Author: Cannan Lidor/JNS.org
Cannan Lidor/JNS.org
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.
Cannan Lidor/JNS.org A banner reading “we support Hamas” was featured twice in the Dutch capital, including on the Oct. 7 anniversary. For the second time since Oct. 7, 2023, protesters in Amsterdam on Sunday displayed a banner stating “I support Hamas” at the city’s main monument for World War II fatalities. Separately, at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, hundreds gathered for a rally featuring signs and chants of “yallah intifada” and portraits of Ali Khamenei, the late spiritual leader of Iran, according to rally footage and a report by Bild. Intifada means “uprising” in Arabic, and is used to describe a coordinated…
Canaan Lidor/JNS.ORG A legal opinion backs the proposal amid constitutional concerns from Germany’s federal government and reservations from Jewish leader Josef Schuster. The justice minister of a German state on Monday presented a legal opinion in favor of draft legislation that would make it illegal to deny Israel’s right to exist. The defense was of a draft amendment to the German penal code that the State of Hessen submitted last year to the Federal Council of Germany for a vote in the Bundestag, the German parliament. If passed, the draft amendment would become part of federal law. The draft amendment…
By Cannan Lidor/JNS.org The 27-year-old gave police a falsified driver’s license when stopped while suspiciously patrolling Paris streets French authorities last week arrested a 27-year-old man from Tunisia, whom they suspect of planning a terrorist attack against a museum and on French Jews, Le Figaro reported on Monday. According to the report, the man, identified in the media as Dhafer M., migrated illegally to France in 2022 from the island of Djerba, which houses the oldest synagogue in Africa and is one of a handful of locales in North Africa with a permanent Jewish community. He had also planned to join the…