IDF: Israel's Organ Grinder

After watching the Israeli army dumping great quantities of white phosphorous on a civilian population in broad daylight, after the Israeli armed forces’ campaign against the elderly, women and children, most of whom were refugees with nowhere to escape and seek further refuge, organ theft seems to be a 'light crime'.

By Gilad Atzmon
First Published 2009-08-20,
Last Updated 2009-08-20 09:21:00
Courtesy Of Middle-East-Online

A few weeks ago we learned about a ring of American rabbis who had been arrested in New Jersey on suspicion of trafficking human organ trafficking. Rabbi Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, we read, enticed “vulnerable people to give up a kidney for 10,000 US dollars which he would turn around and sell for 160,000 dollars." Not bad, I thought to myself then. We are living in hard times, financial melt down, credit crunch, Wall Street is licking its wounds, the car industry is evaporating. Seemingly, kidney trafficking is still booming.

In fact, the ring of rabbi in New Jersey didn’t take me by complete surprise. For years we have been hearing about Palestinians claiming that Israel is “deep into organ trafficking”. We also learned that the family of Alastair Sinclair, a Scottish tourist who hanged himself in an Israeli jail, “was forced to bring suit for his return with missing body parts".

In 2002 the Tehran Times reported:

The Zionist state has tacitly admitted that doctors at the Israeli forensic institute at Abu Kabir had extracted the vital organs of three Palestinian teenage children killed by the Israeli army nearly 10 days ago. Zionist Minister of Health Nessim Dahhan said in response to a question by Arab member of the Zionist parliament, the “Knesset” Ahmed Teibi ... that he couldn't deny that organs of Palestinian youths and children killed by the Israeli forces were taken out for transplants or scientific research.

But now the news about Israeli trafficking of human organ is spreading to Western mainstream media. Ynet, the biggest Israeli online newspaper, reported: “Leading Swedish daily Aftonbladet claimed in one of its articles that IDF [Israel Defence Forces] soldiers killed Palestinians in order to trade in their organs.”

A few weeks ago we had a debate on Palestine Think Tank on whether or not Zionism is a colonial apparatus. One of the materialist arguments against the perception of Zionism as a colonial practice was that Palestine has never been too attractive economically – it lacks oil, gold and minerals. However, this may change now. People who specialize in organ theft may find Palestine to be heaven on earth. In the light of the latest rapidly spreading news about the Israeli trade in stolen human organs, it would seem that the Jewish national project is colonial after all.

Although the Israeli government denies the accusation that it is trading in stolen human organs, and I myself am far from qualified to know what the truth of the matter is, one cannot deny that we are facing here a shift of consciousness within the Western discourse. At the end of the day, after watching the Israeli army dumping great quantities of white phosphorous on a civilian population in broad daylight, after seeing Israelis gathering gleefully en masse on the hills around Gaza just to watch their military spreading death and physical suffering on the Palestinians, after reading that 94 per cent of Israelis supported the Israeli armed forces’ campaign against the elderly, women and children, most of whom were refugees with nowhere to escape and seek further refuge, organ theft seems to be a “light crime”.

Whether or not the Swedish paper’s accusations are true is yet to be seen. However, one fact has already been established: after so many years of the West dancing to the relentless crying violin of the Jewish Israeli melancholic victim serenade, the Western media is now changing its mood and is willing to confront the Jewish State's institutional crime.

Gilad Atzmon (gilad.co.uk) is an Israeli-born writer and jazz musician living in London. He had previously served in the Israeli military but he is currently an anti-racism campaigner. His latest CD is In Loving Memory of America.