HRW “Military Analyst” Garlasco’s Nazi Souvenir Fetish...

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HRW “Military Analyst” Garlasco’s Nazi Souvenir Fetish Reinforces Lack of Credibility

(Jerusalem) – As documented in NGO Monitor’s detailed report on HRW, Marc Garlasco, HRW’s “senior military expert” in the “Emergencies Division”, has written numerous reports condemning Israel which combine unreliable Palestinian claims and pseudo-technical analyses. In addition to his HRW work, Garlasco is an active writer on The Guardian website and other blogs. Garlasco’s professional credentials appear to be greatly overstated, and his work contributes to the overall bias and lack of credibility in HRW’s reports on Israel.

Now, Garlasco has also been exposed as an avid collector of Nazi memorabilia and fetishist. Omri Ceren (Mere Rhetoric) writes that he is “obsessed with the color and pageantry of Nazism, has published a detailed 430 page book on Nazi war paraphernalia, and participates in forums for Nazi souvenir collectors.” This activity was not limited to earlier periods in his life but continues in parallel to his work for HRW, much of which focuses on Israel.

This background, when combined with his central role in the condemnations of Israel under false banners of “human rights” violations and “war crimes”, shows that Garlasco is entirely inappropriate as a human rights reporter. His HRW publications and activities include:

http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article/hrw_military_analyst_garlasco_s_nazi_souvenir_fetish_reinforces_lack_of_credibility

He posts at germancombatawards.com as flak88. Yeah, really.