Re: Re Protocols of the Elders of Zion

[Trudi Goodman <goobietheg...>]

  thank you Joyce!
  Trudi Goodman


>From: Klezcorner (at) aol(dot)com
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>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: Re Protocols of the Elders of Zion
>Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 17:04:49 EST
>
>This is not music related, but I do believe it is an important issue. I
>received this from another list to which I subscribe.
>
><<I am forwarding the following message from my brother, Cantor Daniel 
>Green.
>I checked his information and unfortunately, it is indeed correct.
>Joyce Levine
>Hebrew Academy of Nassau County
>Uniondale, NY
>
>
>Chevra,
>
>I have learned that Barnes and Noble is carrying this notorious
>anti-Semitic book
>both online and in its stores under the Judaica category.  If
>that were all, Dayenu.  I am sorry to report that the situation
>is even worse, for Barnes and Noble has "customer reviews" on
>its website to spread even more lies and hatred to the whole
>world.  I quote the following horrible "review" verbatim:
>
>CUSTOMER REVIEWS
>Number of Reviews: 2    Average Rating:  5 Stars
>
>L.Weinman, a History Professor from NY, November 1, 1999,
>You cannot argue facts using censorship...
>The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, issued by Theodore
>Herzl to the Zionist Congress held in Basel, Switzerland in
>1897. He outlines a plan for world power by gaining control of
>the media, politicians, governments, etc., to build the 'New
>World Order.' Written 100 years ago, today we can see it's plans
>becoming a reality before our very own eyes. Confronting the
>historical events that took place after the book was written and
>the plans outlined inside it, provides an iron proof of the book
>authenticity.
>
>END OF QUOTE
>
>Rabbi Eric A. Silver of Cheshire, CT has written the following
>response, and I have followed suit.  I urge you to check this
>out on the Barnes and Noble website and consider sending them
>the same message:
>
>      "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" is an anti-Semitic
>forgery created to disparage Jews and to disseminate hatred.  I
>was appalled to discover that you are listing the book on your
>internet site under Judaica, and concurrently, carrying it in
>your stores under the same heading.
>      "Since I am a believer in freedom of the press, I would
>question only your judgment in carrying the book at all, since
>it is a scurrilous, hate-mongering text.  However, you do not
>have the right to carry it under the rubric of "Judaica" because
>that is what it manifestly is not.  Would you carry a book
>written by the KKK purporting to be an African-American plot to
>take over the world as "Black Literature?"  In the name of
>honesty, I insist that you not participate in the
>misrepresentation of this book as "Judaica."  Perhaps you should
>create a separate category called "hate-literature" or
>"propaganda" and carry it there with the disclaimer that the
>book is, in fact, a forgery.  That in the name of honesty.
>      "In the name of sheer decency, you should not carry the book
>at all.  In the name of responsible business practices, you owe
>it to your customers to act immediately and unequivocally, and
>to cease being a partner in a fraudulent venture that has cost
>untold thousands of lives.
>      "I will not patronize Barnes and Noble, its internet site or
>its stores, until you do something to remedy this situation.  I
>will do my level best to advise as many people as I can of the
>fact that you are carrying this scurrilous anti-Semitic tract
>and are misrepresenting it as "Judaica" rather than the
>hate-literature it is."
>
>Cantor Daniel Green
>Congregation B'nai Israel
>Toms River, New Jersey>>
>
>Amazon also carries this title.
>Simon
>Hatikvah
>
>

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