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https://ethicsalarms.com/2023/11/12/ethics-pop-quiz-why-does-amazon-sell-from-the-river-to-te-sea-merchandise-but-not-anything-featuring-a-confederate-flag/

Ethics Pop Quiz: Why Does Amazon Sell “From The River To Te Sea” Merchandise But Not Anything Featuring A Confederate Flag??
NOVEMBER 12, 2023 / JACK MARSHALL


I find this perplexing, and perhaps attention should be paid. Amazon
sells several versions of that attractive shirt above, but stopped
making anything with a Confederate flag available in 2015. The impetus
for this move was, as you might recall, Dylann Roof, a lone, racist
wacko, shooting and killing nine African-Americans in a Charleston,
South Carolina church. Yet more than a month after approximately 1,200
Jewish civilians were murdered by Hamas in a carefully organized
surprise terror attack, merchandise with the Palestinian slogan calling
for Israel’s eradication, in accordance with the Hamas charter, is still selling briskly on Amazon to U.S. customers. The U.S. Congress just
censured its racist, anti-Semitic “Squad” member Rashida Tlaib for endorsing the very same slogan. The American Jewish Committee regards
the phrase as antisemitic. The White House finally condemned the use of
the “inspirational phrase,” as Tlaib called it. Amazon claims to have a policy prohibiting “the sale of products that promote, incite, or
glorify hatred, violence, racial, sexual, or religious intolerance” and”prohibits or promote organizations with such views, as well as
listings that graphically portray violence or victims of violence.”

How do you reconcile the contradictory treatment of the Confederate
flag, which is a far more ambiguous symbol with important significance
in American history, and an infamous anti-Israel rallying cry?

Some possible answers are offered below:


1. Amazon wants to make a profit while the anti-Jew market is hot.

2. Jeff Bezos is a Democrat, and Democratic constituency hate and
violence is acceptable on his creation’s site. After all, it also sells these…



And that’s just some of the shirts. Then there are the hoodies, the
badges, the pins, the jumper, the caps…

3. Nine American blacks are worth more than 1200 Jews.

4. Hey, it’s Amazon and can do whatever the hell it wants to!

5. The news media isn’t insisting that pro-Palestinian propaganda has to
go the way it demanded that the Confederate flag be censored.

6. Amazon believes, like so many college protesters, the United Nations
and Barack Obama, that Israel was either partly or completely at fault
for the Hamas raid.

7. Amazon believes that advocating the elimination of the Jewish state
isn’t hateful or related to any kind of bigotry, it just makes sense.

8. Whites, southerners, rednecks and Confederate history buffs wore
Confederate flag shirts, but the anti-Jew shirts are worn by smart, right-thinking progressives, so they must be OK.

Well, I’m sure you can come up with more.

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