CBC News continues to allow itself to be used as a largely uncritical disseminator of allegations against Israel, all while documented claims against Palestinian activists and their supporters continue to be overwhelmingly ignored.

In a series of three recent reports, CBC News Senior Writer Sara Jabakhanji – who signed a 2021 open letter calling for the Canadian news media to amplify pro-Palestinian narratives – continued to do precisely that.

In a May 22 article, “Canadian Gaza flotilla activist says he was beaten for days in Israeli detention,” Jabakhanji sympathetically profiles Ehab Lotayef, a Montreal anti-Israel activist and McGill University employee who participated on the recent ill-fated ‘flotilla to Gaza,’ which despite being framed as a humanitarian endeavor, was clearly a PR stunt.

Jabakhanji describes Lotayef as a “human rights activist,” hardly a neutral term for an individual having been involved in overt acts of anti-Israel activism for at least 15 years, before proceeding to repeat his allegations of torture. While she did offer brief denials from Israel, the article provided virtually no insight into serious allegations against the flotilla organizers, including alleged connections to Palestinian terrorism.

On June 10, Jabakhanji was back with another article which provided uncritical coverage for allegations leveled by Amnesty International, an anti-Israel pressure group. The article, “Amnesty report accuses Israel of ‘ethnic cleansing’ in West Bank amid expanded settlements.”

When such allegations are leveled against Israel, CBC News has repeatedly offered extensive coverage of them for the Canadian public. Meanwhile, when experts have found no evidence of genocide or famine in Gaza, or widespread documented manipulation of casualty claims by Hamas, these findings are routinely ignored by Canada’s publicly-funded broadcaster.

Amnesty International’s claims of “ethnic cleansing” because Israel dares to build homes in its historic lands were provided to readers as if they were newsworthy, with no acknowledgement of the group’s long documented anti-Israel agenda, and only minimal mention that these allegations are challenged by Israel, when she could have informed readers that Israel possesses extensive legal title to the lands in question – far more than a non-existent Palestinian state.

And again on July 14, Jabakhanji penned an article profiling a Palestinian man imprisoned by Israel, framing the story overwhelmingly from his family’s perspective and offering relatively little insight into the serious allegations against him.

The article, “Family of Gaza hospital chief detained by Israel ‘shocked’ over his deteriorating health condition,” purported to tell the story of Hussam Abu Safiya, a former hospital chief in Gaza who was detained by Israel in December, 2024.

It was only halfway through the article that readers learned that Israel says Abu Safiya served as a senior officer in Hamas. But these are not mere accusations; there is extensive evidence, including from Palestinian media, appearing to show Abu Safiya as a colonel in the Palestinian terrorist group. None of this evidence was cited in the article.

As the article ended, Jabakhanji offered readers a series of smears against Israel, including writing that in 2025, “the UN said that the Israeli authorities had committed genocide by targeting the health-care system and medical professionals in Gaza since October 2023,” adding only in response that Israel called the claims “scandalous.”

Time and again, CBC News Senior Writer Sara Jabakhanji – and much of CBC at large – has provided a largely uncritical if not sympathetic platform for scores of anti-Israel accusations, while providing virtually no coverage to findings which contradict that agenda.