CNN bericht:
The report comes four months after a different allegation about organ harvesting in Israel.
An opinion piece published in a Swedish newspaper in August suggested the Israeli army kidnapped and killed young Palestinians to harvest their organs in the 1990s.
The writer, Donald Bostrom, told CNN he had no proof that Israeli soldiers were stealing organs, and that the purpose of his piece was to call for an investigation.
The article triggered a dispute between Sweden and Israel. While the Swedish Embassy distanced itself from the report, the country's foreign ministry refused to condemn it, saying Sweden has a free press.
Israeli Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz called it "an anti-Semitic blood libel against the Jewish people and the Jewish state."
It was after hearing about that uproar that American anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, decided to release the tape of the interview she conducted with Hiss in 2000, Israel's Channel 2 reported.
Scheper-Hughes told the network that she does not believe Israel murdered Palestinians for organs.
But the admission of harvesting organs, including skin, at times from Palestinians, struck her, she said. "The symbolism of taking skin out of a population that is considered to be the enemy and using it for skin for the military, that's something that -- just in terms of symbolic weight -- has to be reconsidered," she told Channel 2.
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Yad Vashem: Nazi soap stories `invention'
By Amiram Barkat
A box of soap which, according to the Romanian Jewish community, was made from the bodies of Jews killed in the Holocaust was found yesterday in a funeral home in Magdiel (part of Hod Hasharon) in central Israel, Army Radio reported.
The box was buried under a tombstone that read "Soap of Holy People."
Sources at Yad Vashem expressed disappointment at the radio report, calling the story a "pure invention that was given a stage by the media."
A Yad Vashem spokeswoman said there is no proof the Nazis made soap from human bodies during the Holocaust.
The sources said similar claims have been made in the past regarding soap made from Jewish bodies, including soap found last year in the Nahariya cemetery. In that case the soap was determined not to have been made from human remains.
In 1990 samples from several soaps claimed to have been made from Jews were sent for DNA testing at Tel Aviv University. Likewise, those tests determined the soaps did not contain human fats.
In Magdiel, the director of the Jewish burial society (Hevra Kadisha), Moti Elbaum, told Army Radio of the discovery. "I was very surprised and terrified. I didn't know that in Israel there is a grave for soap that was made from saints that were set on fire," said Elbaum. "It is shocking and horrifying. Each time we are shocked more and more by the things that were done to our people."
Others in the community were angered by Yad Vashem's casting doubt on the authenticity of the soap. Holocaust survivors claim that the soap was engraved with writing that said it was made from fat from Jewish bodies.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=538996
After All I Am a Proper Zionist Jew by Gilad Atzmon
I Am a Holocaust Survivor
Yes, I am a survivor, for I have managed to survive all the scary accounts of the Holocaust: the one about the soap (1), the one about the lamp shades, the one about the camps, the mass shooting, the one about the gas (2) and the one about the death march (3). I just managed to survive them all.
http://www.real-debt-elimination.com/real_freedom/Propaganda/after_all_i_am_a_proper_zionist.htm
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