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Akiva Van Koningsveld

Akiva Van Koningsveld is a news desk editor for JNS.org. Originally from The Hague, he made the big move from the Netherlands to Israel in 2020. Before joining JNS, he worked as a policy officer at the Center for Information and Documentation Israel, a Dutch organization dedicated to fighting antisemitism and spreading awareness about the Arab-Israel conflict. With a passion for storytelling and justice, he studied journalism at the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht and later earned a law degree from Utrecht University, focusing on human rights and civil liability.

Since Oct. 7, Amanda Kluveld has faced increasing threats to her safety at Maastricht University and at home, due to her vocal support of the Jewish state.
“The world may not see it that way, but we do,” said the House Speaker, according to the Ariel Municipality.
“I’m with killing them wherever they are: children, elderly people and soldiers,” Fady Hanona wrote in 2013.
The police was said to be probing the involvement of Awdah Hathaleen, a Palestinian activist featured in the anti-Israel film “No Other Land,” who was reportedly killed.
The move “serves to strengthen Hamas and therefore undermines the chances of reaching a ceasefire and a framework for the release of hostages,” said Israel’s Foreign Ministry.
A report listed the Jewish state alongside Russia, Turkey and Iran as countries that have sought to “to shape public opinion and political decision-making.”
Representatives of more than 55 countries are slated to address the two-day U.N. event.
Humanitarian corridors will be established to enable the movement of U.N. convoys delivering food and medicine to Gazans.