Yet again, CBC News Senior Reporter Evan Dyer has penned a news article that in our estimation closely mimics complaints from a radical anti-Israel activist group.

In July, 2025, he acted in our view as a free publicist for a group of such organizations, who were alleging that arms were making their way from Canada, helping Israel to defend itself against Islamic terrorist groups. He specifically cited the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), Independent Jewish Voices, and Canadians for Justice & Peace in the Middle East (CJPME), among others.

And now, in a February 10 article, Dyer – who has a long history of producing brazenly biased anti-Israel pieces for the taxpayer-funded broadcaster – did so again.

His article, “Netanyahu again flies through Canadian airspace en route to Washington,” where he told readers that, according to online flight tracking software, “Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew hundreds of kilometres through Canadian airspace on his way to meet U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday — despite Prime Minister Mark Carney previously saying he would honour an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC).”

Though Dyer did not share this with readers, it is highly plausible in our view that the story came to his attention as a result of a viral post from the same CJPME group, which posted about Netanyahu’s plane earlier that day.

Predictably, CJPME’s post was pounced on by a regular roster of anti-Israel agitators, including convicted criminal harasser Yves Engler, who suggested that Ottawa should “blow it out of the sky.”

Throughout Dyer’s article, he took it for granted that the presence of Netanyahu’s plane over Canadian airspace is scandalous, noting that he contacted Global Affairs Canada for comment, and telling readers that he asked “if the government of Israel sought permission for the latest flight.”

Yet at no point did Dyer question whether the online outrage driving the story represented a meaningful public concern, or merely the amplification of a small but highly organized anti-Israel activist network adept at manufacturing controversy.

In our view, beyond Dyer’s effectively transforming the complaints of radical anti-Israel activists, and laundering them into a seemingly credible news article – for at least the second time in a few months – there was an equally large problem with his article.

Dyer’s report took it as a given that the presence of an official Israeli government aircraft over Canadian airspace should be problematic for Canadians, but never sought fit to point out how the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) arrest warrants against Israeli leaders is highly controversial, and according to critics, has been driven by a desire by Karim Khan, the head of the court, to distract from allegations of sexual misconduct from one of his underlings.

Rather than sharing with Canadians a 360-degree view of the news of the day, as has been promised by Brodie Fenlon, the broadcaster’s editor-in-chief, CBC News continues to take a fringe pro-Palestinian agenda, often directly from radical activists themselves, repackage it, and call it news.

From our perspective, it is long past time for CBC News to stop taking their inspiration from radical pro-Palestinian activist groups, and instead start telling stories that truly matter to Canadians.