CBC Radio's bias against Israel

For a lot of unthinking leftists, one of their mantras is that they can't be a self respecting self-identified "progressive" without harboring a hatred for Israel.

Most of these people have at best a superficial understanding of the issues involved and little or no historical knowledge of the Israeli/Arab conflict nor any real knowledge of the middle east's geopolitical realities.

But at the CBC, the ability to stare at a camera or speak into a microphone with a smooth voice is a frequent substitute for actual insight and intellect. So the reflexive anti-Israel bias at the CBC against the one truly progressive democracy in a region beset with fanaticism, violence, ethnic conflict and intolerance regularly comes through.

The efforts of Honest Reporting Canada (HRC) have forced the CBC to correct themselves and admit to these biases on innumerable occasions.  Their work is so effective that it led David Heap, a pudgy, unkempt organizer of the Sea Hitler Gaza boat to bemoan that CBC reporters had privately told him they would like to do more stories on Palestine, but the focus from HRC had made their editors wary of it.

That assessment is probably more true of CBC television than radio. The Ceeb's radio service must figure that what they broadcast to their small audience goes largely unnoticed. Most of the people who do dial in to CBC Radio 1 probably only half-listen to the tedious, uninformed droning of its hosts.

But on occasion, their bias is so egregious that it does call out for attention and in today's Toronto Sun, HRC's Mike Fegelman wrote a column addressing an outrageous CBC Radio interview that portrayed Israel as a nation of child abusers. The tax-funded state broadcaster's  report was so distorted and absent of context it could be held up as a showpiece of propaganda.

You can read Mike Fegelman's response at the HRC website.

Canadian Islamic Congress brags about CBC's anti-Israel bias

The anti-Israel, anti-Conservative bias at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has been one of the hallmarks of our tax-supported national media network.

The Ceeb goes to pains to protest a professed even-handedness, and sometimes, on rare occasion, they may actually present a news item that isn't overwhelmingly slanted in a neo-socialist, regressive direction.

But their protestations are being undermined by their friends. The anti-Semitic Canadian Islamic Congress, whose founding President notoriously pronounced that all Israeli Jews are fair targets for murder, is crowing about the bias at the CBC in favour of the Sea Hitler flotilla that attempted to break Israel's arms embargo against Gaza.

In a link on the Canadian Islamic Congress' website, they have an item " CBC’S BIASED PORTRAYAL OF GAZA AID PARTICIPANTS"

Could it be that the CIC was referring to one of the rare instances when the CBC wasn't portraying Israeli defensive measures against Palestinian and Iranian terrorism as some sort of modern day imperialism?

Not at all!



The bias they were talking about was the CBC National’s one-sided bias in its sympathetic portrayal of participants with the Canadian boat to Gaza.

Things are bad when they've gotten to the point when the Canadian Islamic Congress is prepared to publicize bias in their favour!










Here's the CBC report the CIC endorses as being biased against Israel:

Jonathan Kay: The Jenny Peto scandal shows that it’s time to clean house at OISE

Read the rest at The National Post

"Peto is a small fish. The bigger problem here is OISE — the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, AKA UToronto’s teacher’s college — itself. For years, I’ve been hearing tales of political correctness gone amok at OISE, including radical anti-Israeli events. But it took the Peto case to really get me probing around to see what else is going on at OISE."

UPDATE: here's an interesting blog post describing why the Peto thesis isn't really a thesis.

Mr. Naomi Klein does hack journalism job on Canada/Israel relationship

Avi Lewis, who is responsible for the worst peice of journalism a lot of people have ever seen, is so biased, he isn't even on the CBC any more.

Never the sharpest tool in the shed,  one has to feel a certain measure of sympathy for Avi. It must be hard to be the least intelligent member of a family known for being bright, articulate advocates for a cause. It must be hard being the least intelligent member of his own household.

But despite his many, many deficiencies, he still keeps trying. Here he is trying to paint a sinister picture of the Canada/Israel relationship for his employer, Al Jazeera.

With his typical lack of insight, Lewis suggests that the Conservative government's support for Israel is partially motivated by an effort to court the Jewish vote away from the Liberals. A simple look at the census would have told Lewis that Muslims outnumber Jews by a two to one ratio in Canada, so if it were a vote-gaining ploy, it's a terrible strategy. (He also keeps talking about BDS!) But it's Avi! I know better than to have high any expectations of him.

At least with the Al Jazeera gig,  Avi's found his natural home.