It’s the latest salvo from CBC, where the public broadcaster acts as little more than a spokesperson for anti-Israel activists without apparently even a second thought.

In the January 13 episode of The 306, a Saskatchewan-based CBC radio program hosted by Peter Mills, who has consistently hosted anti-Israel guests at the exclusion of opponents, Mills interviewed Aishah Ashraf, a CBC reporter with a history of making extreme anti-Israel statements.

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The interview was the latest installment of Ashraf’s reporting/advocacy for Meera Falyouna, a 26-year-old Gazan seeking to study at the University of Regina, but who has been unable to secure a visa because biometric documentation is not available in Gaza.

While such stories are legitimate to tell, CBC has repeatedly chosen to share only a narrow slice of reality.

Falyouna is quoted sharing the “extremely dire situation” in Gaza, and that people lack “water, food,” and other items.

While it is impossible to speak to Falyouna’s personal experience, even the perpetually anti-Israel United Nations admitted recently that 100 percent of Gaza’s food needs are being met, a detail that was unsurprisingly ignored by both Mills and Ashraf.

CBC also chose to ignore multiple relevant details.

Despite Falyouna’s name appearing in other CBC News reports, in the interview, Mills stated that her name was being withheld “for safety concerns,” though no details were shared as to what those concerns were.

However, evidence suggests that “safety” may have been less a concern than questions surrounding Falyouna’s employment. Notably, Falyouna’s social media profile states that she is an employee of Oxfam, a fanatically anti-Israel activist group that has been banned from operating in Gaza for refusing to comply with security screenings, a detail that was curiously ignored by the report.

If accurate, Falyouna’s employment with Oxfam is an important detail that calls into question her affiliation with other groups and whether any other agendas may be at play, but evidently CBC had no interest in such questions.

One group that has been among the most vocal proponents for Falyouna and other Gazan students seeking to come to Canada has been Palestinian Students and Scholars at Risk (PSSAR), a radical organization which accuses Israel of “genocide.”

In their campaign to help promote Gazan migration to Canadian schools, PSSAR has worked with radical anti-Israel Members of Parliament (MP) Salma Zahid and Heather McPherson, as well as the Canadian Muslim Public Affairs Council (CMPAC), which in 2024, hosted a speaking tour with British speaker Sami Hamdi, who praised the October 7, 2023 massacres.

Nada El-Felou of PSSAR was quoted on the segment as claiming that “we’ve already had two students who passed away in an airstrike after securing their admissions,” but as noted by HonestReporting Canada, this reference, presumably to Sally and Dalia Ghazi Ibaid, who had planned to attend the University of Waterloo, has not been supported by any evidence, yet another point ignored by CBC.

Also nowhere to be heard on the segment was any acknowledgement why biometric security screenings are used, including how they help identify security threats. No mention was made of the widespread extremism and radicalism inside Gaza, where support for Hamas and Islamic terrorism remains high.

Then again on January 20, the same content was promoted again by CBC News, in a video broadcast, “130 Palestinian students accepted to Canadian universities stuck in Gaza.” In the report, Ashraf repeated the story, platforming El-Felou’s unproven allegations, and with no acknowledgement of the potential security threat from Gaza, or why Gazans should be uniquely exempted from biometric security screenings.

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CBC, Canada’s publicly-funded broadcaster, continues to demonstrate that when it comes to Gaza, it would rather sell a hardline pro-Palestinian narrative than report the full picture.