The cowardice in Canadian media is remarkable. Indifference to Israel’s live streamed holocaust is a requirement to make it in the dominant media.
Wednesday evening, I asked prominent right-wing Quebec nationalist intellectual Joseph Facal why he backs Israel as it slaughters and starves Palestinians in Gaza. While he aggressively promotes Zionism in Le Journal de Montréal and on QUB radio, the former Quebec minister and HEC professor simply refused to respond to my question. Even though it was asked during the question period of a public forum, Facal said it wasn’t relevant to his talk and “I won’t respond tonight”.
Facal’s reaction is particularly embarrassing since he co-hosts a radio show with Richard Martineau who had a meltdown ostensibly because I asked him a similar question on the street last month. Claiming I had no right to film, spoke in English and my phone was right in his face, Martineau went to the cops to claim I “harassed” him (in reality, he took my phone and repeatedly lunged at me while I initially spoke in French, never touched him and wasn’t that close to him). A month later Martineau is still writing (deceptively) about our interaction in Le Journal of Montreal and slagging me on social media. Thursday he did a clip with Facal on my questioning the former minister at a public forum headlined “On avait affaire à un emmerdeur” (We were dealing with an annoying person).
Martineau and Facal are but two examples of the racist, power serving, anti-Palestinian character of Quebec media. In February Pivot published an investigation headlined “Comment les grands médias québécois ont favorisé Israël”. It details the systematic bias in Quebec media coverage of Israel’s war on Palestinians in Gaza. (more...)
Mainstream media voices silent (at best) on Gaza genocide
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