Major media groups in Canada support a pro-Israeli agenda, while discouraging ordinary citizens from sympathizing with the plight of Palestinians and Canadian Aboriginals, Press TV reports.
Many journalists in Canada’s major media groups have embarked on a campaign to steer Canadians away from a critical analysis of colonialism, spreading misinformation regarding not only the Palestinian people in occupied Israel but also the Canadian Aboriginal people - both of which have undergone ongoing colonization and displacement.
“In Canada, the Zionists are actually starting to see the Aboriginals as a threat because if Aboriginals have rights in Canada, if they have a case, then the Palestinians [can] have a case in Palestine. I think that this is something that may be working subconsciously. Even the victims are blamed. Nowadays, the contemporaneous victims are blamed,” said Gilad Atzmon, a philosopher.
Critics have condemned Canada’s right-wing journalists - including the National Post’s Jonathan Kay, the Sun News’ Ezra Levant and the Calgary Herald’s Naomi Lakritz - who cite grave social problems of Aboriginal Canadians as stemming from mere corruption.

Lakritz came under criticism recently for an article on the death of an Aboriginal child, whose mother she referred to as “a piece of garbage.”

“This is a disturbing thing because on the one hand if she’s supporting Israel then she’s arguing for some idea of a collective responsibility, collective identity and collective rights, but then she would seek to deny that to Aboriginal peoples. She takes an utterly individualist approach that anything that goes wrong in your life must all be on your shoulders - that history can have no part of it. This is very ignorant and follows in line with, I think, Stephen Harper who cautioned us against committing any sort of sociology,” said Jason Devine, a Canadian historian.

Pro-Israel media mogul, Israel Asper, owned up to 60 percent of Canada’s media group up until recently, with experts saying that the country’s journalism delegitimizes sophisticated analyses of colonialism.

By Press TV

 

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