Honest Reporting Canada The anti-Israel film NAZA, which claims to rely on anonymous Israeli officials in alleging war crimes in Gaza, continues to receive sympathetic and entirely uncritical coverage in the Canadian news media. In his October 2 opinion column in La Presse, “The courage to speak out against atrocities,” Marc Cassivi lavishes praise on the film’s creators, beginning by stating that it won a prize at the Venice Film Festival, though the backlash in Israel suggests that it was “not particularly perceived as an honour” there. Cassivi – a film critic – does not note that winning a film festival award is no indication of accuracy or moral integrity, given that the Nazi propaganda movie Triumph of the Will won such an award in Venice in 1935. He writes that the film “exposes the horror of the modus operandi of the massacres of the civilian population in Gaza by the Israeli army,” at no time even addressing the potential that the film’s contentions are inaccurate, and instead treating them as credible and accurate, despite a thorough debunking of its allegations by the Israeli military. Perhaps the most obscene statement by Cassivi is when he claimed that the “parallels are inevitable between the Holocaust and what a UN commission of inquiry called a genocide in Gaza.” In fact, there are no such parallels. The Holocaust was a deliberate attempt to exterminate a people, and managed to kill the vast majority of Jews in most European countries. In extreme contrast, in Gaza, some 98 percent of civilians survived two years of intense urban combat, all the more notable given that Palestinian terrorists actively used their own populations as human shields. And while a UN commission did make outlandish genocide claims, that hardly makes them credible, given that scores of experts say precisely the opposite. Days after Cassivi’s column, more than 75 retired military leaders from the United States signed an open letter rejecting the “genocide” slur from Gaza.