Bassem Eid is a Palestinian living in Israel who has had an extensive career as a human rights activist. His initial focus was on human rights violations committed by Israeli armed forces, but for many years he has broadened his research to include human rights violations committed by the Palestinian Authority (PA), and the […]
Palestinian Analyst Bassem Eid Invites The Squad to Visit Him in Jerusalem
Bassem Eid is a Palestinian analyst and human-rights campaigner who chooses to live in Jerusalem, under Israeli rule, rather than in those parts of the West Bank where Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority hold sway. He’s not fond either of the PA, or of Hamas, and he’s horrified that those claiming to champion […]
Hamas provides the lies and damned lies, Israel provides the statistics proving it didn’t hit civilians
Hamas has provided the lies and damned lies. Israel provides the statistics. The Meir Amit Intelligence and Information Center (ITIC) recently published its study — its “statistics” — of the Palestinian casualties during the first two days of the recent conflict. A report on its findings is here: “In First Two Days of Conflict, […]
‘This dispute is not about houses in East Jerusalem. This is about Hamas seeing a chance to seize the narrative.’
A “Palestinian” writer with the courage to speak the truth. “This has nothing to do with Sheikh Jarrah: It’s about Hamas seeing a chance to seize the narrative and increase its own influence and control over Palestinians in Jerusalem,” by Bassem Eid, Times of Israel, May 12, 2021: …As a Palestinian living in Jerusalem, I […]
Presbyterian Church General Assembly refuses to condemn Hamas, anti-Hamas activist gets death threat
The Presbyterian Leftists refused to condemn Hamas, and then a Muslim at the gathering threatened to kill the anti-Hamas activist. That about sums up the state of the Left today. “Palestinian Human Rights Activist: ‘PCUSA More Extremist Than Middle East Extremists,’” by Eliana Rudee, Breaking Israel News, July 3, 2018: Human rights activist Bassem Eid […]