An analysis of thousands of sentences in Canada’s top newspapers shows a clear bias that serves to sanitize Palestinians’ deaths
The largest Canadian newspapers have given disproportionate attention to the deaths of Israelis, portrayed Israelis in more humanized ways, characterized their deaths as more worthy of indignation, and more often identified who was responsible for killing them, a comprehensive comparison of reporting on the deaths of Israelis and Palestinians reveals.
The Breach analyzed thousands of sentences in coverage in The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, and National Post from Oct. 7 to Nov. 24. The study found that dozens of Palestinian deaths were required to merit just one mention in the newspapers, while there was one mention of Israeli deaths for every two Israelis who died.
The study shows a pattern of anti-Palestinian bias in Canada’s establishment media, sanitizing political violence against Palestinians and unequally stirring emotions about Israeli deaths.
Despite the unprecedented scale of Israeli bombing that has killed 20,000 Palestinians, the majority women and children, the newspapers have never used emotionally evocative terms like “massacre” or “slaughter” to describe their deaths. Meanwhile, they regularly used those terms to describe the Hamas attack on Israelis on Oct. 7, when militants killed 1,139 people.
Wow, this is impressive journalism. The war on truth and efforts to sanitize genocide over the last few months have been incredibly troubling to see. The article has some great graphs! I think I’ll start subscribing to Breach this year!
Oh, come on, all sides are doing that. The newspaper in countries on the side of Hamas/Palestine do exactly the opposite. It is unfortunate that this war (as any other) divides the world on sides, but what else is new?
I disagree with your premise. I think most people on both sides condemn Hamas. The problem under discussion is the ongoing genocide of innocent Palestinian civilians.
You would be surprised about Hamas. But I was not talking about it, but about laterally paying attention only about one side needs and ignoring the other side, including acknowledging tragedy of lost civilians and who’s fault it is.
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Wow, this is impressive journalism. The war on truth and efforts to sanitize genocide over the last few months have been incredibly troubling to see. The article has some great graphs! I think I’ll start subscribing to Breach this year!
The Breach is awesome!
Oh, come on, all sides are doing that. The newspaper in countries on the side of Hamas/Palestine do exactly the opposite. It is unfortunate that this war (as any other) divides the world on sides, but what else is new?
Just cause you say “everyone else does it” should never justify not calling it out.
Evil prevails when the good do nothing.
I agree with you, but the evil is on both sides in this case. Calling just one side is doing exactly the same thing those journalists do.
I disagree with your premise. I think most people on both sides condemn Hamas. The problem under discussion is the ongoing genocide of innocent Palestinian civilians.
You would be surprised about Hamas. But I was not talking about it, but about laterally paying attention only about one side needs and ignoring the other side, including acknowledging tragedy of lost civilians and who’s fault it is.
Well you were saying both sides were evil. How are Palestinian civilians evil, in your mind?
Where did I talk about Palestinian being evil? Hamas, yes (but I did not even talked about them), but Palestinians?
Sides? I would have hoped that Canadian newspapers are on the side of “facts”.
You can say one facts and omit others.