CTV News, National Post, & Toronto Star Publish Misleading Report About Death Of Palestinian Man
UPDATE: We are pleased to note after lodging a complaint with the National Post, they have now amended their headline to acknowledge that the dead Palestinian man was an “alleged Palestinian gunman” and also included the IDF’s statement that the Palestinian man was armed and fired towards IDF officers in their article. We thank the […]
Toronto Star Headline Implicitly Casts Doubt About Palestinian Terror Attack
Update: January 14, 2021: Following HRC’s conveying our concerns to Toronto Star editors about this report, the myopic headline has since been amended to remove the word “alleged” when describing the Palestinian terror shooting attack. Original Alert: December 22, 2020: Israeli police say a Palestinian terrorist fired at officers in Jerusalem’s Old City on December […]
Global News Apologizes For Falsely Claiming that a Palestinian Gunman Killed 2 Israeli Soldiers, Not Civilians
UPDATE: October 15, 2018: After Global News erroneously claimed that a Palestinian gunman killed two Israeli soldiers and injured a third, HonestReporting Canada filed a complaint and informed senior editors that the victims were all civilians and were not members of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). We are pleased to note that Global News commendably […]
ALARMING: CBC Caves to Pressure, Deletes Mention that Palestinian Terrorist was a "Gunman"
According to a review published on July 26 by CBC Ombudsman Esther Enkin, CBC News has acknowledged that it deleted mentioning in a headline of a March 8 article that a Palestinian terrorist killed by Israeli forces in an arrest raid shootout was a “gunman”. CBC admits that its editors removed the word “gunman” from their […]
The Daily Brief – Today’s News And Views About Israel & The Mideast – March 7
CBC News reports that “Israeli police say a Palestinian militant has been killed in a shootout with Israeli forces in the West Bank. Basil al-Araj, 31, headed a group planning attacks against Israeli targets and collected weapons for the group, police say. He was detained by Palestinian forces last year for about a month.” An […]
Success! HRC Prompts CBC Correction of Headline that Concealed Palestinian Terror
In the backdrop of the current unrelenting wave of Palestinian terror attacks that saw the murder of an American tourist and injuries of dozens of Israelis, yesterday morning (March 9), CBC News published an article to its widely read website which featured a headline (“Police kill 2 Palestinians in Jerusalem gun attack”) which portrayed Palestinian […]