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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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Philip Simon is featured in a banner advertising one of his shows. Credit: Courtesy of Philip Simon.
Antisemitism
Israeli DJ canceled in Belgium, UK Jews deplatformed in Scotland
One venue in Edinburgh canceled Philip Simon’s show due to his “views” and another cited “staff security.”
Jul. 27, 2025
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The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, Aug. 25, 2019. Photo by Yahav Gamliel/Flash90.
Israel News
Yad Vashem rejects embargo call by chair of German affiliate
Stephan-Andreas Casdorff of the Friends of Yad Vashem Germany cited Germany’s “historical responsibility” for the Shoah as reason to cut off Israel.
Jul. 27, 2025
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A guide trains rabbis in krav maga in Eindhoven, the Netherlands on July 22, 2025. Photo credit: RCE.
Antisemitism
European rabbis undergo Krav Maga training in the Netherlands
“Every rabbi in Europe is exposed to the risk of assault whenever they walk down the street,” said the event’s organizer, Rabbi Menachem Margolin.
Jul. 24, 2025
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MK Yuli Edelstein attends a discussion at the plenum hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on July 23, 2025. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Israel News
Likud shakes up key Knesset committee amid row over IDF conscription
The move is widely seen as part of a series of steps aimed at reaching a compromise with Haredi parties on the issue of IDF service.
Jul. 24, 2025
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A Spanish police officer arrests a Jewish camp counselor in Valencia on July 23, 2025. Source: i24 News/screenshot.
Antisemitism
52 Jewish kids kicked off plane in Spain for singing in Hebrew
Israel’s minister for combating antisemitism called the incident in Valencia “one of the most serious … severe antisemitic incidents” to have occurred recently.
Jul. 24, 2025
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A bus rides through Dublin, Ireland on Dec. 1, 2023. Photo courtesy of CitySwift.
Antisemitism
Irish cops probe man filmed calling man a ‘genocidal Jew’
The suspect, who is said to be the subject of an investigation, was filmed calling his victim a “genocidal Jew” in Dublin.
Jul. 21, 2025
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Druze residents protest near the Israeli-Syrian border fence in solidarity with their community in Syria, in Majdal Shams, July 16, 2025. Photo by Ayal Margolin/Flash90.
Features
‘This is our Oct. 7,’ Golan Druze say of massacres in Syria
Israel’s strikes in defense of the minority’s communities across the border attest to a deepening bond, according to locals in the Druze village of Majdal Shams.
Jul. 20, 2025
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Bobby Vylan performs at the Valkhof Festival in the Netherlands on July 19, 2022. Credit: FakirNL via Wikimedia Commons.
Antisemitism
Amsterdam concert hall offers a show to anti-Israel duo Bob Vylan
Two other Dutch venues invited the British duo that recently highlighted the chant “Death to the IDF.”
Jul. 17, 2025
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