As Gaza war subsides, a battle over how it is investigated


  • World
  • Monday, 18 Aug 2014

Palestinians watch through a large Hamas poster at a rally in support of the armed Palestinian factions, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip August 17, 2014. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Even before starting work as chairman of a U.N. human rights commission investigating the Gaza war, Canadian law professor William Schabas has been vilified as an apologist for Iran incapable of setting aside his perceived anti-Israel bias.

Full page adverts have been taken out against him in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, while the Facebook page of Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, a leader of the anti-Schabas campaign, has attracted more than 30,000 "likes".

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