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"A Swedish newspaper’s claims that Israeli soldiers may have harvested the organs of dead Palestinians, and an op-ed article by Israeli Professor Neve Gordon calling for a boycott of Israel as the "only way to counter the apartheid trend" in his country are part of a series of events to "demonize" Israel. That’s the view of Gerald Steinberg, a political science professor at Bar-Ilan University who heads the Jerusalem-based NGO Monitor. "Neve Gordon and his pro-boycott article in the Los Angeles Times is another example of the Durban demonization strategy based on total international isolation of Israel through boycotts and sanctions in order to follow the South African anti-apartheid model," Steinberg said. He pointed out that Gordon, chairman since October of the department of politics and government at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, is also a board member of the Alternative Information Center, which refers to Israel as an apartheid state in its submissions to the United Nations. And he noted that AIC is funded by a number of European governments, including Sweden. These two events, Steinberg said must be seen in a larger context, one of a "confrontation between Israel and Europe – not just the Swedes," Steinberg said."