Amazon spams its customers, touts anti-Israeli views,

[sheila19621]

On July 4, Amazon spammed its customers with advertisement of Norman Finkelstein's virulently anti-Semitic book, Image and Reality of the Israeli-Palestine Conflict. On May 30, Amazon similarly advertised Beyond Chutzpah: on the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History. I have never received any other ad from Amazon.On April 4, in an unprecedented move, Amazon deleted all reviews of Obadiah Shoher's Samson Blinded: A Machiavellian Perspective on the Middle East Conflict. A few days later, Amazon forced its subsidiary Booksurge to terminate publishing contract with Shoher whose book is now available for download from <link removed due to spam>. Google earlier banned advertising of the Samson Blinded for "unacceptable content." Shoher, indeed, is pro-Israeli, yet realistic and critical of Israeli policies.Obadiah Shoher, an anonymous politician, abandons myths and moralizing in favor of realpolitik. He argues for raw efficiency of antiterrorist operations and shedding liberal idealism. Shoher asks inconvenient questions and gives honest answers. Amazon does not like that. Anti-Semitic lampoons by Norman Finkelstein are more to Amazon's taste.

 

[Jon]

That's pretty fucked up... Sadly, if it were something anti-black or anti-Christianity, it would have caused more of an uproar.

 

[JDA]

Jon, this person is a spammer:

http://forums.invisionpower.com/index.php?showtopic=223088&pid=1403338&st=0&#entry1403338
http://www.pixelcarnage.com/development/next_generation_forum_software
http://htmlgear.tripod.com/guest/co...sraeli-Palestine+Conflict.&btnG=Google+Search

 

[joe]

I think this just a hoax. I haven't seen it carried at any news outlets online at all. Someone is just trying to spread misinformation about amazon for some reason.

 

[Stanley]

I think this just a hoax.

damn! and here I was planning to go burn down Amazon's headquarters.... now what am I supposed to do with all this gasoline?

 

[Bookworm-seo]

Well, it's still possible.

 

[JDA]

I should add that I've bought a ton of things from Amazon, and while I do get emails from them sometimes recommending things, I didn't get any of the emails in the opening post. So if they did send something like this out, it certainly wasn't to all of their customers.

 

[J-Tag]

I've not received any such emails.

 

[sometemple]

I'm pretty sure they send people stuff based on the context of what they've purchased and/or put on a wishlist. Therefore... Well... I guess I won't go there.

 

[RisK]

I'm pretty sure they send people stuff based on the context of what they've purchased and/or put on a wishlist. Therefore... Well... I guess I won't go there.

yea sometemple is right. they only sent promotion emails based on your favorites. if they sent u religious and political stuff, u might have been checkin those kinda stuff lately.

it's simply good customer relations combined with good technology.

 

[planet]

I think this just a hoax. I haven't seen it carried at any news outlets online at all. Someone is just trying to spread misinformation about amazon for some reason.

right....!

 

[Bookworm-seo]

Incidentally, I was at Indigo yesterday, and they have a recommended by our 'experts' sticker for some selections. This includes the politics books, and you can imagine only one side of the political spectrum gets the stickers. The same side that just happens to be at eye-level, incidentally...