http://alisonweir.org/journal/2013/9/25/my-articles-on-israeli-organ-trafficking.html
Rabbi okays HIV-positive organ donation
Tourist's organs save lives of 3 Israelis
Man convicted of organ trade jailed for 3 years
- 31 aug 2009
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Maria 1 sept 2009
Organ Theft Affair: Israelis Boycotting IKEA
Swedish photojournalist Donald Boström has really infuriated the Israelis and its supporters. On August 17, Sweden's most widely circulated newspaper, Aftonbaldet, carried an article by Boström entitled 'Our sons plundered for their organs.'
The usual suspects immediately cried 'anti-Semitism,' claiming that the old blood libel accusation has been brought to life again. The Israelis have even threatened to sue him. Such reactions were anticipated, however. Innumerable hate mails have found their way into Mr Boström's inbox since the publication, including death threats. More surprising is that Sweden's ambassador to Israel, Elisabet Borsiin Bonnier, issued a condemnation of the article. It was 'as shocking and appalling to us Swedes as to Israelis,' the ambassador claimed in a press release that was later withdrawn, having attracted criticism from the Swedish foreign ministry as well as from the government.
On top of that, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has demanded that the Swedish government renounce the article, something which would be unconstitutional in Sweden. A statement from Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman managed to tacitly draw the attention to you guessed it! the Holocaust: It is regrettable that the Swedish foreign ministry does not intervene when it comes to a blood libel against Jews, which reminds one of Sweden's conduct during World War II when it also did not intervene. (I would urge Lieberman, himself a hard-core racist, to read Lenni Brenner's excellent 51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis.)
Lieberman's Swedish counterpart Carl Bildt blatantly refuses to cave in: As a member of the Swedish government, acting on the Swedish constitution I have to respect freedom of speech, irrespective of the personal views that I might have. His boss, Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, also rejects commenting on the article. Bildt is expected in Israel in about a week's time, but Israelis are threatening to cancel his trip.
Despite all the fuss, this isn't the first time Donald Boström publicly vents suspicions about Israelis stealing organs from Palestinians. One chapter of the book Inshallah: konflikten mellan Israel och Palestina (Inshallah: the Conflict between Israel and Palestine), edited by Boström and first published in 2001, was an account of what happened to a 19-year-old Palestinian boy. It includes the photo now published in Aftonbladet. Donald Boström decided to shed new light on the affair following the mass arrest in New Jersey of people involved in illegal organ trade that included a shockingly high number of Rabbis.
This affair originates from a visit to the village of Imatin in 1992. Boström was witness to how 19-year-old Bilal was shot dead, his body abducted and five days later returned. The young man had been cut open stitches were running from his abdomen up to his chin. The account below is quoted from Boström's article:
I was in the area at the time, working on a book. On several occasions I was approached by UN staff concerned about the developments. The persons contacting me said that organ theft definitely occurred but that they were prevented from doing anything about it. On an assignment from a broadcasting network I then travelled around interviewing a great number of Palestinian families in the West Bank and Gaza meeting parents who told of how their sons had been deprived of organs before being killed. One example that I encountered on this eerie trip was the young stone-thrower Bilal Achmed Ghanan.
When Bilal was close enough they needed only to pull the triggers. The first shot hit him in the chest. According to villagers who witnessed the incident he was subsequently shot with one bullet in each leg. Two soldiers then ran down from the carpentry workshop and shot Bilal once in the stomach. Finally, they grabbed him by his feet and dragged him up the twenty stone steps of the workshop stair. Villagers say that people from both the UN and the Red Crescent were close by, heard the discharge and came to look for wounded people in need of care. Some arguing took place as to who should take care of the victim. Discussions ended with Israeli soldiers loading the badly wounded Bilal in a jeep and driving him to the outskirts of the village, where a military helicopter waited. The boy was flown to a destination unknown to his family. Five days later he came back, dead and wrapped in green hospital fabric.
