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Sunday, March 10, 2024

Disgraced former HRW staffer fired for his Nazi memorabilia obsession now works for US Department of Defense

Remember Marc Garlasco, the former Human Rights Watch "senior military analyst" who was suspended and forced to resign when his hobby of avidly collecting Nazi memorabilia and bragging about how "cool" they are was exposed by a group of bloggers, myself included?He has bounced from job to job. In December, PBS interviewed him as saying that Israeli non-guided bombs were inaccurate,...

NPR rehabilitates disgraced HRW researcher (and Nazi memorabilia fan) Marc Garlasco

Remember Marc Garlasco?Back in 2009, I discovered that Garlasco, a Human Rights Watch researcher who wrote that organization's typically one-sided anti-Israel reports, was an avid collector of Nazi memorabilia. He was forced to resign after it was discovered that he had written things like "The leather SS jacket makes my blood go cold it is so COOL!"Now, NPR is rehabilitating...

HRW followup

The Times (UK) article on HRW that I quoted from last week had a number of inaccuracies and other parts that HRW took exception to:A Magazine article, “Explosive Territory” (March 28) by Jonathan Foreman, mostly about Human Rights Watch’s (HRW) work on Israel, requires clarification and correction. The magazine said that HRW had not published any report on the post-election abuses in Iran when in fact the organisation published one in February...

Sunday Times slams Human Rights Watch

The Times (UK) has a beautiful article that nicely exposes the problems at Human Rights Watch, starting with the Garlasco affair that I helped expose, but showing that Garlasco was just a symptom of a much deeper problem.Excerpts: When the story broke that one of the organisation’s most prominent and vocal members of staff might be a collector of Nazi-era military memorabilia it felt like some sort of sexual scandal had erupted in the Victorian...

We get results!

From JPost:A Human Rights Watch spokeswoman told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday night that its embattled senior military analyst Marc Garlasco resigned nearly three weeks ago....HRW suspended Garlasco with pay in September, “pending an investigation,” after allegations surfaced that he was an avid collector of Nazi memorabilia....As for the “pending investigation,” Daly repeated that Garlasco had resigned and said, “We are not commenting on it any...

I'm part of the anti-NGO conspiracy!

The Guardian reports on HRW's whining about being criticized by people like me:America's leading human rights organisation has accused Israel and its supporters of an "organised campaign" of false allegations and misinformation, including "extremely personal attacks" on its staff, in an attempt to discredit the group over its reports of war crimes in Gaza. Iain Levine, HRW's programme director, said that while the organisation had long attracted...

HRW's Garlasco suspended

From the NYT:A leading human rights group has suspended its senior military analyst following revelations that he is an avid collector of Nazi memorabilia.The group, Human Rights Watch, had initially thrown its full support behind the analyst, Marc Garlasco, when the news of his hobby came out last week. On Monday night, the group shifted course and suspended him with pay, “pending an investigation,” said Carroll Bogert, the group’s associate director.“We...