It has become a cycle as reliable as the sun rising in the morning and setting in the evening. A radical anti-Israel organization accuses Jerusalem of a particular crime. Then, like clockwork, those claims are amplified across multiple news media outlets, and hostile anti-Israel guests are given a platform to offer their thoughts with no challenge or context, and certainly no interviewee who would dare disagree.

That wash-and-repeat process was again on full display in recent days, following a United Nations commission made up of three hardline anti-Israel activists, which predictably accused Israel of genocide. The United Nations Commission of Inquiry is composed of three members: Navi Pillay, Miloon Kothari and Chris Sidoti. All three have long histories of vocal and radical anti-Israel activism, making their conclusions hardly a surprise.

On September 16, three CBC radio programs gave extended coverage to the commission’s claims, not once pointing out to listeners the personal histories of the authors of the report, and instead choosing to interview for supposed background, two vocal anti-Israel activists.

On CBC Radio Active, host Jessica Ng, spoke with Alex Neve, a former executive director of Amnesty International Canada who has been regularly hosted on Canadian media where he accuses Israel of virtually every crime under the sun. Neve made no attempt to offer a critical analysis of these new genocide claims, and instead said it was “just one more in the long line of thorough, comprehensive reports” making such accusations.

Click below to listen to the segment:

But many poor arguments do not together make a cogent claim, as it soon became clear. Neve stated that the supposed ‘proof’ of genocide came in large part through statements from Israeli leaders after Hamas’ October 7, 2023 massacres.

These statements, belligerent as they may have been, have been widely seized upon by pro-Palestinian campaigners and used to argue for the crime of genocide, though as extreme as they may have been, none of this rhetoric ever became wartime policy of Israel, and Jerusalem has taken extensive measures to protect Palestinian civilians in war, far exceeding its obligations under international law.

Unsurprisingly, Neve said nothing of the sort, and neither did Ng.

The same day, host Ramraajh Sharvendiran, on the Here and Now program, spoke with Michael Lynk, a Western University law lecturer and radical anti-Israel activist, for his take. Lynk extolled the report’s legitimacy, noting that it was 71 pages long, as if length was indicative of credibility. But just two weeks earlier, a group of four scholars from the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies published a 311-page study debunking genocide claims, though unsurprisingly CBC radio has not uttered a peep about that report.

During the interview, Lynk falsely stated that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) found “plausible evidence” of genocide, a fabricated statement that never happened. The ICJ found that the Palestinians have plausible rights to be protected under the genocide convention, and the former president of the ICJ who oversaw those proceedings was forced to go to BBC News to rebut such nonsensical claims, which has apparently not stopped Lynk from making them. Despite uttering this falsehood, the CBC’s host allowed it to air unchallenged.

Click below to listen to the segment:

Lynk was once again featured on the All in a Day program the same day, where host Alan Neal – a regular platformer of radical anti-Israel voices who offers no such opportunity to pro-Israel guests – made no attempt to challenge him on his multiple false claims. He claimed that 83 percent of those killed in Gaza were civilians, a blatant and shameless misrepresentation of a recent study which definitively identified 17 percent of deaths in Gaza as terrorists, which does not mean that the remainder are civilians, merely that their names were not yet identified. But such details have no place, it seems, on publicly-funded radio.

Click below to listen to the segment:

These three CBC radio programs show how the taxpayer-funded broadcaster continues to show that no matter how feeble the claims made by anti-Israel activists are, that they will be given a sympathetic platform at the near-total exclusion of anyone else.