On the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the CBC radio program Day 6 featured an extended conversation that we regard as having cast aspersions on Israel’s presence in its historic lands.

The segment saw host Brent Bambury (who has been the subject of repeated HonestReporting Canada alerts for his repeated platforming of anti-Israel guests and failure to challenge their incendiary claims) interview Dahlia Scheindlin, whom he introduced as a “writer, pollster and political analyst who’s based in Tel Aviv.”

Listen to the full episode below:

Bambury did not tell listeners that Scheindlin, while Israeli, is a co-founder of +972 magazine, an outlet that has spread the obscene “genocide” slur, and which critics have said “promote(s) a marginal agenda from the fringes of Israeli discourse.” Scheindlin, unsurprisingly, has been a repeat guest on CBC radio shows.

The topic of the segment was on settler violence, which CBC has shown extensive interest in in recent weeks, though frequently providing a picture that omits Palestinian terrorism and presents only critics of Israel.

This segment was no different. Scheindlin told Bambury that the government (and many Israelis) “reflexively fuses criticism of Israel’s policies with underlying hatred of Israel.”

This characterization by Sheindlin suggests that millions of Israelis are effectively unable to receive fair and honest criticism. But that is not what Israelis have received in recent years, and instead have been the subject of a merciless campaign of double standards, demonization and delegitimization that far exceeds any other country in the world, even those who have practiced objectively far worse human rights abuses than anything Israel has done.

But instead of acknowledging the documented and overwhelming anti-Israel focus at, for instance, the United Nations, Scheindlin simply suggested that Israelis “reflectively” act defensively over any criticism of Israel.

Predictably, the conversation soon turned to settler violence, a favourite topic at CBC in recent weeks, with no mention whatsoever of the enormous proliferation of Palestinian terrorism in Judea & Samaria (“West Bank”) or the fact that studies have shown the incidence of such attacks are extremely overstated.

Bambury, as with other interviews, did not challenge Sheindlin with her characterizations.

The discussion about Israel wasn’t the only segment to be featured on September 11; other topics included sperm whales, a weekly musical news quiz and “how pop stars use name changes to reinvent and rebel.”

However, there was one segment dedicated to the terrorist attacks of September 11, but it was not about Osama bin Laden or Islamist extremism, but a discussion with American journalist Garrett Graff about how that day “laid the groundwork for Donald Trump.”

Not once did Bambury mention the words “Islamist,” “bin Laden” or “Al Qaeda” in his line of questioning, and instead the discussion surrounded the “impunity” of American order services and allegations of “misconduct,” and ended with Graff telling listeners that many Americans “are more afraid” of immigration enforcement “than they are of the threat of foreign terrorists.”

On the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, CBC managed to make the Islamist terrorist attacks largely about U.S. President Donald Trump and immigration enforcement, all while continuing to devote selective coverage giving considerable attention to amplifying the familiar settler violence narrative.

Photo credit: Brent Bambury