Victory: Thanks to UN Watch, German law professor Christian Tomuschat, the anti-Israel and anti-American official heading the U.N. committee to enforce the Goldstone Report, has resigned. The biased U.N. probe is now headless, and is in disarray.
This unprecedented resignation follows a global campaign by UN Watch that exposed Professor Tomuschat's egregious bias and breach of his obligation under international law to be objective and impartial:
• UN Watch's team of researchers tracked down and translated Professor Tomuschat's German academic writings. We published a 30-page report revealing for the first time how he had frequently compared Israeli actions with the "barbarism" and "inferno" of World War II. This was reported worldwide, including in the Washington Times.
• When Tomuschat delivered his report to the U.N. Human Rights Council in September -- calling for the investigation of former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni for alleged "war crimes" in Gaza -- UN Watch was the only group to take the floor and directly challenge Tomuschat for his bias. We demanded he come clean about his legal work for Yasser Arafat and biased statements about Israeli "state terrorism." Our challenge in the plenary stirred angry reactions from an embarassed Tomuschat as well as the council president himself.
• When Tomuschat then appeared at a U.N. press conference, journalists followed up on UN Watch's campaign and challenged Tomuschat to defend himself.
Finally, thousands of UN Watch supporters worldwide have been taking action on our website every day to demand from the U.N. that Tomuschat resign. In the end, he gave in. Claiming suddenly that he did not have "enough time," Tomuschat resigned.
It's one more UN Watch victory for the genuine principles of human rights, international law, and Middle East peace and security.
