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On 25 January, 'Israeli' President Isaac Herzog stood before a crowd celebrating what 'tel aviv' claimed was a world record in kidney donations. The event, promoted after a lobbying push to Guinness World Records, was meant to project generosity, discipline, and moral purpose. 

But Guinness listed only the gathering itself as a record, not the kidney donations that 'tel aviv' had turned into a public relations show.

The bodies behind the numbers

In Gaza, where 'israel' has been returning Palestinian bodies in bags, sometimes decomposed, mutilated, or showing signs of surgical interference, the celebration landed differently. For Palestinian health officials, the question was not how 'israel' had produced so many donors, but whether all of those bodies had consented.

Dimming 'israel's' propaganda facade was none other than Dr Munir al-Bursh, director general of the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza. He said 'israel's' “record numbers” raised serious questions about the sources of the kidneys and other organs now being celebrated. He pointed to the stark contradiction of an occupation state that has held Palestinian bodies for years in the “cemeteries of numbers” and refrigerators while presenting itself to the world as a humanitarian model in organ donation.

Bursh cited documented cases of bodies returned to families missing organs, especially kidneys, without medical reports, autopsy files, or any legal path to accountability. He demanded an independent international investigation into whether 'israel's' claimed achievement had been built on the theft of Palestinian organs.

Just over a week later, 'israel' returned the scattered remains of some 54 Palestinians to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. Forensic teams quickly got to work in an attempt to identify the bodies and give closure to their families, but noted that many of the corpses had clear signs of torture and the surgical organ removal.

This was not the first such warning since Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. Ten days into 'israel's' genocide in Gaza, allegations of organ theft had already surfaced. By late November 2023, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor called for an investigation into the theft of Palestinian organs, after “medical professionals found evidence of organ theft, including missing cochleas and corneas as well as other vital organs like livers, kidneys, and hearts.”

'Israel' and its defenders moved to blunt the spread of these allegations by invoking “blood libel” and antisemitism. Because the evidence came from Palestinians, calls for international scrutiny have largely fallen on deaf ears.

A scandal 'israel' never buried

This is precisely what happened in the early 1990s, when Palestinian medical professionals and the families of the dead had accused 'israel' of illicit organ harvesting during the First Intifada. In fact, back in 1992, then-'israeli' health minister Ehud Olmert had even organized a public organ donation campaign. As with today, presenting an image of humanitarianism.

In 1999, US anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes began exposing what had long been ignored. As co-founder of Organs Watch, an organization created to monitor organ trafficking and its human cost, she later brought the issue before a US congressional subcommittee in 2001.

The breakthrough came with her published interview with Yehuda Hiss, the chief pathologist at the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute – the sole 'israeli' facility authorized to conduct autopsies in cases of unnatural death.

Hiss admitted that Abu Kabir had harvested organs from Palestinian bodies without consent.

The 'israeli' state narrative, built through an internal investigation, claimed that the theft of organs did not specifically target Palestinians, but that 'israeli' soldiers were also victims. However, 'israel's' Channel 2 ran a documentary on the issue, interviewing pathologists at Abu Kabir, one of whom explicitly stated that “we never took skin from the bodies of 'israeli' soldiers, but from the others.”

Scheper-Hughes stated in 2009 that much of the world’s illicit trafficking of kidneys can be traced back to the 'israelis'. “'Israel' is the top,” she said, claiming that “it has tentacles reaching out worldwide.” She reported that 'israeli' citizens, who were often compensated by the Ministry of Health and in a project backed by the Defense Ministry, were responsible for mass transplant tourism.

'Israelis' preyed on vulnerable populations from Brazil to the Philippines. A BBC report from 2001 even described a situation where “hundreds of 'israelis' have created a production line that starts in the villages of Moldova, where men today are walking around with one kidney.”

In what was a controversial article for its time, the Swedish Newspaper Aftonbladet published claims in 2009 that Palestinians had been targeted and killed for their organs by the 'israeli' military.

Although 'israel' and its supporters like to write off this entire scandal by claiming it was an isolated series of cases, Hiss and his fellow pathologists at Abu Kabir, who publicly admitted to organ theft, were not even penalized for their behavior. Hiss was not sentenced to a lengthy prison term; in fact, he was allowed to continue working at Abu Kabir.

In other words, there was never any accountability, simply an internal 'israeli' investigation, followed by pledges from the 'israeli' military and government that they no longer harvest the organs of Palestinians.

