CBC News’ overwhelmingly one-sided coverage of the Hamas-Israel war continues.

In three recent news articles by the publicly-funded broadcaster, Senior Writer Sara Jabakhanji – who signed a 2021 open letter calling for more anti-Israel news coverage – the reporter appeared intent on fulfilling that request by producing three back-to-back articles focused on allegations levelled against Israel.

In a March 13 article entitled: “UN report accuses Israel of ‘genocidal acts,’ sexual and gender-based violence in Gaza,” Jabakhanji took a recent report from a United Nations body accusing Israel of war crimes, and platformed it into a news report.

The first problem is that the body in question, The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, is a fanatically anti-Israel entity led by three extreme detractors of the Jewish State, Navi Pillay, Miloon Kothari, and Chris Sidoti, who have spent much of the last 18 months regularly assailing Israel.

While Jabakhanji portrayed the commission as being simply a “UN report,” she hid the body’s extreme anti-Israel agenda. Once again, she has turned an anti-Israel allegation into a news report, conveniently failing to ever turn accusations against the Hamas terrorist government into the subject of a news article. For Jabakhanji, anti-Israel claims are worthy of coverage, while competing accusations are not.

On March 18, Jabakhanhi co-authored another article, this time with reporter Yasmine Hassan. The article entitled: “Palestinians scramble to hospitals after Israeli airstrikes hit homes, encampments across Gaza,” once again took claims against Israel as the basis for a news article. In the report, the pair wrote that “Israel made ‘extensive’ strikes on parts of the Gaza Strip, killing at least 404 people and injuring hundreds more.”

What Jabakhanji and Hassan wrote as established fact is decidedly not so, but merely allegations from none other than Hamas, the terrorist group which controls Gaza, but the pair did not tell readers this, falsely presenting Hamas propaganda as truth.

Then, on March 21, Jabakhanji authored another article entitled: “As Palestinians look for shelter, some pitch their tents next to a landfill in Gaza City,” which focused on the humanitarian challenges of Gazans following renewed fighting between Hamas and Israel.

In the article, Jabakhanji wrote that: “Israel’s renewed offensive has killed more than 600 Palestinians in Gaza since Tuesday,” failing to provide any attribution at all for these casualty claims, and once again presenting Hamas propaganda as the unassailable truth without even bothering to tell readers the source of these claims.

More fundamentally, the article, by focusing exclusively on the adverse effects of Israeli counter-terrorism operations against Hamas in Gaza, effectively absolved Hamas, the governing power in Gaza, of responsibility for its adamant refusal to free the remaining hostages kidnapped 18 months ago from southern Israel.

By fixing her gaze repeatedly on Israel’s operations against Hamas in Gaza, largely sanitizing Hamas’ actions, Jabakhanji continually demonizes Israel while all but entirely letting Hamas off the hook. Even framing the war as tit-for-tat would be an improvement over Jabakhanji’s reporting, which shows little to no interest in Hamas’ war against Israel, and an inordinate fixation on what Israel does in response.

While any other journalist producing such consistently biased reporting would be rightly removed from covering the Middle East, Jabakhanji – who has made her anti-Israel views and advocacy abundantly clear – remains free to produce highly problematic coverage.