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Palestinian human rights activist Bassem Eid addresses the European Parliament on September 5, 2018. (screen capture: YouTube)
September 15, 2018, 8:18 pm
Palestinian activist: EU should defund BDS like Trump slashed aid for UNRWA
Bassem Eid claims boycott campaigns ‘would cease to exist within 6 months’ if funding drastically cut; EU maintains it does not support BDS efforts
By TOI staff
Bassem Eid (right) tries to speak as a heckler is pushed back from the podium after trying to accost him in New York City, on Thursday October 26 2017 (Screen capture Channel 2)
October 27, 2017, 10:52 pm
Pro-Israel activists heckled, disrupted during NYC synagogue event
Famed Palestinian activist Bassem Eid accosted during incident; police remove hecklers from site but makes no arrests
By TOI staff
During an October 2015 advocacy conference at Northeastern University in Boston, George Deek of Israel's foreign service speaks about the Jewish state (Elan Kawesch/The Times of Israel)
May 25, 2016, 10:16 pm
Pleading Israel’s case on campus? It helps if you’re not Jewish
As non-Jewish Israelis increasingly give ‘pro-Israel’ talks at US universities, campus activists say they provide the most credible defense of Jewish state’s record on minority rights
By Matt Lebovic
An 'Israel Apartheid Week' poster (photo credit: screen capture IAW/YouTube)
March 9, 2015, 8:19 pm
Johannesburg pro-Israel event draws threats
Rowdy protesters, including deputy minister, rally against show of support organized by Zionist Federation
By JTA
A BDS protest outside Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa (photo credit: Power987/via Twitter)
March 4, 2015, 8:12 pm
BDS activists interrupt Palestinian speaker in South Africa
Human rights activist Bassem Eid evacuated by university security after being called a ‘liar and sell-out’
By TOI staff
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and Jihad Mughniyeh (photo credit: @khamenei_ir, Twitter)
February 1, 2015, 11:40 pm
Receding shadows reveal more of Iran’s covert wars
As the clash between Israel and the Islamic Republic comes to light, a complex network of regional struggles emerges
By Mitch Ginsburg
Palestinian Hamas supporters gather for a rally in Gaza City, August 7, 2014 (photo credit: AP/Khalil Hamra)
August 11, 2014, 12:08 am
Fear, fatalism or support: Why isn’t Gaza revolting against Hamas?
Experts divided on whether fear of Hamas, anger at Israel, or the lack of alternatives is keeping Gazans quiescent
By Elhanan Miller
IDF soldiers on patrol near where a police officer was stabbed Monday (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/ lash90)
December 24, 2013, 8:33 pm
Why does the non-intifada continue to rage?
Israeli and Palestinian experts disagree over the reasons for the uptick in violence but share a time-hardened pessimism
By Mitch Ginsburg
Members of Hamas rival organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad praying in Gaza on the 17th anniversary of the death of the group's founder, Fathi Shikaki (Photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash 90)
November 25, 2012, 11:05 pm
United by a common threat: Israel, Egypt and Hamas all fear Iran and its Islamic Jihad proxy in Gaza
Some analysts believe that the bedrock of the recent ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is a shared fear of Iranian influence
By Mitch Ginsburg
A coastal shot of Lebanon (Shutterstock)
July 26, 2012, 6:09 am
Assad’s fall in Syria could spell radical change, or something even more dire, for next-door Lebanon
Hezbollah may well fill the vacuum, which would be bad enough. But there’s a worse scenario for France’s century-old creation — oblivion
By Mitch Ginsburg
An elderly woman in the West Bank city of Ramallah displaying the keys to a previous home, before the Israeli victory in 1948. (Photo credit: Issam Rimawi/ Flash 90)
May 16, 2012, 2:04 am
Nakba Day defanged
A combination of IDF readiness and a weary and fractured Palestinian public helped ensure the day passed with relatively few clashes
By Mitch Ginsburg
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