"Baroness Tonge, the Liberal peer, said this week that Israel should set up an inquiry to disprove allegations that its medical teams in Haiti 'harvested' organs of earthquake victims for use in transplants.
Her call has been sharply criticised by fellow LibDems, but party leader Nick Clegg has refused to act against her.
The organ theft claims were published last week in the Palestine Telegraph, an online journal based in Gaza of which Baroness Tonge is a patron.
In a statement to the JC, she said the Israel Defence Forces were 'to be commended for their fantastic response to the Haitian earthquake'.
But she added: 'To prevent allegations such as these — which have already been posted on YouTube — going any further, the IDF and the Israeli Medical Association should establish an independent inquiry immediately to clear the names of the team in Haiti.'”
http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/27070/tonge-investigate-idf-stealing-organs-haiti
On Friday, the Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg finally had the good sense to sack Tonge as his health spokeswoman in the House of Lords. Clegg, however, had the temerity to claim that Tonge is not anti-Semitic or racist. Shame on Clegg for defending her and not recognizing this vulgar anti-Semite for what she is!
This is not the first time that the vile Tonge has been embroiled in controversy. In 2004, while a Member of Parliament, Tonge was asked to step down as children's spokeswoman by Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy after grotesquely asserting vis-à-vis Palestinian suicide bombers:
"If I had to live in that situation - and I say that advisedly - I might just consider becoming one myself."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3421669.stm
Has Tonge alone lost her mind, or has anti-Semitism become fashionable in the House of Lords?
I found the end of the article the most interesting:
ReplyDelete"The allegations came in an article titled Focus on Israel: Harvesting Haitian Organs by an American researcher, Stephen Lendman, who accused Israel of a “crime against humanity”.
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This is the source of all this:
http://www.rense.com/Datapages/lendmandat.htm
Just another self-hating Jew ("retired small businessman") in unison with "Nancy Scheper-Hughes is a UC Berkeley Professor of Medical Anthropology, founder of Organ Watch."
(Berkeley supports this campaign, "Organ watch"!)
Palestinians participate there too:
"Kawther Salam - "The Body Snatchers of Israel"
"Salam is a West Bank-based Palestinian journalist, active in reporting on human rights abuses by the Israeli military (IDF). In 2003, she was one of 28 writers in 13 countries to receive a Hellman/Hammett Grant from Human Rights Watch "in recognition of (her) courage in the face of political persecution."
"She said "everybody in Palestine" knows that Israel steals bodies for their organs. It was common IDF practice to "kidnap" Palestinians from emergency rooms in Hebron, Nablus, Ramallah, Jenin, and most everywhere throughout Occupied Palestine, then transfer them to an Israeli hospital."
Palestinians, UC Berkeley, crazy self-hating Jew and Human Rights Watch: here is the pretty nice company behind this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Scheper-Hughes
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"According to Scheper-Hughes, much of the world's illicit traffic in kidneys can be traced to Israel. "Israel is the top," she said. "It has tentacles reaching out worldwide."[9]
In a 2008 lecture sponsored by New York’s PBS 13 Forum, Scheper-Hughes reportedly stated that there were two motivations of Israeli traffickers, specifically "greed" and “Revenge, restitution—reparation for the Holocaust.” She stated that Israeli "organ brokers" and doctors have 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.’"[10]"
It is just "mad hatred".
And this was on CNN.
Hi, Jeffrey
ReplyDeleteI contacted prof. Scheper-Hughes. Here is her response:
Dear Marina,
Unfortunately Israel has produced some of the most active transplant traffickers and organs brokers involved in very extensive and sophisticated global networks of illegal trade in organs. I have conducted grounded research in more than a dozen countries and published extensively on these networks as well as on other organs trafficking networks with my collaborator, Prof. Lawrence Cohen ( who focuses on South Asia). . I have also met with government officials, UN, WHO, and dozens of Israeli surgeons to discuss the problem. Israel is aware of the problem and has passed new legislation that has reduced the traffic significantly in the past year. Attached is a chapter from a medical textbook that was published by McGraw-Hill last year.:
Nancy Scheper-Hughes,PhD
Chancellor's Professor of Anthropology
Chair, Doctoral Program in Medical Anthropology
University of California,Berkeley,94720,USA
I read this text. There is nothing here or in her response to support the claim ""Israel is the top, It has tentacles reaching out worldwide." And of course, there is no support for the claim "two motivations of Israeli traffickers, specifically "greed" and “Revenge, restitution—reparation for the Holocaust.”
The "Organ Watch" is funded by Soros, so its obsession with Israel is understandable. The woman uses her position to spread blood libel.
I believe, her public statements do not adhere to scientific standards. Berkeley administration should be aware of it.
What would you advise to do next?
Thanks, Marina. I suggest that you request the names of the Israelis whom she quotes. I would also observe the common use of "tentacles" in anti-Semitic imagery.
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