Critics of Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu have called for the media commentator to be reported to the police after she repeated claims that Israel is harvesting the organs of dead Palestinians.
A British doctor who visited the Gaza Strip recently claimed in a video posted to TikTok that the Palestinian Red Cross received bodies of captured Palestinians from Israel with missing organs.
He alleged this was evidence of “organ harvesting”, and Dr Shola commented on the claims in a long, detailed post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
The television commentator furthered the claims while alleging Israel was responsible for “crimes against humanity” in Palestine.
She took to the site urging people to “speak out against Israel”, and has quickly seen dramatic pushback from other social media users.
Taking to X, the commentator said it is “antisemitism” to “speak out against Israel harvesting organs from Palestinian children”, and compared the alleged acts to “what Nazi Germany did to European Jews, European Romani and others”.
She added that “history is repeating itself”, and that people can’t say anything “because *check notes*……It’s ‘antisemitic’ to condemn Israel for crimes against humanity”.
Her post quickly attracted controversy, with one outraged social media user even calling for her to be reported to the police.
Simon Myerson KC, a solicitor who serves as chair of the Leeds Jewish Rep Council, said “police should be investigating” her.
He added: “It’s not about Israelis – the comparison is specifically with Jews. And it’s a lie.”
Dr Shola said she was being specifically critical of the Israeli state and that Israel’s actions “aren’t representative of the Jewish people”.
She added: “So those invoking Holocaust/Jewish trauma and weaponising antisemitism to shield Israel from accountability can go to hell.”
While Israeli officials have not commented on the accusations of harvesting organs during the latest bombardment of Gaza, the state reportedly participated in the act in the past.
In 2000, Dr Yehuda Hiss, the former head of the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute near Tel Aviv, admitted Israeli specialists with the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) had harvested skin, heart valves, bones and corneas from the bodies of Israeli soldiers and citizens, Palestinians and foreign workers.
The harvesting, Dr Hiss added, was often done without permission from the victims’ families.
Israel has previously denied harvesting organs from dead Palestinians without families’ consent and branded the allegations “antisemitic”.
Following similar accusations in late 2023, doctors at several Gaza hospitals added that organ theft cannot be proven or disproven by forensic medical examination alone.
