almost certainly try to reconstruct nuclear facilities in harder-to-reach locations. For example, Pickaxe mountain, a site widely believed to possess Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium. Iran will also likely endeavour to disperse missile production sites and rebuild its regional terrorist networks. With its conventional capabilities diminished, it has every incentive to rely more heavily on terrorism, cyberattacks, transnational repression and using the Strait of Hormuz as a tool of economic coercion by leveraging its geographic control over the vital energy chokepoint. And the Islamic Republic’s reach extends far beyond the Middle East. Canada has already seen what happens when Tehran’s intelligence apparatus reaches into Western societies. United States intelligence has warned that Iranian intelligence services have worked with criminal networks to threaten, intimidate and target dissidents and other perceived enemies abroad. The Canadian government has also warned Canadians about a growing number of “state threats” from Iran and their activities in North America, including attacks targeting Iranian dissidents, journalists and Jewish and Israeli communities. Iran’s... --- ## Village Media Writer Monika Rekola Offers Sympathetic Portrayal To Miniscule Anti-Israel Protest, All While Ignoring Extremist Rhetoric From Participants URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/village-media-writer-monika-rekola-offers-sympathetic-portrayal-to-miniscule-anti-israel-protest-all-while-ignoring-extremist-rhetoric-from-participants/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-08-25 Words: 559 > Village Media is an online news publication claiming to have a “hyper-local” focus, though their definition of “hyper-local” appears admittedly flexible, with the outlet penning multiple articles about the so-called... Village Media is an online news publication claiming to have a “hyper-local” focus, though their definition of “hyper-local” appears admittedly flexible, with the outlet penning multiple articles about the so-called ‘flotilla to Gaza’ stunt perpetrated by a group of anti-Israel activists in the spring of 2026, both of which were authored by writer and local horticulturist Monika Rekola. After a short hiatus, Rekola was back on August 13 with another article about a tiny group of local anti-Israel activists with her article, “‘It directly affects us’: Overnight vigil targets local manufacturer.” A Tiny Anti-Israel Protest Gets Outsized Media Attention In the report, she profiles a miniscule group appearing to comprise less than 10 individuals who gathered to protest Raytheon, a U.S. defence contractor as part of a “Day of Action” protest connected to Israeli manufacturer Elbit Systems. The insignificance of the tiny group did not stop Rekola from devoting some 1,000 words to the mini-protest. One of the demonstrators quoted by Rekola was Marie Tota, a local nurse who participated in the previous ill-fated flotilla (and who was the subject of Rekola’s previous sympathetic article). Despite extensively quoting the protesters, not once did Rekola seek to question their motives or the legitimacy of seeking to rob Israel of its ability to defend itself from openly genocidal Islamist terrorist groups. Instead, Rekola referred to Tota as someone active in “humanitarian” endeavours. Extremist Anti-Israel Rhetoric Is Left Out of the Story Another of the demonstrators featured by Rekola was Kal Kurdi (also known as Khaled El-Kurdi), owner of KG Laser, though she did not see fit to share that his social media has featured extremist comments such as “Death!! Death!! To the IDF,” “May Israel burn,” and “boom Tel Aviv,” rhetoric that hardly seems consistent with the peaceful candlelight gathering that she portrayed in her article. El-Kurdi, whose laser business has featured defacements of the poppy with symbols of a Palestinian terrorist holding a machine gun, has been filmed (while protesting the Walk with Israel in Toronto) calling a Toronto police officer a “baby killer” because he had a Hebrew tattoo. El-Kurdi has also posted footage to social media showing his presence at a weekly anti-Israel protest in a predominantly Jewish area of Toronto, a gathering which has led to a slew of hate crimes arrests. Anti-Israel Activists Platformed Without Critical Context Yet none of El-Kurdi’s extremist rhetoric or activities made it into Rekola’s sympathetic portrayal of local anti-Israel activists. Another activist quoted by Rekola was Rachel Small of World BEYOND War, a part of the constellation of anti-Israel groups that have been provided uncritical media coverage. Small has called for Canada to effectively prevent Israel from having the means to defend itself from Palestinian terrorists who seek its destruction. Physician and anti-Israel activist Kavita Algu is another organizer of World BEYOND War. Monika Rekola’s August 13 article is only the latest example of the Canadian news media offering an uncritical platform to a tiny group of anti-Israel activists, all while making zero apparent effort to inform readers about their scandalous and arguably hateful rhetoric. Instead, a marginal group of demonstrators continues to get uncritical and even sympathetic coverage from yet another taxpayer-funded media outlet. --- ## CBC News Uncritically Regurgitates UN Claims About Gaza Aid Worker Deaths, Ignores Hamas Use Of Humanitarian Infrastructure URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/cbc-news-uncritically-regurgitates-un-claims-about-gaza-aid-worker-deaths-ignores-hamas-use-of-humanitarian-infrastructure/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-08-25 Words: 555 > CBC News’ practice of being a stenographer for anti-Israel claims continues. In an August 19 article, “At least 350 aid workers killed in 2025, more than half in Gaza: UN,”... CBC News’ practice of being a stenographer for anti-Israel claims continues. In an August 19 article, “At least 350 aid workers killed in 2025, more than half in Gaza: UN,” Senior Writer Jillian Kestler-D’Amours regurgitates allegations that 186 aid workers were allegedly killed in Gaza in 2025, according to claims from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). UN Allegations Repeated, Critical Context Left Out The article is little more than a recycled press release from OCHA, offering almost no context, no background about how many of these “aid” workers were Palestinian terrorists or how Hamas uses civilian infrastructure for its warfare. Kestler-D’Amours quotes OCHA as claiming that Gaza “remained the deadliest context for aid workers,” and quoted one of its senior officials, Tom Fletcher, who called for “real consequences” for those whom he alleged killed aid workers. CBC Doesn’t Tell Readers About Tom Fletcher’s Record Yet at no time did Kestler-D’Amours inform readers about Fletcher’s past controversial claims, and whether he could be seen as credible at all when it comes to commenting on humanitarian issues. In May, 2025, Fletcher made the outlandish claim that 14,000 babies in Gaza would die within 48 hours if more aid was not let into Gaza, a statement that was later debunked and corrected by the United Nations. That did not stop him from doubling down on false accusations of non-existent mass “starvation” in Gaza. Even a cursory investigation into some alleged “aid” workers killed in 2025 would have given a very different picture. In 2025, Muhammad al-Jamassi, an engineer with the UN agency UNRWA, was killed in an Israeli airstrike. But he was more than an engineer; he was also a senior Hamas operative. In fact, Israel has provided extensive evidence showing that dozens of UNRWA workers have significant ties to Palestinian terrorism, a point that Kestler-D’Amours failed to mention at all. Hamas’ Exploitation of Humanitarian Infrastructure Goes Unmentioned Also conspicuously absent from Kestler-D’Amours’ article was any acknowledgement whatsoever of the widespread use and weaponization of humanitarian infrastructure by Palestinian terrorists, including using Gaza’s largest hospital to interrogate and torture dissidents, store weapons and use them as military bases. In early 2026, the group Doctors without Borders (MSF) even pulled their staff out of Gaza’s Nasser Hospital, openly admitting to the presence of armed Palestinian terrorists, writing that their workers have seen “the presence of armed men, intimidation, arbitrary arrests of patients, and a recent situation of suspicion of movement of weapons.” Israel has provided video footage showing Palestinian terrorists using ambulances to transport weapons and fighters, a gross violation of international law, but CBC News’ Kestler-D’Amours likewise did not share this with readers. These examples are as well-documented as they are manifold, and there is no legitimate reason that CBC News or Senior Writer Jillian Kestler-D’Amours would have completely overlooked them, and instead produced an article that was effectively a repurposed press release from a United Nations agency facing serious accusations regarding their credibility. CBC Readers Deserved Context, Not a Repurposed UN Press Release This article offered zero insight into the widespread use of humanitarian infrastructure in Gaza by Palestinian terrorists, and instead uncritically regurgitated accusations against Israel. --- ## Global Reporter Redmond Shannon Produces Five Reports In A Single Week Falsely Framing Israel As Aggressor, Including Erasing Israel’s Legal Ties To Judea & Samaria URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/global-reporter-redmond-shannon-produces-five-reports-in-a-single-week-falsely-framing-israel-as-aggressor-including-erasing-israels-legal-ties-to-judea-samaria/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-08-21 Words: 1047 > The Canadian news media continues to show a bizarre fixation with Israeli “settlements,” and alongside that, a casual disregard for basic journalistic standards. In his August 13 broadcast for Global... The Canadian news media continues to show a bizarre fixation with Israeli “settlements,” and alongside that, a casual disregard for basic journalistic standards. In his August 13 broadcast for Global News “Settlers who sieged West Bank homes ‘terrorists,’ U.S. ambassador to Israel says,” Europe Correspond Redmond Shannon told viewers about “Jewish settlers” in Judea & Samaria (which he termed the “West Bank”), claiming that “Israeli settler violence…has increased considerably” in 2026. Watch the full segment: Shannon is no stranger to problematic reporting; he has previously shared a controversial photograph from The New York Times showing an emaciated Palestinian boy (without admitting that the child was sick, not starving), interviewed a British commentator who praised the October 7, 2023 massacres, alongside scores of other such reports we regard as having framed Israel as the aggressor. ‘Settler Violence’ Gets the Headlines, Palestinian Terrorism Gets Ignored At no point did he acknowledge that studies have found that so-called “settler violence” is grossly overstated, nor did he offer any statement about Palestinian terrorism against Israeli civilians. Moreover, despite millennia of Jewish presence in the land and the previous lack of any Arab state in the territory, Shannon claimed that Israeli towns in the historic lands of Judea & Samaria are “illegal under international law,” failing to even admit that Israel (and many scholars) vociferously dispute this delegitimization of their land. The very next day, Shannon was back with a report on the exact same story, “‘Terrorists’: U.S. criticizes Israel after Jewish settlers attack, besiege Palestinian homes in West Bank,” which offered almost nothing new in the way of content, but more half-truths in our view. Watch the full segment: Referring to Jews living in their ancestral lands as “settlers” (compared to Palestinians, whom he termed “land-owners,” ignoring whether the Palestinians owned title deeds to their properties), Shannon repeated the claim from the United Nations that “settler violence is at an all-time high,” once again making no effort to ever state the continuing scourge of Palestinian terrorism, nor asking whether such allegations from the UN were actually valid in light of studies demonstrating the precise opposite. As with his previous broadcast, Shannon said nothing about Israel’s legal or historic rights to the land, and instead framed the Israelis there as extremists, ending the report by showing an Israeli stating referring to “divine commandments.” A Controversial Anti-Israel Voice Presented Without Context Viewers were presented with extended comments from Michael Lynk, a former UN official who has been accused of ignoring Palestinian rights violations, and who accepted a medal from the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), leading one legal expert to state he was acting “like an agent” for the Palestinians. Not only did Shannon offer no background on Lynk’s controversies, he failed to provide viewers with any meaningful context that would conflict with his broadcast’s existing narrative. In Gaza, Palestinian Ceasefire Violations Disappear From the Story In his third report within days, “Israel continues attacks on Gaza, despite ceasefire deal,” Shannon averted his gaze to Gaza, where he cited “local authorities” (presumably the Hamas-run “Health Ministry”) and stated that 1,200 Palestinians have been killed in the last 10 months since the ceasefire, not bothering to share that the Palestinians violate the ceasefire dozens of times per month, which led to many of the Israeli strikes in the first place and how four Israeli soldiers were killed in the same time span. Watch the full segment: As with his previous report, Shannon relied on a familiar voice for supposed expertise, showing a clip of Washington, DC-based commentator Khaled Elgindy, who has previously attempted to frame deceased Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh as a “political leader” and “moderate,” despite him leading an overtly genocidal and Islamist terrorist group. Meanwhile, the report ended, not with any expert who might have challenged Elgindy’s denunciations of Israel’s government, but with Itamar Ben-Gvir, an Israeli cabinet minister whom Shannon claimed was calling on the Israeli government to kill “30 to 40” Palestinians nightly. In fact, he was clearly not referring to innocent civilians, a point notably ignored by Shannon. Thus, Shannon’s third report in days continued to provide a highly skewed picture of Israel. But he was far from done. On August 18, Shannon was back to covering the issue of Israeli “settlements,” authoritatively (though falsely) claiming that they are “illegal under international law,” and continuing to ignore any acknowledgement of Israeli legal and historic rights in favour of a portrayal of a Palestinian man (whom Shannon did not call a “settler,” a term he reserved for Jews). Watch the full segment: Even an Israeli Investigation Is Fram... --- ## Toronto Star Columnist Rick Salutin Dismisses Concerns Over Jew-Hate, Says Those Who Are Concerned See It As “An Article of Faith” URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/toronto-star-columnist-rick-salutin-dismisses-concerns-over-jew-hate-says-those-who-are-concerned-see-it-as-an-article-of-faith/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-08-20 Words: 563 > Rick Salutin’s August 18 opinion column in The Toronto Star, “A conversation about the current state of antisemitism,” appears to be all over the place, lamenting a rise in antisemitism... Rick Salutin’s August 18 opinion column in The Toronto Star, “A conversation about the current state of antisemitism,” appears to be all over the place, lamenting a rise in antisemitism all while putting scare quotes around a study which found there has been an indisputable rise in hate crimes against Jews. Salutin, whose previous commentaries have been documented by HonestReporting Canada for in our view recycling anti-Israel conspiracy theories and ignoring the Islamic Republic of Iran’s extremism, begins his column by appearing to frame concern over antisemitism as overblown, writing that “there are people I know, some Jewish and some not, who see antisemitism as an eternal, virtually supernatural force, even if it manifests itself differently in different eras. This conviction exists on the deep level of assumptions one grew up with. It’s a bit like believing in God, in the sense that it’s hard to argue with it, it’s an article of faith.” Antisemitism’s Long History Is Not an ‘Article of Faith’ But seeing anti-Jewish hate as a timeless shape-shifter is not an article of faith, nor does it require belief. In fact, thinking anything else is what requires boundless faith. Jew-hatred has been at the core of the ancient Romans and Greeks, to the Crusaders to the Nazis, to Islamic fundamentalists, communists, nationalists, and the far-right and left alike. In fact, given the long history of antisemitism and its remarkable ability to morph with the times (as it currently has, into anti-Zionism, or the denial of the Jewish People’s right to self-determination in their historic homeland), Salutin’s apparent inability to acknowledge this reality speaks volumes about his own opinion column. What Salutin Gets Wrong About the IHRA Definition Salutin dismisses the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, saying that its goal has been to “shut down discussion of vital issues.” While Salutin claims such definitions “settle nothing,” had he capably read the actual definition, he would have seen that it states precisely the opposite of what he claimed, noting that “criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic.” While European antisemitism targeted Jews on the basis of religion, the Nazis targeted Jews on the basis of race, and contemporary Jew-haters attack Jews on the basis of the existence of a Jewish State. The failure to recognize this indisputable reality is precisely why the IHRA definition exists, and why Salutin’s inability to connect the dots is so absurd. Anti-Zionism Denies Jews the Same Collective Rights as Other Peoples Salutin gives only the most passing acknowledgement of how Jew-hate manifests today, namely anti-Zionism, quoting Jared Kushner as saying that “anti-Zionism is antisemitism.” But rather than provide a cogent response, Salutin sophomorically writes “so shut up.” Perhaps Salutin is unable to muster a thoughtful answer to the statement that denying the Jewish People their collective rights is hate, which makes his decision to pen an opinion column on the subject all the more baffling. In fact, Rick Salutin’s column offers nothing to the discussion around the topic of antisemitism in Canada and the Western world, and it is unclear why he authored the commentary in the first place when it is manifestly unclear what he was even trying to say at all. --- ## Toronto Star Devotes 2,000+ Words To Portraying Israeli “Settlers” As Extremists URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/toronto-star-devotes-2000-words-to-portraying-israeli-settlers-as-extremists/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-08-20 Words: 588 > The presence of Jews living in their historic lands continues to serve as a source of immense fixation in many corners of the Canadian news media, and a new Toronto... The presence of Jews living in their historic lands continues to serve as a source of immense fixation in many corners of the Canadian news media, and a new Toronto Star article continues to demonstrate that obsession. In an August 16 special report in The Toronto Star, writer Fin de Pencier – whose social media feed in our estimation is replete with posts framing Israeli “settlers” as dangerous radicals – devoted some 2,300 words over a 3 page spread to these “settlers,” beginning by profiling Mor Maisel, a Canadian-Israeli woman who, he writes, protects Palestinian-Arabs in the area from alleged confrontations with nearby Israelis. View images below: When Political Activism Is Framed as Humanitarianism Maisel is framed as something of a humanitarian by de Pencier, writing that she joins a group of other Israelis “in protective presence work” while living in what de Pencier refers to as “occupied territory.” But as becomes clear, such activism is not necessarily a benign apolitical act. She is quoted as tacitly comparing Israel to the Nazis, lamenting that “nobody came” to protect us (notably, unlike the Nazis, Israel is not seeking to murder all Palestinians). While de Pencier does include such outlandish and incendiary comments in his article, the clear framing is of individuals like Maisel as humanitarians, not hardline political activists. Jews Living in Their Historic Homeland Are Cast as Extremists Israelis who live in their historic lands, called “settlers” in the article, receive no such sympathetic treatment, and are repeatedly characterized them from our perspective as radicals and extremists for having the temerity to live in the hills where Jews have had a continual presence for some three millennia. ‘Settler Violence’ Gets the Spotlight, Palestinian Terrorism Does Not The article extensively chronicles alleged instances of “settler” violence against Palestinians, while failing to address studies that have found such claims wildly overstated, and offers virtually no detailed exploration into the scourge of Palestinian terrorism against Israelis. While de Pencier does acknowledge Israel’s legal rights to the lands, noting both its ancient history and the lack of any Arab state there beforehand, he soon dismisses it, and claims that “the overwhelming majority of international legal scholars” reject this, though he offers no evidence for his claim. A Legal Standard That Apparently Applies Only to Israel Curiously, that same practice is adopted without question elsewhere, such as Spain, which holds the territories of Ceuta and Melilla in northern Africa abutting Morocco, using the same legal argument (that it possessed those lands before Morocco was a state), though it appears there is no such concern about the legality of those territories in The Toronto Star, which has referred to them as unambiguously Spanish, and not “occupied” territory. The supposedly credible expert voices cited in the article include Amnesty International, which de Pencier quotes without noting the organization’s long history of anti-Israel activism, including its recent accusations of “genocide,” where the group went so far as to effectively redefine the term in order to tarnish Jerusalem with that charge. From our vantage point, the sum total of the article frames Israelis who live in their ancestral lands as radicals oppressing the victimized Palestinians, whose presence in the land is never questioned, despite the undisputed reality that Jews lived in those territories millennia before any Palestinians. Meanwhile, Palestinian violence is seemingly minimized and Israeli “settler” violence is treated as de facto truthful. Yet again, the Canadian news media is using Israeli “settlers” to pursue salacious headlines over sober journalism in our view. --- ## In Prince George Daily, HRC Subscriber Rebuts False Claim That Israel Is The Obstacle To Mideast Peace URL: https://honestreporting.ca/in-prince-george-daily-hrc-subscriber-rebuts-false-claim-that-israel-is-the-obstacle-to-mideast-peace/ Type: post Modified: 2026-08-19 Words: 285 > On August 11, HRC Subscriber Larry Shapiro was published in the Prince George Daily News, responding to an opinion piece by High School teacher and columnist Gerry Chidiac, which blamed Israel for a lack... On August 11, HRC Subscriber Larry Shapiro was published in the Prince George Daily News, responding to an opinion piece by High School teacher and columnist Gerry Chidiac, which blamed Israel for a lack of peace in the Middle East. Shapiro challenged this assertion, pointing to Israel’s ongoing efforts to establish peaceful relations with Arab countries through regional normalization and the Abraham Accords. He argued that the primary obstacles to peace are the Islamic Republic of Iran and the terrorist organizations it supports; including Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and other Palestinian terror groups. LETTER: Chidiac misses one point about Israel Thank you for Mr. Chidiac’s column explaining what lies ahead for Israel. I would differ on one issue. Mr. Chidiac stated that Israel can’t continue to solve it problems militarily. Israel understands this and is aggressively working with Arab countries to join the Abraham Accords that is normalizing relations with Israel and the Arab world. So far, a number of Arab countries such as the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, Kazakhstan and Sudan have