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Mondoweiss
March 24, 2017
I am thrilled to report that among the intellectual free thinkers on the Palestinian side our dream is gradually gaining acceptance even if in the minds of many Israelis and Americans it is still tinged with criminality.
Lawfare (blog)
March 23, 2017
Of particular importance is a lengthy report (Report) commissioned by the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) in a resolution adopted on July 23, 2014, while fighting was still ongoing, establishing a UN Independent Commission of Inquiry (COI ...
The Nation.
March 22, 2017
What is striking about this response, which resembles in many respects the US government response to the Goldstone Report (the UN Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict of 2008-9), is the degree to which Israel's supporters, in response to criticism ...
Aljazeera.com
March 19, 2017
The report, Israeli Practices Towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid, immediately gained notoriety when the head of ESCWA, Rima Khalaf, was forced to resign after the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres denounced the report and ...
Jweekly.com
February 23, 2017
As a lifelong pro-Israel activist, I have no delusions about the U.N. nor Hamas. But I also know the Strip is a ... Breaking the Silence contributed unverified "IDF atrocities" from the war in Gaza for the debunked Goldstone report of 2009. The group ...
TheTower.org
February 22, 2017
On February 9, Haaretz published a lengthy interview with Hagai El-Ad, the executive director of B'Tselem, an organization that documents alleged human rights abuses committed by the Israeli government and army against Palestinians. El-Ad described how ...
The Electronic Intifada (blog)
February 14, 2017
... a lecture by Israeli justice minister Ayelet Shaked. Shaked, a member of parliament for the Jewish Home party, a pro-settler grouping, is scheduled to speak on 15 February as part of a "distinguished lecture series," on the topic of "protecting ...
International Middle East Media Center
February 13, 2017
Media sources report, according to Al Ray Palestinian Media Agency, that the United Nations has advanced a suggestion to assume former Foreign Minister of Israel, Tzipi Livni, the post of the Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization ...
Courier Mail
January 23, 2017
That's about 15 per cent of us but it does represent a decline: the previous survey in 2010 had 61,000 extra fishers and the report suggests recreational fishing rates have been falling over the past decade. It offers a few reasons: busyness, a ...
Jadaliyya
January 23, 2017
When Israel annexed East Jerusalem on 28 June 1967, in full daylight and during the course of diplomatic debates leading to UN Security Council Resolution 242, the General Assembly unanimously passed two resolutions (UNSC Res 2253 and 2254) ... it ...
News24
January 23, 2017
You will remember former Constitutional Court Judge Richard Goldstone who chaired a UN report that accused Israel of war crimes in Gaza?
WPXI Pittsburgh
January 22, 2017
WASHINGTON - Celebrity pastry chef and Food Network star Duff Goldman took to Twitter early Saturday to point out that President Donald Trump's inauguration cake appeared to be an exact replica of the cake he designed and created for Barack Obama'sÃÂ ...
The Electronic Intifada (blog)
January 19, 2017
The Goldstone Report, the independent UN-commissioned inquiry into the assault, also quotes Livni stating: "Israel is not a country upon which you fire missiles and it does not respond.
Jewish Chronicle
January 19, 2017
For Human Rights Watch (HRW), this response was irrelevant and this Israel-obsessed organisation continued its attack, this time during a Fifa meeting on January 10 called to consider expanding the number of teams in the World Cup.
Palestine News Network
January 19, 2017
The Report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, commissioned and endorsed by the United Nations, better known as the "Goldstone Report", stated: To investigate and, where necessary, prosecute those suspected of seriousÃÂ ...
JerusalemOnline (blog)
January 18, 2017
... his assistance with the Iron Dome alongside other projects, his condemnation of the Goldstone Report and all of the other anti-Israel resolutions that he did veto at the UN Security Council is not enough to undo the damage caused by the recent UN ...
