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Postal workers’ union settles defamation lawsuit with B’nai Brith
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers says it has agreed to settle its lawsuit against Jewish activist group B'nai Brith Canada. A Canada Post employee drives a mail truck through downtown Halifax on Wednesday, July 6, 2016. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese
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Israelis protest government’s hard-line plans to weaken Supreme Court amid talks for compromise
Israelis protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, May 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
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Israeli crowds chant racist slogans, taunt Palestinians during Jerusalem march
FILE - Israelis wave national flags in front of Damascus Gate outside Jerusalem's Old City to mark Jerusalem Day, an Israeli holiday celebrating the capture of the Old City during the 1967 Mideast war, Sunday, May 29, 2022. The ruling Hamas militant group in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, May 17, 2023, called on Palestinians to confront a flag-waving parade planned by Jewish nationalists through the main Palestinian thoroughfare in Jerusalem’s Old City.(AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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Strange bedfellows: Israel’s flirtation with antisemites
Ian Buruma
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MPs debate how to challenge Israel’s judicial reform and push for regional peace
Canadian MPs are mulling how vigorously and publicly they should challenge moves by Israel's far-right government to curtail the power of judges and expand illegal settlements on Palestinian land. Liberal MP Ya’ara Saks, shown in this April 29, 2022 file photo, says it’s important to call out friendly countries when they are headed down a bad path. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Patrick Doyle
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Israel’s anniversary was a moment to reflect on Jewish humour
David Solway
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Palestinians and Israelis resume normal life after Gaza truce despite rocket sirens
A view of a Palestinian house destroyed by Israeli airstrikes during recent fighting between Israel-Gaza, as a ceasefire was agreed, in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip May 14, 2023. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
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Israel, Islamic Jihad reach ceasefire to end 5 days of fighting
Palestinians inspect the rubble of a house after it was struck by an Israeli airstrike in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip, Friday, May 12, 2023. On the fourth day of fighting between Israel and Islamic Jihad, the second-largest militant group in Gaza.(AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
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Palestinian militants, Israeli military exchange fire despite efforts to broker truce
Smoke rises from an explosion caused by an Israeli airstrike, in Gaza Strip, Friday, May 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
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New fighting kills two Palestinian militant commanders, man in Israel as Egypt pursues truce
Palestinians inspect the rubble of the home of Ali Ghali, a senior Islamic Jihad commander, after it was struck by an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, May 11, 2023. Early on Thursday, the Israeli military killed Ghali, said to be in charge of the group's rocket force, when it struck his home as part of strikes against the Islamic Jihad militant group. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
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Israeli-Palestinian fighting continues, despite Egyptian cease-fire announcement
Israeli military fires a rocket from their Iron Dome defence system in southern Israel on May 10, 2023. Israel and Gaza militants traded cross-border fire on May 10, renewing deadly violence a day after Israeli strikes killed 15 people in the Palestinian territory. (Photo by GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP) (Photo by GIL COHEN-MAGEN/AFP via Getty Images)
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Israeli strikes in Gaza kill three senior militants, 12 others
Palestinians inspect damage to their building following Israeli airstrikes on an apartment of an Islamic Jihad commander in Gaza City, Tuesday, May 9, 2023. The Israeli military says it has killed three senior commanders of the militant Islamic Jihad group in targeted airstrikes. Palestinian health officials said 13 people were killed in total in Tuesday's attacks, including the commanders, their wives, several of their children and others nearby. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
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Thousands of Israelis protest government plan to overhaul judiciary
Israelis protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system in Tel Aviv, Saturday, May 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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Israeli forces kill Palestinian gunmen who shot British-Israeli mother and daughters
A Palestinian man throws stones at a convoy of Israeli military vehicles, during a raid in the West Bank city of Nablus, Thursday, May 4, 2023. The Israeli military says it has killed three Palestinians wanted for an attack last month on a car near a Jewish West Bank settlement that killed a British-Israeli mother and two of her daughters. The military says a fierce gunbattle erupted when the army entered the heart of the flashpoint city of Nablus early Thursday. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
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Ontario NDP distances itself from newly elected MPP’s Twitter repost about Palestinian hunger striker
Sarah Jama, 23, a disability justice advocate who has cerebral palsy, poses for a portrait at her home in Hamilton, Ont., on Tuesday, March 13, 2018. Jama is happy that the new Stats Canada statistics on violence against women with disabilities due to come out later this week will give them something concrete to work with. "The numbers will validate what we have been talking about for years," she says. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Peter Power
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3D printers bring a new kind of fish to fry
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Israeli air strikes in Gaza kill Palestinian as violence ebbs
Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli air strike, in Deir al-Balah town in the central Gaza Strip, May 3, 2023. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
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Prominent Palestinian hunger striker dies in Israeli custody; militants fire rockets toward Israel
People hold portraits of Khader Adnan, a Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant who had been on hunger strike in an Israeli prison for nearly three months, during a rally following the announcement of his death, on May 2, 2023, in Nablus, in the occupied West Bank. - Israel's prison service announced the death of the detainee affiliated to Islamic Jihad, who was "found early this morning in his cell unconscious". Adnan, 45, was the first Palestinian to die as a direct result of a hunger strike, according to the Palestinian Prisoners' Club. (Photo by Zain Jaafar / AFP) (Photo by ZAIN JAAFAR/AFP via Getty Images)
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McCarthy visits Knesset amid fraught U.S.-Israel ties
Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, in front of the flags left, and his Israeli counterpart, Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana, in front of the flags right, attend a bilateral meeting at the Knesset, Israel's Parliament, in Jerusalem, Israel, Sunday, April 30, 2023. (Amir Cohen/Pool Photo via AP)
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Tens of thousands of protesters gather across Israel over judicial system changes before nation’s 75th birthday
Israelis protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system, light candles in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, April 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising commemorated on 80th anniversary
Yellow daffodils lay on a monument with the years of the ghetto's existance in Warsaw (from 1940 to 1943), during ceremonies to mark the 80th anniversary of the start of the Warsaw Jewish Ghetto Uprising, in Warsaw, Poland on April 19, 2023. - Poland will mark 80 years since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, when hundreds of Jews launched a doomed attack against the Nazis, with the commemorations looking beyond the fighters and emphasising the civilian experience. The presidents of Germany and Israel will join their Polish counterpart for the anniversary of the month-long revolt, which was the largest single act of Jewish resistance against the Germans during World War II. (Photo by Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP) (Photo by WOJTEK RADWANSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
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Is Israel’s democratic crisis proof that proportional representation doesn’t work?
