New York Times: Israel "Nexus" Of Global Organ Trafficking
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I have written about this before, and, now finally, the American media has caught up. But first the background:
What is with this country and its people and their trafficking of human organs? I guess if you’re raised in the Zionist ethos which teaches that God has blessed the Jewish to just take whatever they want it isn’t much of a stretch: see that land, who cares if it belongs to that Palestinian shepherd? Go ahead take it and ‘thou taking be blessed by thy God’. Or something like that. Those olive trees look nice. Just push aside the Arabs and take it. Man, that Syrian hilltop sure is a sweat lookout point. Off the Golan Heights Syrians this bitch has been annexed by the Zionists! Homes belonging to Arab families? Let’s just move interloper Zionists in there. More land more takings!
Archeological history belonging to the Palestinians? Bah! Go ahead steal it and then put an “Israeli” label on it! Books belonging to Palestinian families, we’ll just stack them in the Israeli library and never allow their owners to see them again.
Natural resources? I have an Israeli cosmetics firm which could use some of the Palestinian soil!
And billions belonging to Palestinian workers: I’ll take that!
If Zionists are raised to steal the land, crops, homes, incomes, resources and actual history and heritage of a people solely because they covet it and can justify it to themselves, why not just start stealing the actual people?
First a recap of Israel’s organ trafficking history and how this is long-standing:
In August Sweden’s largest daily newspaper published an article containing grisly evidence suggesting that Israel had been taking Palestinian internal organs. The article, by veteran photojournalist Donald Bostrom, called for an international investigation to discover the facts.1
Israel immediately accused Bostrom and the newspaper of “anti-Semitism,” and charged that suggesting Israelis could be involved in the illicit removal of body parts constituted a modern “blood libel” (medieval stories of Jews killing people for their blood).2
Numerous Israeli partisans repeated these accusations, including Commentary’s Jonathan Tobin, who asserted that the story was “merely the tip of the iceberg in terms of European funded and promoted anti-Israel hate.”3 Others suggested that the newspaper was “irresponsible” for running such an article.4
The fact is, however, that Israeli organ harvesting – sometimes with Israeli governmental funding and the participation of high Israeli officials, prominent Israeli physicians, and Israeli ministries – has been documented for many years. Among the victims have been Palestinians.
Nancy Scheper-Hughes is Chancellor’s Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of California Berkeley, the founder of Organ Watch, and the author of scholarly books and articles on organ trafficking. She is the pundit mainstream media call upon when they need expert commentary on the topic.5
While Scheper-Hughes emphasizes that traffickers and procurers come from numerous nations and ethnicities, including Americans and Arabs, she is unflinchingly honest in speaking about the Israeli connection:
“Israel is at the top,” she states. “It has tentacles reaching out worldwide.”6
In a lecture last year sponsored by New York’s PBS 13 Forum, Scheper-Hughes explained that Israeli organ traffickers, “had and still have a pyramid system at work that’s awesome...they have brokers everywhere, bank accounts everywhere; they’ve got recruiters, they’ve got translators, they’ve got travel agents who set up the visas.”7
Lest this sound simply like a successful international concern, it’s important to understand the nature of such a business.
As Scheper-Hughes describes it, organ trafficking consists of “paying the poor and the hungry to slowly dismantle their bodies.”
Organ sales have been illegal in most countries for years. The United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, which covers prevention, enforcement and sanctions in trafficking of humans, includes in its definition of human exploitation the extraction of organs for profit.8 Israel finally passed legislation against organ trafficking in 2008.9, 10
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A what to the world? This nation is beyond contempt. A truly vile state of too many people with no respect for anyone but their own tribe, and often not even that! So this is the norm for Israel. And let’s not forget the organ trafficking to Israel involving rabbis in New Jersey, and one of the rabbis was head of the Sephardi (in this case, Syrian Jews) Jewish community in Jersey. I wrote that story then and a Zionist (maybe also Israeli) commentator actually defended the practice as a good since it helps Israel (again, not seeing beyond the benefit to his own people and not considering the crimes against other people in the process). This post and comment are still up. Fortunately that organ ring was shut down and prosecuted by the F.B.I. But the Israeli government still allows for many organ traffickers to exist within its borders with impunity.
And now the New York Times reports:
[paragraph 3] While the ring was first discovered two years ago, the global scale of the network and its victims is only now becoming clear.
[paragraph 14] Western law enforcement officials said they suspected the ring might be part of a larger criminal network whose nexus was in Israel. In September, five doctors from South Africa were charged with participating in an international kidney-trading syndicate in which dozens of poor Brazilians and Romanians were paid for kidneys for wealthy Israelis.
Another reason to shun Israel. A disgrace unto the nations.
H/T Mondoweiss.
