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- Richard Joseph Goldstone (born 26 October 1938) is a South African retired judge who served in the Constitutional Court of South Africa from July 1994 to October 2003.
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Apr 5, 2011 · A hero of the anti-apartheid left for his judicial dismantling of South Africa's racist laws, he also worked as chief prosecutor at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the...
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Despite its flaws, the Goldstone report has changed Israel's...
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Judge Richard Goldstone, a South African Jewish jurist, agreed to head the mission despite his own misgivings about the style of the mandate. Goldstone's judgments in South Africa helped to undermine apartheid and he later worked for the international criminal tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. The mission also included Christine Chink...
Israel refused to engage with the mission and denied it any understanding of Israel's motives in attacking the GazaStrip. Israel also barred Goldstone and his colleagues from entering Gaza from Israel, forcing them to travel via Egypt. The embargo on Goldstone was endorsed by Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, and Ehud Barak, the defen...
The mission published its 574-page report in September 2009. The report called for both parties, Hamas and Israel, to investigate their own actions and accused both of deliberately targeting civilians. Goldstone was vilified by pro-Israel groups as a "self-hating Jew" and his report was likened to a blood libel, a false charge against Jews with roo...
The report appeared to have been shelved until Goldstone published an article in the Washington Post on 1 April in which he questioned the findings of the mission he headed. He wrote: "If I had known then what I know now the Goldstone report would have been a very different document." He wrote that the report's initial finding that Israel intention...
Judge Goldstone, a Jewish South African, was denounced by Israelis and their supporters as “evil” and a “quisling” after he listed the evidence of Israel’s brutality against the Palestinians of...
Richard Joseph Goldstone (born 26 October 1938) is a South African retired judge who served in the Constitutional Court of South Africa from July 1994 to October 2003. He joined the bench as a judge of the Supreme Court of South Africa, first in the Transvaal Provincial Division from 1980 to 1989 and then in the Appellate Division from 1990 to ...
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Global. The Mysteries of Richard Goldstone. A closer look at the South African Jewish judge who accused Israel of intentionally murdering civilians in Gaza and then retracted the...
Apr 19, 2011 · JERUSALEM — Two decades ago, Richard Goldstone, a Jewish South African judge, played a vital role in reconciling his country’s white minority government and rising black majority movement by...
Oct 20, 2009 · The UN Human Rights Council has endorsed Judge Richard Goldstone's controversial report accusing both Israel and Hamas of war crimes during the 2008-09 conflict in the Gaza Strip. The report has ...
