[Antiracism] Re: [AriseAction] Fw: Jimmy Carter: Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid

[David Ecklein]

However, consider this....

"Peace Not Apartheid is number 8 on the Amazon 100. It is counterproductive to boycott Amazon since they are effectively promoting and selling the book.  Dan [Booth Cohen, from the tikkuntalk list]"

Another tikkuntalker, Mazin Qumsiyeh, suggests urging Amazon to include the Nation review:

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0109-28.htm

Dave E.


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Marty Nathan 
  To: WMass Jobs With Justice ; sage ; pioneer valley interfaith ; pioneer valley buddhists ; AriseAction at yahoogroups.com ; antiracist hampshire list ; roger conant 
  Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 10:09 AM
  Subject: [AriseAction] Fw: Jimmy Carter: Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid

   


  From Lisa Baskin. I was 5883. Hope you can sign. Marty


  I have signed the petition, and am # 4591....
  Lisa


  http://www.petitiononline.com/Amazon07/



  To: Jeff Bezos, CEO, Amazon.com

  As longtime Amazon customers, we are deeply disturbed by your
  treatment of Jimmy Carter's important new book, Palestine: Peace Not
  Apartheid.

  Under the "Editorial Reviews" heading --a space normally used
  either
  for the publisher's own description of a book, or for short,
  even-handed summaries from listing services such as Booklist and
  Publishers Weekly --you insist on running the complete,
  20-paragraph, 1,636-word text of a review unabashedly hostile to
  Carter's viewpoint. You have refused to add information shoppers
  should have in evaluating this review: the fact that the reviewer,
  Jeffrey Goldberg, is a citizen of Israel as well as the United
  States, and that he volunteered to serve in the Israeli Defense
  Forces, for which he work ed as a guard at a prison for Palestinian
  detainees. And you have refused to balance his negative review by
  giving comparable space to a favorable assessment of the book, even
  though positive reviews by qualified experts have appeared in many
  reputable publications.

  Because giving so much space in this location to such a negative
  review is so unusual -- if not unprecedented -- for Amazon, and
  because you have refused requests from many customers that you take
  a more balanced approach, we can only conclude that you are
  deliberately trying to discourage shoppers from ordering the
  former
  President's book.

  This is contrary to Amazon's own interests as a bookseller. More
  &nb sp; important, it's also contrary to the interests of
  understanding,
  peace, and justice for all parties to the Israel/Palestine
  conflict

  We are not interested in supporting a corporation that uses its
  power in the marketplace in such a biased and unconstructive way on
  such an important issue.

  Accordingly, if you do not, by Jan. 22, remove the Goldberg
  review,
  move it to the more appropriate "See all Editorial Reviews" page, or
  restore a semblance of balance by giving comparable space and
  prominence to a more positive evaluation of Palestine: Peace Not
  Apartheid, we the undersigned pledge to:

  1. Stop shopping at Amazon.com;

  2. Completely close our accounts on your servic e; and

  3. Encourage our friends, family, and associates to do likewise.

  Sincerely,

  The Undersigned
  <http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?Amazon07>


-- 
   

       ''The history of our nation has demonstrated that separate is
            seldom,  if ever, equal.''
         
          Majority opinion, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
                  4 February 2004


  l.baskin at comcast.net

  Lisa Unger Baskin
  The Gehenna Press
  P. O. Box  314
  Leeds, Massachusetts
  01053
  413-586-4127   413-586-6222 (fax)


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