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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 view of the monument at the Rabbi Meijer Square in The Hague, Netherlands pictured here in 2021. Photo: FredTC/Wikimedia Commons.
Israel News
Gazan faces hate-crime charge for Holocaust wreath vandalism in the Netherlands
An asylum seeker who kicked a memorial object and allegedly inveighed against Israel failed to convince a judge that he did not know the site was tied to Jews.
Feb. 17, 2025
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A flag outside U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 3, 2025. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images.
Israel News
Report prompts allegations of ‘vast’ USAID funds for Hamas
“The full story of funding Hamas is vast, and much of it was done in secret,” Texas Sen. Ted Cruz wrote about an exposé maintaining the aid agency financed terrorism.
Feb. 12, 2025
Canaan Lidor
Australian Antisemitism
Antisemitism
Aussie medical staff suspended for anti-Israel hate speech
“Israeli dog[s] came to this hospital, and I send them to [hell],” one professional was recorded saying in a video chat.
Feb. 12, 2025
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Bezalel Smotrich
Israel News
Israeli finance minister warns against ending war on Hamas
Bezalel Smotrich’s message comes as the government prepares to vote on its demands for the second phase of the ceasefire with Hamas.
Feb. 10, 2025
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Salwan Momika
World News
Anti-Islam Iraqi activist shot dead at his home in Sweden
Authorities suspect foreign involvement in the murder of Salwan Momika, who burned a copy of the Quran and has spoken out in favor of Israel.
Jan. 30, 2025
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B'tsalmo CEO Shai Glick (right) and a fellow activist paint over the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) sign at the agency's former office in Jerusalem's Ma'alot Dafna neighborhood on Jan. 30, 2025. Photo by Aron Leib Abrams/Flash90.
World News
UNRWA activities become illegal in Israel
Laws passed in October went into effect, barring the U.N. agency from the Jewish state and barring state officials from communicating with the group.
Jan. 30, 2025
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Israeli civilian hostage Arbel Yehud surrounded by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists before being handed over to a Red Cross team in southern Gaza, Jan. 30, 2025. Credit: Eyad Baba/AFP via Getty Images.
Israel News
Netanyahu condemns ‘unimaginable cruelty’ of Hamas after hostages mobbed
“I demand that the mediators ensure that such horrific scenes do not recur,” said the Israeli prime minister, after masses of Gaza residents swarmed the returnees.
Jan. 30, 2025
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Pep Rosenfeld, left, and Greg Shapiro perform at their comedy club in Amsterdam, May 11, 2016. Photo courtesy of Boom Chicago.
Antisemitism
Dutch venue axes Israeli’s show, allegedly blames it on police
Comedian Yohai Sponder accused the Jewish-owned Boom Chicago club of lying to not take responsibility for the cancellation.
Jan. 30, 2025
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Holocaust survivors attend the commemoration of the liberation of the German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau by the Red Army, in Oświęcim, Poland, on Jan. 27, 2025. Photo by Sergei Gapon/AFP via Getty Images.
Antisemitism
At Auschwitz, world’s ‘betrayal’ of Israel casts a dark shadow
Holocaust survivors and scholars said the international community’s abandonment of the Jewish state belies its promises to learn from the genocide.
Jan. 27, 2025
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Palazzo Marino in Milan, Italy, seat of the municipality, 2009. Credit: Arbalete via Wikimedia Commons.
Antisemitism
Milan Jews sit out city’s Holocaust memorial event
Anti-Israel co-organizers and their rhetoric at last year’s event make attendance at the ceremony “unacceptable,” community leaders said.
Jan. 27, 2025
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Amnesty International activists protest outside the Israeli embassy in The Hague, the Netherlands, May 8, 2024. Photo by Pierre Crom/Getty Images.
Antisemitism
UK soccer club nixes Amnesty donation drive after complaints
Barnet F.C., which has many Jewish fans, had agreed to let the anti-Israel group’s staff go around bleachers at its game to collect money.
Jan. 26, 2025
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A doll's head lies inside one of the boxes storing a cache of items from the Auschwitz former death camp in Poland, donated in January 2025. Photo courtesy of Ambassador Yacov Livne/the Foundation of Memory Sites Near Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Jewish Life
500 items uncovered at Auschwitz ahead of 80th anniversary
The woman who turned over the cache, which contains a prisoner’s uniform and a ragdoll, said her father had collected it right after liberation.
Jan. 26, 2025
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