What’s Going On At HRW?
September 9, 2009 8:59 by BackSpin EditorMere Rhetoric generated a lot of buzz with his revelation that Human Rights Watch researcher Marc Garlasco is an avid collector of Nazi memorabilia, having written a 400 page book on the subject, and more.
I'm not going to criticize Garlasco personally — Nazi collectibles aren't illegal. But I can't help but be struck by the incongruity: Garlasco works for a human rights organization with a history of skewed criticisms of Israel. It recently came to light that Garlasco's colleague at HRW, Joe Stork, is a radical Marxist who has his own axe to grind with the Jewish state. What kind of organization is this?
The bad publicity forced HRW to respond with a letter you can see at Elder of Ziyon. The organization wants to preserve its halo effect at all costs.
Dan
12:54 pm
Sep 09, 2009
Note that Garlasco used the Alias Flak88, according to Wikipedia:
Eighty-eight is used as code among Neo-Nazis to identify each other.[2] H is the 8th letter of the alphabet, so 88 is taken to stand for HH which in turn means Heil Hitler.[3] For example, the number is used in the song “88 rock’n'roll band” by the neo-Nazi group Landser. The late convicted Order terrorist David Lane wrote “Fourteen Words” and 88 Precepts, and the numbers are often found in combination (1488, 14/88, etc.). This form of the number has inspired the naming of the groups Column 88, Unit 88, and White Legion 88.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/88_(number)
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Amit
12:50 am
Sep 10, 2009
I guess in a job interviews for HRW they ask only one question: “do you hate Isael?”
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