{"id":89025,"date":"2025-08-01T11:45:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T16:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=89025"},"modified":"2025-08-01T11:45:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T16:45:50","slug":"canada-joins-france-and-uk-in-saying-it-will-recognize-palestinian-state-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/canada-joins-france-and-uk-in-saying-it-will-recognize-palestinian-state-in-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada joins France and UK in saying it will recognize Palestinian state in September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By PHILISSA CRAMER<\/p>\n<p>(JTA) \u2014 Canada, too, will recognize a Palestinian state at the U.N. General Assembly in September as long as certain conditions are met, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_46092\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/canada.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46092\" class=\"wp-image-46092 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/canada-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/canada-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/canada-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/canada.jpg 880w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/198;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46092\" class=\"wp-image-46092 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/canada-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/canada-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/canada-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/canada.jpg 880w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-46092\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Canada flag flies in the wind. (Photo by Vaughn Ridley\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe deepening suffering of civilians leaves no room for delaying coordinated international action to support peace, security and the dignity of human life,\u201d Carney, a liberal elected in April, said at a press conference, referring to a hunger crisis in Gaza that has grown acute.<\/p>\n<p>The move adds Canada to the United Kingdom and France as major world powers to announce plans to recognize a Palestinian state this week, marking a sea change among countries with significant Jewish populations. (Malta also announced recognition on Wednesday.) The moves offer a powerful symbol that some of Israel\u2019s allies believe that a negotiated peace is currently out of reach.<\/p>\n<p>As with France, Canada\u2019s recognition is dependent on assurances from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, which Carney indicated he had gotten, to hold elections next year for the first time in two decades and to exclude Hamas from the elections and any future governance. Unlike British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Carney did not make recognition dependent on Hamas\u2019 release of Israeli hostages in Gaza. (Starmer is also requiring Israel to end its fighting in Gaza.)<\/p>\n<p>Israel staunchly opposes the unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state and panned Carney\u2019s move as rewarding terrorism. Iddo Moed, Israel\u2019s ambassador to Canada, said in a TV interview, \u201cWe will not give in to that pressure because this is our security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The announcement drew criticism from Canada\u2019s leading Jewish umbrella organization, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, which said it was \u201cdeeply concerning\u201d that Carney did not link his plan to the release of the hostages, and President Donald Trump, who threatened a trade retaliation if recognition takes place. Earlier in the week, Trump had indicated that he did not oppose the U.K. recognition plan.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Canada%20joins%20France%20and%20UK%20in%20saying%20it%20will%20recognize%20Palestinian%20state%20in%20September\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":46092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,27],"tags":[1309,8790,8795,8788,1176],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89026,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89025\/revisions\/89026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}