Naftali Balanson maintains that NGOs claiming to promote human rights should be campaigning to eliminate the threat in the South, instead of preventing Israel from exercising the most basic human right the right to life.

Topics

• 2009 Goldstone Report
• Distortions of International Law
• Fact finding missions
• Hamas
• Lack of Evidence

• Soft Power
• Terrorism
• United Nations
• War crimes

Prof. Steinberg recaps his remarks from the July 2 book launch of Best Practices, and highlights the contributions of keynote speaker Prof. Franoise Hampson, and panelists Amb. Robbie Sabel and Sigall Horowitz.

Topics

• Fact finding missions
• Lund-London Guidelines
• pseudo-investigation
• unverifiable claims

Naftali Balanson explains that if Israeli NGOs support the latest UN "fact finding" mission on Israel, as they did the Goldstone Report, they "will further alienate themselves from Israeli society and will cement their negative reputations."

Topics

• Fact finding missions
• Israeli NGOs
• UN fact finding committee
• UN Human Rights Council (HRC)