Canaan Lidor - JNS, Author at J-Wire

‘BBC’ orders training on antisemitism and anti-Muslim bias

Canaan Lidor - JNS — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 07:48:20 +0000

The BBC’s outgoing director, Tim Davie, has lifted his longstanding objection to training staff on how to avoid antisemitism, and has ordered that they undergo a course on it and anti-Muslim prejudice within six months. “The BBC Academy has spent the last few months developing new anti-discrimination training. We’re starting with e-learning modules on antisemitism […]

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Oxford Union: Israel is a greater threat than Iran

Canaan Lidor - JNS — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 06:13:23 +0000

The Oxford Union on Thursday voted overwhelmingly in favour of a motion declaring Israel a greater “threat to regional stability” than Iran following a debate between Hillel Neuer, the director of UN Watch, and Mohammad Shtayyeh, a former Palestinian Authority prime minister, The Jewish Chronicle reported. Neuer, whose organisation monitors expressions of bias against Israel […]

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Tel Aviv University economist among three Nobel Prize laureates sharing prize

Canaan Lidor - JNS — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 05:56:33 +0000

Joel Mokyr, a Tel Aviv University scientist and dual citizen of Israel and the United States, on Monday won the 2025 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, along with Philippe Aghion of the College de France and the INSEAD business school, and Peter Howitt, a professor emeritus of economics at Brown University. The Royal Swedish […]

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Ex-leader of UK Jews criticised for saying Gaza war ‘incompatible with Judaism’

Canaan Lidor - JNS — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 08:36:30 +0000

Members of the British Jewish community are taking former Board of Deputies of British Jews president Marie van der Zyl to task over her statement that the war against Hamas in Gaza is “incompatible with the core values” of Judaism. The controversy surrounding van der Zyl’s July 25 op-ed in the Jewish News is unfolding […]

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Israeli rabbi marries off fallen son’s ex-fiancée

Canaan Lidor - JNS — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 08:27:55 +0000

Nearly two years after Capt. Amitai Tzvi Granot was killed fighting Hezbollah terrorists in the Galilee; his father, Rabbi Tamir Granot, officiated on Monday at the wedding in Caesarea of Amitai Tzvi’s former fiancée, Roni. In an interview with JNS, Granot described the wedding as a joyous occasion that was nonetheless punctuated by some grief, […]

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Report: IDF bans Chinese cars from bases to prevent data leaks

Canaan Lidor - JNS — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 07:31:01 +0000

The Israel Defence Forces has banned all China-made vehicles on its bases out of concern for information security, Israel’s Army Radio reported on Tuesday. China-made vehicles will be required to park outside army bases, and in some cases, a considerable distance from the external perimeter, according to the report. The new policy is the result […]

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52 Jewish kids said taken off flight in Spain for singing in Hebrew

Canaan Lidor - JNS — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 07:45:33 +0000

More than 50 French Jewish youths were removed from a Vueling flight in Valencia, Spain, on Wednesday, allegedly for singing in Hebrew and following anti-Israel rhetoric directed at them by staff of the low-cost airline, according to Israel’s minister for combating antisemitism. Amichai Chikli, Israel’s minister for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism, accused Veuling in […]

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Amsterdam concert hall offers a show to anti-Israel duo Bob Vylan

Canaan Lidor - JNS — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 05:50:17 +0000

Paradiso, a feted concert hall in Amsterdam, announced on Wednesday it had offered a solo show to Bob Vylan, a British duo that recently highlighted the chant “Death to the IDF.” The duo was originally scheduled to perform at the Paradiso venue with another band as part of a joint European tour that also included […]

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Herzog slams ‘genocidal’ Hamas at global summit on Holocaust

Canaan Lidor - JNS — Thu, 29 May 2025 08:43:31 +0000

At an international meeting in Jerusalem on Wednesday about Holocaust commemoration, Israeli President Isaac Herzog urged governments worldwide to help free the hostages in Gaza from “genocidal, jihadist” Hamas, as he termed the terrorist group. Herzog spoke at a meeting of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), an international task force of dozens of countries. […]

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Douglas Murray: Israel can’t afford to leave Hamas in Gaza

Canaan Lidor - JNS — Sun, 25 May 2025 07:44:20 +0000

Despite mounting international pressure and war costs, Israel cannot afford to end it war “with Hamas in power in any form,” British public intellectual Douglas Murray told JNS last week. A prominent author, associate editor of the British magazine The Spectator and regular contributor to The Times and The Daily Telegraph, Murray in an interview with JNS justified Prime […]

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