A May 28 article by the Canadian Press entitled: “Canadian doctors who served in Gaza call for arms embargo, sanctions on Israel,” written by Dylan Robertson, told readers about a press conference from a small group of doctors who have previously visited the Gaza Strip, and who are pressuring the Carney government to sanction the Jewish State.

Those present at the press conference included anti-Israel activists Dierdre Nunan, radical anti-Israel NDP Member of Parliament Heather McPherson and Yipeng Ge, an Ottawa physician who is one of Canada’s most infamous glorifiers of Palestinian terrorism.

Nothing was told to readers about Ge’s explicit and repeated praise of Hamas’ October 7, 2023 massacres, and by avoiding mention of this extremism, whitewashes the hateful rhetoric he has spread and framed him as a respectable member of Canadian society.

The article, presumably seeking to provide context, explained that Israel “has faced a wave of international condemnation over the high civilian death count.”

What Robertson framed as being a matter of fact, is an allegation by Hamas and its so-called “Gaza Ministry of Health,” whose casualty figures are neither verified, nor do they distinguish between civilians and combatants, and which have been panned as being statistically implausible and manipulated.

Yet in this effort to provide context, nothing was mentioned, either about the unreliability of Hamas’ supposed casualty figures, nor about how Israel’s counter-terrorism operations have been lauded by experts in urban warfare, and how Jerusalem has taken more efforts to minimize civilian casualties than any armed force in modern history.

The article further quoted the Canadian Muslim Public Affairs Council (CMPAC), saying that the group “is calling on Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada to fix the flaws in a program meant to resettle up to 5,000 people fleeing Gaza with family ties to Canada.”

While the article framed CMPAC as a legitimate actor in the political arena, nothing was acknowledged by the reporter about the group’s deeply problematic activities.

CMPAC has published columns whitewashing Hamas terrorism, has brought a British commentator who has praised Hamas’ massacres to Canada on a speaking tour, and featured other extremists in its programming.

Troublingly, this is not the first time the Canadian Press has sanitized CMPAC. An article from March, prior to the federal election, told readers about the group’s efforts to endorse only anti-Israel candidates, with no acknowledgement of the organization’s past efforts to bring extremist agitators to Canada on speaking tours.

Nowhere in the article were opposing voices given a platform, who might have challenged the highly controversial calls made by those at the press conference, which included demands that the Carney government apply sanctions to Israel. There is little precedent for Canada applying sanctions to a democratic ally in the midst of a defensive war against an Islamic terrorist group.

By ignoring the extremist statements and actions by individuals like Yipeng Ge and groups like the Canadian Muslim Public Affairs Council, the Canadian Press has not only failed to offer fundamental context about the nature of these actors, and in so doing, has helped to rehabilitate their images in the eyes of the Canadian public.