{"id":70683,"date":"2019-05-27T17:05:06","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T15:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=70683"},"modified":"2019-05-27T06:28:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T04:28:11","slug":"07-05-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=70683","title":{"rendered":"AMAZON REMOVES HEZBOLLAH LEADER’S BOOK"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>AMAZON REMOVES HEZBOLLAH LEADER’S BOOK AFTER APPEAL BY ISRAELI JOURNALIST<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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Lebanon’s Hezbollah deputy leader Sheikh Naim Qassem.. (photo credit: REUTERS)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

A book by Hezbollah deputy secretary-general Naim Qassem was reportedly removed from the Amazon bookstore following an appeal by a reporter from\u00a0The Jerusalem Post\u2019<\/em>s sister paper, Maariv.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to an article published by the Hebrew website, Amazon was promoting the book, despite the Hezbollah organization being named a terrorist group by the United States and Qassem labeled as a terrorist.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe US administration has declared Hezbollah\u00a0deputy secretary-general\u00a0Naim Qassem an international terrorist and has forbidden American citizens and businesses from maintaining contact with him,\u201d wrote reporter Haim Isrovitch in an article last week, \u201cbut the Amazon site sold Qassem\u2019s book, which supports murdering Israeli civilians and casts doubt on Israel’s right to exist.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n

Isrovitch first started investigating the book after UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Jan Kubis met with Qassem and recommended his book as \u201cnecessary reading.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Though Kubis did not mention which of Qassem\u2019s 11 books he received, the Maariv reporter discovered that at least one of these books, \u201cHizbullah (Hezbollah): The Story from Within,\u201d was being sold by the book giant.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Isrovitch, the book contains antisemitic and anti-Israel statements throughout, including justifying Palestinian attacks against civilians on the grounds that \u201csoldiers hide from battle, seeking shelter in the villages and towns behind civilians.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n

The book accuses Zionism as being in violation of the most basic human rights and claims that Zionists took over Palestinian land, carrying out aggression against a peaceful Palestinian people.<\/span><\/p>\n

The United States has regarded Hezbollah as a terrorist organization since 1997. Two years ago, the US Treasury Department announced that all members of Hezbollah\u2019s leadership, including Qassem, were international terrorists. As a result, all of Qassem\u2019s US financial assets were confiscated, and US citizens and businesses were forbidden from having any financial contact with him.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\u201cTherefore, the promotion of the book on Amazon.com, which allows Qassem to profit on every sale, raises a clear suspicion of breaking the sanctions and helping to finance terrorism,\u201d\u00a0 Isrovitch wrote.<\/span><\/div>\n
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He contacted Amazon with his findings and the company subsequently decided to immediately remove the book from Amazon’s sales sites in the United States and around the world. Now, when one clicks on the book title, he or she receives a, \u201cSorry, we couldn\u2019t find that page\u201d message.<\/span><\/p>\n

An Amazon spokesperson told Maariv, \u201cWe have comprehensive policies that outline what may be sold in our stores, and carefully monitor our stores to ensure authors and sellers adhere to these policies.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAmazon makes a significant investment in, and strictly enforces, our policies. We have developed sophisticated, automated tools that use machine learning to scan listings on Amazon and automatically block or remove listings found to be in violation of our policies,\u201d the spokesperson continued. \u201cThese automated tools are supplemented by teams of investigators that conduct manual, human reviews of our listings on a regular basis. In the rare instance where one gets through, we investigate and remove content that does not meet our policies.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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AMAZON REMOVES HEZBOLLAH LEADER’S BOOK AFTER APPEAL BY ISRAELI JOURNALIST JERUSALEM POST STAFF Lebanon’s Hezbollah deputy leader Sheikh Naim Qassem.. (photo credit: REUTERS) A book by Hezbollah deputy secretary-general Naim Qassem was reportedly removed from the Amazon bookstore following an appeal by a reporter from\u00a0The Jerusalem Post\u2019s sister paper, Maariv. According to an article published […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70683"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70734,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70683\/revisions\/70734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}