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"Blood libel": IDF organ trafficking claim

A Swedish newspaper has claimed that IDF soldiers murdered Palestinian youths to sell their organs

August 19, 2009 09:43
Deputy FM Daniel Ayalon has called the claim \"blood libel\"

ByJessica Elgot, Jessica Elgot

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A Swedish newspaper has claimed that IDF soldiers murdered Palestinian youths to sell their organs, prompting a shocked Israeli government to call the suggestion a “blood libel.”

The Israeli Foreign Ministry called the article in the Swedish daily Aftonbladet “a shocking example of Israel’s demonisation.”

The paper, which is Sweden's biggest-selling daily, ran the headline "They plunder the organs of our sons" and a double-page spread devoted to the article.

The article, published on Monday, referred to last month’s American organ trafficking case and Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, one of those involved in the New Jersey fraud swoop last month where members of the Syrian-Jewish community were among those arrested.