Friday, August 28, 2009

Israeli Organ Harvesting: The New Blood Libel?

CounterPunch / If Americans Knew
... evidence of public and private organ trafficking and theft, and allegations of worse, have been widely reported for many years..

... Israel’s very first, historic heart transplant used a heart removed from a living patient without consent or consulting his family....

... In February 2007 the Israeli and Italian media were abuzz with news that Professor Toaff had written a book entitled "Pasque di Sangue" (“Blood Passovers”)24 containing evidence that there “was a factual basis for some of the medieval blood libels against the Jews.”

Based on 35 years of research, Toaff [Israeli professor and rabbi, son of the former chief rabbi of Rome, preeminent expert on medieval Jewish history] had concluded that there were at least a few, possibly many, real incidents... Full story