Shliach Calls Out Amazon’s Hypocrisy
A week after Amazon banned the sale of Confederate flags following a deadly shooting, Jewish organizations, including Sacramento Shliach Rabbi Mendy Cohen, are calling on Amazon to ban books denying the Holocaust.
Sacramento Shliach Rabbi Mendy Cohen slammed Amazon for selling books denying the Holocaust. Blatant anti-Semitism,” he said. “To deny the Holocaust is another mask of blatant anti-Semitism.”
The books say the stories of gas chambers and ovens in World War II Nazi Germany are made up.
“My great-grandfather was killed in a synagogue with 500 Jews that the Nazis burned alive,” he said.
The books carry titles like “Did 6 Million Really Die?” and “Synagogue of Satan.”
A social media petition is calling on the company to remove all Nazi propaganda from the site.
Compounding the dilemma for Amazon is its recent stance on the Confederate flag. The company joined Walmart, Sears and eBay by stopping sales of merchandise with the flag in the wake of a South Carolina shooting that left nine people dead.
Amazon has a list of offensive products it refuses to sell, which they say includes products that promote or glorify hatred, violence, racial, sexual or religious intolerance. But Amazon officials did not respond to CBS13 for the story.
yankel der shlepper
Kol Hakavod Rabbi Mendy!!!
chaim
nice piece but I disagree.
Not just with R Cohen but with amazon walmart….
If this is truly a free country then both should be aloud to be sold
yossi
They are allowed. They choose not to.
great
not calling out anti-semitism generally, but pointing out hypocrisy, which is very important.
thankyou Rabbi Mendy.
non-gender
So what!!!!The only way to combat these lies by the holocaust deniers is with consistent truths and facts. What are you going to do censor the media every time it reports that some Irainian leader or fanatic denies the holocaust ever occurred . Reminds me of the out of step call by some Chabad Israeli Rabbis against certain seforim published by ArtScroll that had the audacity not to cite Chabad sources. I will buy still from Amazon if they have the book and the price.
by the way, most people do not understand what the flag stood for. Read John C. Calhoon’s book because many of the issues he railed about confront still the American public today owing mainily to the left wing ideology and political correctness.
Anonymous
#2
the moderator should change spelling of the world meaning permitted to “allowed”.
#3
I think you and #2 are in agreement.
#2 & #4
Are you aware that some speech may be limited? A company doesn’t have to spread any speech the company does not want to. If it is legal to limit or refuse to spread speech/symbols of racism then the same standard should be used toward anti-Semitism.
So I hope there is a lawsuit, I’d love to see how the law is argued.
Tons of Anti Semetic comments!
I went to the cbs site to view this video and the comments. A bunch of nazi ignoramus jew haters who care very little about truth.
I posted some comments (by Nat) myself, but it would be nice if many of our group here go there and knock the daylights out of them.
If anything, they prove the Rabbi right. Anti semetism goes hand in hand with deniers.
I was about the 14th comment. But after that, the cockroaches quickly came to post their lies. Its now at about 115 comments.
Also please vote up our comments.
To number 2
Your sooo open-minded your brains are falling out of your head!
Squeaky wheel gets the oil
The reason they removed the Confederate flag is because the anti-Confederates made a big tumult about it. If we can get enough support to do the same thing at Amazon, then we may get similar results.
Milhouse
What about Che T-shirts and other communist paraphernalia? They are much more offensive than the confederate battle flag!