A "Bracha" for Goldstone

John Podhoretz "blesses" Judge Richard Goldstone, a man chosen by UN Zion-loathers to pen his notorious package of lies about Israel precisely because he is one of the "Chosen" (his South African provenance adding to his appeal for the "Israeli Apartheid" Big Smear set):

Now, in the wake of Goldstone’s partial recantation, some on the left are reduced to arguing that Goldstone caved in to Jewish social pressure. Thus, M.J. Rosenberg, who works for Media Matters for America and who had himself described his subject as “the distinguished South African jurist, Richard Goldstone, himself Jewish” back in 2009: “Goldstone couldn’t handle the anger of friends. . . . So Goldstone decided to appease his crowd. . . . As for losing friends, so what? Doing the right thing is often (maybe even usually) unpopular. Do you think the abolitionists didn’t lose friends and offend reactionary clergy? How about the European Christians who fought anti-Semitism in the 1930s?”

Rosenberg’s argument is so repugnant that it almost makes one want to defend Goldstone. Almost. But not quite. Because the damage Goldstone did by fronting this report is inseparable from the fact of his Jewishness. If he had been deserving of special praise for having supposedly transcended the parochial interests of his people and speaking out, then one can also say he is deserving of special criticism for having allowed his Jewishness to be used as a weapon against the Jewish state.

In the Book of Proverbs, we read: “The memory of the righteous shall be for a blessing; but the name of the wicked shall rot.”

So should it be for Richard Goldstone. Let his name rot.

And let us say, "Amen!"