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Canaan Lidor is an award-winning journalist and news correspondent at JNS. A former fighter and counterintelligence analyst in the IDF, he has over a decade of field experience covering world events, including several conflicts and terrorist attacks, as a Europe correspondent based in the Netherlands. Canaan now lives in his native Haifa, Israel, with his wife and two children.

The arrests follow a change in policy on anti-Israel vitriol following the murder of 15 people at a Chanukah party in Australia.
The comes amid raised awareness to the safety of Jews following the massacre in Sydney.
Community leaders argue Islamist immigration and antisemitism — not firearms regulations — drove the deadly Chanukah attack at Bondi Beach.
Anti-Israel demonstrators briefly blocked entrances to the Royal Concert Hall as pro-Israel supporters gathered in solidarity with an Israeli cantor.
As survivors recall an ultimate horror at the deadly Chanukah attack on Sydney’s Bondi Beach, a shocked community struggles to fathom how it happened.
Israel accuses Australia of letting Jew-hatred fester, some leaders offer condolences without naming antisemitism.
“I think we should celebrate visibly and publicly, without fear,” Marco Schouwenaar told JNS. “But it’s making my wife uneasy, and I’m going to follow her lead here.”
Before chanting it at a music festival near Brussels, the Bob Vylan group popularized the chant in Britain.