Research Catalog

Title

The Goldstone report "reconsidered" : a critical analysis / edited by Gerald M. Steinberg & Anne Herzberg ; foreword by Dore Gold.

Publication

Jerusalem : NGO Monitor/Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, c2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Herzberg, Anne.
• Steinberg, Gerald M.

Description

xiii, 310 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Israel has been the subject of numerous controversial U.N. inquiries related to armed conflict and responses to terror attacks. But, the scope and impact of the Report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, known as the Goldstone Report, were particularly extreme. Produced under the politicized U.N. Human Rights Council, the fact-finding reflected in the Goldstone Report has been shown to be largely inaccurate. Similarly, international legal claims were distorted in a manner that maximized allegations of Israeli violations, while minimizing Hamas war crimes during the December 2008 - January 2009 Gaza War. Applying a number of academic approaches, the contributors to this book systematically address the flaws of the report and examine its far-reaching consequences. As demonstrated, the Goldstone Report sets a highly flawed example for other investigations of armed conflicts and international justice. Its methodological deficiencies, double standards, misleading interpretations of law, and unsupported conclusions are antithetical to the universal principles of human rights, including the right to self-defense."--Publisher.

Subjects

• Human rights in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories
• Human rights > Gaza Strip
• Gaza War, 2008-2009 > Law and legislation
• Propaganda, Anti-Israeli

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

From Durban to Goldstone: abusing human rights for political warfare / Gerald M. Steinberg -- The Goldstone mission - tainted to the core / Irwin Cotler -- The U.N.'s book of judges / Ed Morgan -- Goldstone's Gaza report: a failure of intelligence -- NGOs and the Goldstone report / Anne Herzberg -- Report of an expert meeting which assessed procedural criticisms made of the U.N. fact-finding mission on the Gaza conflict (the Goldstone report) / Chatham House -- The case against the Goldstone report - a study in evidentiary bias / Alan Dershowitz -- Letter to Justice Goldstone / Trevor Norwitz -- The Goldstone report and international law / Peter Berkowitz -- The application of IHL in the Goldstone report: a critical commentary / Laurie Blank -- A critique of the Goldstone report and its treatment of international humanitarian law / Abraham bell -- The Goldstone illusion / Moshe Halbertal.

ISBN

• 9789659179305
• 9659179308

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library