The Senate unanimously approved a resolution calling on the United Nations to rescind the Goldstone report.
Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and James Risch (R-Idaho) initiated the resolution after Richard Goldstone, a South African judge, wrote an op-ed column retracting a key conclusion of the U.N. report he helped author on the 2009 Gaza war — that Israel had targeted civilians as a policy.
The resolution, passed April 14, “calls on the United Nations Human Rights Council members to reflect the author’s repudiation of the Goldstone report’s central findings, rescind the report, and reconsider further Council actions with respect to the report’s findings.”
Similar legislation is now circulating in the House of Representatives. Unlike the non-binding Senate resolution, those bills would tie U.N. funding to rescinsion of the Goldstone report. — jta