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The topic of immigration arose intermittently at Mont Pelerin Society meetings. The leading opponent of nonwhite immigration, British Conservative MP Enoch Powell was a member and spoke at several of its meetings. In Hong Kong in 1978, the same year Hayek wrote to the editor, Margaret Thatcher's speechwriter (and later editor of the National Review) John O'Sullivan gave a talk called "Migration to Utopia", reflecting on the recent episodes of settlement in Britain.

— Hayek's Bastards by Quinn Slobodian (Page 77)

In the fall of 2021, I found myself the target of an orchestrated harassment campaign.

It was the first time I had ever heard of HonestReporting Canada (HRC)—a pro-Israel media watchdog. The campaign, which called on its members to “condemn” me, came in response to a TV report I produced for CTV News Montreal on the Wet’suwet’en protests. The weird part is that my coverage had nothing to do with the Middle East.

Montrealers gathered in support of the hereditary chiefs who were in a stand-off with the RCMP and the Coastal GasLink company in British Columbia. It was a strong and straightforward story. The night it aired, colleagues congratulated me. One anchor and senior producer wrote: “Your story was excellent. Well worth the energy you obviously put into it. Your expertise shone through.”

However, the next morning I woke up to an onslaught of emails and DMs from HRC members who took issue with a visual detail: one of the people I interviewed was wearing a keffiyeh and holding a Palestinian flag. HRC labeled this man an “anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protester,” and what followed was weeks of relentless harassment flooding my inboxes, demanding that I be fired, claiming that “people like me should not exist.”

Some said they knew where I lived.

I forwarded every message to my managers, every time requesting four things: advice and support for how to deal with the harassment, that CTV issue a cease-and-desist letter to HRC, clarification on whether there were any rules against showing a keffiyeh or Palestinian flag on TV, and clarification on whether leadership stood behind my coverage.

Each time, I was met with silence or indifference.

Then, several months after the broadcast, my story had quietly disappeared from CTV’s website. The video report and copy had been unpublished without explanation or consultation and replaced with a short copy rewritten by a young, white male colleague. My name had been removed from the byline along with the quote from the protester.

— When Genocide Wasn’t News by Martin Lukacs, Dania Majid, Jason Toney (30%)

All the Canadian newspapers were strikingly similar in making systematic editorial choices about their language, using highly emotive terms for Israeli deaths that are likely to evoke sympathy and indignation, while not using the same language for Palestinian deaths.

In the sentences analyzed, The Globe and Mail used the term “slaughter” 27 times to describe Israeli deaths, Toronto Star 28 times, and National Post 89 times—usually as a factual journalistic description. The newspapers described Palestinian deaths that way zero times.

The newspapers also used the term “massacre” hundreds of times to describe Israeli deaths, almost always as factual journalistic description—with National Post using it the most often, 203 times.

Palestinians were never described as being massacred, but each newspaper quoted individuals, usually Hamas spokespeople, referring to a “massacre” on 19 occasions each.

The newspapers have refused to use such terms to describe Israeli bombings in Gaza, despite Palestinians being killed in droves by attacks on schools, residential buildings, refugee camps, mosques, and public markets.

— When Genocide Wasn’t News by Martin Lukacs, Dania Majid, Jason Toney (8%)