joined and hostilities have ceased between them and Israel. Several other countries including Saudi Arabia are on the fence contemplating whether it is safe to make peace with the Jews. Twenty years ago, the only Mideast countries at peace with Israel were Egypt and Jordan, so the complexion of the Middle East has changed dramatically. It should be noted that the Palestinians are angry at the Arab countries that normalized relations with Israel ad are doing everything they can to undermine the peace. Whatever military maneuvers Israel is presently using tis related to Palestinian and Iranian resistance to its existence. Larry Shapiro,Calgary, Alberta --- ## National Post Highlights HRC Report Raising Concerns About J-Source’s Anti-Israel Editorial Bias URL: https://honestreporting.ca/national-post-highlights-hrc-report-raising-concerns-about-j-sources-anti-israel-editorial-bias/ Type: post Modified: 2026-08-19 Words: 728 > On August 18, National Post Columnist Marty York wrote about HonestReporting Canada’s recent report on how J-Source, a Canadian journalism outlet run through Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) and Carleton University, consistently elevates Palestinian narratives, while... On August 18, National Post Columnist Marty York wrote about HonestReporting Canada’s recent report on how J-Source, a Canadian journalism outlet run through Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) and Carleton University, consistently elevates Palestinian narratives, while downplaying Israeli ones. Given J-Source’s current role in multiple prestigious journalism programs in Canada, this editorial pattern warrants serious scrutiny. Treating one political perspective as synonymous with impartial reporting may encourage emerging journalists to adopt a predetermined position rather than critically examine competing claims, challenge assumptions, and pursue the facts with intellectual honesty. Marty York: Canada’s universities have been co-opted by antisemites A recent federal government report, which found that 95.7 per cent of Jewish post-secondary students in this country experienced antisemitism last year, was eye-opening to be sure, but not a complete shocker to those of us who have been following what has been happening on university campuses over the past three years. “What this report ultimately tells us is that campus antisemitism is not just a widespread problem but a systemic problem, which corroborates what our students have been telling us for years,” said Daniel Koren, founder and executive director of Allied Voices for Israel, in an interview. “When (the vast majority) of students report seeing or experiencing antisemitism, it means universities are institutions where antisemitism is thriving and going unchecked.” Even worse is the fact that these institutions are state-sponsored. Grants from the federal and provincial governments keep Canadian universities alive and functioning. “There is a hateful mob mentality targeting students of all backgrounds, including brave non-Jewish students who choose allyship and stand with their Jewish peers,” Koren said. “Through their inaction, and by allowing the status quo to continue, the federal and provincial governments are enabling antisemitism to thrive. It is time for the governments to wake up and re-evaluate their grants to post-secondary schools.” Agreed. Why in the world is our tax money going to support cesspools of fear and hate? Too many universities have become breeding grounds for antisemitism, laden with influencers, including professors, who should know better but seem all too willing to share anti-Jewish messages. And that includes journalism schools, which terrifies me. I’ve been in or around mainstream media in Canada for more than half a century — I started at the Globe and Mail when I was a tot — and I’ve taught journalism in post-secondary institutions, yet I was stunned by a recent report from HonestReporting Canada. It details how J-Source (the J stands for “journalism”), which is affiliated with the journalism programs at Toronto Metropolitan University and Carleton University, shows a “persistent pattern of one-sided framing: elevating Palestinian narratives while portraying Israeli perspectives, pro-Israel advocacy and journalistic standards such as balance and objectivity with skepticism.” Since the heinous attack on Israel by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7, 2023, HonestReporting argues that, “The outlet has become consistently fixated on Israel, producing not only what we regard as deeply problematic content, but what we consider constitutes a dangerous demonization of supporters of Israel.” HonestReporting cites several examples of what the organization views as biased reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “Pieced together, J-Source’s coverage in our view does not simply prioritize Palestinian narratives, contexts and rhetoric,” HonestReporting writes, “it consistently elevates a particular pro-Palestinian interpretive frame as journalistic common sense, as objectivity. “Across J-Source coverage and from our perspective, Israeli narratives, claims and history are treated as the central driver of conflict; Palestinians’ position in the wider narrative is folded into broader, politically driven explanations of history, structural issues and motivations. The result is a recurring asymmetry in J-Source’s editorial posture, one that is not merely sympathy toward Palestinians, but rather a predetermined narrative of morality and victimhood. “The concern with J-Source is not that it examines Israel, publishes Palestinian perspectives or challenges established narratives. The concern in our view is that a publication connected to Canadian journalism education appears to repeatedly blur the distinction between analyzing bias and advancing a particular pro-Palestinian agenda. “When a platform associated with journalism education presents what we regard as a pro-Palestinian worldview as the natural standard of objectivity, it risks shaping the next generation of journalists toward advocacy rather than serious and honest inquiry.” Terrifying. --- ## In CBC News Interview, Michael Lynk Suggests New Hardline Iranian Security Chief Could Be Sign Of Regime’s “Moderation” URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/in-cbc-news-interview-michael-lynk-suggests-new-hardline-iranian-security-chief-could-be-sign-of-regimes-moderation/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-08-18 Words: 625 > Michael Lynk is the former UN Special Rapporteur “on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967” with a long history of what we and others... Michael Lynk is the former UN Special Rapporteur “on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967” with a long history of what we and others regard as aggressive anti-Israel rhetoric and affiliations, including having previously served on the advisory board of the Canadian Palestinian Educational Exchange (CEPAL), a group which observers note has a history of promoting the “right of return” of Arab refugees into Israel, effectively meaning the destruction of Israel. Lynk has long been accused of ignoring Palestinian human rights violations, and has shared a stage with fanatical anti-Israel activist Dimitri Lascaris, who has reportedly attended the funerals of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, as well as Iran’s ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Perhaps most scandalously, in 2022, Lynk accepted a medal from the Palestinian Authority (PA), leading one legal expert, Hillel Neuer, the executive director of UN Watch, to say that he was acting “like an agent” for the Palestinians. CBC Presents A Controversial Anti-Israel Voice As An Impartial Expert Yet despite his controversial history, he has, in our view, regularly been given sympathetic platforms in the Canadian news media, which have presented him as something of an unbiased expert source on the Middle East. In interviews Lynk has falsely claiming that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) found a “plausible” case of genocide in Gaza, which it never did, and in our eyes defending unfounded claims of “genocide” in Gaza. Lynk Blames Israel While Palestinian Ceasefire Violations Go Unmentioned On August 10, Lynk was once again interviewed on the CBC News program Morning Live, with guest host Susan Ormiston, which focused on the ceasefire in Gaza. Lynk twice pointed to alleged Israeli violations of the ceasefire, stating that “Israel has kept on bombing and attacking the Gaza Strip,” alleging that 1,200 Palestinians have been killed over the last year. Watch the full segment below: At no point did Lynk share that these Israeli strikes in Gaza have been in response to almost non-stop Palestinian provocations and violations. In fact, just days before the interview, Israel recorded that over a 21-day period in July, Hamas had broken the ceasefire dozens of times. Nor did Lynk mention Israeli claims that it’s killed 420 Gazan terrorists since the October 2025 ceasefire. The Context CBC Viewers Were Never Given As for the supposed Israeli violations over the last year, Lynk could have shared that they include strikes on weapons depots, including inside mosques, and that the Palestinians killed in Gaza include scores of individuals who participated in the October 7, 2023 massacres. But Lynk said no such thing, and at no time during the interview did Ormiston bother to set the record straight, consistent with her own record of treating anti-Israel activists to what we regard as gentle interviews, including an Arab ‘journalist’ who complained about the failure of Arab states to destroy Israel in 1948. A Supposedly ‘Moderate’ Iran? In the final two minutes of the interview, Ormiston pivoted to Iran, where she asked Lynk for his opinions on the new appointment of Mohsen Rezaee, the new Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Lynk opined that Rezaee could be a sign of “more moderation in Iran,” reflecting a “more conciliatory approach,” a bizarre statement given that Rezaee is a widely seen as a well-known hardliner in the Iranian regime. Ormiston did not challenge Lynk, nor did she offer any further insight for viewers. CBC’s Failure To Challenge Lynk Is The Real Story In our view, the problems in this interview were not simply Lynk’s selective omissions, but CBC News’ continuing to ignore his controversial background, all while failing to challenge his misleading claims. --- ## CBC Producer Yasmine Hassan & Freelance Videographer Mohamed El Saife Team Up To Platform More Unverified Claims From Gaza URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/cbc-producer-yasmine-hassan-freelance-videographer-mohamed-el-saife-team-up-to-platform-more-unverified-claims-from-gaza/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-08-19 Words: 690 > Over the course of the last three years, CBC News Producer Yasmine Hassan has produced many reports repeating grievances from anti-Israel activists into articles, and recent weeks have been no... Over the course of the last three years, CBC News Producer Yasmine Hassan has produced many reports repeating grievances from anti-Israel activists into articles, and recent weeks have been no exception. CBC Quotes a Hamas-Linked Source Without Telling Readers In an August 5 article about a funeral in Gaza delayed because of a lack of heavy machinery, “In Gaza City, a funeral for 112 family members takes place 3 years after their deaths,” – which was produced with files from CBC freelance videographer and anti-Israel propagandist Mohamed El Saife – Hassan quotes “Mahmoud Basal, the Civil Defence spokesperson,” not bothering to note that the Civil Defence operates directly under Hamas, and that Basal himself (sometimes spelled Bassal) is a member of Hamas’ military wing, according to Israeli documentation. The article refers to an “Israeli airstrike” which allegedly killed members of an extended clan, but no evidence is provided to suggest that this was the case, and no Israeli official was quoted. Hassan quotes Basal as complaining that he has “no tools, no equipment,” a statement that deserves scrutiny, given that such dual-use tools are dangerous in the hands of Hamas, and particularly coming from an individual accused of being an active member of a Palestinian terrorist group. But she provides none. In an accompanying video report (presumably filmed by El Saife, CBC’s local source of video footage), the description claims that a funeral was held to “retrieve the remains of 112 people killed by an Israeli airstrike,” treating Palestinian claims as indisputable truth. Palestinian Claims Become CBC Facts Days earlier, on July 31, CBC News published an article, originally created by the Thomson Reuters news wire, but with files from Yasmine Hassan and Mohamed El Saife, “Trump touts Gaza peace deal, though Hamas and Israeli officials see hurdles,” about the state of the ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas. The article claims without evidence that “on the ground, Gazans (are) still struggling with basic survival.” Yet ample video footage provided by Gazans demonstrates a far different reality, with cafes, buffet restaurants, chicken and beef, and fully-stocked markets showing that such hysterical doomsday narratives are hardly consistent with what Palestinians themselves are showing. CBC Amplifies Another Anti-Israel Narrative On August 8, Hassan (and El Saife) were back with an article highlighting miscarriages in Gaza, “‘I woke up and I had lost the baby’: Miscarriages in Gaza spike amid harsh conditions, UN report finds,” claiming that a UN statement alleged an increase in lost pregnancies, and demonstrating CBC News’ consistent practice of amplifying anti-Israel ‘reports’ while completely ignoring studies which conflict with that worldview. The UN claimed that miscarriages in Gaza reached 208.5 per 1,000 live births, not significantly higher than elsewhere in the world, including developed countries, where as many as one-fifth of all pregnancies result in one. The article quotes the UN as alleging “severe food insecurity” in Gaza, an outlandish claim that is simply not supported by any of the available facts on the ground, nor does Hassan mention the enormous amount of aid sent by Israel into Gaza on a daily basis. Israel’s Humanitarian Efforts Get Lost in the Narrative On the same broad theme, on August 13, Hassan and El Saife authored an article alleging higher cancer rates in Gaza, “Cancer patients are dying faster in Gaza since the war began,” which quotes local doctors who claim that cancer fatality rates have risen before the war began with Hamas’ October 7, 2023 massacres in southern Israel. While Hassan does note that Israel provides medical aid to Gazans, including medical evacuations, the clear message of the article is that Israel continues to be the culprit, with no mention of any theft of aid from Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups. A Pattern of Palestinian Claims, With Little Israeli Voice While any of these articles would be legitimate in their own right, taken together, they reflect a consistent pattern of repeating (often unverified) claims from Palestinians, all while Israelis receive little to no such voice from Canada’s taxpayer-funded broadcaster. Photo credit: Yasmine Hassan, Mohamed El Saife --- ## CBC News Breathlessly Reports On Rare Incident Of Israeli Violence In Judea & Samaria, Almost Completely Ignoring Decades Of Terrorism By Palestinians URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/cbc-news-breathlessly-reports-on-rare-incident-of-israeli-violence-in-judea-samaria-almost-completely-ignoring-decades-of-terrorism-by-palestinians/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-08-17 Words: 571 > CBC News continues to broadcast its documented anti-Israel bias, virtually on a daily basis, paid for by the ever-generous Canadian taxpayer. In an August 13 broadcast of CBC Morning Live,... CBC News continues to broadcast its documented anti-Israel bias, virtually on a daily basis, paid for by the ever-generous Canadian taxpayer. In an August 13 broadcast of CBC Morning Live, “Israeli troops clash with Jewish settlers besieging homes in West Bank,” CBC News host Susan Ormiston – who has provided multiple uncritical interviews to anti-Israel activists, permitting disinformation without challenge – discussed the topic of a so-called “Jewish settler siege” in an Arab neighbourhood in Judea & Samaria (known as “West Bank” in Canadian media parlance). Watch the full clip below: And while the incident is real and worthy of contempt, with a small group of Israelis having engaged in harassment of local Arabs, and the Israeli army swiftly entering the area in to restore order, CBC News’ framing and language once again displays their consistent anti-Israel content. CBC Presents A Disputed Claim As Settled Fact From London, Senior Reporter Julia Chapman spoke with Ormiston about the incident, brazenly editorializing and almost completely ignoring relevant facts. Chapman confidently told viewers that Israeli towns in Judea & Samaria are “illegal under international law,” a claim that is made by many anti-Israel activists, but which is strongly challenged by both Israel and international law experts, who point out that Israel boasts both legal title and thousands of years of habitation in the region, and whose claim is far stronger than a non-existent “Palestinian state.” But rather than sharing details such as Israel’s legal rights to the area or millennia of presence there, Chapman falsely presented anti-Israel claims as settled fact, and in so doing, effectively presented a twisted view where Israel somehow had no legitimate right to be in its own land. Palestinian Violence Is Once Again Missing From CBC’s ‘Context’ While Ormiston twice referred to a “Jewish settler siege,” and asked Chapman for “context” about alleged “settler” violence,” there was almost no acknowledgement of decades of years of Palestinian terrorism and violence, consistent with documented CBC News practice of overlooking Palestinian violence in favour of amplifying incidents involving alleged Israeli misdeeds. As observers have noted, the myth of Jewish “settler violence” is dramatically overblown, and while there are indeed isolated instances of violence, facts have been replaced by a “well-orchestrated and lavishly funded information campaign, which has blown a marginal phenomenon out of proportion.” While CBC News’ headlines loudly proclaim Israeli “settlers” as violently on the rampage, the documented truth could not be more different. In addition to amplifying rare cases of actual violence – while ignoring studies showing them to be exceedingly rare – this CBC News report, as with so many others, almost completely disregarded the bigger picture entirely. Six Seconds of Israeli Context in a Four-Minute Report In fact, out of the four-minute broadcast, only some six seconds were devoted to actually offering any semblance of a balanced report, with Chapman stating that the “Israeli ambassador to the UN says that criticism of Israeli action fails to acknowledge attacks against Israelis.” But six seconds out of 240 is not balanced in the slightest, nor did Chapman offer any introduction into years of Palestinian violence and terrorism against Israelis. CBC’s Viewers Deserved The Full Picture This broadcast featured Chapman falsely claiming that Israel’s presence in its own land was “illegal,” saying almost nothing about Palestinian violence against Israelis, and ignoring studies which repudiate the common claim of Israeli violence. --- ## After Groundbreaking Study Finding Widespread Antisemitism On Campus, Globe & Mail Publishes Grotesque Column By Fringe Anti-Zionist Group Delegitimizing Student Experiences URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/after-groundbreaking-study-finding-widespread-antisemitism-on-campus-globe-mail-publishes-grotesque-column-by-fringe-anti-zionist-group-delegitimizing-student-experiences/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-08-17 Words: 663 > Just days after correctly noting in an editorial that anti-Zionism is a hate movement at the heart of modern-day anti-Jewish hate crimes, The Globe and Mail promptly platformed that very... Just days after correctly noting in an editorial that anti-Zionism is a hate movement at the heart of modern-day anti-Jewish hate crimes, The Globe and Mail promptly platformed that very same movement, ostensibly in a misguided attempt at ‘balance.’ The August 13 opinion column, “The antisemitism report that erases a century of Jewish debate,” addressed a recent survey of Jewish university students in Canada, which found that some 95 percent of them personally experienced anti-Jewish hate over just the last year. It was also published in La Presse the following day in French. The Globe Platforms Anti-Zionism While Jewish Students Report Hate The Globe & Mail – which has not reported on the shocking results of that study – did, however, publish a commentary from Yves Winter of McGill University, Noah Brender of Dawson College, Danielle Bobker of Concordia University, and Michael Blum of the University of Quebec at Montreal, who in our view sought to delegitimize its findings and effectively tell students what they experienced wasn’t really hate at all. In La Presse, a number of other signatories were named: Shira Avni of Concordia University, Lara Braitstein of McGill University; Kevin Gould of Concordia University, Sara Kendall of Dawson College, Itay Sapir of Université du Québec à Montréal, Vanessa R. Sasson of Marianopolis College, Jeremy Stolow of Concordia University, Katherine Zien of McGill University & Anya Zilberstein of Concordia University. Anti-Zionism Denies Jews the Right to Self-Determination The authors – members of Jewish Faculty Network, an anti-Israel fringe group – complain that the recent report “treats opposition to Zionism as evidence of antisemitism,” and defend anti-Zionism, bristling at the statement that it calls for the erasure and annihilation of Israel. But that is precisely what antizionism is – a rejection of the Jewish People’s right to self-determination in their own homeland. The authors cite examples of Jewish anti-Zionism in an effort to suggest that it is legitimate, writing about the Jewish Labour Bund in the early 20th century, “a mass socialist movement across Eastern Europe, built a political program based on doikayt, the idea that Jewish safety comes from equal rights where Jews already live, not from a state somewhere else.” Yet the irony of their own words appeared to escape the authors, given that, statistically, most of the Jewish Labour Bund would presumably have been murdered by the Nazis, who soon swept Europe. The Jewish Connection to Israel Is Thousands of Years Old But while Zionism is a modern-day term, it is an ancient concept, dating back thousands of years to the genesis of Jewish presence in the Land of Israel, some three thousand years ago. Notably, at no point in their column did the authors ever acknowledge that Zionism as a concept is embraced by virtually all Canadian Jews, rendering it not just mainstream, but normative, and that they are attempting to delegitimize the experiences of Jewish students who overwhelmingly see denial of Jewish collective rights as anti-Jewish hate. Anti-Zionism in Practice Means Demanding Israel’s Erasure One only need observe anti-Zionism in action over the last three years to see vindication of these students’ worldview, where anti-Israel rallies almost universally call for Israel to be dismantled or destroyed, rationalize or praise Palestinian terrorism, or some toxic combination thereof. For anti-Zionism, destruction of Israel is not a bug, but a central feature. Antizionism is not mere criticism of Israel, but the wholesale denial of Jewish collective rights. It is textbook antisemitism according to the widely-accepted International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition, embraced by Jewish communities across Canada. In our estimation, the Globe and Mail published a column in the apparent name of balance and which was penned by a fringe of Canadian Jews – purporting to speak on behalf of a significant number of them – defending the pernicious view that the Jewish People apparently do not have a right to self-determination in their own land. --- ## A Deep Dive Into CBC’s Front Burner Podcast: A Relentless Parade Of Anti-Israel Content, Paid For By Taxpayers URL: https://honestreporting.ca/a-deep-dive-into-cbcs-front-burner-podcast-a-relentless-parade-of-anti-israel-content-paid-for-by-taxpayers/ Type: post Modified: 2026-08-19 Words: 149 > An HonestReporting Canada analysis of the CBC podcast Front Burner since