A recent article from CBC News Foreign Correspondent Chris Brown was riddled with inaccuracies and misleading half-truths.

In his June 26 report entitled: “Israel’s war with Iran lasted just 12 days. So why has the fight with Hamas in Gaza lasted for over 600?,” Brown wrote that the “IDF (Israeli military) broke its ceasefire with Hamas in March.”

Israel did not break the ceasefire; the temporary ceasefire had ended without Hamas having released the remainder of the hostages it was holding.

Elsewhere in his article, Brown paraphrased Dan Diker with the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, writing that “Diker says he believes the Gaza Health Ministry figures of 56,000 dead in Gaza are inflated, and that the number of people going hungry there is also overstated.”

But here, Brown felt compelled to add his personal editorialization, writing in parentheses that “(The United Nations considers the death toll reliable and other estimates put it even higher.)”

While it is true that some sources do indeed uncritically accept Hamas casualty claims, empirical studies have noted the terrorist group’s widespread manipulation of data, counting natural deaths as war fatalities, statistical implausibility, and more. Yet only sources who ally with Hamas claims are noted by Brown.

In another place, Brown reported well-documented facts, but implied that there are reasons to be suspicious, when he wrote that “Israel and the U.S. claim that Iran trained, funded and equipped many of the Hamas militants involved in the Oct. 7 attacks that killed some 1,200 people.”

Iran’s support for the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas is as longstanding as it is public, having provided the group with arms, funding and other logistical assistance. One of the senior figures assassinated by Israel in its recent operations was Saeed Izadi, the Iranian commander of the so-called Palestine Corps of the Quds Force, part of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Documentation shows how he was personally involved in the group’s efforts leading up to Hamas’ October 7, 2023 massacres.

Taken in isolation, these word choices by Brown seem forced or awkward. But together, they represent a clear agenda: taking every statement by Israel (or those supportive of the country), and casting aspersions on them. But that criticism only goes one way.

In the same article, Brown told readers that Israel’s efforts in Gaza could be “tantamount to ethnic cleansing.” Yet in this case, he failed to provide any parenthetical citations, showing objection to these scandalous claims, or offer any views or statements that might challenge this allegation?

Brown noted in his article that much of what he receives from Gaza is from CBC News videographer Mohamed El Saife, an extreme anti-Israel propagandist who – scandalously – remains working with the publicly-funded broadcaster.

Chris Brown’s reporting on Israel has long blurred the line between journalism and overt anti-Israel activism. He relies overwhelmingly on anti-Israel sources, often ignoring Israel’s statements entirely, parrots accusations against Israel as if they were fact, and mixes his own personal views so thoroughly into reports where it is difficult to separate fact from fiction.

The June 26 article for CBC News by Chris Brown selectively cast doubt on Israeli sources while amplifying unverified or hostile claims.