{"id":818453,"date":"2026-07-22T11:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T11:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/818453\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T11:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T11:16:08","slug":"jewish-group-accuses-ottawa-of-double-standard-in-criticism-of-israel-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/818453\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewish group accuses Ottawa of \u2018double standard\u2019 in criticism of Israel | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784718968_414_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Israeli soldiers arrest a blindfolded Palestinian during an army raid in Nablus, West Bank, on Tuesday, April 8, 2025. (AP Photo\/Majdi Mohammed)<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJul 21, 2026 | 9:42 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2014 A major Jewish lobby group is accusing the Carney government of maintaining a \u201cdouble standard\u201d by condemning Israel\u2019s large-scale detention of Palestinians but not repression by brutal dictatorships.<\/p>\n<p>The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs made the comment in response to a joint statement by Canada and European nations raising the alarm over the 9,000 Palestinians detained by Israel, often without trial.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Prime Minister Mark Carney said that renewing ties with Saudi Arabia and Turkey involves bringing up human rights concerns privately, instead of \u201clecturing countries from afar.\u201d Both Saudi Arabia and Turkey have a history of violently repressing minorities and journalists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLess than two weeks later, Global Affairs Canada is publicly lecturing Israel about its detention of individuals responsible for acts of terror,\u201d the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli soldiers arrest a blindfolded Palestinian during an army raid in Nablus, West Bank, on Tuesday, April 8,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,20739,2465,2466,82],"class_list":["post-818453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-ottawa","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}