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A Canada-Israel rift is widening over UN votes and sanctions

Protesters carrying a banner and Palestinian flags march in a street.

Canada hasn’t explained the rationale that led it to vote against Israel at the UN last week on a motion it had previously declined to back. But angry exchanges as Canada threatened and then applied sanctions on members of the Israeli government have brought relations to the lowest point in years, if not since relations began.