The lightning pace with which Syrian rebels overthrew longtime dictator Bashar Assad is rivaled in speed only by the rate that some news media outlets rush to force a one-sided demonization of Israel into a conversation about Syria.

Case in point, the December 15 episode of The Sunday Magazine, a CBC radio program hosted by Piya Chattopadhyay.

On that day, roughly 25 minutes was devoted to the topic of developments in Syria, and Chattopadhyay was joined in the conversation by two guests.

One of the guests was Kareem Shaheen, a media commentator who has shared content on social media accusing Israel of “ethnic cleansing” in Gaza and has called Israel’s operations against Iranian terrorist groups a “psychotic rampage through the region.”

For a diverse opinion, Chattopadhyay was also joined by University of Waterloo professor Bessma Momani, who has blamed Israel for Hezbollah terrorism and has spent years portraying Israel, not Hezbollah, as the villain.

With those two guests, and Chattopadhyay’s own penchant for turning her program into a platform for extended anti-Israel allegations, the direction of the conversation was obvious before either of her guests even opened their mouths.

Partway through the conversation, Chattopadhyay asked her guests about Israeli plans to invest into economic growth for Israeli towns in the Golan Heights, or as she called them, “settlements.”

The response from her guests was as quick as it was ferocious.

Shaheen said Israel “took over additional land” in Syria, ignoring statements that Israel’s steps were both temporary, and necessary to ensure strategic points were not taken by Islamic radicals.

He then made a truly remarkable statement, in mentioning Israel’s strikes against Syrian military sites, he acknowledged some of them were chemical weapons facilities, but then complained that “it’s unfortunate that these chemical weapons facilities were not bombed prior to the regime’s fall when it was actively using it against its own civilians.”

For some commentators, Israel is damned when it does, and damned when it doesn’t. Israel gets blamed by Shaheen for bombing Hamas terrorists in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, gets no credit for bombing chemical weapons sites in Syria, and blamed for not doing it soon enough.

Shaheen continued by making the bizarre claim that over the last 13 years of the Syrian civil war, rebels opposed to Hezbollah have prevented the group from acquiring weapons from Iran, and stated that “there is no credible threat to Israel” as a result of that war.

Beyond that statement flying in the face of actual evidence, Shaheen further ignored Hezbollah’s firing of some 10,000 rockets into Israel over the last year. But rather than challenge Shaheen on these incredibly ignorant comments, Chattopadhyay said nothing.

Momani offered little variety from Shaheen’s kneejerk anti-Israel outlook, decrying the Israeli government as being made up of “extremist, alt-right, expansionist members” who are spewing “vitriol,” and commenting on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Netanyahu’s war on Gaza,” a throwaway comment that nevertheless irresponsibly ignores Hamas’ unprovoked aggression against Israel, and Jerusalem’s war against that terror group, not against “Gaza” as a whole.

Once again, Chattopadhyay offered zero in the way of challenge or pushback to her guests, despite both of them offering the same outlook, the same anti-Israel talking points, and the same whitewashing of Islamic terrorism.

However, this should come as little surprise to followers of The Sunday Edition, a program which has spent the last year portraying Israel as the aggressor against Hezbollah, equating Israel and Hamas, interviewing a guest suggesting Israel should be expelled from the Olympics, that Israel is starving Palestinians, and more.