Letter from Richard Sherman, Florida to CBC Ombudsman, about Matt Galloway's biased, unchallenged interview of Avril Benoit, CEO of Doctors Without Borders which relentlessly spewed antisemitic lies

On CBC  Matt Galloway's The Current(11/18) Avril Benoit, CEO of Doctors Without Borders was permitted without challenge to spew endless antisemitic calumnies about the Jewish people of Israel including the IDF. (" Another Day, More Anti Israel Spin on CBC's The Current", Honest Reporting Canada, 11/26/25).

What Matt Galloway, as a Canadian  should have done is challenge Avril Benoit with the details of one of Canada's most legendary battles in World War II, the battle to liberate Ortona,  as recently described by esteemed Holocaust scholar Rafael Medoff:

"Canadian troops fought a storied urban  battle in World War II that bore similarities to the contemporary situation in Gaza, with enemy fighters hiding in underground tunnels, savage house-to-house fighting, widespread booby-traps, and substantial civilian casualties. It took place in late 1943, when Canadian troops pushing through Italy took aim at German forces situated in the quiet seaside town of Ortona. Many of the Italian town's ten thousand residents fled after the Germans took over, but some remained. THE NEW YORK TIMES provided a day-to day, blow-by-blow description of the Battle of Ortona. " Mines, demolitions and booby traps" planted by the Germans "are steadily taking (a) toll" on the Canadian troops. Holed up in " cellars and sewers," German snipers would pop up, shoot at advancing Canadians, and then disappear underground again."You can hardly stick your head around a corner without hearing a sniper's bullet zing by," one Canadian soldier remarked. The Nazis " have defended the town street by street and almost house by house" the TIMES explained. Utilizing the city's underground railroad tunnels, the Nazis had turned Ortona into " a veritable underground fortress." The Canadians responded with a new tactic called "mouse-holing". To avoid venturing into the streets, they used explosives to blast their way through the interior walls of adjoining houses, moving from house to house through the rubble. The Canadian officer in charge of the massive bombing operation "never gave a thought to the destruction he was wreaking on Ortona with his explosives," Canadian military historian Mark Zuehlke noted in his detailed chronicle of the battle. " There was a job to do, so he did it." When the battle was over, "(h)ardly a building was left intact" in " the once pleasant coastal resort," the TIMES noted. As estimated 1,375 Canadian soldiers were killed. So were more than 1,300 innocent Italian civilians. Canada regarded this as an acceptable price to pay for liberating Ortona. The precise number of Germans killed is unknown, but it appears to have  been in the low to mid-hundreds --- meaning that the ratio of civilians to combatants killed by the Canadians was three or four to one, far higher than the ratio of civilians to combatants killed in Israeli counter terror operations in Gaza."

See: " The Road to October 7. Hamas, the Holocaust, and the Eternal War Against the Jews", Rafael Medoff, 2025, pp 120-121.

Matt Galloway's silence in the face of Benoit's Hitlerian calumnies against the  IDF's similar but more humane tactics against the Hamas sociopaths responsible for 10/7 compared to the courageous members of the Canadian military in Ortona, in effect demeans the courage and sacrifice of those  Canadian military in the Battle for Ortona.

Or to put in simply, people like Galloway  who live in Canadian glass houses shouldn't throw stones at Jews or allow others to do so.

Richard Sherman,  Florida