The deep and unrelenting anti-Israel bias exhibited at CBC, Canada’s publicly-funded national broadcaster, is evident not only in the frequent peddling of misinformation or the overwhelming number of interviewees hostile to the Jewish State, but in the consistent selection of stories chosen to be published.

Sara Jabakhanji, a CBC News writer who signed a 2021 open letter calling for more anti-Israel news coverage, and yet incredibly remains free to report on the Middle East, penned three recent articles where she zeroed in exclusively on circumstances in Gaza, all while showing a significant preference to elevate unverified Palestinian claims in her reporting.

An April 10 article entitled: “‘Ahmad burned in front of the whole world,’ says wife of Gaza journalist killed after Israeli strike,” reported on the death of Palestinian Ahmad Mansour in Gaza, who was working as a reporter for a Palestinian outlet. Though she did mention that Israel stated that he was a member of Hamas’ Khan Younis Brigate, Jabakhanji hastened to remind readers that Israel “did not provide proof.”

However, when it came to Palestinian claims, Jabakhanji’s skepticism suddenly disappeared. She wrote that “Mansour’s death on Tuesday raised the number of journalists killed in Israel’s Gaza campaign since October 2023 to 211, according to the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate,” though in this case evidently decided that it was not worth pointing out that evidence suggests many of the ‘journalists’ killed in Gaza were members of Palestinian terrorist groups, while others do not appear to have been journalists at all.

The following day, Jabakhanji published another article entitled: “Clean water becoming increasingly scarce in Gaza amid Israel’s continued total blockade.” In the report, Jabakhanji wrote that: “more than six weeks since Israel completely cut off all supplies to the roughly 2.3 million residents of the Gaza Strip, food stockpiled during a ceasefire at the start of the year has all but run out.” It is not clear what evidence Jabakhanji is relying on for her statement beyond claims from local Gazans, though she did not hesitate to allege that “emergency meal distributions are ending, bakeries are closed, markets are empty.”

But had Jabakhanji conducted an investigation, she would have found that reports suggest there are many months of food availability in Gaza, and that restaurants continue to conduct a brisk business in the coastal enclave, with markets continuing to have plenty of fresh produce, which – given the blockade – is clearly grown locally, and thus not dependent on Israel.

Once again, no mention of any of this was made by Jabakhanji.

Her third article in a week entitled: “‘We could barely walk,’ sisters say after being ordered to evacuate northern Gaza’s last major hospital,” published April 15, was no better than the preceding two reports. Covering an Israeli strike on a suspected Hamas holdout, Jabakhanji wrote that: “Israel said it targeted a Hamas command and control centre within Al-Ahli hospital, without providing evidence,” yet at no time were any of Hamas’ claims, including the death of a girl, buttressed by evidence, at least not any that Jabakhanji shared with readers.

Elsewhere, the reporter wrote that staff at a hospital in Gaza struck by Israel “have denied the allegations (of Hamas’ presence there) and accused Israel of recklessly endangering civilians and destroying its health-care infrastructure.”

In this case, what Jabakhanji entirely ignored was that civilian infrastructure no longer becomes civilian infrastructure if used by a terrorist entity like Hamas and it loses its protected status under international law. Hamas’ use of hospitals is no secret at all; as one Palestinian writer, Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, chronicled on the same day as her article, Hamas terrorists in a different hospital had been “taking over the surgery ward/division and hiding there to protect themselves, endangering the entire facility.”

Lest one think that the instance was isolated, Alkhatib added that: “this has happened time and again in medical facilities across Gaza…international humanitarian law clearly states that the misuse of a hospital/medical facility to gain a military advantage or to shield military objectives from attack removes the protection for hospitals” under international humanitarian law.

Jabakhanji’s selective omission of any evidence that does not support a narrow anti-Israel narrative is regularly ignored, with her claiming that Israel did not provide “evidence,” all while she consistently allows Hamas’ disinformation to be spread without challenge.