Sasha’s Reviews > Razing Palestine: Punishing Solidarity and Dissent in Canada > Status Update

US Representative Elise Stefanik (R-NY), a right-wing Christian nationalist, retains on her website a statement accusing Jewish Harvard professor Derek Penslar, of "despicable antisemitic views and statements."- it is only that the use of the term "anti-semitism" to curb Jewish progressive speech by people who passionately hate Jewish people is so hideously and profoundly ironic.

[Canada has] consistently voted against recognizing Palestine as a state in the United Nations, and we have refused to condemn Israeli settlements. How can you say that you are working towards a two-state solution when you don't even recognize the other state?

A free press must be willing to confront power, not simply echo it. Only then can legacy media begin to rebuild trust with a generation that has seen too much to accept euphemism over truth.

This disconnect cemented something deeper: the belief that legacy media are not just biased, but complicit in Palestinian suffering.

Stories now mention the spectre of a man-made famine; some even use the word "genocide." At first glance, it appears to be a long-overdue course correction. For many young Canadians, however, the damage is done. A generation raised with the world's images at its fingertips has concluded that legacy media cannot be trusted.

My role is not to make others comfortable- it's to speak the truth, to educate, and to advocate for our right to self-determination, sovereignty, and right of return.

These directives are not just acts of linguistic manipulation; they are acts of violence. When media institutions erase the very name of a people, they participate in their dispossession. This level of censorship exposes a Western media landscape that masquerades as objective but is, in reality, deeply compromised and controlled. This is not journalism. This is propaganda.