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Chinese Embassy Seeks to Squelch Israeli Knesset Members

In Israel, 9 members of the Knesset followed their conscience and signed a petition calling for an investigation into forced, live organ harvesting in China. The Chinese Embassy then pressured Israeli leaders to get the members to withdraw their signatures. Three did so. All of the pressure in the world, however, will not change reality.
Chinese Embassy Seeks to Squelch Israeli Knesset Members
A photo taken on May 17, 2000 shows Polish World War II resistance fighter and scholar Jan Karski in Warsaw. If the warnings Karski had brought to the allies in 1943 about the ongoing mass extermination of the Jews had been heeded, lives could have been saved. Tomasz Gzell/AFP/Getty Images
Torsten Trey
Torsten Trey
Founder/CEO of DAFOH
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According to a recent article in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, after nine members of the Knesset signed a petition initiated by the NGO Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (I serve as DAFOH’s executive director), the Chinese Embassy in Israel issued a formal complaint. The embassy’s complaint then led the Speaker of the Knesset and a few other Israeli officials to ask those who had signed to retract their signatures. Three did so.

Torsten Trey
Torsten Trey
Founder/CEO of DAFOH
Torsten Trey, M.D., Ph.D., founder and executive director of the medical ethics advocacy group Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting, is among those who lead the global movement against forced organ harvesting in China. Considered a leading expert in the field, Trey has co-authored books and written widely in medical journals on this topic. An international speaker, Trey was featured in the award-winning documentary “Human Harvest.” He is also co-editor of the book “State Organs: Transplant Abuse in China.”
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