In Canada and across the globe, we have witnessed weeks of horrendous loss of life and violence in the current crisis in besieged Gaza, the occupied West Bank and Israel. Media plays a big role in what we see and think.
Our upcoming Off the Hill panel will shine a critical light on the mainstream media coverage this conflict has received: its biases, truths, twists and turns.
Join us on November 15, 2023 at 4:30pm PT/ 7:30pm ET as we reckon with media accountability during this crisis.
This month’s panel features special guests Beisan Zubi, Chris Zabenah (CJPME), activist and poet El Jones and rabble’s own parliamentary reporter Karl Nerenberg.
About our guests
Robin Browne is Off the Hill’s co-host. Browne is a communications professional and founder of the 613-819 Black Hub, living in Ottawa. His blog is The “True” North.
Libby Davies is Off the Hill’s co-host and author of Outside In: a Political Memoir. She served as the MP for Vancouver East from 1997-2015, and is former NDP Deputy Leader and House Leader.
Beisan Zubi is a Canadian of Palestinian heritage who was born in Toronto, raised in Ottawa and has called Waterloo Region home for eight years. She works as a social responsibility and equity communications consultant with local nonprofits and recently founded a nonprofit that works to provide support and mentoring for Palestinian youth in Canada. In 2021, Beisan ran for the federal NDP in Kitchener Centre, the only Palestinian Canadian on the ballot across the country. She is active on social media, and has written for several publications, including the Ottawa Citizen, Waterloo Region Record, and rabble.ca.
Chris Farris Zabaneh is a licensed professional green building engineer turned consultant and executive coach in the field of Leadership Communication and Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in business, government, non-profit, and politics. He is an outspoken activist for the environment, electoral reform and Palestinian human rights. He’s worked on several campaigns for the Green and Liberals, FairVote Canada, and currently sits on the Board of Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME). He is a Canadian-born Christian Palestinian from Toronto on the “Dish with One Spoon” treaty territory.
El Jones is a poet, author, journalist, professor and activist living in Halifax. She is the author of Abolitionist Intimacies (2022) and Live from the Afrikan Resistance! (2014).
Karl Nerenberg is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster and filmmaker, working in both English and French languages. He is rabble’s senior parliamentary reporter.
About Off the Hill
Since 2019, Off the Hill has been rabble.ca’s live monthly panel which breaks down important national and international news stories through a progressive lens.
Co-hosted by Robin Browne and Libby Davies, this webinar series invites a rotating roster of guest activists, politicians, scholars, researchers and more to discuss how to mobilize and bring about progressive change in national politics — on and off Parliament Hill.
Join us the third Wednesday of every month at 4:30pm PT / 7:30pm ET. The live, digital show is one hour long – 45 minutes of moderated discussion followed by 15 minutes of audience participation.
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