{"id":14395,"date":"2009-09-15T09:43:06","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T14:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=14395"},"modified":"2009-09-15T09:50:02","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T14:50:02","slug":"human-rights-watch-fires-nazi-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14395","title":{"rendered":"Human Rights Watch fires Nazi fan"},"content":{"rendered":"

I read about the incident last week on Weasel Zippers<\/a> in which Human Rights Watch senior military analyst Marc Garlasco was dragged out of the closet as a Nazi memorabilia collector. At the time, Human Rights Watch said that it was no big deal<\/a>; <\/p>\n

This accusation is demonstrably false and fits into a campaign to deflect attention from Human Rights Watch\u2019s rigorous and detailed reporting on violations of international human rights and humanitarian law by the Israeli government.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, this morning, the New York Times<\/a> and the BBC<\/a> reports that he’s been fired.<\/p>\n

On Monday night, the group shifted course and suspended him with pay, \u201cpending an investigation,\u201d said Carroll Bogert, the group\u2019s associate director.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have questions about whether we have learned everything we need to know,\u201d she said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Remember how the US media went out of their way to tell us that folks who used “88” in their screen names were Neo-Nazis during the Southern Poverty Law Center’s accusation that the military and militias were racist hate groups? Well, guess what was Marc Garlasco’s screen name was on memorabilia sites; \u201cFlak88\u201d.<\/p>\n

So I just knew that the Southern Poverty Law Center and Mark Potok would be all over this – but I was disappointed<\/a>. They’re still busy chasing “nativists” – whatever that means today.<\/p>\n

Of course, the New York Times blames the Israelis;<\/p>\n

The administration of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also weighed in, but its views on groups like Human Rights Watch were already clear. Mr. Netanyahu\u2019s policy director, Ron Dermer, told The Jerusalem Post in July, \u201cWe are going to dedicate time and manpower to combating these groups; we are not going to be sitting ducks in a pond for the human rights groups to shoot at us with impunity.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Other groups say they have felt more heat from the Israeli government and its allies. \u201cRecently we have seen a new attitude, a stepping up,\u201d said Sari Michaeli, press officer for the group B\u2019Tselem, which recently came under harsh criticism from the Israeli military for a report that concluded that civilians made up more than half of the Palestinian casualties in the Gaza offensive. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, the Israelis convinced him to use the Nazi-lover “88” in his screen name. <\/p>\n

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Thanks to TSO and Blue Cyclone for the tip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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