In mid-July, Israeli Benjamin Netanyahu visited the United States for a series of meetings with senior officials, including President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, as well as to make a high-profile speech to the U.S. Congress.

The visit was certainly worthy of media coverage and analysis, but for the CBC radio program As It Happens, that commentary was as predictable as it was hostile to Israel.

One of the segments of the July 24 episode featured a discussion on Netanyahu’s visit, along with guest Lily Greenberg Call, a former official in the Biden administration who resigned in May, 2024 in protest of the president’s support for Israel.

Listen to the full clip below:

Greenberg Call was the only guest featured to offer her opinion on Netanyahu’s visit, which included false and baseless accusations that Israel has carried out “a policy of forced starvation and withholding of aid.” No guest was present to offer a rebuttal to Greenberg Call’s false statements, or their own views.

No Proof Of Famine In Gaza

Despite the popularity of those allegations by anti-Israel activists, there remains not a scintilla of evidence to support them. Hundreds of aid trucks enter Gaza every single day, and more food trucks are being sent to the territory than before Hamas’ October 7 massacres. Human rights organizations which previously bellowed that a famine was imminent had to quietly backtrack their claims, and video footage shows busy markets inside the enclave.

But that doesn’t mean there are no shortages of food from within Gaza; just that the culprit is not Israel. Hamas terrorists have stolen aid from Gazan civilians and threatened anyone daring to take food for themselves. And thanks to the incompetence of United Nations agencies such as the disgraced UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East), huge amounts of food have sat inside Gaza waiting to be distributed.

But the fallacious allegation that Israel is somehow orchestrating a food shortage went entirely unchallenged by the program’s host, Nil Köksal.

Greenberg Call shared that she was among the protesters in Washington, DC when Netanyahu spoke to the US Congress, a scene of mayhem and chaos, when thousands of anti-Israel demonstrators violently attacked security personnel, defaced historical sites, burned flags and created one of the most memorable scenes of lawlessness and violence seen anywhere in the world since October 7, and though there is no evidence that she participated in that violence, it was never acknowledged or condemned by her, though As It Happens sanitized the mob as having “showed up to speak out against the visit.”

As It Happens has been a repeat offender in parroting anti-Israel propaganda, particularly in recent months, primarily by giving an exclusive platform to voices deeply hostile to Israel, while failing to provide any veneer of fairness, balance or even context at all with giving pro-Israel voices a platform.

As It Happens Singles Out Israel For Opprobrium

A July 19 episode of the program featured a member of the Palestinian legal team at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) erasing Israel’s thousands of years of legal claims to its land, a July 6 episode interviewed Jeremy Konyndyk, president of Refugees International, who promoted a doomsday humanitarian picture of Gaza (with no opposing voice at all), and the June 6 segment interviewed a nurse with Doctors Without Borders who complained that Israel does not advertise all its counter-terrorism operations in advance.

HRC will continue to expose and condemn this CBC programs systemic anti-Israel bias.