In SA’s Jewish community there is no one to explain to us that we can no longer use past victimhood to justify Israel’s actions, writes Kevin Bloom.
Judge Goldstone’s partial recantation of a UN-sponsored report on Israel’s invasion of Gaza has divided the local Jewry amid claims he was "bullied".
The UN has roundly rebuffed remarks by the South African judge Richard Goldstone that cast doubt on the report into the Gaza war.
The boycott doesn’t target academics, it targets institutions that support the Israeli military
Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein declined this week to meet Justice Richard Goldstone to discuss the report on the 2008 Israeli invasion of Gaza.
Judge Richard Goldstone would attend his grandson’s bar mitzvah in Johannesburg next month, the SA Jewish Board of Deputies said on Friday evening.
