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Thu 02 Feb 2010Israeli group accuses Irish Gaza investigator of anti-Semitism
A RIGHT-WING Israeli think tank has launched a scathing attack on retired Irish army colonel Desmond Travers, a member of the UN team that investigated the war in Gaza, accusing him of bias, possibly motivated by anti-Semitic prejudice.
The Jerusalem Centre for Public Affairs (JCPA), headed by Israel’s former ambassador to the United Nations, Dore Gold, termed Col Travers “an individual who is not qualified to take part in any serious fact-finding mission” and urged the UN not to seek his services in the future.
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