The Goldstone Report

by Horowitz, Adam; Ratner, Lizzy; Weiss, Philip; Tutu, Archbishop Desmond; Klein, Naomi

• ISBN13: 9781568586410
• ISBN10: 1568586418
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-01-11
• Publisher: PublicAffairs

Summary

The Goldstone Reportis one of the most controversial UN reports ever published. It alleges that both Israel and Hamas committed atrocities during Israel's 2009 incursion into Gaza, with Israel aiming to "punish, humiliate and terrorise a civilian population." This characterization incited an uproar in Israel and abroad. Unfortunately, the controversy surrounding the findings supplanted any real understanding of their implications. Edited by three progressive American Jews, The Goldstone Reportcontains analysis; commentary by Desmond Tutu, Naomi Klein, and Rashid Khalidi, among others; and a context for debate.

Author Biography

Adam Horowitz lives in New York City, where he is co-editor of Mondoweiss. Horowitz is the former Director of the Israel/Palestine Program for the American Friends Service Committee. He holds a master's degree in Near Eastern Studies from New York University.

A journalist also based in New York, Lizzy Ratner has written for the New York Times and the Nation. She was previously a reporter for the New York Observer.

Philip Weiss is an investigative journalist who has written for the New York Observer, the Nation, the American Conservative, National Review, Washington Monthly, New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Harper's, and Jewish World Review. He also wrote the 2004 book American Taboo: A Murder In The Peace Corps. He is the founder of a popular news website, Mondoweiss, devoted to covering American foreign policy in the Middle East, chiefly from a progressive Jewish perspective.

Table of Contents

Foreword: A Call to the Community of Conscience	p. vii
Introduction: The End of Israeli Exceptionalism	p. xi
Editors' Note	p. xix
Maps	p. xxiii
Timeline	p. xxv
Report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (Abridged)	p. 1
The Legacy of the Goldstone Report	p. 327
The Right to Live in Dignity	p. 329
International Law and the Goldstone Report	p. 337
The Goldstone Illusion	p. 346
The Attacks on the Goldstone Report	p. 360
The U.S. Congress and the Goldstone Report	p. 369
Palestinian Dispossession and the U.S. Public Sphere	p. 375
Discrediting Goldstone, Delegitimizing Israel	p. 387
Gaza, Goldstone, and the Movement for Israeli Accountability	p. 391
Israel's Siege Mentality	p. 401
The Unholy Assault on Richard Goldstone	p. 409
Messages from Gaza	p. 417
Contributor Bios	p. 423
Index	p. 427
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