Basem Eid

Quick Facts

Full Name	Basem Eid
Occupation	Human Rights Activists
Date Of Birth	Feb 5, 1958(1958-02-05)
Age	66
Birthplace	Old City
Country	Jordan
Horoscope	Aquarius

Basem Eid Biography

Basem Eid is one of the most popular and richest Human Rights Activists who was born on February 5, 1958 in Old City, Jordan. Bassem Eid (born 5 February 1958) is a Palestinian citizen of Israel and has a long track record as an Palestinian human rights advocate. He initially focused his efforts human rights violations that were committed by Israeli military forces, but over the years, he has expanded his focus in order to cover human rights abuses that are committed through the Palestinian Authority (PA), as well as the Palestinian military on their own citizens. He was the founder of his organization, the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group in

1996. However, it was disbanded in the year the year 2011. He currently works as an analyst on politics for Israeli Radio and TV.

To address the decline to the rights of people within the Palestinian Authority, he founded the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group (PHRMG) that was responsible for monitoring violations of Palestinian Authority PA and also worked in a way with Israel. It was a non-partisan human rights group that was committed to the public disclosure of human rights violations as well as advocating for a pluralistic and democratic Palestine. The group was shut down in 2011.

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

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.

in 1997 The Washington Post called Eid, “an internationally recognized rights campaigner.”

Basem Eid Net Worth

Basem Eid is one of the richest Human Rights Activists from Jordan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Basem Eid 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Eid’s political activism is appreciated by a variety of groups across the political spectrum, both in Israel as well as abroad. His work is admired by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel is which is a left or liberal group, presented him with its Emil Gruenzweig Memorial Award in 1992. He was also the winner of the Robert S. Litvak Human Rights Memorial Award given through the McGill University Faculty of Law and the International Human Rights Advocacy Center, Inter Amicus; in 1999, he received the International Activist Award given by the Gleitsman Foundation, USA; and the award from Italy’s Informazione Senza Frontiere (Information without boundaries). A book published in 2009 called Next Founders, profiled him as the most prominent Palestinian Human Rights activist.

His public statements condemned mass killing of Palestinian dissidents, usually in connection with the Intifada. In 1995, after his publication on the Palestinian Preventative Security Service, his report was criticized by a few Palestinian officials for revealing human rights violations that were committed in Palestinian authorities. Palestinian Authority (PA). He continued to criticize the policies on human rights of both Israeli as well as Palestinian military forces. In 1996, he was detained by Yasser Arafat’s Presidential Guard (Force 17) and was branded the work of an Israeli agent. The release came after about 25 hours, following an international and widespread condemnation.

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.

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Basem Ranked on the list of most popular Human Rights Activists. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Jordan. Basem Eid celebrates birthday on February 5 of every year.