October 7, 2023 found a consistent pattern of one-sided coverage, including predominantly anti-Israel guests, minimal challenge to inflammatory claims and repeated... An HonestReporting Canada analysis of the CBC podcast Front Burner since October 7, 2023 found a consistent pattern of one-sided coverage, including predominantly anti-Israel guests, minimal challenge to inflammatory claims and repeated omissions of key context. Consistent over this period have been dozens of episodes, both by host Jayme Poisson and guest hosts, platforming genocide accusations and conspiracy theories and which in our view downplayed Hamas and Iran’s murderous ideology, along with attacks on Jewish organizations and the equation of Israeli self-defence with terrorism. Nearly one-sixth of all episodes have featured discussions of Israel or otherwise addressed it, in what can reasonably be called an obsession, paid for by Canada’s taxpayer. Please read our entire report below. To download your own copy, please click here. Listen to this article:0:000:001.0xYour browser does not support the audio element. --- ## A Deep Dive Into CBC’s Front Burner Podcast: A Relentless Parade Of Anti-Israel Content, Paid For By Taxpayers URL: https://honestreporting.ca/hrc-investigations/hrc-investigation-5 Type: hrc-investigations Modified: 2026-08-14 Words: 131 > Consistent over this period have been dozens of episodes, both by host Jayme Poisson and guest hosts, platforming genocide accusations An HonestReporting Canada analysis of the CBC podcast Front Burner since October 7, 2023 found a consistent pattern of one-sided coverage, including predominantly anti-Israel guests, minimal challenge to inflammatory claims and repeated omissions of key context. Consistent over this period have been dozens of episodes, both by host Jayme Poisson and guest hosts, platforming genocide accusations and conspiracy theories and which in our view downplayed Hamas and Iran’s murderous ideology, along with attacks on Jewish organizations and the equation of Israeli self-defence with terrorism. Nearly one-sixth of all episodes have featured discussions of Israel or otherwise addressed it, in what can reasonably be called an obsession, paid for by Canada’s taxpayer. Please read our entire report below. To download your own copy, please click here. --- ## In La Presse Column, Montreal Painter Raja Hammoud Complains About War On Lebanon While Failing To Mention Hezbollah A Single Time URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/in-la-presse-column-montreal-painter-raja-hammoud-complains-about-war-on-lebanon-while-failing-to-mention-hezbollah-a-single-time/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-08-12 Words: 1189 > Raja Hammoud’s August 7 La Presse opinion column lamented the suffering of Lebanese civilians while failing to mention Hezbollah Cliquez ici pour la version française Despite her apparent complete lack of any relevant expertise in the region, Montreal painter Raja Hammoud has been previously granted space by La Presse and Le Devoir to opine on the Middle East, which she in our view spread falsehoods about Israel. Those falsehoods include her spreading the false claim of “genocide” in Gaza without evidence in the pages of La Presse, as well as what we regard as a rambling soliloquy in Le Devoir about the war in Lebanon between Hezbollah and Israel, where she notably made no mention of Hezbollah’s war crimes against Jerusalem. And now, in an August 7 opinion column for La Presse, she complained about what she termed the insufficient attention paid to Lebanon by the world, asking readers to “imagine for a moment that the authorities of a foreign state order the complete evacuation of a Canadian, French or American city. Imagine that hundreds of thousands of civilians have a few hours to abandon their homes, neighborhoods and villages or be exposed to imminent bombing.” The scenario, she wrote, is taking place in Lebanon and Gaza, where people have been displaced. For all of Hammoud’s histrionics asking people to “imagine” life under war, she scandalously omitted any mention of the party that is actually responsible for war in Lebanon, namely Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Islamic terrorist group that openly states it seeks Israel’s destruction. Failing to write the word “Hezbollah” a single time anywhere in her column, Hammoud failed to admit to readers that it was the terrorist group that attacked Israel on October 8, 2023, firing rockets into the Jewish State in solidarity with Hamas, the terrorist group that carried out its own massacre the prior day. Earlier this year, again in solidarity with its patron, the Iranian regime, Hezbollah began attacking Israel, unprovoked, firing rockets into the country. This omission is so striking that it is akin, in our estimation, of authoring an opinion column complaining about the impact of war in Germany in 1945, somehow forgetting to mention that it was the Nazis that actually began the conflict by attacking their neighbours. Failing to share this absolutely foundational information with readers is not simply selective retelling, but a wholesale embrace of historical revisionism from our perspective. Hammoud wrote that “since the beginning of the military escalation, according to Lebanese health authorities, more than 4200 people have been killed and more than 16 600 injured.” Conveniently, she did not share that, according to a 2025 Saudi report, some 4,000 Hezbollah terrorists were killed in the war. Hammoud’s concern for Lebanese civilians is entirely legitimate, but in her zeal to assign blame to Israel, she not only displayed no interest in Israeli civilians murdered by Hezbollah, nor in telling readers that it was Hezbollah that willingly brought war to Lebanon in the first place. If Hammoud wants to use heavy emotional language, asking readers to imagine war in their own backyard, and thus have sympathy for Lebanon, then she ought to be consistent, asking readers to also imagine that they, or their friends and neighbours, were also active members of Hezbollah, and are firing rockets into a neighbouring country. Unsurprisingly, she did no such thing. Dans une chronique de La Presse, la peintre montréalaise Raja Hammoud déplore la guerre au Liban sans mentionner une seule fois le Hezbollah Malgré son apparent manque total d’expertise pertinente sur la région, la peintre montréalaise Raja Hammoud a déjà obtenu une tribune dans La Presse et Le Devoir pour s’exprimer sur le Moyen-Orient, tribunes qu’elle a utilisées, à notre avis, pour propager des contrevérités au sujet d’Israël. Parmi ces contrevérités figure la propagation, dans les pages de La Presse, de la fausse accusation de «génocide» à Gaza, sans fournir de preuves, ainsi qu’un soliloque décousu publié dans Le Devoir au sujet de la guerre entre le Hezbollah et Israël au Liban, dans lequel elle n’a notamment pas mentionné les crimes de guerre commis par le Hezbollah contre Israël. Et maintenant, dans une chronique d’opinion publiée le 7 août dans La Presse, elle déplore ce qu’elle considère comme l’attention insuffisante accordée au Liban par le monde, demandant aux lecteurs «d’imaginer un instant que les autorités d’un État étranger ordonnent l’évacuation complète d’une ville canadienne, française ou américaine. Imaginez que des centaines de milliers de civils aient quelques heures pour abandonner leurs maisons, leurs quartiers et leurs villages, sous peine d’être exposés à des bombardements imminents». Selon elle, ce scénario se déroule au Liban et à Gaza, où des populations ont été déplacées. Malgré tous ses grands effets rhétoriques invitant les lecteurs à «imaginer» la vie en temps de guerre, Hammoud a scandaleusement omis toute mention de l’acteur qui est directement responsable du déclenchement de la guerre au Liban : le Hezbol... --- ## Edmonton Journal Cartoon Rightly Identifies Anti-Zionism As Root Cause Of Modern Anti-Jewish Hatred URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/edmonton-journal-cartoon-rightly-identifies-anti-zionism-as-root-cause-of-modern-anti-jewish-hatred/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-08-13 Words: 524 > In an August 7 editorial cartoon in The Edmonton Journal, artist Malcolm Mayes offered a rare moment of clarity Is the news media waking up to what many Canadians have already known over the last three years, namely that anti-Zionism – the denial of the Jewish People’s right to self-determination in their own historic homeland – is at the heart of contemporary anti-Jewish terrorism in Canada? First, on August 5, The Globe and Mail plainly acknowledged that “the rejection of Israel, of its very right to exist, has become the growth medium for the contagion of antisemitism.” And then, two days later, The Edmonton Journal published an editorial cartoon by artist Malcolm Mayes which portrayed the reality with rare clarity: portraying a wolf (“antisemitism”) hiding under the sheep of “anti-Zionism.” The meaning is clear: contemporary Jew-haters (albeit ever so slightly) mask their hatred under the guise of anti-Zionism, which has become more politically acceptable in the news media, academia, and even society in general. As the organization CIJA noted in a social media post, that clarity comes amidst a shameless failure of leadership in Edmonton specifically. Edmonton Mayor Andrew Knack publicly condemned the city’s police chief for daring to visit Israel on a policing fact-finding mission, not because he was not going to learn anything there, but because it could “cause real hurt” among locals. Meanwhile, local city councillor Michael Janz – whose constituency is thousands of kilometres away from Israel – has taken to social media, in our view, to demonize the Jewish State, and spread claims that critics have said is reminiscent of medieval tropes of bloodthirsty Jews. In mid-July, Janz publicly called for Israel’s pavilion to be banned from the city’s upcoming heritage festival, though he offered no public call for noted violators of human rights like China, Somalia, the non-existent country of “Palestine,” or Turkey to be banned. Such rhetoric seeking to demonize Israel rarely exists in a vacuum, and sure enough, at the heritage event, a small but loud group of anti-Israel activists unsuccessfully attempted to disrupt the festivities. The event was then marred by what appears to be an attempted stabbing attack by a man, who was then arrested by police. Anti-Zionism is not legitimate criticism of Israel, but a hate movement in its own right, seeking to rob the Jewish People alone of their right to self-determination, and the sooner that more news media outlets – to say nothing of political and academic leadership – come to recognize this inarguable fact, the sooner that they will be able to meaningfully stand up to the scourge of Islamist terrorism that has swept Canada over the last three years. The threat from such terrorism are not only Jews, but Canadians in general, whose taxes are now paying for increased policing and enforcement as a result of ineffectual municipal, provincial and federal legislation to stop such attacks, and the pernicious anti-Zionist ideology that underpins them. Taxpayers are footing the bill for increased policing, security measures and enforcement. But the cost is not merely financial. Any ideology such as anti-Zionism that invariably leads to violence and terrorism should be recognized as a hate movement by any civilized Canadian. --- ## CBC News’ Jayme Poisson Continues To Portray Israel & Its Allies As Worthy Of Suspicion URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/cbc-news-jayme-poisson-continues-to-portray-israel-its-allies-as-worthy-of-suspicion/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-08-11 Words: 556 > In our view, she took the opportunity to paint AIPAC as a menacing figure (ignoring far larger lobbying efforts by other countries, including Qatar) CBC’s Front Burner podcast, hosted by Jayme Poisson, has been repeatedly documented by HonestReporting Canada for its incessant coverage of Israel’s alleged misdeeds, relying overwhelmingly on those who denounce the Jewish State, who are given largely uncritical interviews. Across multiple programs, Poisson in our view has failed to challenge anti-Israel claims, gave overwhelming platforms to anti-Israel activists, amplified unfounded conspiracy theories and disinformation, and permitted slurs like “genocide” to be spread without pushback. Now Poisson has taken that agenda to the written word, with her August 4 article for CBC News, “Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary puts spotlight on big money and pro-Israel lobby,” (read the article in full by clicking here) where she focused on the recent Democratic Senate primary in Michigan between radical anti-Israel candidate Abdul El-Sayed, and moderate candidate Haley Stevens. El Sayed ended up winning the August 4 primary, though by less than a percentage point. While the Michigan primary was indeed a major story, in part because of El Sayed’s denunciations of Jerusalem and calls for all American military sales to Israel to be stopped, even those even defensive in nature, Poisson’s article in our estimation falsely painted the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC with suspicion and failed to challenge the scandalous charges leveled against Israel. She quoted Metro State University professor Doug Rossinow as claiming that AIPAC is the “leading lobby” in the United States. However, she could have noted that pro-Israel lobbies are dwarfed by other countries, including China, Japan, Liberia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Qatar and others. Qatar, for example – the tiny, oil-rich kingdom which hosts the leaders of Hamas – has invested some $400 billion (USD) in its quest for influence in the world’s eminent superpower, though some estimates say the true figure is north of a trillion dollars (USD). However, Poisson offered no fact-checking of Rossinow’s claim. Nor did Poisson provide readers with any fact-checking in the face of claims of “horrific genocide” in Gaza from El-Sayed, which has never been proven by any international court, and experts have said has no basis in reality, while critics have been forced to seek the redefinition of the very word in order to shoehorn in the “genocide” slur. Furthermore and from our vantage point, Poisson even appeared to cast aspersions on those who did not share this unfounded and unproven allegation, writing that the moderate Stevens “has said that she does not think Israel has committed genocide in Gaza,” as if such a view was somehow the position that needed to be scrutinized. One of those interviewed in her article, Matt Duss, the executive vice president of the Center for International Policy, as well as a former foreign policy adviser to U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, was previously her guest on Front Burner, where he predictably framed Israel as the main obstacle to peace, and displayed little interest in discussing the openly genocidal worldview of Hamas and its backer, the Islamic Republic of Iran. Once again, Poisson’s reporting demonstrates a consistent pattern: allegations against Israel are treated as presumed facts, while those who refuse to fall into line with such claims are presented with as requiring justification. As a result, CBC News has once again pushed the Canadian taxpayer towards a particular conclusion. --- ## CBC The Current Again Platforms Ali Vaez, Accused Of Inappropriate Ties To Iranian Regime URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/cbc-the-current-again-platforms-ali-vaez-accused-of-inappropriate-ties-to-iranian-regime/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-08-11 Words: 630 > CBC’s The Current radio program has yet again featured an interview with Ali Vaez During negotiations between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran in 2015 over Tehran’s nuclear program, Ali Vaez, a mediator, emailed Iran’s foreign minister, and told him that “as an Iranian, based on my national and patriotic duty, I have not hesitated to help you in any way,” according to The New York Times. News reports stated that Vaez was recruited by the Iran Experts Initiative (IEI), set up by the Iranian regime, to promote its interests in the United States, and he was later denied a security clearance to serve the Biden administration, though he denies having worked for the Iranian regime. Robert Malley, for whom Vaez worked under at the International Crisis Group, was previously under an FBI investigation for allegedly mishandling classified documents and that probe of his allegedly mishandling classified information was subsequently closed. On August 5, Vaez was the guest on a segment for the CBC radio program The Current, “Are the U.S. and Iran in a forever war?” (listen by clicking here) where guest host Loren McGinnis introduced him simply as “deputy program director for Middle East and North Africa at the International Crisis Group and was a mediator during the negotiations for the 2015 Iran nuclear deal,” and made zero mention of his controversies or the very serious allegations that have been leveled against him. Click below to listen to the audio: CBC is entitled to present Vaez’s perspective. The failure, however, is in omitting any information that would give listeners a full picture of who he is, and whether his analysis can be considered truly independent of the Iranian regime given the allegations against him. Indeed, over the course of the interview, Vaez portrayed the Islamic Republic of Iran as the true victim, telling listeners that “if you’re Iran and you’ve been attacked twice in less than a year by two nuclear powers, a global military superpower and a global intelligence superpower, Israel, you don’t want to become another Lebanon or another Gaza in which every few months, uh as if there’s a calendar reminder, the US and Israel will bomb you.” What Vaez conveniently forgot to add is that Iran’s fanatical regime is hardly the passive recipient in the region. For decades, it has actively financed, armed and trained an array of Islamist terrorist proxies, including Hamas, the Houthis and Hezbollah, who have waged war on Israel and American interests throughout the Middle East and even beyond. Incredibly, this selective retelling on Vaez’s part received no challenge from McGinnis, who ought to have reminded listeners that Iran’s leaders have long publicly declared that their regime seeks the complete destruction of Israel, and that most Israelis killed in war and terrorism since the 1979 Islamic Revolution has been at the hands of an Iranian-backed proxy. Less than three months earlier, Vaez was also a guest on The Current, where he spoke with host Matt Galloway, who complimented him, saying that his analysis was “helpful in just understanding a situation that is so confusing and complicated.” During that interview, Vaez’s comments in our view once again echoed pro-Iranian propaganda, claiming that strikes against the Islamic Republic represented “wars of aggression,” and made little mention of Tehran’s longstanding support for terrorist proxy groups or its openly-stated goal to annihilate Israel. In that interview, as well, Galloway failed to inform listeners about allegations of inappropriate ties between Vaez and Iran. In our estimation, CBC’s The Current has now twice given Vaez a prominent platform to present views appearing to be consistent with Iran’s regime, all while failing to mention significant allegations surrounding his alleged ties to the Islamic Republic of Iran. --- ## Prince George High School Teacher & Columnist Gerry Chidiac Blames Israel For Lack Of Peace While Ignoring Hamas’ Genocidal Ideology URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/prince-george-high-school-teacher-columnist-gerry-chidiac-blames-israel-for-lack-of-peace-while-ignoring-hamas-genocidal-ideology/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-08-10 Words: 609 > Gerry Chidiac is a high school teacher in Prince George, British Columbia and opinion columnist for the local newspaper Gerry Chidiac is a high school teacher in Prince George, British Columbia and opinion columnist for the local newspaper, the Prince George Daily News, where he has repeatedly used his platform to fixate on Israel, a country located some 10,000 kilometres away, even going so far as to appear in our eyes as comparing Israel’s counter-terrorism operations to the Nazis. His social media activity, meanwhile, is almost exclusively filled with radical anti-Israel propaganda, including sharing posts again appearing to compare Israel to the Nazis, a post stating that “Israel is unadulterated evil,” spreading the conspiracy theory that Israel manipulated the U.S. into bombing Iran, sharing a video from the controversial Irish band Kneecap featuring an image of convicted Palestinian terrorist Marwan Barghouti, with the caption “Free Marwan,” as well as sharing a post saying “I love Francesca,” referring to UN official Francesca Albanese, who has peddled antisemitic conspiracy theories. Click below to view the shared posts: In his August 5 opinion column in The Prince George Daily News entitled: “Israel must think beyond the current crisis,” (click here to view the article in full) Chidiac in our view attempted to frame Israel as the obstruction to peace in the Middle East, asking rhetorically whether Israel can achieve security “primarily through military power while remaining in seemingly permanent conflict with millions of other people who share the Levant?” He then shared in detail allegations from two anti-Israel authors, Omer Bartov and Ilan Pappe, who have accused Jerusalem of genocide, before making his ultimate case that Israel has shown no interest in making peace with its neighbours. While he offered passing mention to Islamic extremism and Hamas’ October 7 massacres, comparing them to Israeli counter-terrorism operations, Chidiac provided readers with no insight whatsoever into the openly genocidal worldview of Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), Hezbollah or other groups, and their patron, the Islamic Republic of Iran, who make no secret of their vision to destroy Israel. This is a particularly curious omission for Chidiac, whose biography in the newspaper claims that he specializes in “genocide studies.” It is those who seek to destroy Israel that are the ultimate obstacle to anything even remotely resembling peace in the region. What possible peace can arise when terrorist groups like Hamas – who, according to polls, have historically enjoyed widespread support in Palestinian society, including for its October 7, 2023 massacres – openly call for the annihilation of Israel? For a columnist who previously claimed that “anti-Jewish sentiment has been largely absent in the pro-Palestine rallies,” this failure to recognize and acknowledge the genocidal worldview of Hamas and its supporters is inexcusable in our opinion. Indeed, Chidiac exhibited little interest in introducing readers to this reality and instead continued to promote the narrative that Israel is an obstructionist country that has refused to meaningfully make peace with its neighbours. Israel has signed peace agreements with multiple Arab & Islamic states, including Morocco, Sudan, Egypt, Jordan, Somaliland, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, and it has repeatedly offered enormous swathes of land to the Palestinians for the creation of their own state (offers which have been rejected in favour of terrorism). Once again, Chidiac made no mention of these central facts, either, instead relying on his consistent yet absurd message that Israel is the problem. For a columnist who claims to specialize in genocide studies, Chidiac’s analysis displays a remarkable blind spot in our view: he scrutinizes Israel’s actions while largely ignoring the stated genocidal ambitions of those committed to destroying it. Does Chidiac employ this same kind of selective omission in his high school classroom? --- ## In Globe & Mail, Mark Kersten Ignores Controversies Associated With International Criminal Court’s (ICC) Credibility and Conduct URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/in-globe-mail-mark-kersten-ignores-controversies-associated-with-international-criminal-courts-icc-credibility-and-conduct/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-08-11 Words: 581 > He told readers that Canada ought to repeat that it is “a proud and sovereign state” that respects the ICC and its warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Mark Kersten, an assistant professor of criminology & criminal justice at the University of the Fraser Valley, one of Canada’s lowest-ranked universities, has previously made