When marginal anti-Israel activists have a complaint, CBC News reporter Mrinali Anchan has repeatedly been there to amplify it for the Canadian public, and launder it under the guise of ‘news.’

She has previously reported on a report from The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives which whitewashed the explicitly political ‘Anti-Palestinian Racism’ crusade by activists, penned an article about a tiny group of anti-Israel protesters in Edmonton, and a fringe effort by a group of activists to opt out of a utility fee was granted full coverage by Anchan.

On April 14, Anchan authored an article, “Charter challenge launched against U of A for removal of pro-Palestine encampment in 2024,” where she recorded an effort by University of Alberta graduates Noor Abdo and Mustapha Yassin, alongside assistant professor Michael Litwack, to file a charter challenge against the school for removing the anti-Israel campus occupation in 2024. They are represented by lawyer Avnish Nanda, whose biography proclaims his “involvement in social justice activism.”

During their time at the University of Alberta, speech pathology student Noor Abdo and civil engineering student Mustapha Yassin were outspoken anti-Israel activists and members of the extremist group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). Currently

In the article, Anchan notes that Litwack is a member of Independent Jewish Voices (IJV), though she declines to mention that the group has been accused of Holocaust denial and rationalizing Palestinian terrorism.

Anchan writes that the campus occupation was part of “a wave of demonstrations at dozens of campuses across North America at the time,” but censored away any acknowledgement of the anti-Israel hate speech, violence, glorification of terrorism and overt filth that characterized the demonstrations.

Some notable highlights of the campus occupations in Canada include rat infestations and drug deals, a “youth program” offered whose poster featured keffiyeh-clad terrorists, the Samidoun terrorist group actively allegedly taking a role in the demonstrations, explicitly anti-Jewish hate speech, and perhaps most absurd of all: the discovery that actual students only represented a tiny proportion of the already-small number of participants, with most being faculty members and activists, including Mona Ayesh, who was recently convicted of theft.

Instead of providing readers with an unvarnished view of the hate occupations on campus, Anchan repeated the demands from the University of Alberta protesters, including what she termed “declaring and condemning the situation in Gaza as a genocide.” She also quoted Abdo making the same allegation against Israel. Despite the “genocide” allegations being used to promote anti-Jewish hate crimes in Canada and beyond, Anchan apparently did not feel compelled to inform readers that these claims are unproven and vociferously denied both by Israel and scholars around the world.

Despite devoting (yet another) article to efforts by a fringe group of anti-Israel activists in Alberta, and extensively detailing their list of “demands” to the university’s administration, including false claims of “genocide,” at no time did Anchan remind readers why the war in Gaza happened in the first place: the invasion and subsequent massacres committed by Palestinians in southern Israel on October 7, 2023.

Once again, CBC News reporter Mrinali Anchan has amplified the complaints of a small group of anti-Israel activists, and promoted it as news, all while whitewashing the extremism that was present across the 2024 campus occupations.