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The New Republic's Jonathan Chait called South Africa's apartheid "The Real Kind" and that Yedioth Ahronoth added "some texture to the portrait of Goldstone as a man....disinclined to make a brave, lonely stand against the prevailing currents."
Commentary's Jennifer Rubin implied Goldstone is a racist in assailing Tikkun and J Street's support. She then addressed "the endemic problem of the UN - they always get their man - i.e., Israel - because the 'investigators' are selected for the express purpose of dummying up evidence to defame and delegitimize the Jewish state. It's no accident Goldstone reached the conclusions he did, and it's no accident that the UN selected him."
The Anti-Defamation League called the "Goldstone Report (a) Grave Danger to Israel," saying it "undermines Israel's right to self-defense (in) calling on (him) to repudiate his report" in an open letter.
It accused him of "plac(ing) Israel and the Jewish people in significant danger (and) has become the major focal point for action by every anti-Israeli force in the world."
The Jewish Daily Forward's Nathan Guttman worried about the Report's damning findings and its "recommendation to refer the issue to the International Criminal Court if Israel refused to launch an independent investigation of its own." He expects "Jewish groups and pro-Israel activists (to) fight (the Report) in the public arena to ensure that its findings are not adopted as world public opinion," hoping for "a quick burial" of its revelations.
The pro-Israeli NGO Monitor accused Goldstone-supportive human rights NGOs of "fail(ing) to meet....fundamental ethical standards" for their bias, lack of objectivity and proper sources, and drawing predetermined conclusions. It accused Commission members for their lack of "competence, experience and expertise."
The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) praised the Obama administration's "principled criticism of Goldstone('s) fact-finding mission." Weeks earlier, ZOA "condemn(ed) Goldstone's despicable anti-Israeli UN report, based on unsubstantiated testimony & perversion of legal norms."
Its president, Morton Klein, said: "The ZOA condemns this atrocious, new installment in the international effort to delegitimize Israel, using perverted and spurious norms of international law in order to invalidate Israel's elementary, fundamental right and obligation to defend its territory and its citizens. It is nothing less than an anti-Semitic, Israel-bashing, immoral piece of trash."
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