Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is a self-described “humanitarian” organization whose leadership in Canada has regularly appeared in the Canadian news media to complain about Israel’s aid deliveries into Gaza. In 2024, it raised well over $100 million in Canada alone, including more $12,500,000 in government funding.

Their complaints ring hollow given that, with Israel’s backing, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) was founded in May in order to circumvent Hamas theft of aid, Doctors Without Borders has called for the dismantling of the group to deliver the very goods they claim they want to see delivered.

But in three recent interviews with Sana Beg, MSF Canada’s executive director, a former reporter for the Qatari propaganda outlet Al Jazeera, there was precious little challenge despite repeated lines of disinformation being peddled by her about the situation in Gaza.

In a July 28 broadcast for CBC News, the host began by showing a clip of United Nations official Tom Fletcher, whose recent claims that large numbers of Gazan babies would die in 48 hours was ridiculed, and which he was forced to recant. In the interview, Beg told the host that there was a “man-made, engineered crisis” in Gaza, citing “skeletal babies,” and that there were “trucks lined up” outside Gaza, “waiting to enter.”

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The host failed to challenge her on any of these points, ignoring the veritable millions of meals entering Gaza daily, the widespread images and footage of healthy adults and children, plus bustling markets and even cafes with specialty treats, plus no acknowledgement of the ultimate perpetrator of the crisis, the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, by its ongoing war, its holding of dozens of hostages, and theft of humanitarian aid destined for civilians.

The next day, Beg was a guest on CTV News. While the host did push back on some of her claims, noting evidence of stolen aid in Gaza, Beg conveniently ignored those challenges, and instead stuck to her talking points, laying the blame at Jerusalem, and saying that “Israel needs to open up the borders.”

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In contrast to her allegations, the “borders” are open, and food is entering the territory in vast quantities every day, which would be even more if groups like hers worked with existing aid mechanisms, rather than appearing to boycott them.

But in perhaps the most obsequious and fawning interview of all three, on July 31, Beg was a guest on CityNews, where she spoke with host Faiza Amin, who in early 2024 produced a report which sanitized hate, violence and extremism at anti-Israel rallies.

In the introduction, Amin cited United Nations officials as claiming there was a “brink of famine” in Gaza and that food was being “blocked” from Gaza, a scurrilous falsehood that only set the stage for Beg’s disinformation.

In Beg’s comments, she claimed that “there is no food, there is no water” in Gaza, a ridiculous statement that cannot be supported by even the most basic research, but which stood completely unchallenged by Amin.

Amin not only failed to properly challenge her guest; she turned herself into an activist, saying there were “haunting images” from Gaza, and said, following Beg’s demands that Israel face “consequences,” agreed, saying “it’s clear that something does need to be done.”

Beg again appeared on CTV News on August 2, where the former Al Jazeera staffer parroted her message consistently, accusing Israel of “collective punishment,” as well as “genocide.” Despite these hysterical claims, not once did the host challenge her to back up her accusations with proof, rather than emotionally-fraught statements. Instead, she lobbed repeated softballs at Beg, asking her “is there anything Canadians watching at home should do?”

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Unfounded allegations from Gaza are a dime a dozen, particularly from “humanitarian” groups with long histories of anti-Israel animus. It is the responsibility of news media outlets to hold such powerful actors accountable, rather than treating their baseless claims with undue credibility.