HRW founder Robert Bernstein said to The Jerusalem Post in April 2011 that in relation to the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, which issued the Goldstone Report, Roth "seeks to minimize the importance of Judge Goldstone's stunning retraction of his war crime accusations against Israel." Bernstein said of Roth, "it is time for him to follow Judge Goldstone's example and issue his own mea culpa." On 14 April 2011, the U.N report's three other co-authors released a joint statement criticizing Goldstone's partial recantation.
