Marc Garlasco is one of the most extreme critics of Israel. Now the Human Right Watch (HRW) military expert has been suspended because of his collection of Nazi-memorabilia.
It was a pro-Israel blog that exposed Marc Garlasco evil dead of darkness. After publishing a report that Garlasco was a collector of Nazi-souvenirs, Associate director Carroll Bogert of the New York-based organization had to suspend him.
«We do know he collects German and American World War II memorabilia, but we have questions as to whether we have learned everything we need to know», Bogert said.
Human Rights Watch has no evidence that Garlasco’s hobby affected his analysis. «He has never expressed any anti-Semitic or neo-Nazi statements», Bogert explained.
Garlasco’s collection was revealed last week on Mere Rhetoric, a pro-Israel blog. A blog posting said his hobby reflected an anti-Israel bias and showed he was «obsessed with the color and pageantry of Nazism».
Human Rights Watch has released reports suggesting that Israel committed war crimes during its three-week military offensive against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip last winter. Garlasco, a weapons expert for the group, has contributed to some of these reports. Israel has accused Human Rights Watch of paying a disproportionate amount of attention to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, while playing down rights violations in Arab countries.
Source: Jerusalem Post
My comment:
It is not strange that people who are obsessed with Nazi-items will flock to an organization that is the most heavy critics of Israel. Its not many weeks ago that Human Right Watch was tainted by one of the directors traveling to Saudi Arabia to collect funds.
Neo-Nazis are the biggest collector of Nazi-memorabilia.To get this kind of stuff Marc Garlasco most likely had to build links to sub-cultures of Neo-Nazis. If that can be proven, it will bring an end to any credibility to HRW reports on Israel and the conflict in the Middle East.


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