CBC’s repeated caving to a highly biased pro-Israel advocacy group like HonestReporting Canada takes up a place within the larger context of right-wing populism on the rise in Canada today. According to a perceived bargain, CBC’s decision to appease Israel’s defenders is a trade-off for a de-escalation of existential threats to the public broadcaster. Yet, in this, CBC is making a dire miscalculation.

DAM, or Da Arabian MCs, the premier Palestinian rap group, were in Winnipeg on September 30th, 2009. Jonah Corne, a co-organizer of the event, spoke with the Tamer and Suhell Nafar - two of the three MCs of DAM.