David Moscrop
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Holy Land Christians say attacks rising in far-right Israel
FILE - Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Pierbattista Pizzaballa leads the Easter Sunday Mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, where many Christians believe Jesus was crucified, buried and rose from the dead, in the Old City of Jerusalem, Sunday, April 9, 2023. Since the rise of Israel's most right-wing government in history, church leaders say the 2,000-year-old Christian community in Jerusalem has come under increasing attack, with an uptick in harassment of clergy and vandalism of religious properties. Several church leaders, including the head of the Roman Catholic Church in the region, told The Associated Press they fear that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ultranationalist coalition has empowered extremists. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File)
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Iran exploits quake relief mission to fly weapons to Syria, sources say
FILE PHOTO: People ride a motorbike past buildings damaged by an earthquake that hit Syria on February 6, in the rebel-held town of Jandaris, Syria March 29, 2023. REUTERS/Mahmoud Hassano/File Photo
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Israel halts Jewish visits to Al-Aqsa Mosque, says gunmen shot dead
A Palestinian ambulance first responder speaks with Israeli soldiers blocking a road at a location where Palestinian militants were killed during an Israeli army operation near the settlement of Elon Moreh in the occupied West Bank near Nablus on April 11, 2023. (Photo by jaafar ashtiyeh / AFP) (Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP via Getty Images)
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Israeli PM Netanyahu reverses firing of defence minister as settlers hold march
An Israeli border police officer aims his weapon as another prepares to fire tear gas canisters towards Palestinian demonstrators protesting against Israeli settlements near Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, April 10, 2023. REUTERS/Raneen Sawafta
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Tensions build around Jerusalem shrine after Syria rockets
Jewish visitors walk past people reading the Koran, at the compound that houses Al-Aqsa Mosque, known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, while tension arises during clashes in Jerusalem's Old City, April 9, 2023. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
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Thousands join Israeli judicial protests in shadow of deadly attacks
Protesters take part in ongoing demonstrations against the government's judicial reform bill in Tel Aviv on April 8, 2023. (Photo by GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP) (Photo by GIL COHEN-MAGEN/AFP via Getty Images)
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Attacks in Israel, West Bank kill three people as violence rises
Israeli gather near the Hamra junction in the northern part of the Jordan valley in the occupied West Bank following a shooting attack on April 7, 2023. - Two women were killed and another seriously wounded in a shooting attack on a vehicle in the occupied West Bank, Israeli army and medics said on April 7. (Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP) (Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/afp/AFP via Getty Images)
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Israel stages rare strikes in Lebanon, also hits Gaza Strip
Streaks of lights are seen from Ashkelon, Israel as rockets are launched from the Gaza Strip April 6, 2023. REUTERS/ Amir Cohen
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Politics Briefing: Trudeau weighs into the issue of conflict in Jerusalem
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visits Honda's auto manufacturing plant in Alliston, Ontario, Canada April 5, 2023. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio
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Violence at Jerusalem holy site raises fears of escalation
Israeli security forces stand guard as Jews tour Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque compound on April 5, 2023 as the Jewish Passover coincides with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. - Israeli police in riot gear stormed the mosque's prayer hall before dawn, with the goal of dislodging "law-breaking youths and masked agitators" who they said had barricaded themselves inside following evening prayers. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images)
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Israeli police attack worshippers in Jerusalem’s Al Aqsa, Gaza launches rockets at Israel
Israeli Border Police close a road leading to the Lions' Gate to the Old City of Jerusalem during a raid by police and attack of Palestinian worshippers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, Wednesday, April 5, 2023. Palestinian media reported police attacked Palestinian worshippers, raising fears of wider tension as Islamic and Jewish holidays overlap.(AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
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Israeli forces kill two West Bank gunmen, down Hamas drone over Gaza
Israeli soldiers take a position during clashes with Palestinians following a raid by Israeli forces in the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank on April 3, 2023. (Photo by jaafar ashtiyeh / AFP) (Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP via Getty Images)
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Israel OKs Ben-Gvir’s ‘national guard’ but hedges on his powers
Itamar Ben-Gvir, the far-right Israeli minister for national security, is escorted by police after addressing supporters of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a rally in Jerusalem on Monday night, March 27, 2023. Ben-Gvir, one of the most extreme voices in the Israeli government, had long sought to create a national guard; Ministers agreed to set up a committee to discuss next steps on Sunday, April 2, 2023. (Avishag Shaar-Yashuv/The New York Times)
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Israel dismisses envoy who criticized judicial overhaul plan
Israeli mounted police disperse protesters during a rally against the government's judicial reform bill in Tel Aviv on April 1, 2023. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP) (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)