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Canaan Lidor

Canaan Lidor

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.

A man examines the informational plaque near the main Holocaust monument in Hanover, Germany on Oct. 25, 2013. Photo by Bernd Schwabe via Wikimedia Commons.
Antisemitism
Holocaust monument defaced in Hanover, Germany
In December, Israel was called a “terror state” at a rally in the city.
Mar. 19, 2026
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Metropolitan Police officers patrol London in December 2025. Photo courtesy of the Metropolitan Police.
World News
Two men indicted in UK for spying on Jews for Iran
Mar. 19, 2026
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David van Weel, Nir Oz
World News
Dutch authorities probing possible Iranian links to synagogue attack
Mar. 18, 2026
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Villa Park in Birmingham, U.K. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Arne Müseler.
Israel News
UK police use false Amsterdam riot account to bar Israelis
An erroneous report depicting Israeli victims as attackers fueled a ban on Maccabi fans and heightened Jewish community distrust.
Nov. 25, 2025
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Portrait of Bishop Triest by Gaspar de Crayer. Credit: The municipality of Ghent.
Antisemitism
Belgian museum to keep art it says was stolen from Jews
Jewish groups demand MSK Gent return a Nazi-looted painting, disputing unproven claims that the owner’s family was compensated.
Nov. 24, 2025
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St John's Wood synagogue in London, the U.K. Credit: Google Maps.
Antisemitism
London police move anti-Israel demonstrators away from synagogue
Organizers told protesters to come appearing to be “visibly Jewish,” according to social-network posts encouraging demonstrators to show up.
Nov. 23, 2025
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The PalaDozza sports venue in Bologna, Italy. Credit: Regione Emilia-Romagna.
Israel News
Riot erupts at anti-Israel rally outside Italian sports hall
Thousands of protesters, some carrying flares and smoke grenades, showed up outside a basketball arena in Bologna where Maccabi Tel Aviv was playing.
Nov. 23, 2025
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European Jewish Congress President Moshe Kantor speaks at the Paris Mayors Summit Against Antisemitism on Nov. 20, 2025. Photo courtesy of EJC.
Antisemitism
World mayors gather in Paris to combat antisemitism
The European Jewish Congress’s president told the local leaders to focus on countering online hate and addressing social needs.
Nov. 21, 2025
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Staff and patients at the Jewish Hospice Immanuel in Amsterdam on Nov. 1, 2017. Photo by Canaan Lidor.
World News
Amsterdam Jewish hospice to shutter amid security concerns
Immanuel will closes for renovation after volunteers say they feel unsafe at temporary site offered in heavily Muslim neighborhood.
Nov. 21, 2025
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A PLO flag. Photo credit: Pexels/Pok Rie.
World News
B’nai Brith Canada says Toronto violated protocol with PLO flag
City Hall broke its own rules and ignored rising antisemitism by raising the PLO flag on the anniversary of its 1988 declaration of statehood, the group said.
Nov. 20, 2025
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Ambassador Michael Mann. Photo credit: Delegation of the European Union to the State of Israel.
Israel News
EU wants Israel to halt Lebanon strikes. But what’s the plan?
In a JNS Q&A, E.U. Ambassador to Israel Michael Mann urges restraint, rejects sanctions and backs training 3,000 Palestinians for Gaza policing despite Israeli concerns.
Nov. 20, 2025
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