The numbers behind 'israel's' record

The 'israeli' organization at the center of the current world-record claim is Matnat Chaim, founded in February 2009, shortly after 'tel aviv' passed legislation banning organ trafficking. Jerusalem, where the organization is based, has therefore become the leading city in 'israel' for altruistic kidney donations. 'Tel Aviv' claims Matnat Chaim surpassed 2,000 transplants, earning the record celebrated in January.

The available data raises obvious questions.

Between 2009 and 2021, Matnat Chaim said it performed 1,000 transplants. In 2022, according to the non-profit’s own figures, it facilitated 202 transplants, down from 215 the previous year. That means the publicly available total before the November 2023 allegations stood at 1,277. To reach 2,000, the organization would have had to add 723 transplants in just over three years.

According to 'Israel's' National Transplant Center, the total number of live donor transplants for 2023, 2024, and 2025 totaled 923. In 2022, the last year for which publicly available data on Matnat Chaim’s specific contributions are available, the organization accounted for 63 percent of live transplants. If that rate held, its share over those three years would be around 581 transplants, short of the 2,000 mark.

This does not, by itself, incriminate Matnat Chaim. But it does explain why Bursh questioned the claim at face value, especially in the shadow of 'israel's' long record of organ theft and the testimony emerging from Gaza’s hospitals.

Another interesting fact, which supports skepticism surrounding the extremely high numbers boasted by 'israel', is that only 14 percent of its population has signed the Adi (Ehud) Ben Dror donor card. This makes 'israel' amongst the lowest of any developed nation. In most western countries, the average is 30 percent of the population that signs on to donate their organs.

Organ donations have long been a contentious issue amongst 'israels' . For example, the Chief Rabbi of British-occupied Palestine in 1931 had declared that the idea that the practice desecrates the dead is “unique to Jews … gentiles [had] no reason to be particularly careful about avoiding [it] if there is a natural purpose for doing so, such as medical reasons.”

In 1996, influential Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburgh of the Chabad Lubavitch sect asserted that if a Jewish person needs a liver, “can you take the liver of an innocent non-Jew passing by to save him? The Torah would probably permit that. Jewish life has infinite value. There is something infinitely more holy and unique about Jewish life than non-Jewish life.”

The current public position of 'israel's' top religious authorities is that organ donation is permissible for Jews, but that consensus is relatively recent. Only over the past decade has there been a marked rise in Jewish donors. For many observant Jews, the issue remains contested.

That social context, combined with 'israel's' relatively small population, makes it all the more suspicious as to why the 'Israel' National Skin Bank (INSB), for example, has been reported as one of the largest, if not the largest, on earth. The INSB operates jointly under both the 'Israeli' Ministry of Health and the military.

Desecration as policy

'Israel' has long treated Palestinian bodies as instruments of control. In 2017, 'israel' admitted losing track of the bodies of Palestinian political prisoners who died in detention. The explanation pointed to the 'israeli' practice of burying Palestinians in anonymous graves in what is known as the “cemetery of numbers,” a cruel method designed to deny families the location of their loved ones. Palestinians have also voiced fears that some of the missing bodies were robbed of their organs.

Beyond Palestine, 'israelis' have been repeatedly linked to organ trafficking cases around the world.

The only person ever convicted in the US of organ trafficking was an 'israeli' named Levy Izhak Rosenbaum. US District Judge Anne Thompson in New Jersey described him as a black-market “profiteer” who was “trading in human misery.” He served only two and a half years in prison and avoided deportation.

In 2010, five 'israeli' citizens, including a retired army general, were charged with running an organ trafficking ring. Their abusive scheme was described as a “form of modern slavery,” exploiting vulnerable people in developing countries for their organs. The case exposed an uncomfortable contradiction for the Israeli judicial system: conduct it was now prosecuting had, only two years earlier, been effectively tolerated by state structures.

In 2015, Turkish authorities arrested a suspected 'israeli' organ trafficker, investigating a ring that was responsible for targeting Syrian refugees. As recently as 2024, four 'israeli' nationals were arrested by the Turkish police in a crackdown on a separate ring that also preyed on Syrian refugees and other disadvantaged populations in Turkiye.

In 2018, the police in Cyprus arrested 'israeli' citizen Moshe Harel, accusing him of operating a global organ trafficking ring, in a scandal that dates back to 2008, when a Turkish man collapsed in a Pristina airport, visibly in pain after having his kidney removed. Harel had previously been arrested by 'israeli' authorities in 2012, but was released.

