It’s rather self evident that Israel considers Jerusalem to be its eternal and undivided capital city, even though Palestinians also assert a claim to Jerusalem as their future capital. As far as the CBC is concerned though, its journalists have no problem with allowing guests to assert unchallenged that Jerusalem is a city of “Palestine”.
Case in point, on CBC Radio’s Q program on May 15, host Tom Power interviewed Bashar Murad, a Palestinian musician who CBC noted is “based in Jerusalem,” about the Palestinian music scene.
CBC, should not be a party to the deligitimization of Israel’s capital city of Jerusalem and
to perpetuating the falsehood that Jerusalem is a city of “Palestine”.
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