I have not done business with Amazon for several years. They sell many things that promote antisemitism while doing so under their right of "free speech". Well, we are just as FREE not to support any company that makes a PROFIT off of the dissemination of Jew hate.
Read their justification for selling things like the Protocls of the Elders of Zion and if you agree with me that every responsible company as well as individual has a CHOICE of whether or not earn a living or help others earth a living by promoting bigotry or if you believe in eschewing such hatreds..then you will join me in not using Amazon. They DO have a legal right to make money off of the promotion of hate in a country that allows free speech and WE ALSO have a legal right to NOT support them in their choice to do so.
While Amazon has also sometimes removed some books promoting rabid hate from it's site ONLY under extended pressure from organizations to do so, and removed links to sites that were openly promoting violence and death to Jews, the fact that they have ONLY done such things because of OUTSIDE pressure and bad publicity, makes their business ethics very questionable IMHO and I choose to eschew doing business with a company that has for more than a DECADE been selling overtly antisemitic materials.
EDIT: My "smoking gun" was going to be a link to a page of a rabidly antisemitic nature that showed that it had a link to the sale of a book whose Amazon's profits helped to fund them..proceeds of the sale at Amazon were donated to them...however I kept getting an error message for the link I once had saved, and a search discovered WHY...the antisemitic web site has been removed..here is a news item I discovered..I don't know if the book is still being sold at Amazon or if the proceeds still fund the group..but it is just a pattern I don't care to support.
http://www.care2.com/news/member/385955685/1084275
.EDIT: Thanks to the ravings of an antisemite here under this q, my memory was jogged as to the NAME of the book that was linked to the hate site that was banned ..in the linked article above..THIS is the book that the sales at Amazon had part of the proceeds going to fund a hate site!
"@Plushy: I refer you to Michael Hoffman's Judaism Discovered. That book was banned from amazon due to the actions of a rabbi. Quite ironic, yes...?"
It wasn't just Rabbis speaking out against the rabid hate in that book OR against it's sale at Amazon but ALL decent Jews, Christians and other people of conscience and morality. I first learned of it and of the hate site from a Catholic who was outraged at the hate being spread in the name of her religion.
I had protested against the sale of that book there, too. This is yet another example of Amazon only doing the right thing AFTER outrage is expressed. That's still enough reason for me to shop elsewhere UNTIL I stop seeing such hate sold there in the first place.
Let the hate sites sell the hate books.
edit: Thank you Kanien for pointing out that Amazon has a pattern of catering to bigotry for a profit.
To those who appear to be chastizing the FREEDOM that we have to not support the promotion of bigotry by refraining from giving them our hard earned money as a form of censorship or removal of free speech, I respectfully suggest you learn the difference between the excercise of our civil rights and the supression of those freedoms. That agrument here is woefully misdirected.
You are free to support the promotion of bigotry if you choose, I am free to speak out against it.
It's also ironic that the two peoples here who are the brunt of the bigotry ( the First Nations Native Americans and the Jewish people) are also known for our 'stereotypical' great biting wit and self-depreciatory humor. Using the argument that the targets of mean-spirited promotion of bigotry don't have a sense of humor to find those things funny sounds more like an attempt to justify condoning the hate than an actual commentary on the level of capacity to appreciate humor. Another failure.