A villager recognized Captain Yahya, the leader of the military column who had transported Bilal from the postmortem center Abu Kabir, outside of Tel Aviv, to the place for his final rest. Captain Yahya is the worst of them all, the villager whispered in my ear. After Yahya had unloaded the body and changed the green fabric for a light cotton one, some male relatives of the victim were chosen by the soldiers to do the job of digging and mixing cement.
Together with the sharp noises from the shovels we could hear laughter from the soldiers who, as they waited to go home, exchanged some jokes. As Bilal was put in the grave his chest was uncovered. Suddenly it became clear to the few people present just what kind of abuse the boy had been exposed to. Bilal was not by far the first young Palestinian to be buried with a slit from his abdomen up to his chin.
The families in the West Bank and in Gaza felt that they knew exactly what had happened: Our sons are used as involuntary organ donors, relatives of Khaled from Nablus told me, as did the mother of Raed from Jenin and the uncles of Machmod and Nafes from Gaza, who had all disappeared for a number of days only to return at night, dead and autopsied.
Boström took a picture of Bilal's lifeless body. He was buried without being cut open a second time. Hence, there is no certain evidence that Bilal's organs were stolen. So, are the Palestinians merely spreading baseless, anti-Semitic rumours? Circumstances suggest otherwise. In 1992, 133 Palestinians were killed by the Israeli army. Bilal was one of dozens of Palestinian victims to be cut open. The Israelis claim they are merely carrying out postmortem examinations in order to conclude how they died. But why, Boström asks, would autopsies be necessary when the cause of death is already known? After all, Bilal was shot dead by the Israelis just before they snatched his body. So why go through the trouble of a postmortem? The Israeli explanation doesn't add up. Boström is perfectly right in calling for an investigation. Illegal organ trade is a highly lucrative business. It is not unthinkable that people in the most moral army in the world, as the Israelis like to call their army, were involved at some level in this trafficking.
Donald Boström has spoken to about 20 of the Palestinian families who had a loved one that ended up in the same conditions as Bilal. They have their suspicions as to what happened. It is hardly surprising then that Boström is not the only one to have come across suspicions of organ theft. Dr. A. Clare Brandabur, teaching at the Department of American Culture and Literature at Fatih University in Istanbul, Turkey, has lived and travelled extensively in Palestine. Upon reading about the affair, Dr. Brandabur commented:
This information resonates with reports from Palestinians in Gaza which I heard during the first Intifada. When I interviewed Dr. Haidar Abdul Shafi, head of the Red Crescent in Gaza, I mentioned to him reports of shootings of Palestinian children at times when there were no clashes going on a solitary 6 year old entering his school-yard in the morning with his book-bag on his back. The soldiers abducted the wounded child at gunpoint, then his body would be returned a few days later having undergone an autopsy at Abu Kabir Hospital. I asked Dr. Shafi if he had considered the possibility that these killings were being done for organ transplant, since (as Israel Shahak notes in Jewish History, Jewish Religion, it is not allowed to take Jewish organs to save a Jewish life, but it is allowed to take the organs of non-Jews to save Jewish lives. Dr. Shafi said he had suspected such things but since they had no access to the records of Abu Kabi Hospital, there was no way to verify these suspicions.
And there's more. Palestinian journalist Kawther Salam, living in exile in Vienna, says she is volunteering to testify on Boström's behalf if the Israelis go through with their threats to sue. 'The issue of stealing the Palestinian organs is known to everybody in Palestine,' she writes. Having worked as a journalist under Israeli occupation for 22 years, she has seen a lot.
Salam continues: 'I personally was witness of the Israeli soldiers and military vehicles kidnapping the bodies of dead Palestinians from the emergency rooms of hospitals, in some other cases I saw the soldiers following the Palestinians to the cemetery, to steal the body from the family before the burial. This vile practice became so widespread that many people started carrying the bodies of the murdered to be buried at home, in the garden, under the house or under trees, instead of waiting for the ambulance to take them to the hospital. Palestinian sources now claim they have solid evidence of organ theft.'
