Israel is Using Palestinians as Livestock
For decades, Israel has used Palestinians as a source of fresh organs for transplant patients and wounded IDF soldiers.
Israel has long been known as a world leader in the area of organ transplants. Tel Aviv famously maintains the world’s largest skin bank.
While many have insinuated that Israel’s apparently high requirements for skin transplants is due to the fact that Ashkenazi Jews are not, after all, native to the sun-drenched Middle East, the truth is that the idea of establishing the “Israeli Skin Bank” emerged after the 1973 war to treat soldiers who were burned during battles. The Israel National Skin Bank (INSB) was founded jointly by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Medical Corps and the Ministry of Health in 1986.
Today, the expertise and resources that Israel displays in organ transplantation is much more than “skin deep”. After all, soldiers injured in battle are in need of much more than just skin.
Israel dominates the global organ trade
Israel’s massive activity in organ trafficking stared with its inherently arge domestic demand for organs. According to the American Journal of Transplantation:
“Beginning in the early 1990s, Israel became a major country of origin of transplant tourists. Facing a severe organ shortage at home, Israeli patients underwent commercial transplantations in various countries worldwide, from Turkey to China to the Philippines.”
No wonder, then, that the head of the Israeli Forensic Institute, which includes the Forensic Medicine and Anatomy Unit, also admitted to harvesting organs from the bodies of Palestinians in the 1990s without obtaining permission from their families.
Palestinians a target for harvesting
Nancy Scheper-Hughes, a professor of anthropology at the University of California-Berkeley who has dedicated her life to tracking down the global organ trade, told The Irish Times that while Palestinians were “by a long shot” not the only ones affected by Israel’s practice in the 1990s:
“…the symbolism, you know, of taking skin of the population considered to be the enemy, (is) something, just in terms of its symbolic weight, that has to be reconsidered.”
The result, according to a 2018 exposé by Israel’s Haaretz, was that the Israeli organ trade grew to be the largest in the world by the 2000’s. The network of organ trafficking extended to multiple countries, primary of which was — of course — the United States.
A worldwide network
Indeed, Scheper-Hughes told a CNN Special Investigations Unit in September 2009 that when it came to the international organ trade, “Israel is at the top. It has tentacles reaching out worldwide.” In fact, the Israelis took advantage of another conflict zone to harvest organs from a desperate population: The Balkans.
Israeli national Moshe Harel set up a huge illegal organ operation in Kosovo, for which he was arrested in 2018. Harel had been arrested severall times before for organ-related crimes.
Boris Wolfmann, another Ukrainian-Israeli organ “crime boss”, was hunted by Interpol for years on a “Red Notice” until he was finally brought to justice in 2015 and charged with “international organ trafficking and causing intentional death.”
Prior to that, Wolfmann, along with Avigad Sandler and Yaacov Dayan, were identified in a New York Times exposé as the “the central operators in Israel’s irrepressible underground kidney market.”
In the US, the undisputed kingpin of the illegal Israeli organ trade was Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, from Brooklyn, USA, who was arrested by the FBI in 2009 for operating what one journalist called “a vast, Sopranos-like, imbroglio of money-laundering and illegal organ-trade”.
Unfortunately, as so often happens with Israeli organ traffickers, Rosenbaum was released from prison after serving only 2.5 years. Although he was an Israel citizen, he was not deported, but was allowed to stay in the US.
There are dozens of stories of Israelis being arrested for illegal organ trafficking. In 2012, The Time of Israel reported the arrest of ten (10) Israeli nationals arrested at the request “representatives of several foreign countries contacted Israeli authorities, requesting legal assistance due to suspicions that Israeli citizens were trading in kidneys in their countries.”
Why Israelis are so big in organ trafficking
Apparently, there are cultural reasons for why Israelis are so fond of stealing other people’s organs.
When ten (10) Rabbis in the US were arrested for illegal organ trafficking, Slate Magazine published an article explaining how it could happen:
“Jews don’t like to donate organs,” says Rabbi Michael J. Broyde, one of the founding members of the Beth Din of America, the equivalent of the Supreme Court of the Jewish justice system. “They don’t donate at the rate of other social groups.”
“This imbalance — of taking more from organ banks than they are putting in — has put Jews around the world at odds with transplant technology”.
Indeed, the aversion to donating organs seems to be religious in nature, according to Slate:
“There are a whole host of reasons why Israelis — and Jews in general — don’t wish to part with their anatomy even after they die. For some, it’s simply taboo, yet another guilt-laden stigma in an already guilt-laden religion. Others believe it is a biblical commandment to be buried whole without any missing organs.”
According to the Slate article, Israel has “suffered for years” with an organ shortage, forcing its residents to engage in “transplant tourism”.
Revenge for the Holocaust
UCAL’s Nancy Scheper-Hughes, in a 2008 lecture sponsored by New York’s PBS 13 Forum, explained that Israeli organ traffickers also had a chilling reason for doing what they do: “Revenge, restitution — reparation for the Holocaust”:
She described speaking with Israeli brokers who told her “it’s kind of ‘an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth’. We’re going to get every single kidney and liver and heart that we can. The world owes it to us.’”
Scheper-Hughes says that she “even heard doctors saying that.”
At some point, the Israelis discovered that they had the perfect solution to their “chronic shortage” of organs. They had a whole population of people under their complete control — a population which could provide organs as needed.
In short, there was one population that they could also make pay for the Holocaust with their kidneys and corneas: the Palestinians.