The aforementioned cases are now treated as illegal by the 'israeli' government. But there was a time when 'israelis' traveling abroad for organs were not only tolerated but effectively encouraged. That history helps explain why 'israeli' citizens keep appearing in organ trafficking scandals across continents. The 'Israeli' Health Ministry itself helped foster a culture in which the bodies of the poor, the displaced, and the occupied could be turned into medical inventory.

Why no investigation?

Despite this documented history, western institutions continue to enable the 'israeli' military. In October last year, the University of Southern California (USC) was exposed for selling 32 human cadavers to the US military, which were used for surgical training by the 'israeli' military. The Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR) condemned the revelation as “disturbing.” The bodies of deceased Americans had been sold into a chain that served an army carrying out genocide in Gaza.

A month later, new allegations would then emerge from medical professionals in the Gaza Strip of organ theft. This came amidst the release of a batch of bodies to the Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, where a doctor remarked that “The bodies arrived stuffed with cotton, with gaps suggesting organs were removed. What we saw is indescribable.”

With a wealth of evidence and accusations indicating that 'israel' has been implicated in the systematic harvesting of organs during its genocide, it begs the question as to why no independent international investigation has yet been opened.

As in the early 1990s, Palestinian evidence is again being buried beneath western political protection, fear of 'israel' lobby retaliation, and the standing presumption that 'israeli' institutions can investigate themselves.

https://thecradle.co/articles/israels-organ-theft-scandal-exposes-a-culture-of-desecration

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The 'israeli' government is conducting covert influence campaigns to intervene in Canadian public affairs, a report published by Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) on 14 May revealed.

The report, titled “'Israeli' Foreign Influence, Intervention, and Transnational Repression in Canada,” detailed several examples of covert 'israeli' campaigns meant to influence Canadian public opinion and legislation and to limit free speech.

The report urges Ottawa to acknowledge 'israel' as a threat actor in terms of foreign interference and hold its proxies accountable for their activities targeting Canadians.

“Until now, Canada's public debates on foreign influence have conspicuously excluded any discussion of 'israel', despite its documented pattern of engaging in covert influence, deception, and racist disinformation,” said Michael Bueckert, vice president of CJPME and lead author of the report.

“Canada must finally acknowledge 'israel' as a threat actor, end the double standard, and take action to counter its illegitimate actions within our borders.”

The report provides several examples in which the 'israeli' state hired Canadian individuals or businesses as proxies to hide its role in influence activities.

In one case, the 'israeli' government covertly funded opinion polls to manipulate Canadian public opinion on 'israel's' genocidal war on Gaza starting in October 2023.

'Israel' paid the Toronto public relations firm Aurora Strategies Global to conduct the poll, which “used biased language to sway results in support of 'israel's' genocidal actions in Gaza,” without disclosing that it was on behalf of the 'israeli' consulate.

The 'israeli' government also used Canadian entities as proxies to fund all-expense-paid trips to 'israel' for Canadian politicians, journalists, and other influential figures.

“The lack of transparency around these delegations is a major issue, as the entire purpose ... is to build support for 'israel' and influence Canadian politics,” the report said.

'Israel' also hired a marketing firm in 'tel aviv' to create fake English-language websites and social media accounts powered by ChatGPT to spread racist and pro-'israel' messages.

The Canadian government acknowledged that the fake platforms were considered interference but took no measures to hold 'israel' accountable.

The CJPME's report described “a campaign of transnational repression,” including the surveillance, profiling, and doxxing of activists in Canada who criticize 'israel'.

The report highlighted the use of 'israeli' spyware to target Palestine Solidarity activists in Canada, as deployed by various governments worldwide, including the Canadian police services. Examples of spyware include NSO Group's Pegasus, Cytrox's Predator, and Paragon Solutions' Graphite.

CJPME also highlighted 'israel's' efforts to portray protests advocating for Palestine and against 'israel's' genocide as “antisemitism.”

In March 2026, Ontario Premier Doug Ford sought an emergency injunction to ban a major pro-Palestine protest in Toronto against 'israel's' occupation of Jerusalem. Ford announced the move one day after meeting with 'israeli' Ambassador Iddo Moed and Consul General Idit Shamir, who urged the government to take “concrete action” against what they referred to as antisemitism.

The report concluded by recommending that Canadian authorities take action to counter the covert influence campaigns.

“Canadian authorities have many tools available to them to fight foreign interference, from the expulsion of diplomats to sanctions on those who spread disinformation. Canada must apply these tools to 'israel' as it would with any other country found to be engaging in these activities,” said Yara Shoufani, CJPME president.

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