Mike Fegelman
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Mike Fegelman is executive director of HonestReporting Canada, a non-profit organization which ensures fair and accurate Canadian media coverage of Israel.

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Canada Was Right To Oppose the Palestinian UN Bid

(51) Comments | Posted May 8, 2013 | 1:33 PM

Malcolm X once said: "The media's the most powerful entity on Earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses."

The Huffington Post recently ran a piece by its Ottawa Bureau Chief...

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UBC Student Group Acts as Apologists For a Convicted Palestinian Terrorist

(0) Comments | Posted May 3, 2013 | 4:50 PM

The University of British Columbia (UBC) is under criticism by Jewish advocacy group B'nai Brith Canada for "abdicating its responsibility to stop convicted terrorist Leila Khaled from having the opportunity to poison the minds of Canadian students."

A B'nai Brith statement noted that "Khaled is scheduled...

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How an Arab-Israeli Politician's Efforts Inadvertently Dispel the "Apartheid" Myth

(2) Comments | Posted April 19, 2013 | 11:39 AM

Jamal Zahalka is a shining example of why Israel is not an "apartheid" state. On top of being an Arab-Israeli citizen, Zahalka is a member of Balad, an Arab political party which is diametrically opposed to the existence of the state of Israel.

As a Member of the Israeli Knesset...

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Who Owns Jerusalem According to International Law?

(5) Comments | Posted February 25, 2013 | 11:00 PM

True to form of Israel's detractors, the Toronto Star published a commentary this month which engaged in historical revisionism and outright lies by claiming that Israel has no legal claim to Jerusalem and areas of the West Bank, called until a few decades ago "Judea and Samaria",...

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When it Comes to Israel, Alexandre Trudeau's Got it Wrong

(12) Comments | Posted October 25, 2012 | 5:09 PM

UPDATE: Also listed in Alexandre Trudeau's documentary "The New Great Game" as "producers in association," but not acknowledged by the CBC, was Iran's state-funded propaganda arm Press-TV, along with the reviled anti-Israel broadcaster Al-Jazeera Arabic, and the Media Education Foundation (producer of the anti-Israel film "Peace, Propaganda, and...
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Netanyahu Is "Canada's New Foreign Minister"? Baloney

(47) Comments | Posted September 14, 2012 | 12:02 PM

Straight out of Der Sturmer and the antisemtiic Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Tony Burman, current Ryerson University journalism professor and former head of CBC and Al-Jazeera news, outrageously claimed that Benjamin Netanyahu is Prime Minister of Israel by day and "Canada's new foreign minister" at night as "the...

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"Punked" Egyptians Reveal Their Hatred of Jews

(7) Comments | Posted August 15, 2012 | 8:45 AM

Media are said to mirror or reflect the ideas, values, and attitudes of society.

If this adage holds true, what was aired on Egyptian TV recently should serve as an ominous warning about the prevailing hateful sentiments that Egyptian Arabs hold for Jews.

On July 20, an Egyptian...

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"Palestine" Should Use Water to Procure Peace, Not Perpetuate Conflict

(21) Comments | Posted July 11, 2012 | 8:14 AM

Water is an invaluable commodity in the Middle East. Due to the region's scarcity of this vital natural resource, water can be used to perpetuate conflict, fuel wars, and even procure peace.

In 2010, the United Nations recognized that access to clean drinking water was an inalienable human right. Through...

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Hey UNESCO, Keep Politics Out of Religion

(2) Comments | Posted July 6, 2012 | 10:23 AM

Politics is to religion, like oil is to water, they just don't mix. Recently, UNESCO politicized religion by labelling Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity as an endangered world heritage site, despite the fact that the UN's own experts investigating the state of the Church's premises concluded that the...

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Meet Press TV: Iran's Hateful Mouthpiece in Canada

(17) Comments | Posted May 22, 2012 | 7:40 AM

Recent news that a Toronto Islamic school's anti-Semitic teaching materials came from an organization directly tied to the Iranian regime has left many Canadians feeling apprehensive.

Rife with blood libels, conspiracy theories and odious comparisons of Jews to Nazis, this "curriculum" was an affront to Canadian values which...

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Israel, Canada has Accepted your Friend Request

(66) Comments | Posted May 4, 2012 | 9:55 AM

One of the great myths perpetuated by the media is that Israel stands alone, isolated in the international arena, or as the Hamilton Spectator put it in an article published on Israel's Independence Day, "At 64, Israel celebrates, but with fewer friends than before."

According to this narrative,...

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Don't Newspapers Care About Facts Anymore?

(21) Comments | Posted April 20, 2012 | 10:04 AM

The letters to the editor page is one of the most widely read features in a daily newspaper. It provides a unique forum for the views of the average reader and gives the general public an active platform to express their personal opinions on matters of interest.

With proper editorial...

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Memo to Toronto Sun: Israel is Gay Capital of the Middle East

(18) Comments | Posted March 27, 2012 | 2:23 PM

It was surprising to see the following headline appear in the Toronto Sun recently, a tabloid newspaper which has consistently shown its stalwart support of the state of Israel: "Lesbian pair fear return to Israel" with the sub-head "Muslim couple says they'll be killed if deported" (March 18).

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