CBC News reporter Cameron MacIntosh’s May 17 broadcast, “Israel pushes into West Bank for settlement expansion” accused Israel of “bringing violence” into Judea and Samaria (or in media parlance, the “West Bank”), talking about the “Nakba,” the term used by pro-Palestinian activists to refer to their failed attempt to destroy Israel in 1948 as if it were undisputed truth, and accusing Israel of expanding in the area in order to threaten a Palestinian state. Israel’s perspective isn’t mentioned once.

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Earlier this year, another report of his, where he peddled claims about alleged food shortages in Gaza, followed that same trajectory.

He broadcast from El-Azariya in the West Bank, where he said there were “40 shops demolished in the past week by the Israeli military.” His video showed the rest of the main road untouched, traffic continuing undisturbed. He did not mention that, as reported by the Washington Post, “Israeli authorities said the buildings… were built illegally and owners had been warned for “several years” enforcement was forthcoming.” The Washington Post further notes that “the new road system is meant to solve congestion and improve the quality of life of Palestinian towns in the area, Israel says.” But no acknowledgement of that from CBC News.

In the interest of journalistic ethics, MacIntosh ought to have presented the full picture. Instead, he continued, “the demolitions here are an example of Israel’s accelerating expansion into the West Bank, which is also bringing violence.”

While extremist violence exists and should be condemned, MacIntosh’s implication is that the Israeli government is aligned with the terror attacks. In fact, as the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs pointed out, the buzzword ‘settler-violence’ is being used to “attribute to Israel an official government policy of sanctioning violence against Palestinians,” which doesn’t exist at all. Israel functions under the rule of law.

Additionally, MacIntosh ignored the far larger security context in which Israelis have faced a flood of terrorist attacks originating from nearby Palestinians.

MacIntosh continued, saying that “in a week that marked the anniversary of the Nakba, the displacement of Palestinians during Israel’s creation, and Jerusalem Day, a celebration of Israel’s victory in the Six-Day War, Arab residents of the Old City were harassed and attacked by Israeli nationalist youth.”

The Nakba narrative is hotly contested by the facts. Both Arabs and Jews were offered a state side-by-side in the 1947 Partition Plan. Arabs rejected it and Jews accepted it, with Israel declaring independence in 1948. Multiple Arab countries immediately declared war on it, calling on hundreds of thousands of Arabs to leave Israel, assuming they would soon return to claim the spoils once it was imminently destroyed. Yet the Nakba narrative claims Arab victimhood.

MacIntosh continued to show episodes of alleged violence by settlers against the Arabs, continuing to paint a picture of Israeli aggression.

As researchers have noted, “the ‘settler violence’ campaign is one facet of a broader, organized effort led by the Palestinian Authority, supported by various organizations, to gain control over Area C and to establish a de facto Palestinian state unilaterally, in violation of the Oslo Accords.” This campaign delegitimizes Israel’s ancestral rights.

MacIntosh said, “Israel’s government supports West Bank expansion, claiming it’s Jewish land.” An oversimplification of the area’s history, ignoring that Israel holds extensive legal title to the area.

But MacIntosh wasn’t done. In an interview with Ghassan Khatib, a professor at Birzeit University, Khatib stated, “The net outcome is not going to be killing the possibility of a two-state solution. It’s worse than that. It will be a creation of an apartheid reality.”

It was almost comedic. Palestinians have, on multiple occasions, rejected the two-state solution, not least because doing so would entail recognizing Israel and repudiating the so-called “right of return,” widely understood to be a demographic ticking bomb of descendants of refugees that would see the elimination of the Jewish state. As for his doomsday prediction that apartheid will be created, surely Israel has already been accused of it already. Is he not admitting that Israel is not an apartheid regime after all?

MacIntosh’s report followed a now familiar CBC News formula: Israelis are framed as aggressors, Palestinians as passive victims, and disputed anti-Israel narratives are treated as settled fact. Israeli security concerns and Palestinian terrorism are again ignored.