Bangor Daily News
January 16, 2017
Personal and policy disagreements are inevitable. All presidents permitted the passage of U.N. Security Council resolutions critical of and opposed by Israel, some with language nearly identical to the most recent Security Council resolution, 2334 ...
Truth-Out
January 13, 2017
Israel used the "Dahiya doctrine" to apply "disproportionate force" and cause "great damage and destruction to civilian property and infrastructure, and suffering to civilians populations," as defined in the 2009 UN Human Rights Council (Goldstone) report.
The Boston Globe
January 12, 2017
All presidents permitted the passage of UN Security Council resolutions critical of and opposed by Israel, some with language nearly identical to the most recent Security Council resolution, 2334.
Eurasia Review
January 12, 2017
Israel used the "Dahiya doctrine" to apply "disproportionate force" and cause "great damage and destruction to civilian property and infrastructure, and suffering to civilians populations," as defined in the 2009 U.N. Human Rights Council (Goldstone ...
Center for Research on Globalization
January 11, 2017
Israel used the "Dahiya doctrine" to apply "disproportionate force" and cause "great damage and destruction to civilian property and infrastructure, and suffering to civilians populations," as defined in the 2009 U.N. Human Rights Council (Goldstone ...
Huffington Post
January 10, 2017
Israel used the "Dahiya doctrine" to apply "disproportionate force" and cause "great damage and destruction to civilian property and infrastructure, and suffering to civilians populations," as defined in the 2009 U.N. Human Rights Council (Goldstone ...
Mondoweiss
January 4, 2017
Over New Year's, I had two phone conversations with Norman Finkelstein about the historic UN Security Council Resolution 2334 of December 23, which labeled Israeli settlements a flagrant violation of international law.
The National
January 1, 2017
Much the same happened with South African justice Richard Goldstone, one of the co-authors of the United Nations report on Israeli violations of human rights and international law in its 2008/9 onslaught of Gaza. I met the man and heard him describe ...
Heritage Florida Jewish News
December 30, 2016
The resolution that was adopted yesterday at the United Nations is distorted and shameful but we will overcome... it. The resolution determines that the Jewish Quarter in the ... Did this help us at all at the UN? Did this improve our relations at the ...
Raw Story
December 29, 2016
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) passed a resolution 14-0 condemning all Israeli settlements on Palestinian land as having "no legal validity" and amounting to "a flagrant violation under international law.
Scoop.co.nz
December 29, 2016
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) passed a resolution 14-0 condemning all Israeli settlements on Palestinian land as having "no legal validity" and amounting to "a flagrant violation under international law.
AlterNet
December 28, 2016
When Obama came in he blocked any form of international accountability, trashed the Goldstone report which was the independent UN inquiry. The same in 2014 when Israel attacked Gaza, Obama actually rearmed Israel while the bombs were falling onÃÂ ...
Independent Media Review Analysis (IMRA)
December 24, 2016
The resolution that was adopted yesterday at the United Nations is distorted and shameful but we will overcome it. The resolution determines that the Jewish ... And yesterday, in complete contradiction of this commitment, including an explicit ...
Jewish Exponent
December 21, 2016
His strong stands in favor of peace, prosperity for working families, environmental sustainability, and support for civil and human rights are beyond reproach and reflect the core values of the Democratic Party. ... 53 other members of Congress in ...
Heritage Florida Jewish News
December 16, 2016
Ellison led an effort to have Congress consider parts of the U.N. Goldstone report, which said Israel may have committed war crimes in the 2009 Gaza War.
Mondoweiss
December 12, 2016
The overwhelming attack alarmed world opinion and resulted in the Goldstone Report alleging Israel had targeted civilians and carried out disproportionate and indiscriminate bombings.
Forward
December 4, 2016
The campaign for BDS directed at Israel (and often slipping over into antisemitism) appears to be based on the assumption that Israel is an appalling breacher of Palestinians human rights, often extended to Arab-Israeli citizens. ... ridiculous, but ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
December 3, 2016
He led an effort to get Congress to consider parts of the U.N. Goldstone report, which said Israel might have committed war crimes in the 2009 Gaza War; much of Congress, as well as the centrist and right-wing pro-Israel community, said the report was ...
