[Peace-discuss] Denigrating Carter's book on Israel/Palestine

[John W.]

Huh????  Whose opinion is it that Amazon.com should censor a book 
review?  Isn't that contrary to everything that AWARE stands for?  Why not 
just have a few people write POSITIVE reviews of the book?  Duh.

John Wason



At 08:57 PM 1/14/2007, Morton K. Brussel wrote:

>Notes from Mazin Qumsiyeh regarding a highly unfavorable review on
>Amazon.com of Carter's book.
>
>
>1) Wolf Blitzer worked for the Israel lobby before he worked for CNN.
>2) Action: boycott Amazon
>3) Question/commentary: How much will big oil companies pillage from
>Iraq?? (I could use some help in the math!)
>---------------------
>1) Wolf Blitzer worked for the Israel lobby before he worked for
>CNN.  Here is a video of him advocating Israeli perspecives on a
>Panel with Norman Finkelstein before he became CNN employee http:// 
>www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-8aTGnjHnI
>
>2) Action: (I wrote to Jeff Bezos and a Jesse Jensen, executive
>customer relations ecr at amazon.com responded that they are keeping the
>review.  I wrote back saying Amazon lost a good customer and that I
>am informing my listserve.  I also bought four copies of Carter's
>book at Costco- MQ). FWD from Henry Norr: For several weeks now
>Amazon.com has been running the full, 1636-word text of a totally
>negative review of Jimmy Carter's "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" on
>the page where it sells the book
>http://www.amazon.com/Palestine-Peace-Apartheid-Jimmy-Carter/dp/0743285026/sr=8-1/qid=1168467614/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-2193402-4648137?ie=UTF8&s=books
>
>Because this is totally out of line with their normal format and in
>contradiction to their self-interest in selling copies, and because
>their CEO, Jeff Bezos, has flatly turned down requests from me and
>other customers for more balanced treatment of the book, it seems
>clear that this is either a deliberate political statement on the
>part of Amazon's leaders or an abject concession to pressure from
>Zionist zealots. Whatever you think of the Carter book, its
>publication is an important event, and it's unacceptable for Amazon
>to be trying to discourage sales of it.
>
>Since the letters didn't work, I've created an online petition
>protesting what Amazon is doing and threatening to cancel my account
>there. It's at http://www.petitiononline.com/Amazon07/petition.html .
>I hope you'll not only check it out and sign it, but also pass along
>copies of this message or one of your own to friends and family and
>to all possible e-mail lists.
>
>If you agree that Amazon is out of line on this, but you're
>uncomfortable with anything in the petition, or you're not willing to
>pledge to close your account, or you don't have an account to begin
>with, you can send your own message  directly to Bezos at
>jeff at amazon.com.
>In fact, even if you do sign the petition, it wouldn't hurt to send
>him e-mail in addition.
>Most important, though, is to spread the word to as many people as
>possible.