Washington Post Jerusalem bureau chief detained for ‘incitement’
Jewish Journal
February 16, 2016
Washington Post Jerusalem bureau chief William Booth was detained by Israeli Border Police in Jerusalem.
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Washington Post says Iran’s conviction of its reporter is ‘contemptible’
Jewish Journal
October 13, 2015
The Washington Post on Monday denounced the conviction in Iran of the newspaper\’s U.S.-born Tehran correspondent in an espionage case as an \”outrageous injustice\” and urged Iranian leaders to overturn it.
Hackers use new tactic to attack U.S. media sites
Jewish Journal
August 15, 2013
Hackers promoting the Syrian Electronic Army simultaneously targeted websites belonging to CNN, Time and the Washington Post on Thursday by breaching Outbrain, a firm which publishes content recommendations on those sites.
Washington Post calls on Obama to ‘reset’ relations with Netanyahu
Jewish Journal
January 22, 2013
President Obama should \”reset\” his relationship with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Washington Post wrote in an editorial.
Goldstone committee members stand by report
Jewish Journal
April 14, 2011
Three members of the United Nations fact-finding mission on the Gaza war say they stand by the report. Calls to retract the Goldstone report disregard the rights of the victims, the international law experts said in a statement published Thursday in the British newspaper the Guardian. \”Aspersions cast on the findings of the report cannot be left unchallenged,\” the statement said.
UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon will not retract the Goldstone Report
Jewish Journal
April 8, 2011
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told President Shimon Peres in a meeting in New York on Friday that the UN would not be retracting the Goldstone Report, despite its author\’s renouncement of some of the report\’s claims.
Rice: Goldstone report should simply ‘disappear’
Jewish Journal
April 7, 2011
Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, says the Goldstone report is probably beyond fixing and should simply disappear. Rice, speaking to a hearing Thursday of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, was reacting to congressional calls on Richard Goldstone to amend the 2009 report on the Gaza War that was based on an investigation of a panel convened by the U.N. Human Rights Council.
Goldstone says he will not retract report
Jewish Journal
April 6, 2011
South African Judge Richard Goldstone said he will not seek to quash his report to the United Nations on Israel\’s conduct during the Gaza war, despite his retraction of a key finding. Goldstone told the Associated Press that reports that he told Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai that he would seek to quash the report prepared at the behest of the U.N. Human Rights Council are false. The report presented to the council in September 2009 accused Israel of war crimes and possible crimes against humanity.
Now that Goldstone has changed his mind, what’s next?
Jewish Journal
April 5, 2011
What happens now with the Goldstone Report may well be up to Goldstone. Richard Goldstone’s April 2 Op-Ed in the Washington Post disavowing his earlier assumption that Israel had committed war crimes and possibly crimes against humanity during the 2009 Gaza war has left pro-Israel activists wondering: What next?
Goldstone would have to request that U.N. dump report
Jewish Journal
April 4, 2011
Richard Goldstone would have to ask the United Nations on behalf of his committee to rescind its report on Israel\’s actions during the 2009 Gaza war to set such an action in motion, a U.N. spokesman said. The U.N. Human Rights Council, which commissioned the report, has not received such a request, The Associated Press reported Monday.
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