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British retailer sells anti-Semitic books

Updated: 05/Dec/2005 18:05

An English edition of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf

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One of Britain’s top supermarkets was force to pull a group of books from its website after it was found to be been selling Nazi and anti-Semitic literature.

Books such as the notorious Protocols of the Elders of Zion, The Hitler We Loved and Why and The Jews and their Lies were being sold on Tesco’s website until last Friday.

Gerry Gable of anti fascist magazine Searchlight, first spotted sales of the racist works on the supermarket’s website and contacted the company, which was founded by Jewish businessman Sir Jack Cohen, last Wednesday.

Complete complaint

“We told them it was unacceptable to sell this kind of thing,” Gable declared to the London Evening Standadr. “They said they took the view that if it’s published, it must be okay.”

However, the company later apologised for the incident and said it is now no longer selling the books.

“We are unhappy that titles which could cause offence to some customers have found their way on to our site. We took immediate action to remove them once they were brought to our attention,” a Tesco spokeswoman told EJP.

“In common with other internet book retailers our supplier lists virtually all books published in the UK.

“We will continue to review and monitor the titles and remove those we do not wish to sell. However given the quantity there is sometimes a delay in doing this.

“We do not wish to cause offence and would like to apologise to anyone who has been offended.”

A post on November 21 on the website of a far-right organisation urged people to buy a copy of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf for Christmas from Tesco.com and gave a link to its location.

Company concern

The supermarket spokeswoman said it was ‘very concerned’ about the now-disabled link to its site, which it was looking into removing altogether.

A later post on the extremist website advises people they can buy Hitler’s work — available in four different versions — from another website ‘without buying it from the Jews’.

The bookshop to which it refers also sells books such as Henry Ford Snr’s The International Jew: The World’s Foremost Problem, nine books by the revisionist historian David Irving and Victor E Marsden’s The Protocols of The Meetings of The Learned Elders of Zion.

A message referring to Tesco posted on the site today reads: “I urge you all to not give this anti-white, Jewish-run company your money.”

It is unlikely that Tesco is the only British retailer to have been affected — other companies will also need to review their procedures to ensure they are not caught out in this way. The Jewish News newspaper reporter Friday that another British retailer WH Smiths also featured the books and has promised to retract them.

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