Saying Canadian Union of Postal Workers supports Hamas was not libel, Ontario court rules

The case, which has as much to do with journalistic ethics as it does with the fraught politics of the Middle East, dates back to a July 2014 march organized by the Association of Palestinian Canadians

An Ontario court has sided with media commentators who suggested the Canadian Union of Postal Workers was a terrorist sympathizer for participating in a protest a decade ago in Ottawa that featured a Hamas flag.

“Their belief that CUPW supports Hamas, a terrorist organisation, is, in my view, honestly held based on proven facts. It does not have to be a reasonable belief. But it must be an honest one,” concluded Justice Graeme Mew of the Superior Court of Ontario.