‘Body snatchers’: Horror as California university caught providing the IDF with human corpses for training

Donating your body for research is one of the noblest things you can do. After all, a human body is a valuable thing to science, and it’s safe to say you’re past the need for it after your death. You’d like to imagine your remains would be used for critical medical research to save future lives, perhaps with your body parts living on inside a grateful donor.

Alternatively, your body might be handed over to the Israeli Defense Forces to enable it to carry out genocide more efficiently. This is the chilling revelation that’s just emerged from the University of Southern California (USC), with a new investigation revealing they’ve had a lucrative contract to sell both donated and unclaimed bodies to the U.S. Navy, who’ve been in turn using them for IDF “trauma training”.

Since the end of 2017, the USC has been paid over $860,000 for delivery of 89 “fresh cadaver bodies”, with almost half of them being used to train IDF soldiers at the Los Angeles General Medical Center. This takes place at the “Fresh Tissue Dissection Lab”, at which corpses are pumped full of artificial blood, mutilated to simulate battlefield injuries, and used to prepare IDF soldiers for war.

Yesterday, it was revealed that USC sold at least 89 CORPSES to the U.S. military to train the IOF. And this is likely just the beginning—we may never fully grasp how deeply universities are entangled in genocide and death. Absolutely horrifying. pic.twitter.com/VNInS1kOWR

— CU Apartheid Divest (CUAD) (@ColumbiaBDS) October 2, 2025

Desensitizing IDF recruits to trauma

The process is still ongoing, despite multiple internationally recognized organizations concluding that the IDF is in the process of carrying out genocide. There are now provisions for $225,000 more to be paid for further corpses in the coming months and years.

Shocked medical professionals have noted that the families of the dead likely won’t have been informed that their loved ones’ bodies will have been used for military purposes – still less that they’ll have been used to train IDF soldiers. And in the case of unclaimed bodies, the situation is even murkier as there’s no consent whatsoever.

Jesus H. Christ. USC sold unclaimed dead bodies to the US Navy, so they could train the IDF with real human corpseshttps://t.co/lZ5jmQoZ1t

— Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸 (@LalehKhalili) October 2, 2025

In an interview with USC Annenberg media, an anonymous physician alerted reporters and explained that this training “wasn’t designed or developed to save lives. It was just to desensitize people to the trauma.”

Honestly, delivering corpses to the IDF is equivalent to bringing sand to the beach. You’d think if there’s one organization with easy access to as many dead bodies as they need, it’d be them. But, if you die in California and you or your loved ones have agreed to give your body up to research, you may end up inadvertently contributing to crimes against humanity in a small but critical way.