Canada: Leaked Memo to CBC journalists orders staff not to call 9/11 a terrorist attack

This foreign POS is the reason why. 👇

Egyptian-born Basem Boshra runs standards at CBC.

He just ordered staff: Do not call 9/11 a terrorist attack.

That’s the man deciding what language is acceptable when Canada’s public broadcaster talks about the worst Islamist mass murder… pic.twitter.com/VCoLPBUfCz

— Chris Ryan (@Watchdog_MP) August 26, 2026

Consider: In 2015, a special U.S. Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Fund (USVSST) was established to compensate just that, victims of terror. 9/11 victims and their family members are paid from this fund. Out of the roughly 22,700 total eligible international terrorism claimants for the USVSST, over 13,000 are 9/11-related victims. The USVSST splits money for regular distributions as follows: 50% is strictly allocated to 9/11-related claimants. The USVSST Fund has already paid out nearly $7 billion to eligible claimants in six rounds of payments, where $1.41 billion went exclusively for 9/11 families.

Basem Boshra is ordering Canada’s state run broadcaster CBC’s journalists to lie about Muslims murdering thousands of Americans on 9/11. Add in the many more injuries and health fallout for emergency workers. If it were up to Basem Boshra, since 9/11 wasn’t a terrorist attack in his view, none of these victims of terror are actually victims, so they wouldn’t be compensated.

So what was the motivation of Basem Boshra? Did he agree with the mass murder of infidels on 9/11, and thus doesn’t view 9/11 as a terrorist attack? Is he undermining jihad terror to protect jihadists? How else might Basem Boshra be abusing his position to influence and shape news about jihad terror in Canada, under the banner of the state broadcaster, the CBC?

“Do Not Refer to the Sept. 11 Attacks As Terrorist Attacks”: Memo from top official at Canada’s state-funded CBC broadcast news agency. Instead, Basem Boshra informs reporters and editors, “The hijackings led to passenger jet crashes in Washington, Pennsylvania and Manhattan…” https://t.co/kgwnjVoVLe pic.twitter.com/Qc1nq4gdKQ

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) August 27, 2026

Next month is the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

But Basem Boshra is forcing all CBC staff to call them “hijackings that led to passenger jet crashes”, not “terrorist attacks”.

Boshra is the CBC’s “Senior Director of Journalistic Standards and Public Trust”. pic.twitter.com/uGTO1rRe19

— Peter McCaffrey (@peteremcc) August 26, 2026

“KINSELLA: 9/11 wasn’t a ‘terrorist attack,’ according to the CBC,” by Warren Kinsella, Toronto Sun, August 26, 2026:

Terrorism.

The definition of that word is widely known and widely accepted.

The Encyclopedia Britannica people define it this way: “Terrorism is the calculated use of violence, or the threat of violence, to create general fear in a population and coerce a government or society to achieve political, religious, or ideological goals.”

By any reasonable and objective standard, that is what happened nearly 25 years ago, on September 11, 2001: Terrorism.

On that terrible day, four airplanes were hijacked by 19 terrorists. They piloted two of those planes into New York City’s World Trade Center, destroying both buildings and murdering 2,753 innocent people. Two dozen of them were Canadians.

A third plane hit the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. There, 125 people were slain — military and civilian. The 59 people on board the hijacked American Airlines flight were also killed.

A fourth plane, a United Airlines flight, slammed into a field in Pennsylvania after the hostages attempted to seize control from the four terrorists. Thirty-seven passengers and seven crew members were murdered.

Around the world, pretty much everyone accepts what the word terrorism means. The government of Saudi Arabia — where the majority of the 9/11 killers came from — officially call what happened on that day “terrorism.” No less than Osama bin Laden, who conceived of 9/11, used the word “terrorism” too — although, in his case, he usually applied it to those of us in the West, not him.

So, the word is understood to mean what it means: The use of violence to achieve some goal, political or religious or ideological. That is what 9/11 obviously, unarguably was: Terrorism by terrorists.

Memo sent to CBC News staff

Except, not at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).

This week, I received a memo — presumably confidential — addressed to CBC News staff. It is authored by one Basem Boshra, who is the “Senior Director of Journalistic Standards and Public Trust at CBC News.” In Boshra’s memo, reporters are editors are told this:

“Do not refer to the Sept. 11 attacks as terrorist attacks.”…