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Canada’s state broadcaster announced Friday that journalists will no longer be required to attribute the term “terrorism” when describing the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
“After reviewing our current language guidance, we have decided to adjust it to clarify that direct attribution is not required for describing the historic events of 9/11 as terrorism,” said Basem Boshra, CBC’s senior director of journalistic standards and public trust.
The reversal follows the leak of internal guidance instructing journalists: “Do not refer to the Sept. 11 attacks as terrorist attacks.”
Instead, reporters were told to describe the hijackings and crashes without independently characterizing them as terrorism.
According to Grok:
CBC reversed a longstanding language rule after a leaked staff memo, public backlash, and official criticism.
cbc.ca
The public broadcaster’s policy had been to avoid using “terrorist” or “terrorism” in its own voice. Journalists were told to attribute those words to officials or experts because CBC considers them politically and emotionally loaded.
A memo circulated ahead of the 25th anniversary of 9/11 restated that rule and told staff: “Do not refer to the Sept. 11 attacks as terrorist attacks.” It instead directed them to describe hijackings that led to passenger-jet crashes. The memo was first reported by Toronto Sun columnist Warren Kinsella.
torontosun.com
CBC initially defended the guidance as a reminder of existing practice, similar to policies at some other news organizations. The leak produced widespread criticism from Canadian Conservatives, Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree, the U.S. ambassador to Canada, and FBI Director Kash Patel, who called it a “bastardization of history.”
Critics said the wording minimized an attack that killed nearly 3,000 people, including Canadians.
CBC doesn't mind emotionally loaded stories as long as they can make the villains out to be Jews. But Muslims, including terrorists, are protected from such language by Canada's far-left national broadcaster.
Consider: In 2015, a special U.S. Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Fund (USVSST) was established to compensate just that, victims of terror. 9/11 victims and their family members are paid from this fund. Out of the roughly 22,700 total eligible international terrorism claimants for the USVSST, over 13,000 are 9/11-related victims. The USVSST splits money for regular distributions as follows: 50% is strictly allocated to 9/11-related claimants. The USVSST Fund has already paid out nearly $7 billion to eligible claimants in six rounds of payments, where $1.41 billion went exclusively for 9/11 families.
Basem Boshra is ordering Canada’s state run broadcaster CBC’s journalists to lie about Muslims murdering thousands of Americans on 9/11. Add in the many more injuries and health fallout for emergency workers. If it were up to Basem Boshra, since 9/11 wasn’t a terrorist attack in his view, none of these victims of terror are actually victims, so they wouldn’t be compensated.
So what was the motivation of Basem Boshra? Did he agree with the mass murder of infidels on 9/11, and thus doesn’t view 9/11 as a terrorist attack? Is he undermining jihad terror to protect jihadists? How else might Basem Boshra be abusing his position to influence and shape news about jihad terror in Canada, under the banner of the state broadcaster, the CBC?
Photo: 9/11 attack, National Park Service,
Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
KINSELLA: 9/11 wasn’t a ‘terrorist attack,’ according to the CBC
The definition of that word is widely known and widely accepted.
The Encyclopedia Britannica people define it this way: “Terrorism is the calculated use of violence, or the threat of violence, to create general fear in a population and coerce a government or society to achieve political, religious, or ideological goals.”
By any reasonable and objective standard, that is what happened nearly 25 years ago, on September 11, 2001: Terrorism.
On that terrible day, four airplanes were hijacked by 19 terrorists. They piloted two of those planes into New York City’s World Trade Center, destroying both buildings and murdering 2,753 innocent people. Two dozen of them were Canadians.
A third plane hit the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. There, 125 people were slain — military and civilian. The 59 people on board the hijacked American Airlines flight were also killed.
A fourth plane, a United Airlines flight, slammed into a field in Pennsylvania after the hostages attempted to seize control from the four terrorists. Thirty-seven passengers and seven crew members were murdered.
Around the world, pretty much everyone accepts what the word terrorism means. The government of Saudi Arabia — where the majority of the 9/11 killers came from — officially call what happened on that day “terrorism.” No less than Osama bin Laden, who conceived of 9/11, used the word “terrorism” too — although, in his case, he usually applied it to those of us in the West, not him.
So, the word is understood to mean what it means: The use of violence to achieve some goal, political or religious or ideological. That is what 9/11 obviously, unarguably was: Terrorism by terrorists.
Memo sent to CBC News staff
Except, not at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).
