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.
