For many, the arrival of the new year is a time for reflection and for resolutions in order to better oneself and make improvements.

For CBC News, however, 2025 has not brought any improvement to the publicly-funded broadcaster’s coverage of Israel and the Middle East, and notably, the last five weeks have resulted in at least three instances which demonstrate a proclivity in allowing hateful anti-Israel messages to be displayed for CBC’s audience.

During a New Year’s Eve special program on CBC, the broadcaster featured a live program with musical and other entertainment. Directly outside the studio’s windows, a small group of individuals were holding signs bearing anti-Jewish hateful messages, including “Zionism is terrorism,” referring to the Jewish people’s national liberation movement, “Zionism and Nazis are supremacist cults,” comparing the Jewish people’s right to live in their own homeland to the Nazis, and other posters.

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No apparent effort was made by CBC to remove the posters, to acknowledge their hateful nature, or to obscure them at all. Instead, and for an extended period of time, they remained.

Barely three weeks later, the CBC News program Canada Tonight reported on a story about Amazon closing its Quebec operations, featuring former Amazon staffer Mostafa Henaway. Behind Henaway’s shoulders was a large poster, beside a Palestinian flag, which read “End Israeli Terror.”

While it is not CBC’s fault that Henaway would present such a grotesque and inflammatory image, the broadcaster chose to allow it to be shown to viewers, when it could have required that it be removed or obscured. Instead, it allowed it.

And now CBC has done it again. A February 3 news article by Zubina Ahmed entitled: “‘Bits and pieces of their houses left’ as Gazans return home, says Palestinian living in Winnipeg,” featured an interview with Winnipegger Hala Kofa, describing the situation in Gaza following the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas.

The lead photo featured Kofa, with a Palestinian flag pin, standing in front of wall art, one of which read simply “love.” But over her other shoulder was a piece of artwork depicting all of Israel, Gaza and Judea & Samaria (“West Bank”) as one unitary state, presumably not Israel, but “Palestine”, sending the unmistakable message that the Jewish state has no right to exist.

Just as a photo is worth a thousand words, this artwork told a story, indicating that its owner denies Israel’s right to exist and instead sees the Palestinian territories, not as simply Gaza or Judea & Samaria, but including all of Israel proper.

Just as it did twice before in the previous month, CBC News not only allowed this image to be displayed, it published a photo of Kofa standing in front of that artwork. This decision, even more so than the previous two instances, represented a conscious decision by the broadcaster to showcase Palestinian messaging.

The article itself unironically referred to Kofa as “a Palestinian refugee living in Winnipeg,” even as it acknowledged that she was born and raised, not in the Palestinian territories, but in two separate oil-rich Gulf kingdoms: Kuwait and Qatar, admittedly stretching the term “refugee” considerably.

In all these cases, if an interview subject had an image or sign expressing hatred for an identifiable group, or artwork expressing the ostensible denial of another country’s right to exist, it would not be showcased for the Canadian public. But when it comes to Israel, CBC News has apparently made an exception, yet again.