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Bassem Eid is a Palestinian human rights activist and political analyst. He is the founder and director of the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group (PHRMG), an independent, non-governmental organization that monitors and reports on human rights violations in the Palestinian territories. He is also a senior analyst at the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). Bassem Eid was born in Old City, Jerusalem, on 5 February 1958. He is the son of a Palestinian refugee family from the village of Lifta, near Jerusalem. He attended the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) schools in Jerusalem and graduated from the University of Jordan in Amman with a degree in sociology. Bassem Eid has been a vocal critic of the Palestinian Authority and its leadership, and has been a strong advocate for Palestinian human rights. He has written extensively on the subject, and has appeared on numerous international media outlets, including CNN, BBC, and Al Jazeera. He has also been a frequent guest on Israeli television and radio programs. Bassem Eid is married and has two children. He currently resides in Jerusalem.

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Occupation political analyst
Age 66 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 5 February, 1958
Birthday 5 February
Birthplace East Jerusalem, Jordanian West Bank (now West Bank)
Nationality Palestinian

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2019

He was born in the Jordanian-ruled Old City in East Jerusalem, whose place of residence became the United Nations Refugee Works Agency (UNRWA) refugee camp of Shuafat. He spent the first 33 years of his life in Shuafat. He rose to prominence during the first Intifada, the Palestinian uprising, and was a senior field researcher for B’Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. In 1996, he founded the Jerusalem-based Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group. He formally ended his work at the group in October 2010. In 2011, the group closed. Since 2003 he has worked as a paid political commentator for Israeli TV and since 2009 he has worked as a commentator on Palestinian politics for Israeli Radio (Reshet Bet).

His publications include Neither Law Nor Justice: Human Rights in the Occupied Territories Since the Oslo Accords (co-written by PHRMG and B’Tselem, 1996); The State of Human Rights in Palestine I: The practice of torture by the Palestinian Authority (1997), violations of freedom of the press and freedom of expression (1997), deaths in custody (1997), and police brutality (PHRMG); The State of Human Rights in Palestine II. In-depth report on the judicial system (1997), illegal arrests, and long term illegal detention (PHRMG); Fatah and Hamas Human Rights Violations in the Palestinian Occupied Territories from April 2006 to December 2007 (in Fatah and Hamas Human Rights Violations, in The Israel–Palestine Conflict, published by the University of California, Los Angeles in 2011). He also contributes editorial articles to publications such as The Jerusalem Post and Times of Israel.

2016

In 2016, he became the chairman of The Center for Near East Policy Research.

2015

He has traveled widely to lecture on the Palestine-Israel conflict and has attended international conferences. In recent years he has traveled to Canada, Italy, Japan, and South Africa, where he was invited by The South African Jewish Board of Deputies to speak at universities, Australia and New Zealand, where he was a guest of the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council, and the United States, where he conducted a speaking tour sponsored by pro-Israel advocacy group Stand With Us. In the United Kingdom he presented his research on UNRWA to the conservative British think tank The Henry Jackson Society in December, 2015. He has also appeared as a speaker for a workshop at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism in Herzliya, Israel. He has spoken at many colleges and universities such as Skidmore College, University of Chicago, University of Maryland, Brooklyn College, Cornell University, Elon University, and Denison University.

2011

In response to the deterioration of the human rights situation under the Palestinian Authority, he founded the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group (PHRMG), which monitored abuses committed by the PA and also dealt to some extent with Israel. It was a nonpartisan human rights organization dedicated to exposing human rights violations and supporting a democratic and pluralistic Palestine. The group closed in 2011.

1997

In 1997 The Washington Post called Eid, "an internationally recognized rights campaigner."

1995

He publicly condemned the widespread murder of Palestinian dissidents, often for reasons unrelated to the Intifada. In 1995, following his report about the Palestinian Preventative Security Service, he came under attack by some Palestinian leaders for revealing human rights violations committed by the Palestinian Authority (PA). He continued his criticisms of human rights policies of both Israeli and Palestinian armed forces. 1996 he was arrested by Yasser Arafat's Presidential Guard (Force 17) and denounced as an Israeli agent. He was released after 25 hours following widespread and international condemnation.

1992

Eid's activism is valued by many parties across the political spectrum, in Israel and abroad. The Association for Civil Rights in Israel, a liberal or left leaning organization, awarded him its Emil Gruenzweig Memorial Award in 1992. He is also the recipient of the Robert S. Litvak Human Rights Memorial Award granted by the McGill University Faculty of Law and the International Human Rights Advocacy Center, Inter Amicus; in 1999, the International Activist Award given by the Gleitsman Foundation, USA; and the award of Italy’s Informazione Senza Frontiere (Information without Boundaries). In 2009, a book, Next Founders, profiled him as the leading Palestinian human rights activist.

1958

Bassem Eid (born 5 February 1958) is a Palestinian citizen of Israel and has an extensive career as a Palestinian human rights activist. His initial focus was on human rights violations committed by Israeli armed forces, but for many years has broadened his research to include human rights violations committed by the Palestinian Authority (PA), and the Palestinian armed forces on their own people. He founded the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group in 1996, although it ceased operations in 2011. He now works as a political analyst for Israeli TV and radio.