On April 1st 2011 South African Justice Richard Goldstone retracted his United Nations sponsored “Goldstone Report,” in a Washington Post op-ed.
The report had accused Israel of committing War Crimes in the First Gaza War of 2008-09.
In Goldstone’s official biography, the retraction was credited to Rabbi Shmully Hecht who befriended him during his visit to Yale in the Fall of 2010.
In 2014, Wiliam Schabas was appointed the head of a UN Committee investigating the role of Israel in the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict. The appointment was criticized by Canada's Foreign Minister, John Baird, and the Geneva-based advocacy NGO UN Watch, on the basis of allegations that Schabas was anti-Israel, a charge he denied.
On Oct 30th 2014 Shabtai hosted professor Schabas to for a discussion at Shabtai/Yale.
In February 2015 Schabas resigned from his UN post after it was discovered that he provided legal advice to the Palestine Liberation Organization in 2012.