Donald Boström
Swedish journalist, photographer and writer
Carl Donald Boström (born 30 May 1954) is a Swedish journalist, photographer, and writer. He is known for his writings and photography relating to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. He is also a former WikiLeaks volunteer and has authored several cookbooks.
2009 article on organ trafficking
On 17 August 2009 the tabloid Aftonbladet published an article by Boström, "Våra söner plundras på sina organ" ("Our sons are plundered of their organs"), alleging that Israel was stealing organs from Palestinians who died in custody. Boström mentioned that the autopsies were performed at the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute, an institute whose chief pathologist, Yehuda Hiss, admitted to organ theft in 2005 from 125 bodies. As a background Boström mentioned the charges against Levy Izhak Rosenbaum of Brooklyn, arrested as part of Operation Bid Rig for conspiring to arrange the sale of an Israeli citizen's kidney for $160,000. The article prompted outrage in Israel, with accusations that the claims were anti-Semitic and represented a Blood libel against Jews, and set off a diplomatic row between the Israeli and Swedish governments.
The Swedish and Israeli media were highly critical of the article, and a survey among the cultural editors of the other major Swedish newspapers found that all would have refused the article as it was based on outmoded hearsay and rumors. Family members of Bilal Ghanem, the Palestinian at the center of the article's allegations, confirmed that Ghanem's organs had been removed after he was shot at the gate of his family's home and transferred by the military ambulance to a helicopter. Israeli forces returned the body to his family a week after in a state which his brother, Jalal Ghanem, describes as: "It was very clear that there was no abdomen, it showed from the way it was stitched.
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