Sixteen months into the Gaza holocaust the dominant Canadian media remains deeply complicit. They recently berated a grieving Palestinian, hung up on someone saying Canadians have a right to protest genocide and labelled Palestinians subhuman.
Last week Ben Mulroney hung up on a caller who said Canadians have a right to protest genocide. On the Ben Mulroney Show on Toronto’s 640 News the son of the former prime minister argued that there is no right to protest in Canada and compared accusations of Israeli genocide to the flat earth theory. In the real world, Amnesty International, the United Nations Human Rights Council and a stream of other experts have all concluded Israel is committing genocide.
In a slightly less embarrassing episode, CBC News presenter Natasha Fatah stopped an interview to say “we cannot use that word to describe what is happening” after a Palestinian Canadian woman employed the word “genocide” to describe Israel’s actions in Gaza. Fatah said the word genocide couldn’t be used because the International Criminal Court (she meant International Court of Justice), which found a plausible genocide in its preliminary ruling, had yet to deliver its final verdict on whether Israel is committing genocide.
In response Selma Tobah opined, “Absolutely insane that the anchor took time out of the interview to reprimand the interviewee, someone who has lost family in Gaza, for using the word ‘genocide’. CBC has lost the plot.” (more...)
Is the Globe and Mail proud of supporting genocide?
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