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Michael Higgins: CBC couldn't imagine antisemitism was behind torn posters of missing girl

The public broadcaster and Canadian Press failed to tell the whole story

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Ripping down posters of a missing 14-year-old Jewish girl was an ugly, vicious stain on Canada, but the cruelty was compounded when our national news media — the CBC and The Canadian Press — felt unable to report the fact that she is Jewish. 

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Did none of the reporters or editors at those institutions think to wonder why so many of these particular posters were being torn down? 

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The family of the missing girl, Esther, also known as Esti (who was reported to have been found safe Thursday), certainly thought that antisemitism might be a root cause but, again, the CBC and The Canadian Press didn’t report that. 

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