Canada

Scotiabank unit sells stake in Israeli arms supplier Elbit following backlash

Scotiabank, at one point Elbit's biggest foreign investor, dissolved the 165,000 shares it held in the arms manufacturing company.

A man walks past a smashed window on the office building of Bain & Company after it was vandalised by pro-Palestine protesters during a demonstration over alleged ties to Israeli drone manufacturer Elbit Systems in London, Britain, September 16, 2025.
 National Flag of Canada (Queen's Park, Toronto).

Jewish summer camps in Canada face pressure campaign over alleged 'Israeli military' ties

Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand speaks during a press conference following the G7 foreign ministers meeting in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, on November 12, 2025.

Canada says no relations with Iran without regime change, mum on support for US strike

The playground at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School following a mass shooting on Feb,10.

Canada's deadliest mass shooting linked to antisemitic tweets


Recognition without protection: Does the West owe Israel security guarantees? - comment

After the leaders of Western countries proclaimed recognition of a Palestinian state, they should ensure Israel's safety and survival are more than guaranteed.

Palestinian Ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour (L) takes his seat at the start of a United Nations Security Council meeting on Gaza and the Middle East, at UN headquarters in New York City on March 18, 2025.

Canada pledges over $400 million to West Bank, Gaza after recognizing a Palestinian state

The money also includes $47 million to fund the enhancement of both areas' judicial systems, government structures, economic resilience, and democratization efforts.

Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks at a press conference about recognizing Palestinian statehood in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, July 30, 2025

Canada proposes hate crime legal regime amid rising antisemitism

The C-9 Combating Hate Act would introduce a hate crime offense, a legal definition of hatred, and so-called "bubble laws" to prevent belligerent picketing of religious and cultural centers.

Canada's Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada Sean Fraser speaks during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada September 15, 2025.

'An important step': Hamas lauds recognition of Palestinian state

The terror organization called the recognition "a deserved outcome of our people’s struggle” and added that it would lead Western countries to isolate Israel.

Palestinian Hamas terrorists stand guard on the day of the handover of hostages held in Gaza since the deadly October 7 2023 attack, as part of a ceasefire and a hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, February 22, 2025.

The premature Palestinian statehood will explode in our faces - opinion

The first bricks are still the same. One authority. One set of laws. One chain of command. If recognition is to be more than a headline, it must become pressure and support in the same paragraph.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer meet at 10 Downing Street, in London, Britain, September 8, 2025.

MK Ayman Odeh to submit bill to Knesset to recognize Palestinian state

Odeh welcomed the trilateral recognition and wrote that while the "Palestinian people are not the best people in the world, but there is no people in the world better than them."

 MK Ayman Odeh attends Hadash–Ta'al faction meeting, at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on June 30, 2025.

Palestinian foreign minister says recognition brings independence, sovereignty closer

Countries recognising a Palestinian state this week were taking an irreversible step that preserved the two-state solution.

Palestinian Foreign Minister Varsen Aghabekian Shahin/

Australia, Canada, UK, Portugal recognize Palestinian state in effort to 'save two-state solution'

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that his country was "acting to keep the possibility of peace and a two-state solution," alive.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

British, Australian, Canadian, French Jewish groups decry recognition of Palestinian state

Jewish groups warned that the expected moves by their governments to recognize a Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly this week would embolden extremists.

 A man holds a placard reading "Free Palestine" in Paris, France, during a demonstration, to protest after Israel seized the British-flagged yacht, Madleen was aiming to deliver a symbolic amount of aid to Gaza, June 9, 2025.

Canada, France, UK slam IDF's 'destructive campaign' in Gaza City

The operation "worsens the humanitarian crisis and jeopardizes the release of the hostages," the Canadian foreign ministry said in a post on X.

Displaced Palestinians, fleeing northern Gaza due to an Israeli military operation, move southward after Israeli forces ordered residents of Gaza City to evacuate to the south, in the central Gaza Strip September 15, 2025.