In Boston's Jewish Advocate, Charles Jacobs criticizes Israel for not bringing to light sooner Richard Goldstone's record as a 'hanging judge' in South Africa (full article available here).
I was talking about Goldstone's history as a judge in South Africa on this blog because of Israel Matzav
Surely the Israelis must have known this last fall when he issued his holier-than-thou condemnation of the Gaza incursion. Yet the Jews pulled their punches, as they always seem to do. And that's why we're always getting decked in the public arena.
We can spend hours debating about the "context" - whether Goldstone had been a willing tool of the apartheid regime or, as his apologists explain, he actually tried to be a monkey wrench. Doesn't matter. What counts is that he sentenced to death 29 blacks in a court system that was anything but color blind. What counts is that he didn't put the Israeli actions "in context."
The denied correlative is that bloggers were pointing fingers at Goldstone's past, but focused on his message because Israel's enemies are always from dubious histories. How could any publication possibly keep up with all the misdeeds of Palestinian sympathizers? Should every mention of Abbas be a reminder that he is a Holocaust denier and then just ignore him and anyone who associates with him? I sure think so, but in the court of global opinion people will give the Holocaust denier Abbas a soapbox, so it becomes necessary to pretend that the hypocrisy is not there when it becomes glaring. The U.N. in a nutshell is a joke.
I was talking about Goldstone's history as a judge in South Africa on this blog because of Israel Matzav
