CBC News Gives Another Sympathetic Platform To Falsehood-Spewing Australian Doctor

Multiple Canadian news media outlets have complained of a lack of foreign journalists inside the Gaza Strip, but that hasn’t stopped the nearly endless parade of anti-Israel propaganda from Canada’s publicly-funded broadcaster, CBC News.

In a September 24 video entitled: “People are just ‘waiting on turns to die’: Australian doctor in Gaza,” viewers were presented with nearly three minutes of uninterrupted claims from Nada Abu Al-Rub, an Australian pediatrician working inside a Gaza hospital, who spouted multiple falsehoods without any context or correction from the broadcaster.

Watch the full segment below:

Al-Rub claimed that there is a “complete blockade” into Gaza, a patently ridiculous claim that cannot stand up to even the most minimal of scrutiny. On any given day, hundreds of trucks filled with humanitarian aid enter the territory daily.

Elsewhere in the video, Al-Rub told viewers that “there’s no food here,” presumably expecting the Canadian public to believe her claims. Once again, her allegations fall flat in the face of reality, and makes no mention of the enormous amount of food entering Gaza daily, or the images and footage of restaurants and markets that are bustling.

As conspiratorial as Al-Rub’s claims are of no food in Gaza, they are hardly an isolated case; CBC News in particular has consistently given a sympathetic platform to anti-Israel activists falsely asserting there was no food in the territory, rarely if ever challenging them with facts.

At no point in the video did Al-Rub acknowledge the humungous amount of food aid in Gaza, nor did CBC News add an addendum or correction pointing out her explicit falsehood, which was instead allowed to stand entirely unchallenged.

Al-Rub’s comments went from ridiculous to obscene, later claiming that “baby formula was forbidden… if you bring in baby formula, you put the whole organization at risk to be cancelled and no doctors are allowed in the future.”

It is unclear what is the source of Al-Rub’s falsehood, and COGAT, the Israeli organization coordinating aid into Gaza, has stressed there is no such ban in place, and thousands of tonnes of baby food and infant formula were sent into the territory.

The deep problems with the broadcast was not just in Al-Rub’s multiple false statements, but what went unsaid completely. Israel, even while fighting a genocidal Islamic terrorist organization seeking its destruction, continues to go above and beyond its obligations under international humanitarian law and send in large amounts of aid into Gaza.

Israel’s efforts to provide aid into Gaza continues even as dozens of Israeli hostages remain inside the territory, kidnapped two years earlier by a group that promises it will never stop attacking Israel.

Even more ominously, a number of freed Israeli hostages have reported that it was not just Hamas terrorists who held them, but “civilians” as well. In one case, hostages were kept at the home of Abdallah Aljamal, a “journalist” in Gaza.

While Nada Abu Al-Rub may sincerely believe the falsehoods she peddled to Canadian viewers, CBC News has shown for the umpteenth time that it is happy to showcase such nonsense, devoid of any effort to ensure viewers are given the facts, rather than superficial anti-Israel propaganda.

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