[6] As a background Boström mentioned the charges against Levy Izhak Rosenbaum of Brooklyn, arrested as part of Operation Bid Rig for conspiring to arrange the sale of an Israeli citizen's kidney for $160,000.
The article prompted outrage in Israel, with accusations that the claims were anti-Semitic and represented a Blood libel against Jews,[7][8] and set off a diplomatic row between the Israeli and Swedish governments.
Israeli forces returned the body to his family a week after in a state which his brother, Jalal Ghanem, describes as: "It was very clear that there was no abdomen, it showed from the way it was stitched.
[12] In his interview with the Arab news site Menassat, Boström is quoted as saying: "There is no conclusive evidence, only a collection of allegations and suspicious circumstances ...
[15] Boström received the 2007 KW Gullers stipendium (scholarship) from the Nordic Museum in honor of the late Swedish photographer K.W.