Canada, Israel and Gaza
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R hona and Daniel Grodzinski touched down in Israel this month, marking the culmination of a journey that has spanned continents, decades, and generations. The couple, who made Aliyah from Canada with the assistance of Nefesh B’Nefesh in close partnership with the Ministry of Aliyah and Integration,
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand and 24 of her counterparts abroad have signed a joint statement saying "the war in Gaza must end now," while calling on Israel to stop displacing Palestinians.
A joint statement by 28 countries including Britain, Japan and Canada is calling for an immediate end to the war in Gaza. They say that the 21-month war “must end now."
Israel rejects joint statement that calls killing of more than 800 Palestinians who were seeking aid ‘horrifying’
Some of Israel’s closest allies have stepped up criticism of its restrictions on aid to Gaza, where doctors and aid organizations say people are dying of starvation.
A prominent Jewish and Israeli advocacy organization and some Canadian politicians are calling for the Irish rap group Kneecap and the British punk rap duo Bob Vylan to be barred from performing in Canada over comments about the war in Gaza.
Lyons’ departure means that both Canada and the United States do not have anyone in their antisemitism envoy roles. President Donald Trump has announced his pick for the role of antisemitism envoy, a Hasidic fixer named Yehuda Kaploun, but Congress has yet to schedule a confirmation hearing for the nominee nearly six months into his term.
When a country doesn’t matter militarily or diplomatically, when no one is sharing intelligence with it anymore, all that it has left are … empty words, basically. Piety and preaching. That’s it.