what we regard as heavy appeals to emotion in an effort to spread anti-Israel falsehoods, and is back with a new opinion column in The Globe and Mail where he treated unfounded charges by the controversial International Criminal Court (ICC) as inherently credible. Kersten’s August 6 column entitled: “Failing to fulfill ICC warrants is also a failure to defend Canada’s sovereignty,” continued to amplify the concocted controversy first made by CBC News’ Evan Dyer about Israeli government overflights of Canadian airspace en route to the United States. He told readers that Canada ought to repeat that it is “a proud and sovereign state” that respects the ICC and its warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, claiming that it was based on “careful investigation,” and consequently, should not have permitted Israeli flights to fly over Canadian airspace. Yet in his defence of the controversial criminal court, Kersten did not see fit to acknowledge that Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor under whom the warrants were issued, was allegedly encouraged by the oil-rich Hamas protectorate of Qatar, which promised Khan it would “look after” him if he targeted Israel, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation. The Guardian newspaper also released an investigation alleging that Qatari intelligence had targeted Khan’s alleged victim in a covert operation aimed at discrediting the accusations leveled against him by a colleague who had accused him of sexual abuse. These are serious charges that call into direct question the ICC’s entire motivation for targeting Israel. That they were completely ignored by Kersten is highly suspect in our view. Nor did Kersten tell readers that, just days before his column was published, the same Khan was summarily fired from his job with a two-thirds majority of member countries because of the same accusations of sexual impropriety by that colleague, indicating that they may have been credible enough to terminate his employment. Critics of Khan, meanwhile, have long said that they see his targeting of Israel’s leaders as being related to his desire to distract from his own personal and legal issues. The veritable mountain of evidence against the ICC raises serious questions about whether the world court has any credibility in its arrest warrants issued against Israeli leaders. But rather than address these concerns, and attempt to challenge them, Kersten simply saw fit to ignore them instead. Kersten’s column would be highly problematic in its own right, but is particularly notable given that, just days earlier, an editorial in The Globe and Mail rightly pointed out that antizionism is at the core of contemporary anti-Jewish terrorism in Canada. The disconnect is striking: while acknowledging the dangers of anti-Jewish hatred in one editorial, the newspaper simultaneously published commentary that, in our view, uncritically advances one of the central narratives, namely demonizing Israel, that is driving that very same hostility. Kersten’s column, like many of his others, takes on a circular reasoning which de facto assumes the credibility and legitimacy of the International Criminal Court and other accusations against Israel, without actually making the case. That trial-by-media, where accusations against Israel are made so often that, even in the absence of proof, they become widely-accepted, is not indicative of a serious commentary, and should not be treated as such. --- ## Beyond The Byline: Globe & Mail Reporter Mark MacKinnon Reveals A Consistent Reliance On Anti-Israel Themes On Social Media URL: https://honestreporting.ca/beyond-the-byline-globe-mail-reporter-mark-mackinnon-reveals-a-consistent-reliance-on-anti-israel-themes-on-social-media/ Type: post Modified: 2026-08-07 Words: 545 > A review of his recent posts shows what we consider to be a consistent focus on framing Israel as the culprit In repeated instances over the last three years, Globe & Mail Senior International Correspondent Mark MacKinnon’s reporting on the Middle East has been documented by HonestReporting Canada, highlighting its consistent problems. He has portrayed Israelis as extremists, minimized in our view the threat posed by the Islamic Republic of Iran (but casting aspersions on Israel instead), and appeared in our eyes to blame “colonialism” for Hamas’ desire to destroy Israel. In addition to his bylines in The Globe & Mail, MacKinnon is a prolific disseminator of content on his X profile which has 93,200+ followers. And while it varies, with much of it discussing the Russo-Ukraine War and U.S. politics, MacKinnon’s frequent posts about the Middle East consistently offer a very narrow perspective for readers in our estimation. And while his social media activity is not in itself indicative of bias in his reporting, the consistent themes he amplifies do offer a highly curated viewpoint that is also reflected in much of his writings. Over the course of dozens of re-posts just over the last three months relating to Israel & the Middle East, three consistent themes continue to re-appear. Click below to view the images: The first theme paints Israel as the alleged main cause of civilian suffering. Across multiple posts shared by MacKinnon, a consistent theme features coverage of civilian casualties in Gaza or Lebanon, destruction of buildings, and accusations leveled against Jerusalem by critics. Another consistent image presented to MacKinnon’s followers depicts Israel as being under growing moral isolation, with repeated posts from Canadian government officials, and other stories featuring calls for sanctions against Israel, or Israeli diplomatic setbacks. Third, MacKinnon has re-posted many stories featuring Israel being internally fractured, with content focusing on political infighting in Israel, social divisions and critics of Israel, both internal and external. While MacKinnon may argue that his posts do not necessarily reflect his personal viewpoints (“retweets are not endorsements”), but are simply shared out of interest, it is what he has failed to share in recent months that is equally notable. Little, if any, attention is paid to the threat of radical Islamist terrorism, or to the openly genocidal worldview espoused by the Islamic Republic of Iran and its proxies, including Hamas and Hezbollah. It is also illustrative which users MacKinnon has repeatedly shared. They include New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, whose widely-mocked (and later debunked by animal behaviorists) story alleging Israel trained dogs to rape Palestinian prisoners, Kenneth Roth, who critics say has transformed Human Rights Watch into an anti-Israel platform (and now is an apparent conspiracy theorist), CBC News Senior Reporter Evan Dyer, whose highly problematic reports have been critiqued by HonestReporting Canada, and Ha’aretz, a far-left Israeli news website which critics say has little engagement with the vast majority of Israelis. MacKinnon’s social media patterns in our view cumulatively create a narrow narrative in which allegations thrown at Israel, and the critics making those claims, are repeatedly amplified, all while the dark forces and ideologies driving much of the region’s instability are often pushed to the margins, and when these actors (like Iran and Hamas) are mentioned at all, they are often framed as reasonable pragmatists. --- ## Globe & Mail Editorial Exposes Canadian Politicians’ Failure To Call Out The Hateful Antizionism Driving Recent Acts Of Terrorism URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/globe-mail-editorial-exposes-canadian-politicians-failure-to-call-out-the-hateful-antizionism-driving-recent-acts-of-terrorism/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-08-07 Words: 532 > Following another terrorist attack targeting Jews in Canada, The Globe and Mail’s August 5 editorial criticized the hollow cycle After yet another terrorist attack targeting Jews on Canadian soil (which experts say has all the hallmarks of being directed by the Islamic Republic of Iran), the response across much of the Canadian political class has been an official condemnation, but often little else. That obscene practice was mocked in an August 5 editorial in The Globe & Mail, “Thoughts and prayers, Canadian style,” which compared the knee-jerk reaction to Canadian politicians with the call for “thoughts and prayers” by U.S. politicians following mass shootings there. Rather than offer empty platitudes, such as that such terrorism is “unacceptable” or “not who we are,” rarely have officials at any level of government asked questions such as “why did this antisemitic attack happen? What could have been done to prevent it? And what action can (the) government take to help to head off the next attack,” the editorial notes. While those questions may have been stated rhetorically, the editorial soon states the plain truth: “antizionism is fuelling the rise in antisemitism. The rejection of Israel, of its very right to exist, has become the growth medium for the contagion of antisemitism.” Zionism has been relentlessly demonized by extremists in recent years, seeking to portray that inalienable right as racist, colonial and oppressive. Yet it is none of those things; it is simply the view that the Jewish People have a right to self-determination in their historic and ancestral homeland. However, the inability to properly identify the scourge of anti-Jewish (and consequently, anti-Canadian) terrorism has been widespread, with the editorial noting that even Prime Minister Mark Carney, in his June speech on antisemitism, failed to acknowledge this most obvious reality. In recent years, antisemitism does not manifest primarily as Nazi-like racial hatred (though that imagery is often used by pro-Hamas mobs), but as a rejection of Israel’s very right to exist, and the subsequent demonization of Jews as a result. As noted in the editorial, one only need look at the spike in hate crimes targeting Jews following the October 7, 2023 massacres by Palestinian terrorists in Israel to recognize that there is not only correlation, but causation. Substantive inaction, as problematic as it may be, is shadowed only by those who have actively fueled the fire, such as Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow. As the editorial points out, she has refused to attend one of Toronto’s biggest events, the Walk with Israel, which attracted some 60,000 participants in 2026, though that has not stopped her – upon prompting by a participant at the recent Pride Parade – repeating the phrase “Free Palestine,” a favourite catchphrase of anti-Israel demonstrations. While Chow’s condemnations of foreign-driven terrorist attacks in Canada are particularly empty given her apparent embrace of antizionist activism, politicians are hardly alone in their failure to call a spade a spade and acknowledge that antizionism is the key driver of antisemitism, and in turn, the spate of terrorism. The news media has a solemn duty to not simply report on an incident, but to ask elected officials and those in power about what ideology is driving the hatred, rather than leaving it vague and ambiguous. --- ## Toronto Star “Investigation” Portrays Anti-Israel Activist Dr. Kavita Algu As Victim, All While Omitting Critical Facts URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/toronto-star-investigation-portrays-anti-israel-activist-dr-kavita-algu-as-victim-all-while-omitting-critical-facts/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-08-06 Words: 762 > Left out were Algu's role in a media group promoting anti-Israel activism In the months following Hamas’ October 7, 2023 massacres in southern Israel, Shree Paradkar, as the social and racial justice columnist at The Toronto Star, relentlessly lambasted Israel, blurring the line between Israel and fanatical Islamic terrorists, regurgitating anti-Israel propaganda without apparent scrutiny, and claiming Hamas’ attacks should be put in “context.” Journalist Warren Kinsella condemned one of her columns as a “hate pamphlet.” But a consistent theme from Paradkar was not just condemning Israel; it was attempting to portray anti-Israel activists as victims, and not individuals who faced consequences for their own actions, such as Mackenzie Richmond Hill Hospital nephrologist Ben Thomson, who spread the false conspiracy theory that there were no confirmed rapes on October 7 and subsequently faced suspension. She has also sought to characterize opposition to pro-Palestinian activism as racism. Paradkar, now called an investigative reporter by The Toronto Star, has returned with a characteristic report on August 2 where she portrayed a vocal anti-Israel activist in overwhelmingly sympathetic terms. Click below to view the high-res images: Her 2,300-word “investigation,” “A tight-knit Toronto hospital unit cared for the dying. Then, a war thousands of miles away tore them apart,” introduced readers to Kavita Algu, a former palliative care physician at Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital who was a vocal anti-Israel activist on social media and at protests, and who has previously authored what we regard as a misinformation-riddled column for The Toronto Star. Paradkar notes that “a workplace investigator brought in after Algu made a discrimination complaint found she was disruptive, unprofessional and had a disproportionately negative impact on the workplace culture.” Yet Algu was not fired, nor is there any evidence to our knowledge that she faced any disciplinary action from her employer. She later left Mount Sinai Hospital to work for Inner City Health Associates. However, Paradkar – who relied overwhelmingly on Algu’s retelling in her column – portrayed Algu as a victim of censorship, quoted her as saying that “I could no longer bring myself to give my labour to a workplace where people were targeted for speaking out against a genocide, including the bombing of hospitals and the murder and abduction of our Palestinian colleagues.” Curiously, no mention was made by Paradkar that Algu serves as a board member of Movement Media Hub, alongside a roster of other anti-Israel activists, including regular protester Gur Tsabar, and MacDonald (Mac) Scott, an immigration consultant with Carranza LLP who was arrested in November, 2023 for vandalizing an Indigo bookstore and later pled guilty. Movement Media Hub boasts that it “provides pro-bono strategic public relations and media execution support to organized progressive communities and social justice movements in Toronto, Canada, and beyond,” and as noted by protest watcher Caryma Sa’d, “on its website, MMH claims to have secured over 450 news segments and pieces.” Footage from a protest shared by Sa’d showed Algu speaking, apparently in support of activists arrested for their involvement in Palestine Action, a banned terrorist group in the UK. Just before she spoke, Tsabar and another protester were bellowing “long live intifada” on bullhorns. The intifada was a period of Palestinian terrorism from 2000 to 2005 which killed around 1,000 Israelis, mostly civilians. The intifada was perpetuated largely by Palestinians in the “West Bank” (Judea & Samaria), though this has not stopped Algu from claiming there is “no Hamas” there, a brazen falsehood. Nor did Paradkar investigate Algu’s connections to other anti-Israel activists, including Ottawa-area physician Yipeng Ge, who has posted images to social media appearing to glorify the October 7, 2023 massacres (Algu has told him “I love you” on X). Algu practices medicine under Duncan Algu Medicine Professional Corporation, alongside Dallas Duncan, an cardiac anesthesiologist at Toronto General Hospital and assistant professor in the Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine department at University of Toronto. Like Algu, Duncan is a prolific social media user, repeatedly demonizing Israel online in our view. No mention was made of this by Paradkar, either. These omissions on Paradkar’s part are not minor. They are precisely the questions an investigative reporter should have asked, but in this case, didn’t. The Toronto Star could have fully investigated Kavita Algu’s most controversial activities, her affiliations with other anti-Israel activists, or her involvement in Movement Media Hub. Instead, reporter Shree Paradkar turned her into something of a folk hero, ending with her proclaiming that “I lost my job over Palestine, but I found a deeper commitment to life and justice.” --- ## Canadian Museum For Human Rights CEO Isha Khan Defends Controversial Palestinian Exhibit In Winnipeg Free Press; Avoids Addressing Real Concerns & Offers Flowery Language Instead URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/canadian-museum-for-human-rights-ceo-isha-khan-defends-controversial-palestinian-exhibit-in-winnipeg-free-press-avoids-addressing-real-concerns-offers-flowery-language-instead/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-08-06 Words: 596 > Canadian Museum for Human Rights CEO Isha Khan defended the institution’s controversial Palestinian exhibit In an August 1 opinion column in The Winnipeg Free Press defending the new controversial Palestinian exhibit at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, the institution’s CEO, Isha Khan, in our view failed to meaningfully address many of the serious objections that have been leveled by observers. Her column, “Palestinian Canadian stories belong,” relied largely on flowery language to defend the exhibit, writing that it is “a reminder that behind every headline there are real people we must approach with empathy,” before adding that “much of the coverage and commentary has failed to do that, often omitting Palestinian voices entirely.” It is unclear what is the source of Khan’s claim of widespread erasure of Palestinian voices, but there is no evidence for it whatsoever. In fact, much of the Canadian news media has incessantly platformed pro-Palestinian claims, uncritically repeating anti-Israel activists, and often simply taking complaints by activist groups and laundering it into ‘news’ stories. Most notably, CBC, Canada’s publicly-funded broadcaster, has been particularly consistent in its anti-Israel bias. While Khan acknowledged concerns that the exhibit erased Jewish voices from its retelling of Israel’s 1948 War of Independence, writing that “nothing about the way these stories are shared justifies the human rights violations that Jewish people continue to experience,” she failed to address the more fundamental concerns about the nature of the exhibit. Her words overlook the actual problems noted by critics, who have accused the museum of spreading historical revisionism and claiming that Israel – rather than the Arab states who sought its destruction – was the culprit in the war. Prior to 1948, Jewish representatives repeatedly agreed to carve up their historic homeland into both a Jewish and Arab state, but those proposals were roundly rejected by Arabs within pre-state Israel, as well as in Arab states, who sought to strangle the country even before it achieved independence. And yet, as visitors to the museum’s exhibit have pointed out, the language frames Israel as the aggressor, rather than a country seeking to defend its existence against parties seeking its total destruction. However, those foundational criticisms were never addressed in Khan’s opinion column, who instead waxed poetic about the need for understanding and tolerance. Khan wrote that the exhibit is guided by the museum’s mandate to “to be for human rights, to promote reflection and dialogue, to broaden our shared understanding of human rights and inspire people to take action to protect them.” While these may be worthy endeavours in theory, they must be driven by a commitment to truth, facts and historical accuracy. In that absence and in our estimation, telling stories does not further reconciliation or peace, but only serves to promote disinformation and historical revisionism instead. Khan also ignored the problematic makeup of the exhibit’s Palestinian Content Advisory Network, which helped advise the exhibit. Its make up included Ramsey Zeid, president of the Canadian Palestinian Association of Manitoba, who has been seen at a local anti-Israel demonstration appearing to encourage children to spread anti-Jewish slurs, as well as Najat El-Khairy, a local artist whose work was promoted by the hardline anti-Israel group Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), which organized celebrations after the October 7, 2023 massacres. Another member, Abigail Bakan, signed a 2023 open letter which claimed that Hamas’ murders could be “contextualized.” These are real and very serious concerns about the exhibit and who helped steer it. But rather than acknowledge them, Khan in our view simply skipped over them completely and offered readers lofty rhetoric instead. --- ## After Retired U.S. Diplomat Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley Made Absurd Claim That 1,000 Palestinians Are Killed Daily In Gaza, With No Challenge By CBC News, HRC Complaint Prompts On-Air Correction URL: https://honestreporting.ca/after-retired-u-s-diplomat-gina-abercrombie-winstanley-made-absurd-claim-that-1000-palestinians-are-killed-daily-in-gaza-with-no-challenge-by-cbc-news-hrc-complaint-prompts-on-air-correction/ Type: post Modified: 2026-08-05 Words: 787 > Retired U.S. diplomat Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley claimed that more than 1,000 Palestinians are being killed every day in Gaza since the October ceasefire In a July 31 interview on the CBC News program Morning Live with guest host John Northcott, retired American diplomat Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley was interviewed for eight minutes on the topic of the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza. Abercrombie-Winstanley has served as the chief diversity and inclusion officer of the United States Department of State under the Biden administration, as well as ambassador to Malta, a European microstate with a population smaller than Brampton, Ontario. Click below to watch the video: The caption on screen informed viewers that she was the former deputy director for Iran affairs, though nowhere in her official biography lists any such title or responsibility, and it is unclear on what basis CBC made such a claim. Abercrombie-Winstanley’s comments were rife with falsehoods and misinformation. At one point, claiming that aid is “very restricted” coming into Gaza, she told Northcott that “right now, 500 trucks per week pass into the Gaza Strip.” In fact, according to COGAT, the agency coordinating aid into Gaza, the correct figure is roughly 600 trucks per day being permitted into the coastal territory. Despite her claim effectively reducing aid figures by some 85 percent, she was not challenged by Northcott, who permitted her false statement to stand unchallenged. Near the end of the interview, she made another eyebrow-raising allegation, telling viewers that “five Israeli soldiers have been killed, over a thousand Palestinians, including many civilians have been killed daily since a ceasefire began.” Once again, Abercrombie-Winstanley’s figure is not only false, but wrong to the power of roughly 300. In fact, since the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel took effect in October, 2025, an estimated 1,000 Palestinians have died in total, not daily. If her outlandish allegation were correct, that would mean that some 300,000 Palestinians have been killed in less than a year, a figure that no legitimate body, even Hamas, claims to be the case. Moreover, the (actual) figure includes hundreds of terrorist operatives (Israel claims 420), including individuals who participated in the October 7, 2023 massacres in Israel, as well as other active members of terrorist groups like Hamas, and represents a remarkably low proportion of civilian casualties, in particular given the intense urban combat environment. This is not the first time that Abercrombie-Winstanley has made highly questionable comments on Canada’s taxpayer-funded broadcaster. In February, 2025, she was interviewed by host Dwight Drummond, who failed to offer any challenge to her claims, and in fact muttered agreement. After castigating “both sides,” she soon launched into a rant casting unfounded aspersions on Israel’s identity, alleging that “the state and people of Israel have decided de facto that it is more important to have a Jewish state than a democratic state.” In actuality, Israel is a liberal democracy with equal rights for all citizens, Jewish or not. Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley’s falsehoods spoken during the July 31 interview on CBC News’ Morning Live were so preposterous and out of step with reality that it should have prompted an immediate correction from host John Northcott. Incredibly, none was forthcoming. Consequently, HonestReporting Canada filed an official complaint with CBC News executives and requested an immediate on-air correction to be broadcast. On August 1, CBC News Network aired the following on-air correction orated by CBC Anchor Marianne Dimain: “We’d like to clarify statements made in an interview yesterday with former U.S. Ambassador Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley. Referring to casualties in Gaza, she suggested over one thousand Palestinians have been killed per day since the ceasefire. In fact, that reflects the total number of reported deaths since the ceasefire began. She also talked about the number of trucks entering Gaza. Israeli officials state up to six hundred trucks enter every day. Humanitarian groups estimate that fewer than one hundred and fifty of them are strictly carrying humanitarian aid.” Click below to watch the video: The correction has also been published on the CBC News Corrections and Clarifications page. This correction is more than just a retraction—it is a powerful reminder that facts matter and that persistent media monitoring and evidence-based advocacy can make a real difference. Holding influential media organizations accountable is never easy, but today’s outcome demonstrates that determined engagement can help ensure greater accuracy and fairness in reporting about Israel. None of this would be possible without the unwavering support of subscribers like you. Your generosity empowers HonestReporting Canada to monitor the media, challenge misinformation, and defend truthful reporting every single day. Together, we are making a measurable impact and with your continued support, we can hold even more media outlets accountable in the months and years ahead. --- ## Canadian Press Reporter Dylan Robertson Uncritically Amplifies Anti-Israel Complaints By United Nations URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/canadian-press-reporter-dylan-robertson-uncritically-amplifies-anti-israel-complaints-by-united-nations/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-08-06 Words: 750 > The report omitted essential context about Hamas’ role in the war and the security threats driving Israel's actions. One cannot write credibly about the situation in Gaza without acknowledging the existential threat that Hamas poses to Israel’s security. Ignoring their transparently genocidal ideology to wipe Israel off the map and their openly-stated intention to repeat their October 7, 2023 massacres and hostage taking, presents a skewed view of the situation in Gaza. However, Canadian Press reporter Dylan Robertson did exactly that in his July 28 article, “UNICEF Gaza chief says Israeli destruction, restrictions squandering Canadian aid,” which was also published by CTV News, The Globe and Mail, Le Devoir and elsewhere across Canada in both official languages. In it, he painted Israel as perpetrating purposeless violence, ignoring the raison d’etre of the war: Israel’s survival. Robertson wrote that the UN “warns that some of its aid money is being squandered by Israel’s attacks on water facilities and restrictions on aid groups.” He added that “Jonathan Veitch, the head of UNICEF for the Palestinian territories, said the Israeli military’s destruction of facilities like the Canada Well and attacks on those paid to deliver water are making survival harder for desperate families now living in rat-infested tents.” While Robertson did include the Israel Defense Forces’ statement on the destruction of Canada Well, it was overwhelmed by the main focus of the article: Israel being blamed. As for Israel’s attacks on two UNICEF truck drivers delivering water, Israel said that the participants were armed and posing a threat. Curiously, UNICEF did not appear to have shared their identities. Additionally, Robertson’s portrayal of Israel denying Gaza sufficient water was at odds with Israeli military aid body COGAT, which reported that “every day, over 70,000 cubic meters of water are provided to the Gaza Strip through multiple water lines and desalination facilities, exceeding the benchmark for a population’s water needs.” Yet Robertson’s most glaring omission might be that he ignored that Hamas deliberately hides itself and its infrastructure behind its most vulnerable: in schools, children’s bedrooms and hospitals. The terrorist group has endangered its own, and yet Robertson permitted all the blame to be placed on Israel. His statement that “UNICEF says nearly 300 children have been killed by hostilities in Gaza since a ceasefire took effect last October” was an example of this. He did not acknowledge that his statistic was presumably sourced in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry, whose data has been shown to be completely unreliable, including because it conflates fighters and civilians. Additionally, Hamas is notorious for using minors in its terror activities, despite their being categorized as “children.” Robertson went on to repeat denunciations of Israel for limiting the equipment coming into Gaza, writing that “Israel says it is preventing Hamas from building weapons or diverting supplies into the black market to finance its attacks. But aid groups say Israel’s restrictions are far too broad.” Given that multiple NGOs have been alleged to cooperate with Hamas-linked institutions, their criticism is highly suspect. Hamas has a clear record of diverting aid to build its terror infrastructure, and the threat that it poses to Israel’s existence is real: the question is why Robertson made no mention of this. Indeed, Robertson’s diminishing of the Hamas threat included ignoring that the ceasefire required Hamas to disarm, yet it has not done so, continuing to threaten Israel. He also reported that Veitch “said aid and advocacy from countries like Canada ended a famine in Gaza by boosting nutritional supplies and cutting acute malnutrition among young children.” There was never a famine. All reports that there was have been disproven. Israel has consistently worked to allow sufficient, often surplus, nutritional supplies into Gaza, delivering over 2 million tons of humanitarian aid in the two years following October 7, 2023, and continues to coordinate supplies. Robertson has a history of what we regard as deeply problematic reporting; for example, in June 2026, he wrote an article focusing on anti-Israel flotilla activists’ complaints, bizarrely ignoring their controversies. Hamas should be held responsible for the people of Gaza. They started the war and refused to end the hostilities. Why Robertson saw fit to amplify blame on Israel, Hamas’ victim, despite the exceptional efforts made to look after Gaza’s population while fighting an existential war, was hard to understand. Canadian news outlets that share such Canadian Press reporting effectively serve as passive megaphones for the dissemination of what we regard as constituting unfair and inaccurate reporting about Israel. --- ## Why The Jewish Calendar Is Unlike Any Other URL: https://honestreporting.ca/videos/why-the-jewish-calendar-is-unlike-any-other/ Type: videos Modified: 2026-07-31 Words: 79 > The Jewish calendar is one of the oldest calendars in use in the world and works rather differently from most others. Unlike the Gregorian calendar, which is based on the... The Jewish calendar is one of the oldest calendars in use in the world and works rather differently from most others. Unlike the Gregorian calendar, which is based on the sun, or the Islamic calendar, which follows only the moon, the Jewish calendar uses both. HRC’s Molly Morris digs deeper and explains… Dive into our newest video, hit that share button, and smash the like button to amplify our message and skyrocket this video to viral fame! --- ## Maple Ridge News Uncritically Platforms Outlandish Claims By Local Anti-Israel Group URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/maple-ridge-news-uncritically-platforms-outlandish-claims-by-local-anti-israel-group/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-07-31 Words: 520 > As HonestReporting Canada has repeatedly documented, anti-Israel groups – even ones with histories of praising the October 7, 2023 massacres – have received uncritical, if not even sympathetic coverage in... As HonestReporting Canada has repeatedly documented, anti-Israel groups – even ones with histories of praising the October 7, 2023 massacres – have received uncritical, if not even sympathetic coverage in corners of the Canadian news media. However, that practice has not been limited to major newspapers, but small-town publications as well. In a July 28 article in The Maple Ridge News, “Maple Ridge peace group asks city council to sign Apartheid Free Community pledge,” reporter Colleen Flanagan covered a local activist group, Maple Ridge Friends For Peace, which she told readers is “dedicated to seeking peace and justice worldwide,” as if that was an objective descriptor for them, rather than a highly subjective self-assessment on their part. Flanagan claimed that the group has 215 members, though it is unclear whether this is their claim or an established fact, particularly given that the images posted to their social media consistently show only a small handful of participants in protests. She wrote that the group is petitioning the mayor in “demanding an end to ‘Israel’s Apartheid regime, settler colonialism, and military occupation.’” However, despite the unproven nature of these baseless claims, Flanagan offered readers no background context nor challenge, including that, far from representing “settler colonialism,” Israel boasts thousands of years of continued presence in its historic and ancestral lands. Rather than providing any challenge whatsoever, Flanagan relied exclusively on the activists themselves, including Greta Borick-Cunningham, whom she paraphrased as saying that there is “broad international consensus” that there is genocide in Gaza. In fact, there is no such consensus, with scholars and experts making clear that no genocide has taken place in Gaza, and that even when groups like Amnesty International have made such allegations, they have been forced to effectively rewrite the very definition of genocide in order for their claims to stand, with the organization complaining that the actual definition of genocide was “overly cramped.” If The Maple Ridge News and reporter Colleen Flanagan see the protests of what appears to be a miniscule anti-Israel activist group as worthy of publication, then that is their choice. But journalistic standards remain, and those include offering readers a full picture into the unfounded accusations leveled by the group, rather than simply parroting them extensively. In fact, just four days earlier,the activist group had a lengthy letter to the editor published in the same newspaper, where she spread multiple unfounded anti-Israel claims, including allegations of the non-existent “genocide.” Flanagan could have quoted any number of experts, scholars, commentators or officials who could have disputed the accusations presented in the article, but she did no such thing, relying exclusively on the anti-Israel activist group “Maple Ridge Friends For Peace.” News media outlets, regardless of whether they operate in large or small markets, have a journalistic duty to ensure fairness and accuracy in their coverage of all issues, including Israel. However, in this July 28 article in The Maple Ridge News, reporter Colleen Flanagan uncritically repeated anti-Israel allegations without challenge, and presented the baseless claims of a local activist group without any background or context. --- ## Taxpayer-Funded Broadview Magazine Gives Uncritical Platform To Glia Equal Care, An Anti-Israel Group Whose Previous Unfounded Mass Grave Claim Prompted On-Air CBC Correction URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/taxpayer-funded-broadview-magazine-gives-uncritical-platform-to-glia-equal-care-an-anti-israel-group-whose-previous-unfounded-mass-grave-claim-prompted-on-air-cbc-correction/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-07-31 Words: 654 > In a series of March 26 interviews for CBC, Dorotea Gucciardo, the director of development for Glia Equal Care, an anti-Israel activist group, told listeners that Israel had buried Palestinians... In a series of March 26 interviews for CBC, Dorotea Gucciardo, the director of development for Glia Equal Care, an anti-Israel activist group, told listeners that Israel had buried Palestinians alive in a mass grave outside a hospital in Gaza. She offered no evidence for her claim, and following those scandalous allegations, HonestReporting Canada filed an official complaint with CBC, which then issued an on-air correction, noting that “further research by CBC Manitoba revealed there is no substance to this claim.” Despite that serious and unfounded allegation being made by Glia Equal Care, the group was platformed in a recent uncritical interview in Broadview, the official magazine of the United Church of Canada. In the July 27 piece, “A Canadian medical worker bears witness to life inside Gaza,” Gucciardo was interviewed by Rimsha Nasir, a Broadview intern who is currently a student at Toronto Metropolitan University’s Master of Journalism program, and whose LinkedIn bio states that she is an associate producer at CBC. In the introduction, Nasir writes that “more than 1,190 Palestinians have been killed since the October 2025 ceasefire,” without bothering to note that Israel maintains hundreds of them were active combatants, including members of the Hamas terrorist group. Much of the interview features allegations that Israel killed three members of a Gazan family, though once again, Nasir did not offer readers any insight into who Israel says it may have been targeting, and instead leaving the impression that Jerusalem was simply randomly targeting civilians. In the interview, Gucciardo was quoted as making a number of bizarre and false claims, including the statement that “surveillance is an act of violence,” and that Israel’s “blockade on the Gaza Strip…prevents the entry of critical supplies,” as well as making the unfounded “genocide” slur. Each and every day, literally hundreds of aid trucks enter Gaza, and since the ceasefire began until mid-July, some two million tonnes of food entered the territory. Yet that essential background was to be found nowhere in Nasir’s article. Moreover, even in the face of Gucciardo’s outlandish “genocide” claim, which – despite its frequent use by anti-Israel activists, has never been proven in any court, and has been challenged by the world’s top experts – was presented without challenge, context or even acknowledgement that Israel denies those allegations. Instead, Gucciardo’s claims were presented at face value to readers, who were given virtually no relevant information with which they could have evaluated their accusations. Moreover, even a cursory glance at the circumstances in Gaza demonstrate the absurdity of those “genocide” claims. Even according to Hamas’ own unverified (and manipulated figures), some 98 percent of Gaza’s civilians survived two years of intense urban warfare (launched by Gaza on October 7, 2023), from Israel, which possesses military capacities to effectively destroy Gaza, which it clearly made zero effort to do. All this is precisely why Amnesty International, in its accusations leveled against Israel, attempted to redefine the term genocide, alleging that the existing definition was “overly cramped.” Just two days later, Broadview published another article about the controversial “nakba” exhibit at Winnipeg’s Canadian Museum of Human Rights (CHMR), which has been widely panned by critics as being ahistorical. The article was written by Shenaz Kermalli, who is a journalism instructor at Toronto Metropolitan University and a freelance writer who, in a previous CBC News column, suggested that Israel should be expelled from the Olympics. That Broadview would repeatedly platform anti-Israel activists and advocates without meaningful challenge or even basic background information continues to reflect a remarkable lack of journalistic standards at Broadview Magazine, and not for the first time. Broadview is also taxpayer-funded initiative, both from the Government of Canada and Government of Ontario. It is also a registered charity, under the banner of Observer Publications Inc. In 2025, it received more than $350,000 from Canadian Heritage. --- ## Antizionism: The Ties That Bind Nazis & Jihadists: An Insightful Conversation With Professor Andrew Pessin, Founding Director Of The Institute For The Critical Study Of Antizionism – Part 2 URL: https://honestreporting.ca/podcasts/antizionism-the-ties-that-bind-nazis-jihadists-an-insightful-chat-with-professor-andrew-pessin-founding-director-of-the-institute-for-the-critical-study-of-antizionism-part-2/ Type: podcast Modified: 2026-07-31 Words: 107 > The Nazis are often seen as the epitome of antisemitism, but they were also fervent antizionists, making them ideological allies of sorts with today's radical Islamists and far-left agitators. That... The Nazis are often seen as the epitome of antisemitism, but they were also fervent antizionists, making them ideological allies of sorts with today’s radical Islamists and far-left agitators. That little-known aspect of Nazi ideology is explored in this week’s podcast, part 2 with Professor Andrew Pessin, Founding Director of the Institute for the Critical Study of Antizionism. Thanks for listening to The Honest Report. Now level up—subscribe, leave a review, and spread the word. Want to stand with us even louder? Tap the link and become a sponsor. Click below to listen to the audio-only version: --- ## CBC News Senior Reporter Evan Dyer Turns A Non-Story Into A Controversy About Israel – Again URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/cbc-news-senior-reporter-evan-dyer-turns-a-non-story-into-a-controversy-about-israel-again/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-07-31 Words: 640 > In our view, CBC News continues to parrot anti-Israel talking points, and launder them under the guise of news, all while failing to include essential background information and relying on... In our view, CBC News continues to parrot anti-Israel talking points, and launder them under the guise of news, all while failing to include essential background information and relying on a strident critic of Israel. In a July 28 article, “Israel says it asked Canada for permission for Netanyahu to use Canadian airspace,” Senior Reporter Evan Dyer began by telling readers that “the government of Israel told CBC News it sought permission from the government of Canada for wanted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to enter Canadian airspace.” The word “wanted” hyperlinked to the website of the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for the Israeli prime minister. From our perspective, that this is considered newsworthy speaks volumes about CBC News’ editorial outlook, seeing an Israeli government overflight on its way to the United States as something controversial enough to merit news coverage by our public broadcaster, though it is notable that the same topic was soon seized upon by notorious anti-Israel activist and convicted criminal Yves Engler. Also on July 30, CBC broadcast the following TV report by Evan Dyer and Avneet Dhillon, CBC’s “fact-check producer” on the same topic: Watch the full segment below: The entire article treated the supposed controversy as a given, quoting multiple Canadian government officials, as well as in our view, vocal anti-Israel Canadian academic, Mark Kersten, who was paraphrased by Dyer as saying that “allowing Netanyahu to overfly Canada sends a dangerous message.” Kersten, an assistant professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of the Fraser Valley, one of Canada’s lowest-ranked universities, may be a curious choice to be the only non-governmental individual quoted in the story, if not for his history of using what we see as highly emotional language to lambaste Israel, including falsely accusing Jerusalem of genocide. While the entire article treats the ICC as a legitimate apparatus, at no point did Dyer ever tell readers about the manifold controversies surrounding both the court and its former prosecutor, Karim Khan, who issued the arrest warrant in question. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, citing a witness statement, the government of Qatar – which hosts Hamas leaders in its tiny kingdom – offered to “look after” Khan if he issued an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Israel, meanwhile, has long maintained that Khan had targeted Israel to distract from accusations of sexual misconduct leveled against him by a former colleague. Yet none of this information was to be found anywhere in the CBC News article. That Dyer completely omitted this essential information is baffling in our eyes, given that just days before his article was published, ICC member states voted to remove Khan from his position. From our vantage point, not only did his July 28 article once again take a non-story and frame it into a report aimed at casting aspersions on Israel, Evan Dyer also failed to provide even the most basic background into the deep controversies around the ICC. Unfortunately, this is not the first time that Dyer has created such deeply problematic news coverage. On multiple occasions and in our estimation, he has created reports concocting controversy regarding Israeli flights over Canadian airspace, uncritically repeating allegations from anti-Israel groups about alleged Canadian arm sales to Israel, and has repeatedly authored stories that frame Israel as the problematic party, rather than the Islamist terrorist groups who seek its destruction. Canadians should expect better from CBC News, though unfortunately they continue to be severely underserved in that regard in our opinion, and Senior Reporter Evan Dyer’s article does nothing to help advance Canada’s taxpayer-funded broadcaster’s role as a disseminator of serious news. --- ## In National Post, HRC Says Media Fixation On Pro-Palestinian Talking Points Obscures Real Threat Of Islamic Radicalism URL: https://honestreporting.ca/in-national-post-hrc-says-media-fixation-on-pro-palestinian-talking-points-obscures-real-threat-of-islamic-radicalism/ Type: post Modified: 2026-07-30 Words: 947 > On July 28, HRC Assistant Director Robert Walker was interviewed by Marty York of the National Post for his thoughts on the recent antisemitic attacks against the Jewish-owned Kiva’s Bagel Bakery chain... On July 28, HRC Assistant Director Robert Walker was interviewed by Marty York of the National Post for his thoughts on the recent antisemitic attacks against the Jewish-owned Kiva’s Bagel Bakery chain in Toronto. Walker told the National Post that the most recent attacks against the Jewish community in Toronto represent an assault on all civilized Canadians, and called on the news media to confront the issue with greater clarity and urgency by informing Canadians about the real threat facing Canada: Islamic radicalism. Marty York: Carney’s antisemitism council fiddles while Jewish businesses burn Members of the Canadian Jewish community, particularly in Toronto, are apoplectic with rage after a pair of bagel shops were damaged on Sunday, in what police are investigating as an antisemitic hate crime. One of the bakeries, in the beating heart of midtown Toronto, was hit by gunfire. The other is located at the northern tip of Toronto and is rich with Jewish heritage. Both are owned by Kiva’s Bagel Bakery and Restaurant, a beloved Toronto institution that has been cherished by many, including myself, for decades. I have been getting together with friends or relatives for a “nosh” at Kiva’s on a semi-regular basis for many years. So, yes, I am infuriated, too. “This is utterly reprehensible,” said Michael Levitt, former Liberal MP and now president of the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center. Incidents such as these, Levitt added, “deepen fear and reinforce why so many in our community feel increasingly vulnerable.