By Edna Oberman , , Seattle
So the South African Zionist Federation has arranged to prevent Judge Richard Goldstone from attending his grandson’s Bar Mitzvah next month. Thus continues the vilification and rejection of Goldstone since the Goldstone Report on Israel’s 2008-9 campaign in Gaza. A blogger wants to “spit in his face and kick him in the ass.” What more is left — assassination? When a segment of Jewry creates a safe haven for hatemongers, they are taking the proverbial serpents to their breasts, without being able to predict what might come next. Goldstone did not “betray the Jewish people,” as some have said. Rather, the hatemongers do. Those who would keep him from his grandson’s Bar Mitzvah reject a whole array of Jewish values. I agree with retired South African justice Arthur Chaskalson that “they should hang their heads in shame.”