Israel steals Palestinian land — and organs
Israeli theft of Palestinian organs has been going on for decades. Relatives report that their loved ones are returned to them with incisions, and organs missing.
The Israeli practice of removing organs without permission has been well documented, and Israel has admitted to the practice of “organ harvesting”. What is less well known is that it is still happening to Palestinians even — and especially — today, and it is happening on a large scale.
“Our sons are plundered of their organs”
The major controversy around illegal Israeli organ harvesting started with an article published in 2009 in Sweden’s Aftonbladet, entitled, “Our sons are plundered of their organs”. The article, written by journalist Donald Boström, exposed how Palestinians were being used as unwilling organ donors, and the Israeli army was “seizing young men and having them serve as the country’s organ reserve”.
The allegations were not new. During the Second Intifada in 2002, it was reported that three Palestinian boys aged 14–15 had been killed by Israeli forces on Dec. 30, their bodies finally being returned for burial on Jan. 6.
According to the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs:
“…shortly before burial, Palestinian medical authorities examined the bodies and found out that the main vital organs were missing from the bodies.”
In an interview on Al Jazeera, President Yasser Arafat held up photos of the boys, saying, “They murder our kids and use their organs as spare parts.”
Autopsies and morgues provide cover
For the past 20 years, Israel has made a practice of performing “autopsies” on Palestinians they kill. This is, they claim, to establish identity through DNA evidence.
Since October 7, Israel has claimed the dead in Gaza, shipping them off to Tel Aviv for processing, ostensibly to determine whether the bodies were those of Israeli hostages.
It’s a great racket. The bodies of dead Palestinians are carted away, then later they are unceremoniously dumped back in Gaza, often with large incisions and missing organs.
The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs continues:
“Sometimes their bodies are never returned to their grieving families — Palestinian NGOs say there are at least 250 such cases.
“In other cases the bodies have been returned to the families days later, with crudely stitched naval-to-chin incisions. On many occasions Israeli soldiers have delivered the bodies late at night and required the bereaved families to bury their children, husbands, and brothers immediately, under Israeli military guard, sometimes with the electricity shut off.”
In fact, Israel often digs up buried Palestinians and takes them back to Israel for organ harvesting. According to Euro-Med Monitor, a Geneva-based rights group, Israel is pilfering corpses from hospitals:
“Euro-Med Monitor has documented the Israeli army’s confiscation of dozens of dead bodies from Al-Shifa Medical Complex and the Indonesian Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, and others from the vicinity of the so-called “safe corridor” (Salah al-Din Road) designated for displaced people heading to the central and southern parts of the [Gaza] Strip.”
The report continues:
“According to Euro-Med Monitor, the Israeli army also dug up and confiscated the bodies from a mass grave that was established more than 10 days ago in one of the Al-Shifa Medical Complex’s courtyards.”
While the organs from corpses may not be suitable for transplant, the bodies might be used for medical research or other purposes. In any case, it is a desecration that shows complete disregard and disrespect for the dead.
According to Middle East Monitor:
“There have been reports in recent years of the unlawful use of Palestinian corpses held by Israel, including the theft of organs and their use in Israeli university medical schools. Israeli doctor Meira Weiss disclosed in her book Over Their Dead Bodies that organs taken from dead Palestinians were utilised in medical research at Israeli universities’ medical faculties and were transplanted into Jewish-Israeli patients.”
A nightmare — with no end in sight
What the Israelis are perpetrating in Palestine is truly inhuman on a scale that could only be imagined in horror movies or science fiction. Just as the War Boys in the Mad Max films used innocent hostages as “Blood Bags” to keep themselves alive; just as the Morlocks preyed upon the less powerful Eloi in H.G. Wells’ Time Machine, the Israelis are using the Palestinians as a subhuman underclass, nothing more than livestock who are there to provide organs in order to keep Israelis alive.
The purpose of the entire exercise — aside from profit — is to make the Palestinians sacrifice their bodies in order to save their tormentors and murderers, who see themselves as intrinsically superior and of greater worth.
Demand is increasing
The theft of Palestinians and their organs is no doubt set to rise, as the IDF continue to sustain heavy losses on the battlefields of Gaza and Lebanon. The trend, however, is simply a reinforcement of what has been happening for decades.
Indeed, the harvesting of organs from those they consider to be “lesser” is nothing new for Zionists. UCLA’s Scheper-Hughes discussed Israeli organ trafficking in detail in 2001 in published testimony to the Subcommittee on International Relations and Human Rights of the House Foreign Affairs Committee:
“The sale of human organs and tissues requires that certain disadvantaged individuals, populations, and even nations have been reduced to the role of ’suppliers’.
“It is a scenario in which only certain bodies are broken, dismembered, fragmented, transported, processed, and sold in the interests of a more socially advantaged population…of ‘receivers’.”
Alas, Scheper-Hughes’ framing of the relationship perfectly describes the situation in Israel-Palestine. And as the genocide grinds on, the morgues in Tel Aviv and the many Israeli-run transplant clinics across the globe will no doubt find themselves wit plenty of fresh stocks of organs for sale and use.
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Reading this horrific account of the Isreali organ "market", I was reminded of a substack I read a while ago by The Midwestern Doctor called "Do Organs have a Mind of Their Own?" The article detailed many accounts of people with transplants taking on feelings and personality traits of their donors. It makes me wonder if the severe trauma inflicted on their victims will come alive in the recipients - haunting them, perhaps causing them to hate their own people and become sympathetic to the people they oppress, maim, torture and kill. https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/do-organs-have-a-mind-of-their-own?utm_source=publication-search
Great article thank you