Whether their claims are accurate remains to be seen. However, these suspicions are far from new; they have been voiced for decades. When Boström wrote about Bilal and the suspicions as to what had happened to him in his book eight years ago, it was met with silence. Further, he doesn't say there's a direct link between the murdered Palestinians and the wicked New Jersey Rabbis (there probably isn't one, given the time line). However, following the mass arrest, people were more open to the idea that Israelis might be stealing organs from Palestinians after all. Boström was hoping Bilal might get some justice even after all this time.
Ostensibly, Israel is using the article to get a message across: Sweden is an anti-Semitic country. They are set to pressure the Swedish government until it condemns the blood libel accusation. All of a sudden everyone is discussing good old anti-Semitism instead of Israel's state terrorism and its apartheid policies towards the Palestinian people.
An online petition is now circulating in Israel, calling for a boycott of IKEA. 10,000 Israelis have signed it so far. Needless to say, IKEA has nothing to do with this. But what can possibly be more Swedish then IKEA? In the short term, Israel might be able to divert attention from the more serious issues. In the long term, Israel is only making enemies. There was a time when the entire Western World supported Israel. Those days are long gone.
Kristoffer Larsson is a Swedish theology student occasionally commenting on political issues. He works with the Bethlehem-based International Middle East Media Center and is a Director of Deir Yassin Remembered. He contributed this article to PalestineChronicle.com. Contact him at: [email protected].
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13 oct 2009
Foreign workers' children likely to be deported after school year.
No final decision made yet, but cabinet vows to carry through with expulsion of any illegal migrants.
Some 1,200 children of foreign workers and their families will almost certainly be deported after finishing the school year, ministers indicated at Tuesday's cabinet meeting.
While no final decision has been made on the fate of the foreigners' children attending Israeli schools, the government is likely to deport them at the end of the school year.
The cabinet also authorized the Oz task force, which replaced the Immigration Police, to continue vigorously rounding up illegal workers.
"They bought time, not status," said Interior Minister Eli Yishai after the cabinet session. "I will not grant 1,200 families [residency] status."
Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz, Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman, Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar and Social Affairs Minister Yitzhak Herzog also attended the cabinet session.
The cabinet stressed that any child born in Israel by the end of the school year will be considered illegal and will not provide his parents with any protection. They may even be deported even before the end of the school year, the cabinet statement said.
The cabinet statement said it has "not made a decision yet, but will continue the debate and decide after considering all the aspects."
Karen Tal, principal of the Bialik-Rogozin School in South Tel Aviv, where many of the foreign workers' children study, said she hoped the government would "recognize the children's right to grow and develop in Israel."
"We're like doctors fighting for their patients' life ... as educators we want to enable the children to grow in the Israeli education system, where they began," she said.
The organizations helping the migrant workers were bitterly disappointed by the cabinet's decision not to reverse its deportation policy regarding the children.
"We are sorry that the ministers adhered to the decision to deport Israeli children who have committed no crime," a worker at the Moked hotline for foreign workers said.
"At the same time they permit bringing thousands of migrant workers who are also bound to lose their legal status, due to the government's policy. We will continue fighting this unreasonable, cruel decision," she said.
A demonstration held in Jerusalem by the Israeli Children organization called to stop deporting the foreign workers. Some 50 people, most of them children, took part in the protest.
"We came to ask them not to send us to the Philippines," said 8-year-old Amam Arpon, a student at the Bialik-Rogozin school. Born in Israel, she has never been to the country Israel wants to deport her to.
"They deported father seven years ago. I'm here with mother and here we want to stay. It's home," she says.
Arpon has become accustomed to going straight home from school in recent months.
"Mother told me I must come straight home from school. She goes to work and returns immediately because she was arrested once but when they saw she was a mother she was released and since then she's afraid," she said.
Among the adults at the demonstration was actor-model Noa Maiman, who joined the campaign about five months ago.
"Her mother takes care of my grandmother, a Holocaust survivor whose life was saved by a Polish woman in the Holocaust," Maiman said.
"My grandmother asked us to take care of them and their friends because they're in danger of deportation."
