Jack Lopresti is MP for Filton and Bradley Stoke.
Last Friday, Judge Richard Goldstone dramatically retracted the central findings of this now infamous UN report into the conduct of the Israel Defense Forces during Operation Cast Lead in Gaza in December 2008.
Goldstone’s Washington Post op-ed didn’t beat around the bush: “If I had known then what I know now, the Goldstone Report would have been a different document”. The senior South African jurist modestly confirmed that Israel had “dedicated significant resources” to investigations, 400 in fact, into accusations made against its forces, before withdrawing the report’s infamous conclusion that Israel had intentionally targeted citizens in Gaza.