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"Let me ... reiterate my support for the recommendations of the Fact Finding Mission, including its call for urgent action to counter impunity."
-UNHRC Chief Pillay with Judge Goldstone |
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Geneva - UN Human Rights Council
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New York - UN Security Council
Mark Weitzman, SWC Chief UN Representative, delivered live updates via Twitter from the gallery of the UN Security Council in New York, where he reported that the Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister said, "The [Goldstone] Report is another damning indictment of Israel ... Israel must be stopped from perpetrating crimes."
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| Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) with SWC Associate Dean Rabbi Abraham Cooper at Congressional Hearings. |
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Washington DC - US Congress
Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), House Foreign Affairs Committee ranking minority member, voiced her strong opposition to the [Goldstone] Report on the floor of Congress where, as part of her remarks, she stated, “And as the leadership of the Simon Wiesenthal Center stated in a recent letter to Ambassador Susan Rice, consideration of this report 'is a prescription for disaster, not only for Israel, but for the United States and every country that fights violent extremism.'”
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Worldwide:
It’s not too late to join the over 10,000 activists who have signed the petition urging the U.S. to publicly veto any United Nations action – your activism is making a difference.
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In the News:
Huffington Post: “Here we go again as the United Nation pursues its unique "verdict first--trial afterwards, treatment of the State of Israel."
read full SWC Blog
Jerusalem Post: The Simon Wiesenthal Center called on Goldstone on Wednesday to dissociate himself from the report based on his admission in an interview with the American Jewish paper The Forward that that it was not a full investigation and "if this was a court of law, nothing would be proven."
read full article
Ynet: World according to Goldstone: UN report could bury every democracy confronted by terror...
read SWC op-ed
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