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Probe CBC's Macdonald: B'nai Brith
Canada
By Joel Goldenberg, The
Suburban
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Canada’s
national broadcaster is being pressured to probe comments by
the CBC’s Washington reporter Neil Macdonald accusing Israel
of war crimes and implying that Israelis living in West Bank
and Gaza settlements are legitimate targets for Palestinian
terrorism.
$">
$">B’nai Brith Canada
and other Jewish community organizations have long accused
Macdonald of anti-Israel bias during his time as the CBC’s
correspondent in Israel, and now as the CBC’s Washington
correspondent.
$">
$">At issue is a
comment attributed to Macdonald on the CBC’s website — since
removed — on a United Nations reform committee’s proposal to
declare “there is nothing in the fact of occupation that
justifies the targeting and killing of civilians.”
$">
$">Macdonald commented that while the
conflict is not easy to characterize, he added that “Israeli
soldiers who enforce the occupation kill a great many
Palestinian civilians. If Palestinians have committed terror,
the Israelis have certainly committed war crimes.
$">
$">“There is also the question of
whether the Jewish settlers in the West Bank and Gaza,
thousands of whom are well armed and overtly bellicose,
constitute civilians or combatants.”
$">
$">Last May, the CBC apologized when Macdonald chose
to interview a pundit who claimed Israel was involved in the
Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse by American soldiers in Iraq.
$">
$">B’nai Brith Canada said the CBC is
dependent on Canadian taxpayers for its existence, and called
for the network to “review Macdonald’s conduct and act on its
findings.
$">
$">The Canadian arm of
HonestReporting.com, the website media watchdog, went further,
calling for Macdonald’s dismissal.
$">
$">“While Macdonald appears unable to resist his
compulsive urges towards Israel, the CBC has promised its
viewers a higher standard of journalism,” the website’ says.
“It is now time to deliver on that promise. Macdonald must
go.” |
2004-12-15 08:39:15
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