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Source: https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/study-concludes-cbc-biased-against-israel
Studies Conclude CBC Consistently Biased Against Israel
(Toronto Sun-Canada) Warren Kinsella - This week, B'nai Brith Canada released a study of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's bias against Jews and Israel across social media. While the CBC is generously funded by the government, it seems to only reflect the views of one segment of the public. The study found that 55% of CBC coverage between Oct. 2024 and April 2025 was pro-Palestinian, 38% was "balanced," and only 6% was favorable to Israel. In addition, a study by the HR Canada Charitable Organization looked at 2,700 CBC articles published between Oct. 2023 and June 2025 and found "a consistent pattern of narrative imbalance that privileges Palestinian perspectives, while systematically minimizing or abstracting Israeli and Jewish experiences." The study determined that CBC was 13 times more likely to describe a Palestinian as a human being - with a name, a role or lived experience. Israelis, meanwhile, were depicted as human less than 1% of the time. The HR Canada study noted that CBC coverage of Israeli civilian suffering - or the Israeli experience in general - dropped sharply after Dec. 2023 and fell to nearly zero for the remainder of the Hamas-Israel war. If the CBC was privately owned, any anti-Israel bias would be its own business. But CBC gets $1.5 billion from us taxpayers. And it's not right or fair that it only presents the point of view of those who mainly detest the Jewish state.