B'Tselem announced the inauguration of its first public council, comprised of 34 leading Israeli academic, cultural and social figures who chose, at this especially important juncture to highlight their support for human rights.

B'Tselem USA accounces the formation of an Advisory Board, comprised of leaders of the American Jewish community, policy think tanks, academia and foundations.

On 4 April, B'Tselem testified before the Turkel Commission, calling for appointment of an independent and effective apparatus to investigate suspected breaches of the laws of war by Israeli security forces, that will operate in circumstances not suited to Military Police investigations.

B'Tselem has written (April 28) to the OC Central Command and to the Judge Advocate General, demanding that they immediately halt the use of attack dogs against Palestinian workers who enter into Israel without permits. In the last month alone, at least three Palestinians were bitten as a result of the practice. The policy is fundamentally unacceptable, and cannot be justified.

"B'Tselem plays a crucial role, a brave and honorable role of calling Israel to live up to the words in its own Declaration of Independence, to be a state that will pursue freedom, justice and peace."

Peter Beinart, a member of the B'Tselem USA Advisory Board, is a former editor of The New Republic and the Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation.

5 April, Washington Post- Executive Director Jessica Montell discusses Goldstone's op-ed and B'Tselem's consistant stance on the report. 

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6 April, Foreign Policy- B'Tselem USA Director Uri Zaki represents the voice of the Israeli human rights community within the US in this analysis of Goldstone's retraction.

Uri Zaki will join the Human Rights Panel at the Churches for Middle East Peace's 2011 Advocacy Conference.

Monday, 23 May 2011, 10am - 12:30 pm, Hilton Washington Embassy Row, Washington, D.C.

Joseph Dana, +972, "American PR Man for Israel Goes After B'Tselem," 2 May 2011.

Edgar Bronfman, HAARETZ, "Supporting Israel Means Questioning Its Policies," 18 April 2011.

Leslie Susser, JTA, "Pushed By Goldstone, Israeli Army Embraces New 'Smart' Warfare," 11 April 2011.