Its a Blue-Light Special!
With great reluctance, Wal-Mart has agreed to stop selling "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion," an infamous anti-Semitic tract. Yet, in a memo to Reuters, a Wal-Mart spokesperson refused to label the book as a fake and simply said that it was withdrawn as a "business decision."
From the 1880's until World War I, Czarist Russia conducted a campaign of harrassment and murder against the Russian Jewish population. Jews were exiled into the area called the Pale of Settlement, where numerous pogroms were conducted against them. As part of this genocidal campaign, an obscure Czarist official in Moscow named Serge Nilus concocted a series of books that were supposed to map out a Jewish conspiracy for world domination. In his 1911 edition Nilus claimed that his source had stolen the document from (a non-existent) Zionist headquarters in France.
The actual source was a French political satire in which the plotters were not even Jewish. Nilus simply used the idea of this secret organization to justify the campaign against the Jews.
Wal-Mart began selling the book on their web-site some time ago with the following description:
"If ... The Protocols are genuine (which can never be proven conclusively), it might cause some of us to keep a wary eye on world affairs. We neither support nor deny its message. We simply make it available for those who wish a copy."
Huh?????? Can't be proven? This was written in the modern era and there are documents proving that it was written to fuel Russia's campaign of anti-Semitism. There is a clear-cut trail of documentation that the Protocals are a fake and a forgery. This has been established fact for more than seventy years! A conclusive report conducted by the US Senate in 1964 said "Every age and country has had its share of fabricated ‘historic’ documents which have been foisted on an unsuspecting public for some malign purpose. . . One of the most notorious and most durable of these is the ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion."
Wal-Mart simply refused to accept any amount of proof, no matter how scholarly and well-documented.
Did Wal-Mart apologize for selling and promoting this hateful garbage? No. Here is the Wal-Mart statement about withdrawing them:
"Based on significant customer feedback regarding the book titled 'The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion,' we have made a business decision to remove this book ... from our site at www.walmart.com."
Now, both Barnes and Noble and Amazon.com sell the Protocols, but clearly label it as a fictious, anti-Semitic tract.
And people wonder why I won't shop at Wal-Mart?