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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
Canaan Lidor
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
Canaan Lidor
David van Weel, Nir Oz
World News
Dutch authorities probing possible Iranian links to synagogue attack
Mar. 18, 2026
Canaan Lidor
Dyab Abou Jahjah
Features
This is the Hezbollah-linked activist behind lawfare on Israelis
Dyab Abou Jahjah’s Brussels-based NGO exploits courts to spread antisemitic hate, his critics say.
Jul. 30, 2025
David Isaac
The abandoned Vilnius Palace of Concerts and Sports, also known as Sporto Rūmai, built by Soviets atop the Piramónt Jewish cemetery in Vilnius, Lithuania. Credit: The Government of the Republic of Lithuania.
Jewish Life
Lithuania reneges on vow not to build atop old Jewish cemetery in Vilnius
The surprise announcement on the construction of a conference center on the former Piramónt Cemetery triggered outrage by Jewish groups.
Jul. 30, 2025
Canaan Lidor
Susanne Dahlgren, director of the Finnish Institute in the Middle East, speaks during an interview with the "YLe" broadcaster in Helsinki. Source: Screenshot/YLe.
Israel News
Finnish researcher says Israel seeking ‘final solution’ in Gaza
The head of the state-funded institution said Germany is supporting Israel because of the Holocaust.
Jul. 29, 2025
Canaan Lidor
Betzalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir attend the Otzma Yehudit Party's campaign event in Bat Yam, on April 06, 2019. Photo by Gili Yaari/Flash90.
Antisemitism
The Netherlands bans entry for Ben-Gvir and Smotrich
Geert Wilders, the leader of the country’s largest party, condemned the move as an insult to the victims of Oct. 7.
Jul. 29, 2025
Canaan Lidor
Acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez (left) and Socialist MP Óscar Puente during a second parliamentary vote to elect Spain's next premier at the Congress of Deputies in Madrid, on Sept. 29, 2023. Photo by Javier Soriano/AFP via Getty Images.
Antisemitism
Spanish minister describes French teens on Vueling flight as ‘Israeli brats’
Yad Vashem: A public representative should not encourage hatred “while every year, thousands of Jewish families flee Europe under threat.
Jul. 28, 2025
Yossi Lempkowicz
Hundreds of thousands of revelers attend the Gay Pride Parade in Berlin on July 26, 2025. Credit: Courtesy of the Municipality of Berlin.
Antisemitism
Antisemitic slogans, assault documented outside Berlin Pride
Nearly 60 people were arrested at an anti-Israel rally where one man was assaulted and after demonstrators displayed terrorist symbols, shouted antisemitic slurs and attacked police.
Jul. 28, 2025
Canaan Lidor
Huckabee Dayan Yad Vashem
Israel News
Yad Vashem rejects genocide allegation against Israel
Israel’s main Holocaust museum labeled the accusations “dangerous distortions” following controversies around a German affiliate and some scholars.
Jul. 28, 2025
Canaan Lidor
Vienna
Antisemitism
Austrian pizzeria boots Hebrew speakers, campground bars entry to Israeli couple
“Welcome to Europe, 2025,” said Israeli musician Amit Peled, who along with two colleagues was refused service after a waiter heard them speaking Hebrew.
Jul. 28, 2025
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