Dear Amazon,
I have been shocked
to get an e-mail from Prof. Mona Baker of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and
Technology which indicated that your company advertises itself in the Israeli
press via a logo which reads: “Buy Amazon.Com and Support Israel” and which displays an Israeli flag.
In view of the
genocidal ethnic cleansing programme which the Israeli state
has been
perpetrating against the indigenous Palestinian people - not just in the past
few years, but by means of terrorist activities which pre-dated the establishment of the Israeli state - as the sole
cause of the retaliatory suicide bombings by Palestinian militants, who would
prefer to die than continue living in squalid Israel-imposed concentration
camps such as Gaza.
I have no
objection to your advertising your services in the Israeli or any other nation’s media. But the
display advertisement above-mentioned suggests that the profits you derive from
your world-wide client base is used to support the policies of the Israeli
state and the objectives of Zionism which are, in sum, to drive out all
Palestinians, to take their land and to murder any who resist. Thus your
advertisement can only be viewed as extremely offensive to all non-Zionists, be
they Jew or gentile.
The ethnic cleansing
programme of the Jewish state has been compared by Jewish anti-Zionists to the
treatment of the ‘Red Indians’ in North America and the Slavs in Eastern Europe under
the Third Reich. If one accepts the theory that
Mankind is capable of learning from the past, then what Israel is now doing is
morally far worse than those two historical episodes. How world Zionism can
promote and defend what Israel is doing behind a cloud of Holocaust propaganda
undermines any hope that there might be a finite extent to hypocrisy and cynicism.
How an
international book company could bring itself to associate its product and
image with such genocidal criminality beggars belief and would seem to indicate
that whoever is in charge of Amazon is driven by the same fanatical ethnic
self-worship which drives war criminals such as Israeli
Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon (whose activities during the past two years are now reported to be
under investigation by Scotland Yard detectives prior to a potential War Crimes
indictment). Unless I get a satisfactory reply from somebody competent to speak
on behalf of Amazon undertaking to make its adverts in Israel (and elsewhere)
completely apolitical, then I will have no hesitation in bringing this matter
to the attention to my many Internet contacts with the request that they:
(a) Never to buy from Amazon.com ever again.
(b) Forward this information and request to all their Contacts.
It’s not only the
organisations and media of Zionist-Jewry who know how to network nowadays, you
know. In the face of what the Zionist state is doing, an increasing number of
people are no longer cowed by the orchestrated shriek: “Anti-Semitism!”
Yours
faithfully,