Shame on Amazon for selling a film that spreads far and wide the antisemitic conspiracies of the Black Hebrew Israelite sect.
In the last month, antisemitism has made more headway into mainstream culture with Kanye West’s antisemitic rants flooding the internet.
More recently, basketball star Kyrie Irving of the Brooklyn Nets faced a full court press over his promotion of a film featuring the views of the antisemitic sect.
On October 27, the NBA star tweeted a link to a 2018 documentary called “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America,” which “includes Holocaust denial and quotes attributed to Adolf Hitler and Henry Ford and claims that Jews worship Satan and controlled the Atlantic slave trade and currently control the media,” Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) reported.
“The documentary, which is based on a book series, promotes the notorious antisemitic conspiracy theory peddled by Black extremists and supremacists that ‘white Jews’ are imposters who hijacked their heritage,” added the JNS report.
It also cites the antisemitic forgery “The Protocols of the Elders of Ziyon” to assert that Jews control the banking industry.
Rolling Stone magazine described the more than three-hour video as “in line with more extreme factions of the Black Hebrew Israelites, which have a long history of misogyny, homophobia, xenophobia, Islamophobia, and especially antisemitism.”
The book is currently the number one best seller in three categories on Amazon: “Religious Intolerance & Persecution,” “Black & African American Biographies,” and “People of African Descent & Black Studies.”
As of Tuesday, Amazon was still selling the movie based on these books.
According to Arsen Ostrovsky, CEO of the Tel Aviv-based International Legal Forum (ILF), “So far, Amazon has not responded. But if they are serious about being a responsible voice in the community and rooting out hateful conduct from their platform, they must take immediate action and remove this film and book immediately. Amazon says they have a strict policy prohibiting ‘hateful conduct.’ Instead they are profiteering from Holocaust distortion and Jew-hatred,” JNS reported.
“It is inexcusable that, with anti-Semitism and violence against Jews exploding across the United States, Amazon would provide a platform to such a hate-filled film, only pouring more fuel on the fire. This is not a matter of free speech, but rather promoting hate speech and incitement to violence,” Ostrovsky continued.
亚马逊因出售一部广泛传播黑人希伯来以色列教派的反犹阴谋的电影而感到羞耻。 上个月，随着 Kanye West 的反犹言论充斥互联网，反犹太主义在主流文化中取得了更大进展。 最近，布鲁克林篮网队的篮球明星凯里·欧文（Kyrie Irving）因宣传一部反映反犹主义观点的电影而面临全场媒体的关注。 10 月 27 日，这位 NBA 球星在推特上发布了一个链接，指向 2018 年一部名为“希伯来人对黑人：唤醒美国黑人”的纪录片，其中“包括否认大屠杀和引用阿道夫希特勒和亨利福特的言论，并声称犹太人崇拜撒旦并控制了大西洋奴隶贸易，目前控制媒体，”犹太新闻集团 (JNS) 报道。 JNS 报告补充说：“这部基于系列丛书的纪录片宣传了由黑人极端分子和至上主义者兜售的臭名昭著的反犹阴谋论，即‘白人犹太人’是劫持他们遗产的冒名顶替者。” 它还引用了反犹主义的伪造品《齐永长老议定书》来断言犹太人控制着银行业。 《滚石》杂志将这段长达三个多小时的视频描述为“符合黑人希伯来以色列人中更为极端的派系，这些派系有着悠久的厌女症、同性恋恐惧症、仇外心理、伊斯兰恐惧症，尤其是反犹太主义的历史。” 这本书目前在亚马逊上的三个类别中排名第一：“宗教不容忍与迫害”、“黑人与非裔美国人传记”和“非洲裔与黑人研究”。 截至周二，亚马逊仍在销售基于这些书籍的电影。 总部位于特拉维夫的国际法律论坛 (ILF) 的首席执行官 Arsen Ostrovsky 表示，“到目前为止，亚马逊尚未做出回应。但如果他们认真地在社区中成为负责任的声音并从他们的平台上铲除仇恨行为，他们必须立即采取行动并立即删除这部电影和书籍。亚马逊表示，他们有严格的政策禁止‘仇恨行为’。相反，他们从大屠杀的扭曲和对犹太人的仇恨中牟取暴利，”JNS 报道。 “不可原谅的是，随着反犹太主义和针对犹太人的暴力在美国爆发，亚马逊将为这样一部充满仇恨的电影提供平台，只会火上浇油。这不是言论自由问题，而是宣扬仇恨言论和煽动暴力，”奥斯特洛夫斯基继续说道。 随着美国和世界各地的反犹太主义日益抬头，亚马逊为什么要在其平台上兜售犹太人仇恨？
With the increasing rise in antisemitism in America and around the world, why is Amazon selling Jew hatred on its platform?