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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.

Bobby Vylan of Bob Vylan performs at the All Together Now Festival in Waterford, Ireland, on Aug. 3, 2025. Photo by Kieran Frost/Redferns via Getty Images.
Israel News
Dutch prosecutors: Chanting ‘Death to IDF’ is legal
The decision to not prosecute the Bob Vylan duo shows authorities’ indifference, community leader charges.
Nov. 9, 2025
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Pieter van Oordt (left) and his brother Roger van Oordt protest the Royal Concert Hall of Amsterdam's decision to ban a Chanukah concert, Nov. 5, 2025. Credit: Courtesy of Christians for Israel.
Israel News
Christians protest Amsterdam venue’s Chanukah boycott
Leaders of Christians for Israel put up banners recalling the Royal Concert Hall’s Nazi-era history.
Nov. 6, 2025
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Maria Ejchart speaks in Krakow, Poland on Nov. 4, 2025. Photo by Yoav Dudkevitch/EJA.
Israel News
Poland to adopt first national plan against antisemitism
Undersecretary Maria Ejchart said the government aims to pass by 2026 a five year strategy to bolster Jewish life amid rising hate incidents.
Nov. 4, 2025
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Rabbi Daniel Walker, left, Boris Jognson and Rabbi Menachem Margolin commemorate Jewish terror vitims in Krakow, Poland on Nov. 4, 2025. Photo by Yoav Dudkevitch/EJA.
Antisemitism
In Poland, European Jews sound alarm on ‘existential’ threat
At a Krakow summit, Jewish leaders and politicians, including Boris Johnson, warned that anti-Israel hate endangered Europe’s Jewish future.
Nov. 4, 2025
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Mattias Karlsson poses for an official portrait picture in 2022. Photo credit: Landstingshuset.
Israel News
Swedish aid chief summoned over Hamas-linked funding scandal
Parliament will question Sida boss Jakob Granit on $5.5 million given to a Palestinian group tied to Gaza terrorists.
Nov. 3, 2025
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Dutch lawmakers debate their parties' policies on Israel and Jewish community issues in Amstelveen, the Netherlands on Oct. 16, 2025. Photo courtesy of CIDI.
Feature
A Dutch Jewish election event exposes growing isolation
Once a tour de force, the traditional debate was snubbed and deplatformed in “a drawing inward to an almost ghetto-like environment,” one viewer said.
Nov. 3, 2025
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Musicians perform at the Royal Concert Hall in Amsterdam in 2008. Photo by Andreas Praefcke via Wikimedia Commons.
Israel News
Jewish group to sue Dutch concert hall over Chanukah ban
Amsterdam’s Royal Concert Hall refused to host two events featuring an IDF cantor, prompting organizers to pursue legal action.
Nov. 3, 2025
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Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs at Westerbork Memorial Center on May 14, 2017. Photo by Canaan Lidor.
Antisemitism
Dutch chief rabbi: Jew-hate pushing many to consider Israel
Marking 50 years in the rabbinate, Binyomin Jacobs praised Dutch authorities for strong security and support, but warned fears remain.
Nov. 2, 2025
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Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, president of the Conference of European Rabbis. Credit: Courtesy.
Israel News
Israel offers to host postponed European rabbis summit
The Conference of European Rabbis delayed its Baku gathering over security concerns.
Nov. 1, 2025
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Yair Netanyahu, son of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in Tel Aviv, Nov. 29, 2022. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.
Israel News
Yair Netanyahu nomination roils Zionist Congress
Likud move to appoint PM’s son to a paid WZO post sparked opposition backlash, delaying votes at the World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem.
Oct. 30, 2025
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Feature
Zionist Congress shows world Jewry’s division (and unity)
In Jerusalem, fierce debates and record participation amid rising antisemitism underline how the stakes have risen in the Diaspora.
Oct. 29, 2025
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Michael Ben-Gad speaks at the GBNews studio in London. U.K. on Oct. 27, 2025. Photo credit: Screenshot from GBNews.
Israel News
Activists rally behind Israeli academics facing threats abroad
Over 1,600 sign letter backing U.K. economist Michael Ben-Gad as Dutch colleague faces similar harassment in Rotterdam.
Oct. 28, 2025
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