Forward
December 1, 2016
Could a Jewish New York real estate guy with precisely zero foreign policy experience break the Mideast peace logjam? If his father in law is called Donald Trump, Israeli officials say: "why not?
New Matilda
November 22, 2016
In 2000, Dugard was appointed to a United Nations Commission to investigate human rights violations in Palestine during the outbreak of the Second Intifada.
Politicsweb
November 4, 2016
The court also ruled that Parliament had violated the Constitution by passing a resolution purporting to absolve Mr Zuma from complying with the public protector's report on Nkandla. As of the end of September 2016, President Zuma had still not signed ...
eNCA
November 3, 2016
HRW released a 43-page report, "More Fear Than Fair: Gambia's 2016 Presidential Election", on Wednesday, stating that human rights abuses against Gambian opposition activists could threaten the fairness of the 1 December election. ... African Republic ...
Christian Examiner
November 2, 2016
"Recent attempts by the U.N. to intervene in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have produced unmitigated disasters. The so-called Goldstone Report, which sought to investigate allegations of war crimes committed during the 2009 Israeli intervention in ...
Breaking Israel News
November 2, 2016
The Obama Administration is sending strong signals that once the election is over it may make a major push to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the United Nations. Despite repeated invitations by Prime ... The so-called Goldstone Report ...
News24
October 27, 2016
A report from a 13-month-long inquiry by the United Nations and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the global chemical weapons watchdog, which was released to the UN Security Council on Friday, 21 October, blames Syrian ...
Brown Political Review
October 26, 2016
UNESCO has declared the ICC ruling an important step in the international movement "to restore human dignity, self-esteem, and confidence, including global campaigns to teach about cultural diversity and human rights, in order to prevent the danger of ...
Haaretz
October 26, 2016
BIRTHDAYS: South African judge who led the 2009 UN Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, Richard Goldstone turns 78... Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton turns 69... Actress who has appeared in 25 films plus 68 episodes of Will & Grace,ÃÂ ...
The Electronic Intifada
October 25, 2016
Nearly two years ago, the Palestinian Authority, with non-member state status at the United Nations, ratified the Rome Statute, giving it access to the International Criminal Court.
AllAfrica.com
October 24, 2016
Johannesburg - South Africa's announced withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC) treaty represents an enormous blow to its commitment to justice for atrocity crimes, Human Rights Watch said today. ICC members ... On October 21, 2016 ...
http://hamodia.com
October 5, 2016
In the past, citing the record of bias of investigators, Israel has refused to cooperate with U.N. and other international investigations of alleged war crimes, even to the point of denying U.N. officials entry. Neither officials from the UNHRC's ...
MINA
October 1, 2016
Before Hillary: In 2012, Palestine was granted non-member observer status in the United nations. The 2009 Goldstone Report of the UN found that Israel violated international humanitarian law in its war against Gaza in 2009. Palestine was gaining moreÃÂ ...
Huffington Post
September 29, 2016
Flavia Pansieri, former United Nations deputy high commissioner for human rights, said last year that human rights violations "fuel and shape the conflict" in the occupied Palestinian territories, adding, "[h]uman rights violations in the West Bank ...
AllAfrica.com
September 27, 2016
The discussion will be facilitated by Retired Judge Richard Goldstone and the panel will consist of Retired Judge Zak Yacoob, Prof Christof Heyns of the United Nations Human Rights Committee, Ms Janet Love, Executive Director of the Legal ResourceÃÂ ...
Russia Direct
September 27, 2016
This increase was driven mainly by the conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic, which accounted for more than half of new refugees in 2015," reads the UN report. Europe has hosted the second-largest number of refugees (trailing only sub-Saharan Africa ...
