Inside the Politics of Palestine

Bassem Eid

Bassem Eid.

Lecture looks at the divide between Hamas and Fatah in Palestine

Palestinian human-rights advocate and political commentator Bassem Eid will discuss Palestine’s internal conflicts in a lecture at Dickinson. The program, “Palestinians’ Internal Politics and Conflicts,” will be held Tuesday, March 8, at 7 p.m. in the Stern Center Great Room.

Eid, founder of the Jerusalem-based Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group, will discuss the conflict between the Islamist group Hamas, which rules Gaza, and President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party, which controls the West Bank. He will discuss the significance of this divide in terms of the future of Palestine.

Eid was born in Jerusalem and grew up in the Shuafat Refugee Camp on the outskirts of the city. He later became a senior field researcher for B’Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. A critic of both Palestinian and Israeli security forces, he publicly condemned the widespread killing of the Palestinian collaborators following the first Intifada. In 1995, he published a report about the Palestinian Preventative Security Service, in which he revealed several human-rights violations committed by the Palestinian Authority.

This event is sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues and co-sponsored by the Milton B. Asbell Center for Jewish Life and the departments of Judaic studies and Middle East studies.

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Published March 7, 2016