This week, I received a memo — presumably confidential — addressed to CBC News staff. It is authored by one Basem Boshra, who is the “Senior Director of Journalistic Standards and Public Trust at CBC News.” In Boshra’s memo, reporters are editors are told this:
“Do not refer to the Sept. 11 attacks as terrorist attacks.”…
A Palestinian flag is flown as an encampment protesting Israel's war in Gaza continues to stand at the University of Toronto campus in Toronto on Tuesday, May 7, 2024.PHOTO BY PETER J. THOMPSON /Postmedia Network
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If you are a Canadian Jew, or you are one of the many who supports Canadian Jews and Israel, it’s been a bad week.
A Jewish kid was beaten up by a Muslim kid at a Fredericton-area school, and teachers did nothing to stop it. Vancouver artists are being kicked out of exhibits for being Jewish. Canada, for the first time, showed its willingness to recognize a Palestinian “state” run by Hamas – a listed terror organization.
CBC - Fact check farce
And, to top it all off, CBC broadcast a couple “facts checks,” as they called them, about whether the aforementioned encampments – the Infant-fada – were receiving support from outside.
The “fact checks” were so replete with errors, so completely unbalanced, we will not even link to them, because we have a policy against publishing fake news at this organization. Suffice to say that the “investigative reporter” who broadcast the stories mainly relied upon (a) other CBC reporters (b) Israel-hating protestors and (c) an anti-Zionist professor for his sources.
That tells you all you need to know.
So, what is the truth? Are the protests we are seeing on our university campuses, and in our streets – across Canada and the United States – planned and connected? Are they being funded by others?
Well, yes and yes.
As far back as January, this newspaper has published multiple sourced reports about “pro-Palestine” protestors getting paid to protest, from Victoria to Montreal. We have documented that self-styled “progressive” organizations here and in the U.S. are using their non-profit status to pass along millions to those who despise Jews and the Jewish state. It’s all right there in Google, by us and other news organizations.
But perhaps CBC can’t afford Google. Perhaps, too, they didn’t see a bombshell lawsuit that was commenced earlier this month – and well before CBC broadcast their fake news reports – in the Virginia’s District Court. It wasn’t hard to find. We certainly found it, within minutes.
That lawsuit, all 49 pages of it, lays out in granular detail the way in which the anti-Semitic American Muslims for Palestine (AMP, which isn’t as active in Canada) and the pro-Hamas Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP, which assuredly is, with 200 chapters here and around the globe) “serve as Hamas’ propaganda divisions” in Canada, the U.S. and elsewhere.
In Canada, some SJP chapters have taken slightly different names, like Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA), or Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR). But they’re all branches of the same poisonous tree – about which the Anti-Defamation League has said: “Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and many of the organization’s campus chapters explicitly endorsed the actions of Hamas and their armed attacks on Israeli civilians… SJP chapters issue pro-Hamas messaging and/or promote violent anti-Israel messaging channels.”
So, SJP is here and they are very active on campuses – and they help oversee just about every anti-Semitic protest in this country.
What does the lawsuit say about them? And who is suing them, and for what?
The lawsuit is brought by young people, mainly, who somehow survived the slaughter at the Nova Music Festival on Oct. 7, or the mass-murder of innocents at Kibbutz Holit on the same terrible day. Fifteen people were killed at the kibbutz, Israelis and non-Israelis alike. At Nova, the site of the worst atrocities on that day, 364 mainly young people were killed.
Their lawsuit against SJP and AMP is a legal work of art, basically. It is a thing of beauty. It meticulously and surgically lays out the ways in which SJP and its allied organizations “provide on-campus management and control hundreds of university chapters of SJP.” Why? “To operate a propaganda machine for Hamas and its affiliates across campuses.”
The legal action has been brought by five of some of the biggest and best law firms in the United States. It seeks a jury trial, and unspecified damages for the plaintiffs.
To date, representatives of SJP and AMP have not responded to multiple requests for comment on the lawsuit.
In the statement of claim, the victims write: “[SJP and its affiliates] provide ongoing, continuous, systematic and material support for Hamas its affiliates … by operating and managing Hamas’s mouthpiece for North America, dedicated to sanitizing Hamas’ atrocities and normalizing its terrorism.”
It’s all right there, page after page of it. The allegations haven’t been tested in court yet. But would it have killed CBC to, say, reach out to someone involved in the lawsuit and try and get both sides of the story?
Apparently. Perhaps they were too busy counting their taxpayer-funded bonuses to, you know, go out and do some real reporting.
No matter. The rest of us know the truth: the Jew-hating protests, rallies and encampments we are seeing are funded, in whole or in part, by outside interests who do not wish to reveal themselves. They are the hidden hand.
But the rest of us will not rest until the hidden hand is exposed.
