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<\/p>\nCarney has accused Netanyahu\u2019s government of failing to prevent a humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip by repeatedly restricting the delivery of essential aid to Palestinians. Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said in May that Israel\u2019s mistreatment of Canadians participating in a flotilla trying to reach Gaza violated the Vienna Convention.<\/p>\n
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Israel says Canada is undermining peace in the region through its growing criticism of the country, its withdrawal of support in United Nations votes and its formal recognition of the State of Palestine.<\/p>\n
Moed said he still believes the Carney government has some interest in collaborating with Israel on AI and that this could involve companies working together to boost defences against cyberattacks. He said Israeli tech firms could also help Canadian municipalities use data to better manage road traffic flows.<\/p>\n
Moed said Israeli companies also want to collaborate with Canada on Israel\u2019s hospital-at-home concept, which involves monitoring patients with acute or chronic needs through wearable devices and video calls. Israeli firms have run hospital-at-home pilot projects in Europe and the U.S., and are interested in doing the same in Canadian provinces, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cMany times, Israelis are leading in finding quick solutions for significant problems,\u201d Moed said.<\/p>\n
He argued that Israel\u2019s tech sector dovetails with the Carney\u2019s government\u2019s focus on economic productivity. He said both countries have a \u201cculture of innovation\u201d but Israel has put more focus on translating research into startups that become economically viable.<\/p>\n
His embassy is trying to connect companies in both countries in the hope that Israeli innovation can benefit from Canada\u2019s larger population and market access to the U.S. \u2014 even as Washington upends continental trade.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are working on sort of a digital virtual network or virtual community that will bring together technologists in any area, in cyber and AI, that cuts through in many sectors (like) agriculture, communications, transportation, aviation,\u201d Moed said.<\/p>\n
AI Minister Evan Solomon met with Moed in January to discuss possible collaboration with Israel. The minister appeared to acknowledge the strained state of Canada-Israel relations at the time.<\/p>\n
\u201cDialogue matters, particularly in complex times,\u201d Solomon wrote in his social media posts about the meeting.<\/p>\n
Not every Canadian politician is as open to engagement with Israel.<\/p>\n
Earlier this month, Alberta NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi apologized after posing for a photo with Moed at the Calgary Stampede, saying it had \u201ccaused a lot of harm to a lot of people.\u201d<\/p>\n
The photo was taken as Moed was accompanying an Israeli technology delegation.<\/p>\n
Citing Israel\u2019s \u201cindiscriminate\u201d bombing in Gaza and invasion of Lebanon, Nenshi said he regretted posing for the photo \u2014 particularly since the embassy posted it on social media with a message equating support for Israel with support for democracy and human rights.<\/p>\n
The embassy later said Nenshi\u2019s apology allowed \u201cfor hate to creep and fester into a place built on hospitality.\u201d<\/p>\n
Moed\u2019s pitch to Canada also includes safer uses of AI.<\/p>\n
Ottawa has been pushing for guardrails on how artificial intelligence is designed and deployed since at least 2018, when it was one of the topics Canada focused on at the G7 summit in Charlevoix, Que.<\/p>\n
At an April reception ahead of Israel\u2019s national day, Moed took aim at what he claimed are efforts \u201cto recode the algorithms\u201d of social media \u201cso that the world might once again become addicted to antisemitism.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said countries can work together to cull hateful content from AI services. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe offer here in Canada all kinds of ideas and even a joint collaboration, to find new ways to address this,\u201d he told The Canadian Press.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not, of course, just Jews. It\u2019s about spreading hate and actually inciting for violence.\u201d<\/p>\n
Moed did not single out any specific platform. The X social media site has seen an surge in antisemitic rhetoric and anti-Jewish influencers since it was taken over by billionaire Elon Musk, according to the U.S. \u2060Center for Countering Digital Hate.<\/p>\n
Musk himself made a gesture that many interpreted as a Nazi salute at a rally celebrating U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s second inauguration, though he denied that was the case.<\/p>\n
Facebook\u2019s parent company Meta also has seen its AI chatbots echo racist tropes and antisemitic conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 26, 2026.<\/p>\n
Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carney has accused Netanyahu\u2019s government of failing to prevent a humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip by repeatedly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82],"class_list":["post-827066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","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-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827066","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=827066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}