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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.

Ariel, a Dutch-Jewish former member of the Volt Party, is seen in the Netherlands in November 2024. Credit: Courtesy of Ariel.
Feature
Jews ditch Dutch leftist party over Amsterdam pogrom wavering
The pro-E.U. Volt movement supported a motion accusing Israel of genocide shortly after its leader denied Muslim immigration is tied to antisemitism.
Nov. 25, 2024
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The aftermath of vandalism at the headquarters of the Christians for Israel in Nijkerk, the Netherlands, on Nov. 25, 2024. Photo by Alexander Blom/Christians for Israel.
Antisemitism
Anti-Israel vandals deface Dutch Christian group’s offices
The second attack this year on the Christians for Israel HQ coincided with the group’s preparations for a mass rally against antisemitism.
Nov. 25, 2024
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Sebastian Gorka speaks at a Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, on Feb. 22, 2018. Photo by Gage Skidmore/Flickr.
Israel News
Trump security maven Gorka: ‘No such thing as Palestine’
The counter-terrorism expert also said IDF generals have a “mind virus” that makes it harder to understand jihadists.
Nov. 25, 2024
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ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan at the Dutch Foreign Ministry in The Hague on April 11, 2022. Photo by Raoul Somers via Wikimedia Commons.
Analysis
ICC arrest warrants against Israel could cut both ways
The decision put the Jewish state in one basket with Russia and Sudan but may invite American sanctions.
Nov. 22, 2024
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Mike Waltz
U.S. News
Trump’s nominee for security advisor vows ‘strong response’ to ICC
Mike Waltz said the International Criminal Court and the United Nations will feel reactions to their “antisemitic bias ”come January.
Nov. 21, 2024
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Imad Al-Adwan sits at his desk at the Jordanian parliament in 2021. Photo courtesy of the Jordanian parliament.
World News
Jordanian ex-MP gets 10 years for smuggling guns into Judea
For over a year, Imad al-Adwan used his parliamentary credentials to bring in arms, gold, cigarettes and even birds across the Allenby Crossing.
Nov. 21, 2024
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Rabbi Menachem Margolin speaks at a conference in Krakow, Poland, on Nov. 18, 2024. Photo by Yoav Dudkevich/EJA.
Antisemitism
Jewish group seeks six-month ‘emergency’ to fight Jew-hate in EU
Unless antisemitism at anti-Israel protests is curbed, “there will be an exodus,” warns Rabbi Menachem Margolin of the European Jewish Association.
Nov. 18, 2024
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Femke Halsema
Antisemitism
Amsterdam mayor walks back ‘pogrom’ label for assaults
Femke Halsema used the term but now says it has become too politically loaded.
Nov. 18, 2024
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Rioters clash with gendarmes during a rally in Paris organized by the France Unbowed, Ecologists—EELV and New Anticapitalist parties against the "Israel is Forever" gala, on Nov. 13, 2024. Photo by Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images.
Antisemitism
Violence mars a tense France-Israel soccer match near Paris
The violence around the Stade de France was limited, likely because 4,000 cops were deployed.
Nov. 15, 2024
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
Analysis
Protesters taunt Amsterdam cops with pogrom slogan
“Several groups pursuing Jews in city centers” was something “we have not encountered before,” says Amichai Chikli, Israel’s minister for diaspora affairs.
Nov. 14, 2024
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A flier promoting a book tour event at the University of Milan on Nov. 13, 2024, that celebrates the Oct. 7, 2023, massacres. Credit: Courtesy of Mosaico-CEM.
Israel News
Book celebrating Oct. 7 presented at University of Milan
“The guerrillas of Gaza on gliders ... created an immortal picture of joy that no Palestinian can forget,” the text reads.
Nov. 14, 2024
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Rabbi Meir Villegas Henriquez at his synagogue in Rotterdam, the Netherlands on Nov. 12, 2024. Photo courtesy of Villegas Henriquez.
Antisemitism
Following pogrom, Dutch rabbi calls on Jews to make aliyah
“Tell your children there’s no future here,” Rabbi Meir Villegas Henriquez tells coreligionists following mass assault on Israelis in Amsterdam.
Nov. 13, 2024
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