… Condemnations are not enough. The Jewish community needs more than expressions of concerns. It needs results.” The thing is, Prime Minister Mark Carney vowed two months ago to develop a “whole-of-government approach to antisemitism to ensure federal policies, workplaces, public safety programs and community initiatives are aligned in protecting Jewish Canadians and confronting hate.” Carney appointed an advisory council with what he said was a “clear mission” to combat antisemitism. And what have we heard from the council so far? Crickets. What actions has the council taken? As far as we know, zilch. What results are we seeing? More attacks against Jewish businesses. While Jewish organizations applauded Carney for setting up a council to address hate and the scourge of rising antisemitism, most could not understand why he would appoint individuals such as Omar Alghabra to it. Alghabra, a former Liberal MP, was once the president of the Canadian Arab Federation, which, after his tenure, advocated against listing Hamas and Hezbollah as terrorist organizations. Hamas and Hezbollah, of course, terrorize Israel and aim to eliminate the Jewish state and all Jews. CLARITy Coalition Canada circulated a petition shortly after the council was announced, asking Carney to reconsider his choices. The prime minister did not heed the advice. “We condemn yet more violent attacks on the Canadian Jewish community,” Hadassah Goldberg of CLARITy told me on Monday. “These attacks are not only on Jews but on Canada’s values and our democracy itself. (There has) not been a word from the advisory committee on rights, equality and inclusion, who are now responsible for determining the causes of antisemitism in Canada.… “As we have previously noted, this committee has members with no qualifications in issues of antisemitism and members whose prior associations should have disqualified them.” Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow wrote on X that the attacks on Kiva’s were “vile and unacceptable,” and thanked Toronto police for investigating, but most of the replies to her post blamed her for contributing to the antisemitism in Toronto by failing to support the Jewish community. Replies were subsequently disabled on the thread. “Makes sense,” replied Rebel News founder Ezra Levant. “People would point out that you literally refuse to stand with Toronto’s Jews. You go anywhere with an open bar but you boycott Jewish events. Because you’ve done the math and you realize you need the pro-Hamas vote to win.” Toronto, sadly, has deteriorated into a cesspool of antisemitism and hate. On Monday, Toronto Sun columnist Warren Kinsella cited statistics showing that there were more antisemitic incidents in Canada than anywhere else in the world last year, and that Toronto is the worst city within Canada. Conservative MP Roman Baber shared a video on social media of what he called “Islamist thugs outside” a residence for Jewish seniors in Toronto. “It’s not free speech,” Baber said, “it’s harassment & intimidation, the same day two bakeries are attacked.” Robert Walker of Honest Reporting Canada told me the attacks on the bakeries, if determined to be anti-Jewish hate crimes, “would be the latest in such attempts to harass the Jewish community and would represent an assault on all civilized Canadians.” But he added: “Rather than shine a light on the real threats facing Canada, including Islamic radicalism and the Iranian regime’s tentacles in Canada, mu... --- ## Montreal’s ‘Palestine’ In The Park Event Features Maps Erasing Israel & Radical Affiliations. Where’s The Media Outrage? URL: https://honestreporting.ca/montreals-palestine-in-the-park-event-features-maps-erasing-israel-radical-affiliations-wheres-the-media-outrage/ Type: post Modified: 2026-07-30 Words: 659 > On the weekend of July 25 and 26, in Parc Angrinon, located in Montreal’s east end, the third annual ‘Palestine’ in the Park was held. While presenting itself as an... On the weekend of July 25 and 26, in Parc Angrinon, located in Montreal’s east end, the third annual ‘Palestine’ in the Park was held. While presenting itself as an event featuring children’s programs and culture, it also offered in our view deeply problematic content that raises serious questions about how such an event received permission to be held on public property. The event’s website condemns “78 years” of “the Zionist occupation,” a reference to Israel’s independence in 1948, in what we see as a clear attempt to delegitimize the Jewish State’s very existence in its historic and ancestral homeland. This is not a minor problem, but a foundational one. Seeing Israel in its entirety as a foreign and illegal occupation is not the basis for any kind of peace, but of rejectionism and a denial of the Jewish state’s right to exist. That was hardly the end of the controversies of ‘Palestine’ in the Park. Four separate times over two days, the program schedule offered a “prisoners exhibition tour,” which organizers noted would feature the sale of artwork from Palestinian prisoners. On the festival’s Facebook (Meta) page, images featured a small child walking on a map of Israel, with the Jewish State’s name erased, and replaced with Arabic-only towns. Crafts for sale featured a Palestinian flag transposed over all of Israel, and in one image, a small child was featured holding a map of Israel, replaced with what appears to be the keffiyeh, a checkered headdress used as a symbol of anti-Israel activism. In fact, on multiple occasions, photos from the festival’s Facebook page displayed small children engaging with imagery that erased Israel in its entirety. Among those listed as partners on the event’s website is the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), a group that has been at the centre of many of Canada’s anti-Israel protests. In the immediate aftermath of the October 7, 2023 massacres in southern Israel, PYM organized events where it called on followers to “celebrate the resistance’s success…” Since then, PYM – despite its radical activities – has been treated with little skepticism by the news media. PYM has also collaborated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a banned terrorist organization in Canada, according to official Israeli documentation. Indeed, PYM’s website used to feature the Annual Ghassan Kanafani Resistance Arts Scholarship, named after a former senior leader of the PFLP terrorist group. One of PYM’s former leaders, Yara Shoufani (who currently serves as the president of Canadians for Justice & Peace in the Middle East), has liked and shared posts on social media which we see as defending Palestinian terrorism. Incredibly, despite the highly problematic nature of the ‘Palestine’ in the Park, including the apparent involvement of the radical PYM group, as well as multiple instances appearing to completely erase Israel’s very existence, the event was not only permitted to take place, but faced no ostensible police action. Public events that promote the denial of Israel’s existence cannot expect to escape examination simply because they are framed as cultural or community gatherings. But that is precisely what happened. Scandalously, the event received virtually no critical media coverage, where Montreal taxpayers could have been informed about a highly problematic event taking place under their noses. Beyond the event organizers themselves, ‘Palestine’ in the Park was supported by a broader network of sponsors, partners, and vendors. Montrealers may wish to take note of the businesses that chose to associate themselves with the event and its messaging. Multiple sponsors were listed on the event’s website, including: La Station Cafe Watany Butterfly Krafts Zamalek Victory Training Center Amaken Project Laban Marche Castel The Conseil central du Montréal métropolitain–CSN (CCMM–CSN) Équipe Kendi Club de Boxe Universel Supermarché Mizan TriStar Gym The food vendors listed were: Al Quds Grill Halwanji Sweets Bouza Knafe Stop Shawarma Moods --- ## In Kingston Whig-Standard Column, Former Editor Steve Lukits Attempts To Conflate Israel With Murderous Palestinian Terrorists URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/in-kingston-whig-standard-column-former-editor-steve-lukits-attempts-to-conflate-israel-with-murderous-palestinian-terrorists/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-07-28 Words: 554 > Following the Nazi invasions throughout Europe and beyond in World War Two, as many as nine million German civilians died as a result of the global conflagration. But few mainstream... Following the Nazi invasions throughout Europe and beyond in World War Two, as many as nine million German civilians died as a result of the global conflagration. But few mainstream historians or scholars would call Allied powers the villain of that war, and instead recognize that it was Nazi Germany that began a murderous war and brought ruin upon its people as a result. Yet that same argument was employed in a recent column in The Kingston Whig-Standard by Steve Lukits, former Whig-Standard writer and editor, and who currently teaches in the Department of English at Royal Military College. Lukits’ July 24 column, “Remember Canadian soldier killed in Lebanon,” was written in commemoration of Paeta Derek Hess-Von Kruedener, a Canadian soldier killed during the 2006 war in Lebanon between Israel and Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed terrorist group. While Lukits rightly acknowledges that the war in question began when Hezbollah terrorists launched an unprovoked attack on Israeli territory, killing three soldiers and kidnapping two others, he soon launches into an assault on Israel’s counter-terrorism operations. He accused Israel of “pitiless brutality” in Lebanon, despite the fact that the war 20 years ago – lasting some five weeks – killed remarkably few Lebanese civilians, and targeted Hezbollah terrorists. Again and again in his column, Lukits exchanges rhetoric for cogent argumentation, saying that “the same ruthlessness, the same utter absence of pity and compassion, has driven the various killings, abductions and sexual assaults on non-combatants by Hamas, Hezbollah and the IDF” since October 7, 2023. In fact, there is zero comparison between Israel and its enemies. Israel is a liberal democratic state which targets combatants and not civilians, taking extraordinary and often unprecedented steps in avoiding harming innocents, according to John Spencer, arguably the world’s top expert on urban warfare. Meanwhile, in sharp contrast, groups like Hamas and Hezbollah – driven by their fanatical Islamist ideology, and supported by their patron, the Islamic Republic of Iran – seek the total destruction of Israel, and indeed Jews worldwide. There is no comparison between these ideologies and tactics, despite Lukits’ brazen attempt to do so. Lukits claims that there are 73,000 Palestinians dead in Gaza, “at least a third of them women and children,” offering no source for his claim, a remarkable omission. The only real source of all casualty claims from Gaza is none other than Hamas, via its so-called “Gaza Ministry of Health,” which has been found to manipulate casualty data. Moreover, the term “children” is defined by the United Nations as anyone under the age of 18, meaning that Hamas’ teenage combatants would be characterized as “children,” an absurd categorization. More importantly, Lukits offers no insights into how he recommends that Israel targets Palestinian terrorists while somehow avoiding any civilian casualties, particularly since Hamas actively uses civilian infrastructure to hide weapons and fighters. Even according to Hamas’ own unverified figures, virtually all Palestinian civilians survived two years of intense urban combat, a remarkable achievement, and a testament to Israel’s widespread warnings to Palestinian civilians in advance of major operations. Conflating a democratic nation’s legitimate self-defence with the deliberate, genocidal tactics of terrorist organizations which seek its destruction, as Steve Lukits has done in his July 24 opinion column, represents both a factual and moral failure in our view. --- ## CBC Podcast Front Burner – A Relentless Platformer of Anti-Israel Guests – Features Interview With Trita Parsi, Who Critics Say Is A Pro-Iranian Regime Lobbyist In The United States URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/cbc-podcast-front-burner-a-relentless-platformer-of-anti-israel-guests-features-interview-with-trita-parsi-who-critics-say-is-a-pro-iranian-regime-lobbyist-in-the-united-states/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-07-30 Words: 534 > Trita Parsi, the co-founder of the Washington, DC-based Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, has been condemned as an apologist for the Islamic Republic of Iran by former Iranian political prisoners.... Trita Parsi, the co-founder of the Washington, DC-based Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, has been condemned as an apologist for the Islamic Republic of Iran by former Iranian political prisoners. He is also the co-founder of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), which critics have argued is a “conduit for the regime’s narrative” in the United States. Journalist Eli Lake has maintained that Parsi “created the pro-Iran regime lobby in America.” That has not stopped Parsi from being interviewed on CBC, where he was portrayed as an expert, with zero acknowledgement of his controversies. By omitting this critical background, CBC in our view essentially sanitized Parsi’s history, presenting a highly polarized figure as a neutral academic. On July 21, Parsi was interviewed for the CBC podcast Front Burner, a program with an extensively-documented history of platforming anti-Israel speakers, offering them a sympathetic line of questioning, and rarely interviewing dissenting voices. In this segment, “Is Iran becoming a ‘forever war,’” host Jayme Poisson spoke with Parsi, making no mention of his controversial history or alleged ties to the Iranian regime. Instead, after listing him as the executive vice president of the Quincy Institute, and an author, Poisson said “it’s so great to have you on Front Burner,” saying it was “such a pleasure.” Listen to the full segment below: That introduction was a foreshadowing of the rest of the interview, where despite repeated highly questionable claims from Parsi, Poisson repeatedly failed to challenge her guest or hold him accountable for his allegations. Parsi called the conflict between the United States and Iran “a war of choice” and “a war of aggression by the United States.” Poisson could have informed her listeners that, in fact, the Islamic Republic of Iran has spent decades actively fighting the United States, its interests and Israel, via its network of terrorist proxies, including Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis. Instead, it was the United States (and Israel) which were falsely framed by Parsi as the aggressors, not the murderous Iranian regime. Throughout the interview, Parsi characterized the Iranian regime as the victim of American aggression, framing its attacks on civilian infrastructure in neighbouring Gulf states as simply a tit-for-tat response to American actions, and completely ignoring Tehran’s nuclear ambitions, save for a single passing comment. Poisson’s failure to challenge Parsi left listeners with a highly distorted perspective. At one point, Parsi stated that “we saw also that the Ukrainians were capable of using their territory very effectively against the Russians, a much more powerful military at the end of the day.” This is a highly misleading comparison. Unlike Ukraine, the Iranian regime has spent decades actively funding, arming and supporting an array of openly genocidal Islamic terrorist proxies and repeatedly calling for the violent destruction of Israel. This latest episode from Front Burner is only the latest instance of the CBC podcast featuring predictable critics of Israel and the United States, with Poisson repeatedly failing to offer anything resembling meaningful challenge. The time has long passed for CBC to ensure fairness, accuracy and journalistic credibility at Front Burner, where it has been sorely lacking for far too long. --- ## Winnipeg Free Press Columnist Frances Ravinsky Falsely References Non-Existent “Genocide” In Gaza URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/winnipeg-free-press-columnist-frances-ravinsky-falsely-references-non-existent-genocide-in-gaza/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-07-27 Words: 516 > Almost instantaneously after Israel was invaded and attacked by thousands of Palestinian terrorists on the morning of October 7, 2023 – and even before Jerusalem had invaded Gaza to strike... Almost instantaneously after Israel was invaded and attacked by thousands of Palestinian terrorists on the morning of October 7, 2023 – and even before Jerusalem had invaded Gaza to strike Hamas terrorists and free the hostages who were kidnapped there – anti-Israel activists were already spreading the “genocide” libel against the Jewish State. Even before Israel’s invasion of Gaza three weeks later, the so-called “genocide” slur was already being recklessly being repeated, in a clear demonstration that these anti-Israel claims precipitated any significant Israeli action on the ground. Nearly three years later, that dangerous rhetoric has continued to infect public discourse in Canada, where unfounded accusations of “genocide” are being casually referred to in mainstream news media outlets, with authors not even bothering to make any case at all. In her July 21 opinion column in The Winnipeg Free Press, “Sowing the seeds of peace,” Frances Ravinsky, co-founder of a local nonprofit organization, Community Works Manitoba, recklessly spread this claim. In her column, she wrote “to my mind, far too much of the coverage slides into ‘an Olympics of suffering,’” adding “how dare Palestinians tell their story of suffering without referencing Jewish suffering; how dare Jews express their grief at the loss of innocent civilian lives on Oct. 7, 2023 in the face of the genocide in Gaza.” Despite Ravinsky’s casual use of the word “genocide” to refer to Israel’s counter-terrorism operations in Gaza against Palestinian terrorists, there has been no genocide whatsoever. No international court has found Israel guilty of genocide, despite aggressive efforts by the South African regime to encourage it to do so. At the International Criminal Court (ICC), which has issued arrest warrants for Israeli leaders based on erroneous claims of war crimes, The Wall Street Journal has argued that the chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, received unspecified support from Qatar to target the Jewish State. The accusations of genocide that have been leveled are so weak that activist groups like Amnesty International have effectively called for the very definition to be changed because the existing definition requires the culprit to have intent to commit genocide, which Israel – given that it actively moved civilians in Gaza away from combat zones – did not do. In fact, not only is there no credible evidence of genocide in Gaza – a point repeatedly identified by experts, though their voices have been roundly ignored in the Canadian news media – the precise opposite is the case. Israel has taken unprecedented steps to avoid civilian casualties in Gaza, an admittedly herculean task given the extent to which Palestinian terrorists actively embed themselves within Gaza civilian infrastructure. Ravinsky could have addressed the war between Israel and Hamas in any number of ways. She could have lamented the decision by Palestinians to invade Israel and launch a murderous rampage. She could have lauded Israel’s efforts to minimize civilian casualties. Or at the very least, she could have avoided spreading unfounded allegations of “genocide.” But she did no such thing, and instead only contributed to one of the most vicious modern falsehoods that could be spread. --- ## Exposing Excellence: Toronto Star Columnist Mark McQueen Offers Powerful Call For Business Leaders To Stand Up To Jew-Hate URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/exposing-excellence-toronto-star-columnist-mark-mcqueen-offers-powerful-call-for-business-leaders-to-stand-up-to-jew-hate/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-07-28 Words: 534 > It is uncommon for The Toronto Star to publish content that is worthy of praise, but when it does happen, it requires acknowledgement. In his July 16 commentary, “Moral leadership... It is uncommon for The Toronto Star to publish content that is worthy of praise, but when it does happen, it requires acknowledgement. In his July 16 commentary, “Moral leadership doesn’t require Ottawa’s permission,” Toronto entrepreneur Mark McQueen applauded a group of dozens of non-Jewish Canadian business leaders who recently took out full-page advertisements in newspapers across the country, decrying the rise of anti-Jewish hate crimes and calling for swift action to combat it. However, he raised the question as to why it took so long for prominent business executives to speak out on antisemitism, and contrasted it to the fast response to the issues of anti-Black racism following the 2020 murder of George Floyd in the United States, pointing out that the letter came only after Prime Minister Mark Carney’s June 1 speech at a Toronto synagogue about antisemitism. “I do wonder if the daily fare of antisemitic bile would be as rampant had these words been published 30 months ago. It was already obvious where we were headed,” McQueen wrote, noting the presence of pro-Hamas rallies in Canada just days after the October 7, 2023 terrorist attacks in Israel. While it is impossible to know what could have transpired had more prominent Canadians vocally taken a moral stand against Jew-hate as soon as pro-Hamas demonstrations and anti-Jewish hate crimes began taking place in the fall of 2023, the moral necessity in doing so would have sent a clear message to all levels of government, as well to the wider business community in Canada, that silence is complicity and that it is intolerable. McQueen also criticized Prime Minister Mark Carney for his naivete when he proclaimed in his June 1 antisemitism speech that “when you come to Canada…you leave behind your animosities,” writing that Carney was “kidding himself,” and citing the recent Al-Quds day protests in Toronto, which featured open death threats, images of Hezbollah, a banned terrorist group, and praise for the murderous Islamic Republic of Iran. The uncomfortable reality is that Canada’s approach to combating antisemitism cannot be limited to condemning individual incidents and must reckon with the ideological and cultural factors that contribute to the normalization of Jew-hatred. Integration cannot succeed if imported ideologies, conspiracy theories and extremist narratives are allowed to take root without meaningful challenge. While it may be expected or assumed that immigrants to Canada leave their hatreds in the old country, clearly that presumption is based on wishful thinking, rather than the facts as they are. Given that anti-Jewish views are almost universal in much of the Islamic world, (though with notable exceptions), any serious effort at addressing the problem would first require acknowledging the role that immigration plays in continuing to foster hate crimes in Canada. As McQueen reminded readers, the willingness of these business leaders to speak out is commendable, but their own timing underscores a larger lesson: silence in the face of rising antisemitism carries consequences. Whether from elected officials, community leaders or influential voices in the private sector, moral leadership means confronting hatred before it becomes normalized, and should not wait for belated action from politicians. --- ## How Academics Are Fighting Back Against Antizionist Propaganda In Academia: An Insightful Conversation With Professor Andrew Pessin, Founding Director Of The Institute For The Critical Study Of Antizionism – Part 1 URL: https://honestreporting.ca/podcasts/how-academics-are-fighting-back-against-antizionist-propaganda-in-academia-an-insightful-conversation-with-professor-andrew-pessin-founding-director-of-the-institute-for-the-critical-study-of-antizi/ Type: podcast Modified: 2026-07-31 Words: 143 > For years, and the last 3 years in particular, antizionist professors have hijacked the word 'Zionism' and used it to falsely demonize Israel and its supporters. While it is indisputably... For years, and the last 3 years in particular, antizionist professors have hijacked the word ‘Zionism’ and used it to falsely demonize Israel and its supporters. While it is indisputably a form of antisemitism, it is also a hate movement in its own right. In this podcast, we are joined by Professor Andrew Pessin, founding director of the Institute for the Critical Study of Antizionism, to explain how this happened. The institute is a scholarly initiative dedicated to producing and promoting critical research on the history, evolution and contemporary manifestations of antizionism as an ideology, worldview and movement. Thanks for listening to The Honest Report. Now level up—subscribe, leave