Hamas’s hostage releases are modern-day slave auctions - opinion
As the first phase of the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel comes to an end, so, too, might the weekly hostage “auctions” that have been among its most defining optics.
OMER SHEM TOV appears in a Hamas ceremony before his release from captivity in Gaza on Saturday. ‘To me – an American Jew who is also African-American – the Hamas production feels like nothing less than a slave auction in America’s South during the years prior to the Civil War' says the writer.(photo credit: Ramadan Abed/Reuters)ByDAVID CHRISTOPHER KAUFMAN
