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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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Masa Yom Hazikaron Ceremony, Maj. Gen. (res.) Doron Almog
Israel News
Jewish Agency funded group that praised Netanyahu arrest order
The Zionist organization gave $43,000 to Physicians for Human Rights, which represents terrorists and blamed Israel for Oct. 7.
Apr. 25, 2025
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Military and law enforcement professionals at the March of the Living at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp site in Poland on April 24, 2025. Photo by Shlomi Cohen/Flash90.
Antisemitism
65 police officers march with survivors at Auschwitz
The delegation from the U.S. and Europe was the largest to date organized by Rutgers’ Miller Center on Policing and the University of Virginia.
Apr. 25, 2025
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Pro-Palestinian Protesters at the University of Amsterdam
Antisemitism
Record number of antisemitic incidents recorded in Holland
The data reflects an “antisemitism crisis,” according to the Center for Information and Documentation on Israel.
Apr. 24, 2025
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Pope Francis in Rome
Israel News
Israeli official: Not downplaying Pope Francis’s death
The source referenced a glowing eulogy by the president but did not explain Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s silence or decision to skip the pontiff’s funeral.
Apr. 24, 2025
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Riga Ghetto
Antisemitism
Latvia closes probe of Nazi collaborator’s Holocaust record
Yad Vashem called the decision to whitewash the late Herberts Cukrus a denial of historical justice.
Apr. 24, 2025
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An object suspected as a IED that was discovered in Netivot, Israel in April 2025. Photo Credit: Israel Police.
Israel News
Explosive device from Oct. 7 attack found near Netivot
The object, likely left by terrorists from Gaza, was discovered during a routine patrol, according to police.
Apr. 23, 2025
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A screenshot of the open letter that 36 members of the Board of Deputies of British Jews published in The Financial Times on April 17, 2025.
Israel News
UK Jewish group disciplines members over Israel criticism
The Board of Deputies of British Jews suspended a vice chair and 35 delegates who penned a letter in the organization’s name blaming the Jewish state for the Gaza war.
Apr. 23, 2025
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Jamie O'Mahony speaks to stuents about Israel at the Dublin City University in Dublin, Ireland in March 2025. Photo courtesy of O'Mahony.
World News
This Irish student had to leave campus for supporting Israel
Safety concerns forced Jamie O’Mahony to stay away for a week following intimidation over his establishing an advocacy group.
Apr. 21, 2025
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