a review, and spread the word. Want to stand with us even louder? Tap the link and become a sponsor. To listen to the audio-only version, click below: --- ## The Growing Hostility Facing Jewish Canadians URL: https://honestreporting.ca/videos/the-growing-hostility-facing-jewish-canadians/ Type: videos Modified: 2026-07-24 Words: 101 > Canada was once a place where Jewish people could live openly, safely and proudly, but findings from the Canadian Jewish Barometer suggest that sense of security is eroding. As hostility... Canada was once a place where Jewish people could live openly, safely and proudly, but findings from the Canadian Jewish Barometer suggest that sense of security is eroding. As hostility toward Israel increasingly translates into hostility toward Jewish Canadians, many are being made to feel that their Canadian identity, Jewish identity and connection to Israel are incompatible. They are not. Canadian Jews have every right to be proudly Canadian, proudly Jewish and proudly connected to Israel. Dive into our newest video, hit that share button, and smash the like button to amplify our message and skyrocket this video to viral fame! --- ## PM Carney Says He Won’t Lecture Other Countries. Except, It Seems Israel. Why The Blatant Double-Standard – Amplified On Government’s Social Media? URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/pm-carney-says-he-wont-lecture-other-countries-except-it-seems-israel-why-the-blatant-double-standard-amplified-on-governments-social-media/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-07-24 Words: 581 > There are few countries with human rights records as poor as Saudi Arabia. According to Freedom House, the kingdom ranks a pitiful score of 9 out of 100 in its... There are few countries with human rights records as poor as Saudi Arabia. According to Freedom House, the kingdom ranks a pitiful score of 9 out of 100 in its freedom index, even lower than Sudan, North Korea and Russia, with the report noting that Riyadh relies on “pervasive surveillance” and “the criminalization of dissent.” While on a recent official visit to Saudi Arabia, Prime Minister Mark Carney was asked about Ottawa doing business with countries that have poor records on human rights. In response, Carney dismissed the concern, saying that “lecturing other countries from afar is an ineffective strategy.” The kingdom’s horrific human rights record has not stopped Carney from gushing that Canada and Saudi Arabia were “natural partners.” Despite Carney’s statement that scolding other countries was a pointless endeavour, Ottawa has reserved its arsenal of harsh condemnation seemingly only for one country: Israel. On a regular basis, various Canadian government apparatuses continue to lecture Israel, whether from Global Affairs Canada, Foreign Minister Anita Anand, Canada’s embassy in Israel, or even the prime minister. In recent weeks alone, Canada’s embassy to Israel condemned Jerusalem for its treatment of Palestinian prisoners (including a Hamas colonel), Anand repeatedly condemned the Jewish State for its treatment of anti-Israel activists aboard the flotilla to Gaza, as did Global Affairs Canada and even the prime minister’s office, which castigated Jerusalem on multiple fronts. Meanwhile, it was not just Saudi Arabia which Ottawa avoided criticizing. In fact, Carney’s approach with dictatorial and repressive Islamist regimes have consistently failed to offer any criticism, let alone condemnation. In a readout following the 2026 NATO summit in Turkey, the prime minister’s office noted that he and Turkish President Recep Erdogan “expressed interest in deepening partnerships in defence, critical minerals, energy and advanced technologies, including aerospace.” No mention was made by Carney or his office of Erdogan’s overt support for Palestinian terrorism, his repression of ethnic Kurds, Turkey’s illegal occupation of half the island of Cyprus, or its own authoritarian practices, including imprisoning political opponents. The Carney government’s documented double standard in glossing over human rights abuses in countries like Turkey and Saudi Arabia while fixating on unsubstantiated claims against Israel is all the more indefensible given that, in contrast to the dictatorships in Ankara and Riyadh, Jerusalem is a liberal democratic state whose behaviours, while imperfect, are infinitely better than the countries that the prime minister apparently favours. The prime minister claims he does not believe in publicly scolding other governments, but that restraint appears to disappear when it comes to the Jewish State alone. For Riyadh and Ankara, Ottawa offers handshakes and strategic cooperation. For Jerusalem, it offers public rebukes and harsh condemnation. Carney’s foreign policy reveals troubling selective attacks, where authoritarian Islamist regimes are treated as partners to be courted, while Israel is treated as a target to be lectured ad nauseum. The prime minister’s double standards are hardly in isolation; they are closely mirrored by much of the Canadian news media, which uncritically repeat anti-Israel falsehoods all while demonstrating little interest in exposing actual crimes perpetrated by some of the world’s worst human rights abusers. With the ubiquitous nature of social media, the federal government is regularly announcing foreign policy through official social media channels, directly to Canadians. When those taxpayer-funded communications apply a glaring double standard to Israel, they deserve the same public scrutiny as any other media reporting. --- ## La Presse Gives Sympathetic Portrayal Of Montreal Anti-Israel Activist Samar Alkhadour, Who Filmed Herself Saying “F**K White People A Million Times” URL: https://honestreporting.ca/la-presse-gives-sympathetic-portrayal-of-montreal-anti-israel-activist-samar-alkhadour-who-filmed-herself-saying-fk-white-people-a-million-times/ Type: post Modified: 2026-07-24 Words: 1332 > version française Samar Alkhadour is a Gazan woman living in Montreal who, as a recent immigrant to Canada, recorded herself proclaiming “f**k white people a million times” and “f**k you,... version française Samar Alkhadour is a Gazan woman living in Montreal who, as a recent immigrant to Canada, recorded herself proclaiming “f**k white people a million times” and “f**k you, westerners,” and in 2024, she was arrested and charged with criminally harassing Immigration Minister Marc Miller. She is also known by her married name, Elkahlout, though she is reportedly estranged from her husband, Mahmoud Elkhalout, who antisemitism watchdog Leviathan alleges is an Air Canada employee who he claims has posted images appearing to glorify late Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. She has also said that as long as the so-called “occupation” exists in “Palestine,” then “the fight continues” and must “escalate,” and as chronicled by online investigator Leviathan, she was filmed telling the president of France that Hamas is not a terrorist organization, but a “resistance group.” The organization CIJA has also noted that “Samar is also known for her participation in extremist protests where vandalism, graffiti, and broken windows have been reported.” Despite Alkhadour’s extensive and controversial history of anti-Israel activism, she was featured in what we regard as a sympathetic article in La Presse, “Taste Palestine, so as not to forget it,” which made no mention of the scandalous statements she has made. The piece was authored by Fannie Arcand, who has previously presented what we consider to be sympathetic portrayals of anti-Israel activists in Montreal, and uncritically repeated false “genocide” slurs against Israel. In her July 19 article, Arcand introduces readers to Alkhadour’s family, including her sister Seham Alkhadour and brother-in-law, Mohammed al Bhaisi, from Gaza. The article oscillates between describing Seham’s restaurant and catering business, and regurgitating unfounded allegations against Israel. This is at least the second time that Alkhadour has been covered sympathetically in La Presse, with reporter Rima Elkouri having done so in 2024. Arcand tells readers that the sisters “use the term genocide without hesitation, as do the UN’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry and many experts.” Despite the clear implication that there was “genocide” in Gaza, there is virtually no evidence whatsoever that any such crime took place, as experts have repeatedly stated (though these reports have been almost universally ignored in the Canadian news media). As journalist Bret Stephens of The New York Times recently pointed out, “if Israel wanted to commit genocide, if Israel wanted to kill every single Palestinian, it could have. It is a nuclear power. Why did it distribute polio vaccines? Why did it allow any food at all?” In fact, Israel took extraordinary precautions to avoid civilian casualties in Gaza, going to such lengths that war experts have stated that its actions are unprecedented in the annals of modern warfare. No less obscenely, Arcand wrote in the article that the current conflict between Israel and Gaza was launched by Israel “on October 7, 2023,” with zero mention of the massacres by Palestinian terrorists that day which murdered 1,200 people and kidnapped hundreds more, which precipitated the war. This framing is not simply an omission, but a fundamental rewriting of history where the Palestinians are victims of Israeli aggression, rather than perpetrators of murderous terrorism. By presenting Alkhadour and her family’s outlandish claims and without sharing her own controversial history, La Presse has failed to provide even the most elementary journalistic standards to their readers. Fortunately, on July 22, CIJA announced that they had engaged with La Presse directly, and subsequently, the newspaper added context referring to Hamas’ October 7 massacres, as well as Samar Alkhadour’s controversial history. Nevertheless, this episode indicates a significant editorial oversight that La Presse would do well to improve. La Presse dresse un portrait complaisant de l’activiste anti-Israël montréalaise Samar Alkhadour, qui s’est filmée en disant «Fk white people a million times» Samar Alkhadour est une Gazaouie vivant à Montréal qui, peu après son arrivée au Canada, s’est filmée en proclamant «fk white people a million times» et «fk you, westerners». En 2024, elle a été arrêtée et accusée de harcèlement criminel envers le ministre de l’Immigration, Marc Miller. Elle est également connue sous son nom marital, Elkahlout, bien qu’elle soit, selon certaines informations, séparée de son mari, Mahmoud Elkhalout. D’après l’organisme de veille contre l’antisémitisme Leviathan, celui-ci est employé d’Air Canada et a publié des images semblant faire l’éloge de l’ancien chef du Hamas, Yahya Sinwar. Elle a également déclaré que tant que la soi-disant « occupation » existera en «Palestine», «la lutte continue» et doit «s’intensifier». Selon les recherches de l’enquêteur en ligne Leviathan, elle a aussi été filmée affirmant au président de la France que le Hamas n’est pas une organisation terroriste, ma... --- ## CBC Podcast Front Burner Features Host Jayme Poisson Devoting Yet Another Segment To Falsely Presenting Israel, Rather Than Palestinian Terrorists, As The Obstacle To Peace URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/cbc-podcast-front-burner-features-host-jayme-poisson-devoting-yet-another-segment-to-falsely-presenting-israel-rather-than-palestinian-terrorists-as-the-obstacle-to-peace/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-07-27 Words: 673 > The CBC podcast Front Burner, hosted by Jayme Poisson, has spent much of the last three years producing continued segments featuring guests offering their harsh denunciations of Israel, a repeated... The CBC podcast Front Burner, hosted by Jayme Poisson, has spent much of the last three years producing continued segments featuring guests offering their harsh denunciations of Israel, a repeated focus bordering on an obessive fixation on the Jewish State’s alleged misdeeds, all while offering relatively little platforms to any opposing voices. In a July 15 segment, “Can Hamas’ handover restart Gaza’s peace plan,” Poisson continued to showcase CBC’s documented anti-Israel bias in her interview with Hugh Lovatt, a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Listen to the full episode below: Poisson’s introduction set the scene, with her telling listeners that since the October ceasefire in Gaza, “Israel has not only expanded its control of the strip but also continued its military campaign there. According to the Gaza Health Ministry, over 1,000 people have been killed in the last nine months,” adding for good measure that “humanitarian aid is barely getting in.” Poisson did not bother to mention how many of the deaths in Gaza have been Hamas combatants or those actively involved in violence, and instead, the implication in many listeners’ minds would presumably be that the deaths were lamentable civilian casualties. But had she shared the facts, she might have noted that deaths included Hussam al-Shafie, a Hamas member who took part in the October 7 massacres, high-level commanders of Hamas’ Nukhba cell, and others actively taking part in planning attacks on Israel. This information is readily available, yet Poisson made no ostensible effort to share this. As for her unfounded claim that “humanitarian aid is barely getting in,” this is a preposterous and false claim. Some 1.7 million tonnes of food have been sent into Gaza since the ceasefire. Other notable details include that seventy thousand cubic meters of water are funneled into Gaza daily – including directly piped in from Israel – and hundreds of pallets of dialysis fluid entered in a single day in July. Poisson’s misinformation came even before Lovatt said a single word, but when he offered his opinions, the falsehoods continued, with him proclaiming that Gaza is “a ceasefire only for one side,” adding that “Hamas and Palestinian armed groups have largely stopped their attacks on Israeli forces in Gaza.” In fact, in just the first six months of the ceasefire, Palestinian terrorists violated the ceasefire 139 times, representing about one violation per day. Poisson did not challenge Lovatt’s characterization of Israel as being effectively the sole obstacle to peace, and instead only supported it, with the host asking whether Israel is “being held accountable” for its actions, though she did not ask the same question about Palestinian terrorists. In turn, Lovatt accused Israel of unspecified “atrocities” and complained that “there’s been very little accountability.” Though he mentioned the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Criminal Court (ICC), both of which are actively targeting Israel in what legal experts call the weaponization of international law, he only did so to lament that this is somehow insufficient, rather than noting that it, in fact, represents a disproportionate infatuation with Israel in international fora. Virtually no acknowledgement was given by either Poisson nor Lovatt about the deadly security threats posed by Palestinian terrorists, and even when Israel’s view was mentioned, it was immediately dismissed. In one case, Lovatt noted that Israel points out that Hamas’ refusal to disarm is a violation of the ceasefire, before hastening to add that Hamas is “not without reason” in not disarming, and blaming Israel once again for allegedly violating the agreement. If Jayme Poisson wanted to devote yet another podcast episode to discussing Gaza, she would have done well to at least acknowledge the thorough presence of Palestinian terrorists, the veritable flood of aid that has entered Gaza since then, and the continued Palestinian violation of the ceasefire. Instead, she relied on a familiar absurd narrative where Israel was the overwhelming if not sole obstacle to peace in the region. Photo credit: Jayme Poisson --- ## Spate Of Recent Segments On CBC’s As It Happens Amplifies Anti-Israel Narratives Without Challenge URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/spate-of-recent-segments-on-cbcs-as-it-happens-amplifies-anti-israel-narratives-without-challenge/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-07-22 Words: 766 > In a series of recent segments on the CBC radio program As It Happens, listeners were fed a series of anti-Israel narratives presented as thoughtful commentary and analysis. On June... In a series of recent segments on the CBC radio program As It Happens, listeners were fed a series of anti-Israel narratives presented as thoughtful commentary and analysis. On June 16, co-host Nil Köksal interviewed Hassan Dbouk, the mayor of the coastal Lebanese city of Tyre about the recent ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed terrorist group based in Lebanon (meanwhile, no Israeli mayor was interviewed for their thoughts on Hezbollah’s incessant attacks on northern Israel). Listen to the full episode below: Dbouk demanded that “the international community” pressure Israel to “stop their attack here,” and repeatedly referred to Hezbollah, a banned terrorist organization in Canada, as “resistance,” and characterized Israel as the problem, rather than Hezbollah, which fired rockets into Israel on March 2 in an unprovoked attack. Not once at any point in the interview did Köksal tell listeners that Tyre, the city represented by Dbouk, is a hotbed of Hezbollah terrorism and has been described as a bastion of Hezbollah operations. Instead, she permitted Dbouk to portray himself as something of a Lebanese everyman, concerned only with day-to-day municipal governance. Two days later, CBC News regurgitated the interview and republished it into a news story written by journalist Kayla McLean. The article, “Lebanese residents return home to an uncertain future amid fragile ceasefire,” quoted Dbouk’s interview on As It Happens, including his reference to Hezbollah terrorists as “resistance,” a deeply troubling and legitimizing verbiage that McLean made no apparent reference to clarify for readers, nor did she offer any insight into the depth of Hezbollah’s presence in Tyre. Six days later, on June 22, As It Happens returned with another segment on the war in Lebanon. But rather than discuss Iran’s nefarious role there, or the presence of Hezbollah, the culprit was once again Israel. In the segment, Köksal spoke with Assad Serhal of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon, who spoke about his friend Mona Khalil. Listen to the full episode below: Khalil was killed, Köksal told listeners, after Israel hit her home, though adding that Israel says it never struck her at all, and there was no acknowledgement about why there might have been fighting nearby, namely the presence of Hezbollah terrorists. Instead, the narrative presented was once again in our view a sympathetic portrayal of Lebanese suffering at the hands of a faceless Israel. On June 24, CBC News repurposed the interview into another article by journalist Sheena Goodyear, “Mona Khalil, sea turtle conservationist, killed in Israeli strike in Lebanon.” While Goodyear noted that Israel denies that it struck Khalil, the story presented the allegations against Israel as fact. On June 23, Köksal turned her attention to Iran, speaking with Rob Malley, the US Special Envoy for Iran under the Biden administration. Malley told listeners that tensions with the Islamic Republic of Iran could only be solved “through diplomatic engagement,” and in our view downplayed the threat posed by Tehran, saying that it was a “hype.” Listen to the full episode below: Malley, who was under investigation by the FBI for allegedly mishandling classified information and was ultimately suspended from his position in 2023, was previously a guest on CBC where he, again in our view, downplayed the Iranian threat and targeted Israel instead. Meanwhile, the uncomfortable reality that the Islamic Republic is an openly murderous and totalitarian Islamist dictatorship which mows down protesters, seeks the destruction of ten million Israelis, and actively supports terrorist groups which seek the murder of Americans and other Westerners was largely overlooked by Malley during the segment. As It Happens also managed to cover the story of Hussam Abu Safiya, a Gazan man who previously served as director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan hospital, who was arrested by Israel in December, 2024. In the July 8 segment, Köksal interviewed Tirza Leibovitz Physicians for Human Rights Israel, whose group is actively trying to release him from prison. Listen to the full episode below: The entirety of the interview focused on Abu Safiya’s condition and related issues, with only the briefest of acknowledgement from Köksal that Israel says he is involved with Hamas, though she did not share that Israel says he was a colonel in the terrorist group, and that there is extensive evidence, including from Palestinian media, appearing to indicate precisely that. Rather than providing listeners with a full picture of the Iranian regime’s tentacles throughout the Middle East, As It Happens repeatedly advanced narratives that scandalously presented tiny Israel as the biggest, if not sole, obstacle to peace. --- ## CBC’s Sara Jabakhanji Continues Pattern Of Amplifying Unchallenged Anti-Israel Allegations URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/cbcs-sara-jabakhanji-continues-pattern-of-amplifying-unchallenged-anti-israel-allegations/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-07-22 Words: 580 > CBC News continues to allow itself to be used as a largely uncritical disseminator of allegations against Israel, all while documented claims against Palestinian activists and their supporters continue to... CBC News continues to allow itself to be used as a largely uncritical disseminator of allegations against Israel, all while documented claims against Palestinian activists and their supporters continue to be overwhelmingly ignored. In a series of three recent reports, CBC News Senior Writer Sara Jabakhanji – who signed a 2021 open letter calling for the Canadian news media to amplify pro-Palestinian narratives – continued to do precisely that. In a May 22 article, “Canadian Gaza flotilla activist says he was beaten for days in Israeli detention,” Jabakhanji sympathetically profiles Ehab Lotayef, a Montreal anti-Israel activist and McGill University employee who participated on the recent ill-fated ‘flotilla to Gaza,’ which despite being framed as a humanitarian endeavor, was clearly a PR stunt. Jabakhanji describes Lotayef as a “human rights activist,” hardly a neutral term for an individual having been involved in overt acts of anti-Israel activism for at least 15 years, before proceeding to repeat his allegations of torture. While she did offer brief denials from Israel, the article provided virtually no insight into serious allegations against the flotilla organizers, including alleged connections to Palestinian terrorism. On June 10, Jabakhanji was back with another article which provided uncritical coverage for allegations leveled by Amnesty International, an anti-Israel pressure group. The article, “Amnesty report accuses Israel of ‘ethnic cleansing’ in West Bank amid expanded settlements.” When such allegations are leveled against Israel, CBC News has repeatedly offered extensive coverage of them for the Canadian public. Meanwhile, when experts have found no evidence of genocide or famine in Gaza, or widespread documented manipulation of casualty claims by Hamas, these findings are routinely ignored by Canada’s publicly-funded broadcaster. Amnesty International’s claims of “ethnic cleansing” because Israel dares to build homes in its historic lands were provided to readers as if they were newsworthy, with no acknowledgement of the group’s long documented anti-Israel agenda, and only minimal mention that these allegations are challenged by Israel, when she could have informed readers that Israel possesses extensive legal title to the lands in question – far more than a non-existent Palestinian state. And again on July 14, Jabakhanji penned an article profiling a Palestinian man imprisoned by Israel, framing the story overwhelmingly from his family’s perspective and offering relatively little insight into the serious allegations against him. The article, “Family of Gaza hospital chief detained by Israel ‘shocked’ over his deteriorating health condition,” purported to tell the story of Hussam Abu Safiya, a former hospital chief in Gaza who was detained by Israel in December, 2024. It was only halfway through the article that readers learned that Israel says Abu Safiya served as a senior officer in Hamas. But these are not mere accusations; there is extensive evidence, including from Palestinian media, appearing to show Abu Safiya as a colonel in the Palestinian terrorist group. None of this evidence was cited in the article. As the article ended, Jabakhanji offered readers a series of smears against Israel, including writing that in 2025, “the UN said that the Israeli authorities had committed genocide by targeting the health-care system and medical professionals in Gaza since October 2023,” adding only in response that Israel called the claims “scandalous.” Time and again, CBC News Senior Writer Sara Jabakhanji – and much of CBC at large – has provided a largely uncritical if not sympathetic platform for scores of anti-Israel accusations, while providing virtually no coverage to findings which contradict that agenda. --- ## Advertise With HRC URL: https://honestreporting.ca/advertise-with-hrc/ Type: page Modified: 2026-07-22 Words: 125 > Advertise With HRC We’re excited to introduce new advertising and sponsorship opportunities across HonestReporting Canada’s growing media platforms, including our newsletters, podcast, social media channels, viral videos, and digital content. With... 