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Far-right MK Moshe Feiglin (Likud) is sponsoring a one-day conference on organ harvesting in China this month despite protests by Beijing. Last November, amid pressure from the Chinese Embassy, the Knesset shelved a petition on the issue signed by nine MKs – although it was not clear the MKs knew what they were signing. Feiglin, in any case, has long opposed the harvesting of organs from prisoners in northern China. “Israel, as a representative of the Jewish people, cannot remain silent when such horrors are perpetrated in the world," he told Haaretz. "If the Jewish people keeps silent on this...