CMEP Reconsiders the Goldstone Report

In its recent newsletter, Churches for Middle East Peace covered the controversy surrounding the Goldstone Report in a relatively straightforward manner.

Goldstone Retracts, Human Rights Watch Attacks

One might hope that Richard Goldstone's retraction of charges his report leveled against Israel would cause the report's advocates to reconsider their position. But Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth responds by launching more accusations at Israel.

CMEP Invoked Goldstone Then – Says Nothing Now

Churches for Middle East Peace invoked the Goldstone Report as the Gospel truth about Operation Cast Lead but has not taken notice of the recent admission from its chief author that he got it wrong.

Updated: The Goldstone Report and the New York Times

On Sunday, April 3, the Washington Post published a bombshell Op-Ed by Richard Goldstone in which he repudiated the central and most slanderous finding of the anti-Israel United Nations report that bears his name. But the New York Times — on both its opinion and news pages — seems to be trying to minimize the impact of his recanting.

David Remnick’s issues with Israel (and the facts)

David RemnickDavid Remnick has a problem with Israel and pines for the day that PM Netanyahu will "leave behind" his "right-wing" ideology. Remnick has no such problems with the Palestinians, or their various ideologies, most of which have no place for a Jewish state in their midst.

Israeli Ambassador Slams Gideon Levy

Rafi Shotz, Israel's ambassador to Spain, slams Ha'aretz's Gideon Levy for an Op-Ed in which he called most of Israel's diplomats "spineless propagandists void of values or a conscience."