© David KattenbergGraffitti near Qalandia checkpoint
The Israel-Palestine 'conflict' (a deceptive term, some say) is largely a war of words. Pitched battles have been fought over nouns, adjectives —
even definite articles.
Last week, under pressure from a group that polices the Canadian media on behalf of the 'Jewish state', CBC Radio host Duncan McCue issued an on-air apology for using the word "Palestine" in an interview on the Public Broadcaster's flagship current affairs show,
The Current. Like a real-life Winston Smith, a CBC digital editor swiftly excised the offending toponym from the online version of McCue's CBC interview and dispatched it down the memory hole.
Had Mr. McCue uttered the word "Palestine" in the course of an interview with a Palestinian politician or commentator, his objectivity may well have been faulted. In fact, his guest on the August 18 edition of CBC's
The Current was the graphic novelist
Joe Sacco, creator of a work called
Palestine.
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