Debunking Some Common Canards About Israel

Opinion: Conflict with Hamas is rife with misinformation

One would think that, with Iran's brutality toward dissidents, China's internment of the people of Xinjiang, Syria's killing of hundreds of thousands in a bid to keep Assad in power and the mass slaughters in Darfur and other African countries, those claiming to be concerned about oppression would have ample targets for their outrage.

But while those horrors have only been met with occasional demonstrations in recent years, the protests and vitriol toward the only democracy in the Middle East, which is at war only after being provoked by a brutal terrorist attack, have been unrelenting.

Along with the protests has come a steady stream of misinformation, meant to deceive Canadians about Israel and its intentions.