[Antiracism] Re: [PVInterfaith] Re: [AriseAction] Fw: Jimmy Carter: Palestine: PeaceNot Apartheid
Ellen Hopman
saille333 at mindspring.com
Mon Jan 15 15:20:15 EST 2007
Actually I have seen quite a few really negative reviews posted on Amazon, on books written by people that I know personally. Contacting Amazon is a good idea, but even better is to flood the site with positive reviews of the book, by those who have actually read it. They have a place where anyone can post a review, for every book on their website. They also ask "was this review helpful?" after every review they post. In which case you say "no" to all the negative reviews and "yes" to the positive ones.
Ellen Evert Hopman - member of the Pioneer Valley Interfaith Coalition
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From: David Ecklein
To: AriseAction at yahoogroups.com ; WMass Jobs With Justice ; sage ; pioneer valley interfaith ; pioneer valley buddhists ; antiracist hampshire list ; roger conant
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 1:25 PM
Subject: [PVInterfaith] Re: [AriseAction] Fw: Jimmy Carter: Palestine: PeaceNot Apartheid
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.
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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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