Last week the Daily Express ran an outraged story about a Palestinian who had a kidney transplant in Britain. Victoria Fletcher wrote that “an NHS hospital has sparked outrage for performing an organ transplant on the Palestinian Liberation Organisation’s ambassador to Zimbabwe… St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust in London has given a kidney to a high-profile member of the Middle Eastern political and paramilitary organisation.”

The revelation has caused such “anger” that the Department of Health “ordered an immediate review of the system and has pledged to ban private transplants from dead donors”. Further down the story Fletcher writes that “the PLO ambassador to Zimbabwe received a kidney from a living donor in 1998.”

The funny and maddening fact about this story is that the living donor was the ambassador’s brother. He received the kidney more than 10 years ago and paid for the operation.

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