The potential hypocrisies of condemning human rights abuses in Qatar during the FIFA World Cup. And the increasing difficulty of writing critically about Israel. Shree Paradkar co-hosts.

Host: Jonathan Goldsbie

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), André Proulx (Production Coordinator), Cassidy Villebrun-Buracas(Associate Producer)

Guest: Shree Paradkar 

Further reading: 

• How media criticisms of Qatar during the World Cup are both accurate and unfair – Toronto Star
• LILLEY: World Cup’s beauty marred by Qatar’s human rights record – Toronto Sun
• Opinion: We built the railway in five years. So why are so many megaprojects now stalled? – The Globe and Mail
• Regier v National Post – National NewsMedia Council
• Why the definition of antisemitism has become such a polarizing issue – Toronto Star
• CBC’s Palestine Exception – Review of Journalism

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