Goldstone Defends Report before Rabbis Group
Richard Silverstein reports on the Rabbinic Call sponsored by Taanit Tzedek with Judge Richard Goldstone
Goldstone: My MIssion and Motivation
Given his involvement in investigations into human rights violations in many different countries, Judge Richard Goldstone, explains why he accepted the position as chair of the Fact Finding Mission to Gaza. How could he as a human rights advocate investigate violations by all other countries but not Israel?
After reading this article you may want to listen to the recording of Judge Goldstone's conference call with rabbis on our website.
Goldstone: Israel could stop report with open inquiry
Two important ommissions in the JTA article on the Ta'anit Tzedek Goldstone call:
- They left out Rabbis for Human Rights - North America and Ohala rabbinic group as co-sponsors of the call.
- Goldstone's first response on why the report won't hurt peace was something like, "There can't be peace without justice." His second response referred to Avigdor Lieberman's pronouncement that there would be no peace anytime soon.
A conference call with Judge Goldstone
This isn't quite a verbatim of the conference call with Judge Goldstone... but it comes close. Rachel also adds some of her own reflections after the transcription of her notes.
Goldstone: Recording and Transcipt of Call with 150 Rabbis
Note: You can also download the transcript of the call.
On Sunday evening October 18, 2009, Judge Richard Goldstone spoke with 150 rabbis by conference call in an event organized by Ta'anit Tzedek Jewish Fast For Gaza and co-sponsored by Rabbis for Human Rights - North America, The Brit Tzedek Rabbinic Cabinet and Ohalah The Network of Renewal Rabbis.
Click on the play button symbol in order to hear an audio recording of the call.
The program starts at 3:00 in the recording. You can drag the rectangle thing forward to skip the "hello, anybody there" banter at the beginning. We will ultimately edit this but didn't want to delay in getting this out.
We'd like to shout out our thanks to Adam Goldberg, Stephanie Taylor and the folks at Tigerfish Transcription and Editing for providing the excellent transcription pro bono.
Goldstone Report: Conference Call with Fred Abrahams and Jessica Montell 9.30.09
A recording of a conference call on the Goldstone Report with Fred Abrahams, researcher with Human Rights Watch, and Jessica Montell, Executive Director of B'Tselem. On the day of the call, Fred Abrahams was in Geneva for the discussion of the Goldstone Report by the Human Rights Commission of the United Nations. Jessica Montell spoke with us from Jerusalem. The call provided much information about the report. Questions were submitted by participants in the call.
The audio is about 90 minutes and the file is 32 MB; you can download it by clicking (or right-clicking) on the filename. From there you can put it on iPod etc. Or you can simply listen on your computer by clicking on the "play" arrow.
The recording begins at 4:50 minutes. Please fast forward to that point in the recording. If you listen on this web page, you can drag the progress bar forward and the minute/second counter will show you where you are. If you download it and put it on your mp3 player, just fast-forward as you would for any other audio on your player.
Press Release of Goldstone Commission Report with Link to copy of full report
The Goldstone Commission, appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Commission to investigate human rights violations by both parties in the Gaza War released its report. It has a lot of material on the devestating effects of the blockade and the commisision of war crimes and possibly crimes against humanity by Israel and the Hamas Government.
