McGill Tribune Rejects Pro-Israel Column Submitted By Jewish Student Saying Zionism Doesn’t “Align With Our Values”
On March 8, Claire Frankel, a Jewish student at McGill University and an HonestReporting Canada Campus Media Fellow, submitted a column (click here to read it in full) for publication to The McGill Tribune entitled: “Queer McGill is not a safe space for Jews,” but the campus newspaper rejected it, stating on March 26 (over […]
“Palestinian Awareness Week” Hits University of Manitoba; The Manitoban Student Newspaper Misrepresents Israel & The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
In mid-March, “Palestinian Awareness Week” was held at the University of Manitoba, and in commemoration of that effort, The Manitoban, the university’s official student newspaper, published a news article and an opinion commentary that saw both writers seriously misrepresent Israel and the nature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Included in the coverage was a news article […]
Varsity Column Ignores Palestinian Terrorism, Portrays Jerusalem As Part Of “Palestine” & Falsely Accuses Israel Of Discrimination
In a March 20 column and photo essay published in The Varsity, the University of Toronto’s student newspaper entitled: “A dream of home: barriers bury the beauty of Palestine – especially for its people” Safiya Patel, the publication’s Deputy Senior Copy Editor, sought to tell a first-hand story of Palestinian-Arabs living in Jerusalem, portrayed as […]
CBC Reporter Chris Brown Rationalizes & Romanticizes Palestinian Terrorism
On March 17, CBC News.ca published a report entitled: “Suffocated by Israeli Occupation, a new generation of Palestinian militants takes up the fight,” by Foreign Correspondent Chris Brown, who in our view, egregiously whitewashed, rationalized and romanticized violent Palestinian terrorism. Brown has been the subject of a number of HonestReporting Canada alerts (see here, here […]
Columnist Gwynne Dyer Equivocates Between Israel and Palestinian Terrorists By Referring to “Cycle of Violence.”
Since Benjamin Netanyahu re-entered office as Israeli Prime Minister in late December, he has faced criticism for his promised policies, including an overhaul of the judiciary. But sometimes, criticism of Netanyahu’s policies has morphed into hyperbolic and misleading claims about Israel as a whole. It is in this latter category that a recent opinion column […]
CBC Sympathetically Portrays Palestinian Terrorist As Victim
On Friday, March 10, a Palestinian terrorist entered an Israeli settlement armed with knives and explosive devices and was shot and killed by an Israeli settler in self-defense according to the Israeli military. According to the IDF, the armed Palestinian slipped into a farm near the settlement of Karnei Shomron and was fatally shot by […]