..."Why do I call Goldberg a traitor?" Dershowitz asks rhetorically. "Because he knew he was being asked to serve [on the UN Human Rights Council Fact-Finding Mission to Gaza] only because he was Jewish. He knew he was being asked to give a hechsher to an absolutely treif report. He knew that the UN Human Rights Council was an illegitimate organization. He was asked to lend it legitimacy. Exactly what he was asked to do by the apartheid government. He was asked to use his robe to give judicial cover to an illegitimate racist regime and he did it twice. He did it during the apartheid regime, and he did it to give legitimacy to the UN Human Rights Council. If he as a Jew had not had his name on that report, no one would have taken it seriously."

As for Goldstone's work as a judge under apartheid, Dershowitz says: "His defense of 'I was just following orders' is much like the defense used by German judges, and Goldstone authorized the torture of blacks in what's euphemistically called flogging but is torture under international law.... If the statute of limitations were still viable, he could be prosecuted as a criminal for authorizing the torture of blacks in South Africa. He couldn't defend himself by saying 'I was just following a law.' You cannot follow a law that authorized torture. Particularly torture that had nothing to do with national security. It was punitive."

Dershowitz doesn't buy the argument in Goldstone's defense that as apartheid came to an end he was appointed, with the concurrence of Nelson Mandela, to head a commission of inquiry into the excesses of the South African security forces.

"He's an opportunist," counters Dershowitz. "He goes where the wind blows.... I think there was an agreement by both sides, much like Northern Ireland, to bury the past. I'm not part of that agreement. I don't have to bury the past. Remember too that in Germany after [John] McCloy pardoned all the Nazi war criminals, there was an agreement also. Many of them served as judges, many of them served with distinction, but memory has its claims."