May 20, 2018
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#232 How We Cover Israel
Last week, Israeli forces killed over 60 people and injured thousands more at a protest in Gaza. How did Canadian media cover it?
Jesse Brown
Host & Publisher

Why did every national news organization in Canada change its headline about the mass-killings in Gaza last week? And is the media biased for Israel, against it….or both?

Elamin Abdelmahmoud is an editor of news curation for BuzzFeed News.

Karen Mock is a human rights consultant and president of JSpaceCanada.

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