Pirita, 4, was born in Israel. Her father, who came to Israel illegally, was arrested in July, when the Oz task force began operating, and has not been seen since.
"We told her he was working far away," Maiman said. "But it seems that soon we will have no choice but to tell her the truth."
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Maria 21 dec 2009
PA to follow up on organ harvesting allegations
Ramallah – Ma’an – Israeli organ harvesting, settlements, climate change and Christmas topped the agenda of the Palestinian Authority (PA) cabinet meeting on Monday, in which ministers joined together in calling the Bethlehem Christmas tree a symbol of Palestinian unity and peace.
On the recent reports in the Israeli media allegedly confirming the theft of Palestinian organs in the 1990s, the PLO Central Council delegated Minister of Prisoners Affairs Issa Qaraqe to launch an investigation into the issue and follow up with the government. The appointment was followed by a unanimous condemnation of the reported acts, and a call on the international community to help protect the rights and dignity of Palestinian prisoners.
The cabinet sent thanks to the EU for their firm statements against the continued construction of Israeli settlements in the West Bank, and requested that the union take practical steps to see the construction halted. Ministers reiterated their position that the 10-month partial moratorium on settlement construction on only settlements in the West Bank not including East Jerusalem was a false promise and a tactical claim. They cited Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's statements earlier in the week saying settlers could begin building in full force after the 10-month period.
Prime Minister Salam Fayyad debriefed the ministers on his recent visit to Copenhagen where he spoke at the UN conference on climate change. He gave a summary of his speech, including notes on the effects of climate change in the Middle East, as well as the international responsibility to ensure Israel abides by its Road Map obligations so Palestinians can take control over their own environment. Fayyad explained the Israeli expropriation of Palestine's natural resources, the deprivation of water faced in the West Bank and the lack of materials for containing sewage in Gaza, leading to seepage into the Mediterranean.
Fayyad called for the creation of a fund for countries who face obstacles in protecting their natural resources and limiting their environmental impact, saying Palestine would be a prime candidate for projects.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=248621 6 jan 2012, 11:24 , Respect -
14 jan 2010
At the Dimona nuclear reactor, employees no longer drink uranium
Special committee of inquiry reprimands researchers who carried out medical experiments on employees.
Last August, Haaretz revealed that workers at the Dimona nuclear reactor had been required to participate in an experiment in which they drank a certain quantity of uranium mixed with juice. Following the publication of that report, Dr. Shaul Horev, the director general of the Atomic Energy Commission, which is in charge of the reactor, appointed a special committee of inquiry to look into the matter.
The committee submitted its findings a week ago to the AEC management. These findings include a recommendation that new and clear procedures stipulating when and how it is permissible to carry out medical experiments on workers be established.
The experiment involving the consumption of uranium was conducted in 1996, when Yitzhak Gurevich served as director of the reactor. The experiment was performed at the initiative of Dr. Zeev Karpas and Dr. Avi Lorber, who ran the facility's analytical chemistry laboratory. After drinking the liquid, workers were required to give urine samples which were then sent for testing at the lab. The aim of the experiment was to examine how uranium is excreted through the urinary tract.
About two years later, the two researchers published their results in the scientific journal Health Physics. However, the experiment was performed without authorization from the management of the reactor or the AEC, in gross violation of the Helsinki Committee rules - which stipulate when and how it is possible to carry out experiments on human subjects. The experiment was also performed without authorization from the Health Ministry. Moreover, the authors of the article revealed the names of the participants in the experiment without having asked their permission, thereby violating their privacy.
The affair was exposed in the wake of a lawsuit filed by a former employee at the reactor, Julius Malick, who claimed he was forced to resign after he exposed safety flaws. Malick said he participated in the experiment because he was afraid his professional advancement would be hurt if he refused. He worked at the reactor for 13 years and is continuing his legal battle to receive appropriate compensation.
