Following the proposal laid out by US President Donald Trump to end the two-year Gaza war which began on October 7, 2023 with the Palestinian massacres in southern Israel, CBC News provided what it characterized as thoughtful analyses of the plan.

However, in two news articles, both published September 29, the publicly-funded broadcaster presented what has become a consistent practice in amplifying anti-Israel claims, typically without challenge.

In Chris Brown’s article entitled: “Trump’s latest plan to end the war in Gaza contains the same tripwires as previous ones,” the foreign correspondent wrote that “notably, there was no mention of a role for any UN agency, such as the UN Relief and Works Agency, which before the war was responsible for delivering much of Gaza’s schooling, health and other social services.”

Describing UNRWA as being an indispensable humanitarian aid group while simultaneously making no mention of the fact that it has long had ties to Palestinian terrorism is to present a story that is deeply warped. UNRWA members have been found to have been active October 7 perpetrators, a Hamas operations centre was uncovered directly underneath its Gaza headquarters, and its school textbooks have long incited hatred against Israel. But these details were in our view whitewashed entirely from Brown’s retelling.

The article also detailed that “Hamas, and other militant groups in Gaza, would have to agree to disarm completely and its members could have no role in Gaza’s future government…until now, Hamas has refused Israel’s key demands — disarming and releasing hostages — because it has said there was no way to ensure Netanyahu wouldn’t break his word and resume fighting once hostages are returned…”

Once again, what Brown omitted is most of the story. Hamas is a genocidal Islamic terrorist group that is proudly dedicated to the annihilation of Israel, and its representatives have made clear that they will – if given the chance – carry out more October 7-style massacres. Yet he framed Hamas’ obstructionism as being concerned about Israel, rather than its ongoing goal to destroy the Jewish State.

The same day, reporter Anya Zoledziowski produced an article for CBC News entitled: “5 takeaways from Trump’s proposal to end war in Gaza,” where only one commentator was quoted, Michael Lynk, a former UN official who has reportedly described Israel as a “covetous alien power” guilty of “settler-colonialism” and who received a medal from the PLO for his work.

In his comments, Lynk claimed that “Hamas has already agreed it will lay down its arms once Israel leaves Gaza, and that it will not seek to be part of future Palestinian governance,” ignoring that there is no evidence whatsoever that Hamas had abandoned its goal to violently destroy Israel, and replace it with an Islamic theocracy akin to the Islamic State.

He furthermore spread the vicious falsehood of “genocide in Gaza,” an unfounded allegation that flies in the face of all available evidence, and to which Zoledziowski did not correct or even offer an opposing view.

Despite Lynk’s long history as an anti-Israel activist, the CBC News article by Anya Zoledziowski relied exclusively on him, presumably for an unbiased perspective, and instead – as per CBC’s ongoing practice – largely censored out any pro-Israel voices.