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Contact Assistant Director Robert Walker to learn more about sponsorship opportunities. --- ## Le Journal De Montréal Creates Infographic On Israeli Strikes On Lebanon, Bizarrely Fails To Mention Hezbollah Even A Single Time URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/le-journal-de-montreal-creates-infographic-on-israeli-strikes-on-lebanon-bizarrely-fails-to-mention-hezbollah-even-a-single-time/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-07-20 Words: 1139 > version française The widespread anti-Israel bias pervasive in many corners of the Canadian news media is present not only in news reports and interviews, but even in editorial cartoons and... version française The widespread anti-Israel bias pervasive in many corners of the Canadian news media is present not only in news reports and interviews, but even in editorial cartoons and infographics. This misinformation was on full display once again in a July 9 infographic for Le Journal de Montréal, “Lebanon’s heritage gems damaged by Israel.” It portrayed a map of Lebanon, and featured a number of sites throughout the country targeted by Israel during recent fighting. Incredibly, the infographic somehow omitted the elephant in the room, and made zero mention of Hezbollah, the Lebanese Islamist terrorist group that is responsible for dragging Lebanon into armed conflict with the Jewish State. The infographic’s caption tells readers that “since the signing of the framework agreement between Lebanon and Israel, aimed at a ‘lasting peace,’ Israel has kept its troops close to its border and continues its occasional bombing.” While making clear that Israel is continuing “its occasional bombing,” the newspaper failed to mention the word Hezbollah, let alone inform readers about its role in launching unprovoked rocket fire into Israel beginning on March 2, in solidarity with its patron, the Islamic Republic of Iran. By omitting this essential background, Le Journal de Montréal instead falsely portrayed Israel as bombing Lebanon, apparently for no reason at all, and certainly not because of a deadly threat posed by an openly genocidal terrorist group that seeks Israel’s destruction. The infographic highlights locations such as Beaufort Castle, a medieval fortress which it notes was “captured by Israeli troops at the end of May.” Though the newspaper notes that it was “the scene of intense fighting,” it fails to mention precisely whom Israel was fighting, or that underneath the castle is a complex web of tunnels that Hezbollah has used to store weapons and fighters. By failing to provide this fundamental information, Le Journal de Montréal painted a picture where Israel was threatening a medieval fortress in a crime against archaeology, but once again with no apparent reason behind it. Elsewhere, the infographic states that “the city of Tyre, home to archaeological remains from the Roman era, has been especially targeted by Israeli strikes, even though UNESCO has designated it a World Heritage Site.” In this inversion of priorities, Le Journal de Montréal takes pains to note the World Heritage Site designation in the Lebanese coastal city of Tyre, but not the presence of maniacal Islamist terrorists who have deliberately embedded themselves there and placed civilians in harm’s way. Israel has pointed out that Hezbollah operatives embedded themselves within historic Christian areas of Tyre. This is not a matter simply of Israeli allegations, but of documented fact, with the France 24 broadcaster referring to the city as a “Hezbollah bastion,” and a locale where filming without Hezbollah’s permission is difficult if not impossible. This information was completely absent. For reasons that only Le Journal de Montréal can explain, absolutely none of this foundational information was anywhere to be seen in its infographic, an omission so damning that readers would have virtually no idea why Israel was in southern Lebanon at all. Le Journal de Montréal publie une infographie sur les frappes israéliennes au Liban sans mentionner une seule fois le Hezbollah Le biais anti-israélien largement répandu dans plusieurs médias d’information canadiens ne se manifeste pas seulement dans les reportages et les entrevues, mais également dans les caricatures éditoriales et les infographies. Cette désinformation était une fois de plus manifeste dans une infographie publiée le 9 juillet par Le Journal de Montréal, intitulée «Les joyaux patrimoniaux du Liban endommagés par Israël». L’infographie présentait une carte du Liban mettant en évidence plusieurs sites visés par Israël au cours des récents combats. Fait incroyable, elle omettait complètement l’éléphant dans la pièce : le Hezbollah, le groupe terroriste islamiste libanais responsable d’avoir entraîné le Liban dans un conflit armé contre l’État juif, n’y était jamais mentionné. La légende de l’infographie indique aux lecteurs que «depuis la signature de l’accord-cadre entre le Liban et Israël, visant une ‘paix durable,’ Israël a maintenu ses troupes près de sa frontière et poursuit des bombardements ponctuels». Tout en précisant qu’Israël poursuit «des bombardements ponctuels», le journal ne mentionne jamais le Hezbollah, encore moins son rôle dans le déclenchement de tirs de roquettes non provoqués contre Israël à compter du 2 mars, en solidarité avec son principal soutien, la République islamique d’Iran. En omettant ce contexte essentiel, Le Journal de Montréal donne plutôt la fausse impression qu’Israël bombarde le Liban sans raison apparente, et certainement pas en réponse à la menace mortelle que représente une organisation terroriste ouvertement génocidaire qui prône la de... --- ## CBC Radio Program The Current Gives Sympathetic Platform (Again) To Former PLO Lawyer Diana Buttu To Spread Anti-Israel Misinformation URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/cbc-radio-program-the-current-gives-sympathetic-platform-again-to-former-plo-lawyer-diana-buttu-to-spread-anti-israel-misinformation/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-07-20 Words: 863 > On the July 9 episode of the CBC radio program The Current “Hamas says it’s ready to hand over power. What comes next?” guest anchor Catherine Cullen hosted Diana Buttu... On the July 9 episode of the CBC radio program The Current “Hamas says it’s ready to hand over power. What comes next?” guest anchor Catherine Cullen hosted Diana Buttu and Aaron David Miller. Miller was representing the Carnegie Endowment, a Washington policy think-tank. Listen to the full segment below: Cullen introduced Diana Buttu as, “a Palestinian Canadian lawyer and a former legal advisor for the Palestine Liberation Organization.” She neglected to clarify that the PLO has a long history of terrorism, and that it regards the State of Israel as “entirely illegal”. Nor did she mention that Buttu is a highly controversial figure who has blamed Israel’s non-existent “occupation” of Gaza for the October 7 massacres. Cullen asked Buttu, “what message is Hamas trying to send by saying it will dissolve its government this week?” Buttu’s answer included the claim “there has been very little aid.” and that Hamas “don’t want to govern Gaza. They’re ready to hand it over to this technical committee.” According to Israeli news outlet YNet, Israeli officials claimed that this handover was “meaningless spin and a stalling tactic,” adding, “Palestinian officials told us this is only a symbolic step meant to create an appearance of progress for the mediators.” Even Palestinian sources acknowledged their existing civil servants will continue in their posts under the new authority. Hamas intends to continue to run things, just behind the scenes. Cullen did mention Israel’s stance, but did not give it the weight it deserved. Hamas has a history of brutality. On October 7, 2023, its invasion, massacre, and hostage-taking forced Israel into a fight for survival. Hamas had built a tunnel network bigger than the London Underground to implement its terror, and was ruling Gaza ruthlessly with extrajudicial killings of alleged conspirators. Buttu’s narrative sanitized Hamas’ role in the destruction of Gaza. Hamas routinely hijacked huge quantities of aid, selling them at inflated prices to fund its terror. Hamas routinely operated a human shield strategy, hiding tunnel entrances in children’s bedrooms, command centers in hospitals, and terror infrastructure in schools. Miller, at least, acknowledged that “They don’t want to disarm. It’s fundamentally a part of their ideology.” Buttu also spread the absurd falsehood that Israel was committing genocide, that “more than a thousand Palestinians have been killed” during the ceasefire, and that “over 200 of them children alone,” and she also said that there are “73,000 people that Israel had killed,” during the war. She also said of the Gazans, “you know, they’re tired of the mass killing…they also wanted… Israel’s policies of starvation come to an end.” She later added of the Israelis, “they don’t want to see Palestinians living at all a free life.” Buttu provided no sources, and Cullen failed to ask for any. Ignoring Hamas’ cowardly tactics of hiding among civilians while dismissing Israel’s efforts to issue warnings to civilians prior to an attack allowed her to present Israel’s self-defense as wanton evil. Buttu’s casualty figures were likely sourced from the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, which does not differentiate between fighters and civilians, gathering data using unreliable methods, and contains multiple inaccuracies. Buttu went on to state that Hamas “have said that they are willing to hand over and store weapons with a technocratic committee or an international protection force, and something that the Israelis have never said that they’re willing to do.” Cullen did not explain that Israel’s refusal to trust terrorists to hand over their weapons was entirely valid. This sanitizing of Hamas was a consistent theme throughout Buttu’s interview, which Cullen did not call her on. But Buttu’s most bizarre statement was that Israel was “leaving Hamas in power and then blaming Palestinians for the actions that the Israelis are conducting, i.e. the consistent killing.” At no point did she acknowledge Israel’s need for self-defence. When Cullen asked Miller about Buttu’s idea that “Israel wants Hamas in power so they can continue to blame Hamas, they can continue to blame Palestinians. What do you think of that argument?” He creditably articulated Hamas’ evil from October 7, 2023, but continued, “I think Diana’s point is extremely well taken. I think Benjamin Netanyahu would prefer…Hamas will continue to govern, to the degree that it can, Gaza…” Despite acknowledging Hamas’ genocidal intent, he still posited that Israel wanted to sustain Hamas. When asked about the Board of Peace’s idea of creating a humanitarian zone in Gaza where “goods and services would be scaled up as a way to kickstart the peace plan,” Miller implied that this was Israel wanting to ethnically cleanse Gaza, musing if this was “step one in getting Palestinians out of Gaza altogether.” By showcasing these allegations without challenge, CBC’s The Current abandoned any pretense of balanced journalism. Catherine ... --- ## In Toronto Star Column, Former Diplomat Jon Allen Falsely Claims Iranian Regime “Posed No Immediate Threat” To Israel URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/in-toronto-star-column-former-diplomat-jon-allen-falsely-claims-iranian-regime-posed-no-immediate-threat-to-israel/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-07-20 Words: 655 > In his July 12 opinion column in The Toronto Star, “This is why the U.S. and Iran resumed hostilities — and why a simple resolution is a remote possibility,” Jon... In his July 12 opinion column in The Toronto Star, “This is why the U.S. and Iran resumed hostilities — and why a simple resolution is a remote possibility,” Jon Allen, a former Canadian ambassador to Israel, opines on the ongoing tensions between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran, where he in our view falsely diminished the murderous and indeed imminent threats posed by Tehran to Israel. Allen wrote that the U.S. and Israeli strikes on the Islamic Republic were “internationally illegal,” though he did not elaborate on how he arrived at that conclusion. If he was referring to the lack of approval from the United Nations Security Council, that is an absurd legal standard, given that Russia and China, two key supporters of the Iranian regime, sit as permanent members and would likely veto any request for action against Iran. More troublingly, Allen posited without providing evidence that “Iran posed no imminent threat to either the U.S. or Israel,” though he added that “that’s not to suggest, however, that Iran wasn’t funding, and in some cases, directing terror attacks by its proxies, Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis.” While it is notable that Allen referred to attacks by these Iranian proxies as “terror attacks” – a reasonable and descriptive term that virtually all Canadian news outlets refuse to describe accurately – his assessment that Iran did not pose an impending threat to Israel is far off base. Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis, which Allen freely acknowledges are Iranian proxies, are not simply irritants, but deadly serious threats against the tiny Jewish State. All three – like their patrons in Tehran – are sworn to Israel’s destruction, and their actions have recently and consistently shown that they are clearly committed to accomplishing that goal. Likewise, despite severe economic challenges predating the February 28 commencement of hostilities, the Islamic Republic continued to prioritize conflict with Israel, and it showed no cessation of its dedication to its terrorist proxies, nor its nuclear or ballistic missile programs. As was demonstrated in real time in June, 2025 during the 12-day war, and again in recent months, just with ballistic missiles alone, Tehran’s continued bombardment of Israeli cities represented an imminent threat that no country could reasonably tolerate. Yet by appearing to dismiss Iran’s continued calls to destroy Israel, its support for terrorist proxies and its ballistic missile program as posing “no immediate threat,” was Allen’s presumed conclusion that Israel should simply permit an openly genocidal regime to continue its military buildup? Reasonable minds can criticize the recent strikes against the Islamic Republic, their methodology or timing, but to suggest that the Iranian regime posed no serious “imminent” threat to Israel is simply absurd. What would constitute an “imminent” threat in Allen’s mind? Should Jerusalem wait until a nuclear-tipped missile is in the air before acting? He did not say. Such criticisms are easy to make from the safety of North America, a luxury that Israel does not possess. Israel, barely larger than the surface area of Lake Ontario, is surrounded by bloodthirsty terrorist groups and regimes seeking its annihilation, and if it wants to survive, it has little choice than to address those threats head-on. In our estimation, Allen has previously glossed over the serious threats faced by Israel in other Toronto Star columns. While commentators like Jon Allen have a right to question or critique the actions of the United States and Israel vis-a-vis Iran, those criticisms must be grounded in a sober reality and analysis, namely one that recognizes that Iran is not a paper tiger, but a fanatical regime that is deadly serious about its desire to wipe Israel off the map. Unfortunately, by pooh-poohing Tehran’s regional ambitions and its threats as not posing “an immediate threat” to Israel, Allen’s opinion column is simply not a credible assessment in our view. --- ## What Is Really Happening With Iran? An Insightful Conversation With Beni Sabti, Iran Expert At The Institute For National Security Studies URL: https://honestreporting.ca/podcasts/what-is-really-happening-with-iran-an-insightful-conversation-with-beni-sabti-iran-expert-at-the-institute-for-national-security-studies/ Type: podcast Modified: 2026-07-17 Words: 120 > The news from Iran is changing almost by the minute. Following the recent conflict, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed, which was widely seen as a capitulation by the... The news from Iran is changing almost by the minute. Following the recent conflict, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed, which was widely seen as a capitulation by the White House. How did the Islamic Republic convince the U.S. to stand down? In this conversation, we are joined by Beni Sabti, an Iran expert at The Institute for National Security Studies. He helps us understand what is motivating the Islamic Republic of Iran, and what may come next. Thanks for listening to The Honest Report. Now level up—subscribe, leave a review, and spread the word. Want to stand with us even louder? Tap the link and become a sponsor. To play the audio-only version, click below: --- ## Hebrew: History’s Most Remarkable Linguistic Success Story! URL: https://honestreporting.ca/videos/hebrew-historys-most-remarkable-linguistic-success-story/ Type: videos Modified: 2026-07-20 Words: 92 > Hebrew is one of history’s most remarkable linguistic success stories. For nearly 2,000 years, it survived primarily as the language of Jewish prayer and scholarship before it was brought back... Hebrew is one of history’s most remarkable linguistic success stories. For nearly 2,000 years, it survived primarily as the language of Jewish prayer and scholarship before it was brought back to life as the everyday language of a modern nation. It was revived through the vision of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, who transformed an ancient language into one used for business, science, medicine, and daily life. Dive into our newest video, hit that share button, and smash the like button to amplify our message and skyrocket this video to viral fame! --- ## Syndicated Columnist Gwynne Dyer Continues To Blame Israel, Dismissing Murderous Threats Posed By Islamic Republic Of Iran URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/syndicated-columnist-gwynne-dyer-continues-to-blame-israel-dismissing-murderous-threats-posed-by-islamic-republic-of-iran/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-07-12 Words: 643 > London-based commentator Gwynne Dyer, who has spread unproven conspiracy theories as part of his ongoing denunciations of Israel, shows no signs of slowing down in his remarkably focused interest on... London-based commentator Gwynne Dyer, who has spread unproven conspiracy theories as part of his ongoing denunciations of Israel, shows no signs of slowing down in his remarkably focused interest on the Jewish State. In a June 1 commentary, “Are we on the brink of another World War,” published in The Telegram and The London Free Press, Dyer inverted reality on its head, citing threats from Russia, China – and Israel. Beyond comparing a liberal democracy to dictatorships, Dyer’s juxtaposition is obscene given that Israel is fighting a multi-front war, not of its choosing, but which was thrust upon it by Iran and its proxies. Two days later, in The Hill Times, “What does Bibi want with Lebanon?” a publication with its own roster of controversial commentators such as podcaster Erica Ifill, Dyer falsely depicted Israel as the aggressor in Lebanon, writing that the country “is relentlessly grinding forward there every day” in supposed violation of a ceasefire, as if the openly genocidal Islamic terrorist group Hezbollah has not continued to fire at Israel. Dyer – who used his space to bizarrely compare Israel’s democratically elected prime minister to the dictators of North Korea and Russia – lectured readers, telling them that Israel simply wants to “empty the towns and villages” of southern Lebanon, bypassing entirely the murderous threat posed by Hezbollah, which – like its patron, the Islamic Republic of Iran – seeks the annihilation of Israel. Just a week later, Dyer was back with another column, “Why the US war with Iran could get much worse by November,” which was published in The Winnipeg Free Press, The Hamilton Spectator, The Peterborough Examiner and The Telegram. In it, Dyer continued to characterize Israel’s counter-terrorism operations against its fanatical enemies simply as “Netanyahu’s wars on Iran and Lebanon,” and offering little to no admission of the actual threats posed by Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the Iranian regime. Instead, it was Israel that was famed as the bully, with Dyer warning darkly that “angry, desperate men are reckless men,” apparently implying that both the U.S. and Israel might wage war on the Islamic Republic for electoral reasons, rather than the regime’s murderous habits. And again on July 6, Dyer opined in another column in The Telegram, “What options does Israel’s Netanyahu still have?” where he suggested that Israel somehow cajoled the White House into war with Iran, writing that “Netanyahu has been trying to get the United States to attack Iran, Israel’s most powerful enemy, ever since the early 1990s.” Dyer utterly ignored how U.S. President Donald Trump has been a loud critic of the Iranian regime for decades, including telling an interviewer as early as 1988 how he would not hesitate to take military action against Tehran’s ayatollahs if needed. But rather than note Trump’s consistent record on opposing Iran, Dyer blamed Israel instead. Throughout his column, Dyer diminished the threat posed by the Islamic Republic, including its open calls for the destruction of Israel and its nuclear program, calling Israeli warnings “utter nonsense.” Though it may be convenient for Dyer to dismiss such threats, Iran’s leaders have made no secret of their genocidal vision for Israel, comparing it to a cancer and actively funding and supporting efforts by their proxies to murder as many Israelis as possible. Instead of addressing the threat posed by Iran, Dyer relied on familiar tropes, once again comparing Israel’s prime minister to Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin and positioning Israel as the real problem. Gwynne Dyer’s opinion columns have followed a consistent pattern: a fixation on Israel and an ongoing willingness to invert aggressor and victim, downplay genocidal threats it faces, and cast the Jewish State as the chief villain in a region where it is fighting for its survival. --- ## CTV News Uncritically Regurgitates Anti-Israel Claims From Amnesty International URL: https://honestreporting.ca/petitions/ctv-news-uncritically-regurgitates-anti-israel-claims-from-amnesty-international/ Type: petitions Modified: 2026-07-12 Words: 498 > Yet again, a Canadian news media outlet has produced a news article that is little more than a regurgitation of allegations by an anti-Israel pressure group. In a July 8... Yet again, a Canadian news media outlet has produced a news article that is little more than a regurgitation of allegations by an anti-Israel pressure group. In a July 8 article for CTV News, the broadcaster published a report on claims from Amnesty International, accusing Jerusalem of “war crimes” in Lebanon. The article, “Amnesty urges investigating Israeli attacks on Lebanon as ‘war crimes,’” originally from the AFP news wire, tells readers that Amnesty International is demanding that the international community investigate Israel’s actions against Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon. The article does rightly note that Hezbollah began the