The appointed investigative committee was headed by industrialist Zvi Kamil, chairman of the Committee for Nuclear Safety appointed by the prime minister, which acts in tandem with the AEC. In addition to Kamil, the panel was comprised of five other members, all of whom also serve on the nuclear safety committee, and who have asked that their names not be revealed: two senior doctors, two engineers who both have a background in managing industrial plants, and the committee coordinator.
The panel heard testimony from those who had been involved in or connected to the experiment, as well as from top administrative personnel at both the reactor and the AEC, among them doctors and persons responsible for safety.
Over the course of their investigation, the committee discovered that the experiment involving the drinking of uranium was not the only trial conducted at the reactor without the proper authorizations. The report details cases which on the surface appear less grave than the uranium-drinking experiment, in which invasive examinations were performed and samples taken from workers' fingernails and hair to determine whether they contained traces of radioactive or other dangerous substances.
With respect to the uranium experiment, the committee states it is "convinced it entailed no immediate or potential risk to the health of the workers who participated in the research. It was also found that no authority or duress was exerted on the workers with the aim of influencing them to participate in the research."
Two workers who were asked to participate in the experiment refused and their advancement was not affected. The committee was also persuaded that the research had "considerable scientific value and importance for understanding issues related to assessment of risks to the workers' health, and it was aimed at improving the knowledge concerning the curve for the excretion of uranium from the human body." This, after a new device which enabled precise measurement of such data had already been brought into the reactor.
The initiators also participated
The committee emphasizes that the two initiators of the research themselves participated in the study and drank the uranium beverage. "They were not aware of the regulation requiring Helsinki Committee authorizations," the panel writes, "and had they applied for Helsinki Committee authorization it his highly likely they would have received it."
Taking all these circumstances into consideration, the special committee decided only to reprimand verbally the two researchers who initiated the study for deviating from the procedures. Both men are still working at the reactor. Udi Adam, the current director of the reactor, and Horev, the director general of the AEC, have decided not to note the reprimand in their personal files.
In summation, the committee recommends that AEC headquarters formulate "procedures defining the process of authorization for research on human subjects and implement them within a prescribed period." It also recommends "publishing instructions for researchers and involving the suitable medical personnel in the procedures of initiation, authorization and supervision," and that "on every irrelevant issue there will also be authorization from the institutional medical doctor."
AEC spokeswoman Yael Doron issued the following response: "The director general of the AEC has adopted the recommendations of the external special investigation team and has instructed that the recommendations be implemented and the required procedures be assimilated, in light of administrative flaws the team found in the matter of approving the study."
According to Doron, new procedures have already been written. Moreover, the necessity of preventing the recurrence of such an incident was stressed last month at a conference for the directors and chief safety personnel of the Dimona and Soreq centers.
Malick said in response that he is disappointed with the weak findings of the committee and had hoped that the AEC and the management of the nuclear reactor would take responsibility for the malpractice.
6 jan 2012, 11:24 , Respect -
Maria 21 jan 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGLPZdhoh14
Mr. T. West, President of AfriSynergy Productions and respected leader of the Black Solidarity Movement, has sent urgent warnings to the people of Haiti to protect themselves from the Israeli Defense Forces doctors who have set up a makeshift tent hospital on a soccer field in Port-au-Prince.
Mr. West provided evidence that the IDF have been doing the same to Palestinian youths they capture and kill for the purpose of extracting their kidneys, livers, corneas and other valuable transplantable organs and tissues. Mr. West has now become the victim of vicious attacks by nefarious Zionists aiming to silence him. 6 jan 2012, 11:25 , Respect -
Maria 22 febr 2010
jew caught selling american organs for Hundred and Sixty Thousand Dollars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZuBhOybsZQ
6 dec 2010
SCANDAL - Did Israelis kill Palestinians for organs?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yClfBqrYztI
Israel has admitted to unlawfully taking organs from dead people, including Palestinians, in the 1990s without the prior permission of the families of the donors.
SCANDAL - Did Israelis kill Palestinians for organs?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yClfBqrYztI
Israel has admitted to unlawfully taking organs from dead people, including Palestinians, in the 1990s without the prior permission of the families of the donors.