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Last update - 12:12 15/09/2009
Rights group official suspended for collecting Nazi memorabilia
By The Associated Press
Tags: Nazis, Israel News 

A human rights group's senior military analyst has been suspended after a pro-Israel blog reported that he collects Nazi memorabilia, an official said Tuesday.

Marc Garlasco is being suspended by Human Rights Watch "pending an investigation," said Carroll Bogert, associate director of the New York-based organization. The suspension was first reported Monday by The New York Times on its Web site.

"We do know he collects German and American World War II memorabilia, but we have questions as to whether we've learned everything we need to know," Bogert said.
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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 no evidence that Garlasco's hobby affected his analysis, and he "has never expressed any anti-Semitic or neo-Nazi statements," Bogert said.

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.

In an essay posted Friday on the political Web site The Huffington Post, a liberal political Web site and blog, Garlasco described himself as a "military geek" whose hobby stemmed from his family history. He noted that his German grandfather was conscripted into the Nazi army.

"I've never hidden my hobby, because there's nothing shameful in it, however weird it might seem to those who aren't fascinated by military history," he wrote. "Precisely because it's so obvious that the Nazis were evil, I never realized that other people, including friends and colleagues, might wonder why I care about these things.
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  1.   The right step, but same thing should apply here as to.... 12:21  |  Swiss (Dino) 15/09/09
  2.   wha about the" human rights" watch lady 12:28  |  grenspyn 15/09/09
  3.   joe stork the "human rights" watch man 12:31  |  moscowitz 15/09/09
  4.   so what? 12:39  |  g.lee 15/09/09
  5.   Human Wrong People Watch 12:45  |  Michael J 15/09/09
  6.   #2 I subscribe 100 % tp you argumentation 14:11  |  Jacob 15/09/09
  7.   Yad Veshem has a lot of Nazi memorabilia 14:12  |  Michael 15/09/09
  8.   Israel is so pathetic 14:14  |  Marilyn 15/09/09
  9.   What else is HRW hiding? 14:18  |  Stan 15/09/09
  10.   Who is behind the group? 14:21  |  Paul 15/09/09
  11.   MICHAEL.Yad Vashem collects to illustrate what happened 14:50  |  PETER SM 15/09/09
  12.   So What? This is pure pointless lobbying 14:58  |  Ari 15/09/09
  13.   Why do right-wing Israelis/Diasporas hate "human-rights"..... 15:06  |  Swiss (Dino) 15/09/09
  14.   Ad Hominem Witch Hunt 15:30  |  Eyal 15/09/09
  15.   "Human Rights Watch" was found receiving money from Saudi Arabia, 16:01  |  Eitan 15/09/09
  16.   what?? 16:04  |  dave 15/09/09
  17.   The more HRW is investigated, the more it is found to be an 16:41  |  Bernard 15/09/09
  18.   Human Rights groups and Israel 16:50  |  Ben Azzai 15/09/09
  19.   Eyal, the Israeli government already went after the research 18:07  |  Jacob Blues 15/09/09
  20.   Political Correctness Goose-Steps On 18:24  |  Mark Lincoln 15/09/09
  21.   Swiss (Dino) - Israelis like and respect Human rights 19:02  |  David Israel 15/09/09
  22.   The Government rebuttal was troublesome 04:04  |  Eyal 16/09/09
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