<\/a><\/p>\nRichard Goldstone, die het onderzoek heeft geleid naar de schendingen van de mensenrechten en internationaal recht tijdens de oorlog tegen Gaza, schendingen zowel door Isra\u00ebl als door Hamas, is door Isra\u00ebl-getrouwe joden voor verrader en vijand van Isra\u00ebl uitgemaakt. Het werd hem zelfs onmogelijk gemaakt in Zuid-Afrika, om de bar mitzvah van zijn kleinzoon in de synagoge bij te wonen. Er zijn ook rabbijnen die er anders over denken, de aanhangers van een judaisme dat rechtvaardigheid, waarheid en vrede voorstaat. De brief:
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Dear Judge Goldstone,<\/p>\n
As rabbis from diverse traditions and locations, we want to extend our warmest mazel tov to you as an elder in our community upon the bar mitzvah of your grandson. Bar and Bat Mitzvah is a call to conscience, a call to be responsible for the welfare of others, a call to fulfill the covenant of peace and justice articulated in our tradition.<\/p>\n
As rabbis, we note the religious implications of the report you authored. We are reminded of Shimon Ben Gamliel’s quote, “The world stands on three things: justice, truth, and peace as it says \u2018Execute the judgment of truth, and justice and peace will be established in your gates\u2019 (Zekharya 8:16).” We affirm the truth of the report that bears your name.<\/p>\n
We are deeply saddened by the controversy that has grown up around the issuing of the report. We affirm your findings and believe you set up an impeccable standard that provides strong evidence that Israel engaged in war crimes during the assault on Gaza that reveal a pattern of continuous and systematic assault against Palestinian people and land that has very little to do with Israel’s claim of security. Your report made clear the intentional targeting of civilian infrastructures such as hospitals, schools, agricultural properties, water and sewage treatment centers and civilians themselves with deadly weapons that are illegal when used in civilian
\ncenters.<\/p>\nThis is the ugly truth that is so hard for many Jewish people to face. Anyone who spends a day in Palestinian territories sees this truth immediately.<\/p>\n
Judge Goldstone, we want to offer you our deepest thanks for upholding the principles of justice, compassion and truth that are the heart of Jewish religion and without which our claims to Jewishness are empty of meaning. We regret that your findings have led to controversy and caused you not to feel welcome at your own grandson’s Bar Mitzvah. We believe your report is a clarion call to Israel and the Jewish people to awaken from the slumber of denial and return to the path of peace.<\/p>\n
Rabbi Everett Gendler
\nRabbi Lynn Gottlieb
\nRabbi Brant Rosen
\nRabbi Brian Walt
\nRabbi Haim Beliak
\nRabbi Michael Lerner
\nRabbi Arthur Waskow
\nRabbi Michael Feinberg
\nRabbi Shai Gluskin
\nRabbi David Shneyer
\nRabbi David Mivassair
\nRabbi Laurie Zimmerman
\nRabbi Douglas Krantz
\nRabbi Margaret Holub
\nRabbi Rebecca Alpert
\nRabbi Mordecai Liebling
\nRabbi Phyllis Berman
\nRabbi Zev-Hayyim Feyer
\nRabbi Eyal Levinson
\nRabbi Doron Isaacs<\/p>\nMore names added:<\/p>\n
Rabbi Gershon Steinberg-Caudill
\nRabbi Erin Hirsh
\nRabbi Michael Rothbaum
\nRabbi Benjamin Barnett
\nRabbi Julie Greenberg
\nRabbi Linda Holtzman
\nRabbi Ayelet S.Cohen
\nRabbi Jeffrey Marker
\nRabbi Nina H.Mandel
\nRabbi Victor Reinstein\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\nBron: hier<\/a><\/p>\n
Met dank aan Jaap Hamburger
\nCartoon, van Zapiro uit Zuid-Afrika opgestuurd door Doroty Naor<\/p>\nUpdate: nadat rabbijn Lerner van Tikkun de familie Goldstone had uitgenodigd om de bar mitzvah van zijn kleinzoon in een synagoge in de States te vieren, blijken de rabbijnen in Zuit Afrika, geschrokken van alle commotie, toch toe te staan dat Goldstone daar de bar mitzvah van zijn kleinzoon bijwoont. Ha’aretz vanochtend, hier<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(met update) Richard Goldstone, die het onderzoek heeft geleid naar de schendingen van de mensenrechten en internationaal recht tijdens de oorlog tegen Gaza, schendingen zowel door Isra\u00ebl als door Hamas, is door Isra\u00ebl-getrouwe joden voor verrader en vijand van Isra\u00ebl … Lees verder