Goldstone report

The Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights demanded an explanation from the PLO's Executive Committee over the Palestinian stance on the UN-mandated Goldstone report. A statement...

In a single phone call to his man in Geneva, Mahmoud Abbas has demonstrated his disregard for popular action, and his lack of faith in its accumulative power and...

The postponement of the UN Human Rights Council vote on the findings of Richard Goldstone's report into Israel's recent 22-day war on Gaza has raised many questions. Sahar Francis,...

Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council Aziz Duwaik called for the resignation of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday, following the failure of Palestinian leadership to demand action on...

Israel's ambassador to the United States argues that a United Nations war crimes investigation poses a genocidal threat to Jews comparable to the Nazi Holocaust. "Recognizing the murder of...

The UN's Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Palestinian territories Professor Richard Falk has yesterday described the decision of the Palestinian Authority (PA) to defer the vote on...

The Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative, Mustafa Al-Barghouthi, stated that "A strenuous efforts are being exerted to reach a national agreement on the Egyptian paper for reconciliation...

Israel's prime minister has lashed out against the Goldstone report which criticises Israel for deliberately targeting civilians during its war on Gaza earlier this year. Opening the winter session...

The Palestinians and their allies have called for U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to become involved in a row over Gaza war crimes investigations. The proposal was contained in a...

President Mahmoud Abbas gave the directive to change the Palestinian stance on the Goldstone report at the UN Human Rights Commission following a September meeting with US and Arab...

A senior officer in the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) has claimed that the UN's Goldstone Report on Israel's invasion of the Gaza Strip two years ago is unlikely to...

The Palestinian Human Rights Council (PHRC) has warned that the Permanent Palestinian Mission to the United Nations intends to push for a postponement of discussion in the General Assembly...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL) ended its bureau meeting in the Gaza Strip yesterday, 30 September, with a declaration affirming that Israeli actions in the...

NEW YORK – October 30 – The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) calls on the United States not to block Security Council action on the Goldstone Report concerning war...

The US pledged on Tuesday to help Israel combat the Goldstone report documents alleged war crimes committed during the attack on Gaza last winter. This offer to "fight the...

Washington will not support any potential action by the UN Security Council on the Goldstone report on war crimes in Gaza, Former US Permanent Representative to the United Nations...

Consistent with its call for full, credible and independent investigations by all the parties into their conduct during the Gaza Conflict, the UK yesterday voted in favour of a...

In a press release issued today by three members of the Goldstone Report (Ms. Hina Jilani, Professor Christine Chinkin and Colonel Desmond Travers) they reaffirmed their support for the...

Observers of the systematic Israeli abuses in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPTs), especially the demolition of houses and the resultant forced expulsion of the Palestinian population, may be surprised...

By Frank Barat and Michael Mansfield QC Countless United Nations Security Council and General Assembly resolutions have been passed and violated; The Goldstone Report has been attacked and dismissed...

By Bilal Al-Hasan Al-Sharq Al-Awsat18 October 2009 The popular Palestinian and Arab campaign against the PA's decision to defer the Goldstone report and not refer it to the Security...

There has been a prolonged and concerted campaign to discredit anyone who is brave enough to speak out against the Zionist policies of Israel. The list of academics, lawyers,...

By Jared MalsinGAZA–Israeli soldiers shot a mentally ill Palestinian man in the leg when he ventured near the Erez crossing, in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday. Last Wednesday,...

By Letty Cottin Pogrebin Two years after Operation Cast Lead, Israel's three-week assault against Hamas in Gaza, we are still grappling with the fallout. Much of the public reckoning...

The UN's Goldstone Report into Israel's war against the people of Gaza has, since its publication in September 2009, been attacked and disputed by leading Zionist and pro-Israel campaigners...

The controversy surrounding Richard Goldstone's op-ed in the Washington Post last week sees no signs of abating.   One of the latest legal figures to weigh into the debate...

Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague received Tzipi Livni in his office at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office this week. The former Israeli Foreign Minister was welcomed warmly even though...

The Gaza Ceasefire, unlike a similar ceasefire achieved after Operation Cast Lead four years ago, is an event that has a likely significance far beyond ending the violence after...

By Asa'ad Telhami Israel is continuing with its diplomatic efforts to remove the Goldstone Report from the agenda of the UN General Assembly. The report gives details of the...