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Sunday, November 1, 2009

Minister to shun Swedish writer [writer to be assigned bodyguard]

YNET
Minister for Development of the Negev and Galilee Silvan Shalom will not be attending the Dimona media convention, in protest of the attendance of a controversial Swedish journalist at the event.

Shalom also directed his office to cancel funding for the convention, a total of roughly NIS 200,000 (about $60,000.)

Shalom's decision came after he discovered that Swedish journalist Donald Bostrom, who claimed the IDF was trafficking Palestinian body parts, was slated to take part in the event.
[Actually, Bostrom, providing testimony and circumstantial evidence, called for an investigation to discover the facts.]

...Meanwhile, convention organizers have decided to assign Bostrom a bodyguard for fear that radical right-wing activists will attempt to hurt him during his visit. Full story

Related article finds evidence of Israeli organ harvesting


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...the Forward actually confirmed ... that Israel had been taking the body parts of slain Palestinians. The Forward article reported that one of the governmental investigations into [Israeli Chief Pathologist] Hiss had revealed that “he seemed to view every body that ended up in his morgue, whether Israeli or Palestinian, as fair game for organ harvesting.”32

Over the years, a great many Palestinian bodies have “ended up” in the Israeli morgue. Full story