Glad to hear it.
New York, NY, September 22, 2004 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today welcomed the decision by Walmart.com to remove the notorious anti-Semitic forgery, The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion from its online catalog of books after receiving and taking into consideration "significant customer feedback."
Wal-Mart informed the League of its decision to no longer carry the book in response to ADL's letter to the retailer expressing concern about how the book was described on the Wal-Mart site, where it was suggested that the book may not be a forgery.
The problem here wasn't so much that Wal-Mart was selling the book. Amazon and B&N sell it too, but with hefty disclaimers. The problem was Wal-Mart's inexcusable ignorance as to the origins of this blatantly antisemitic forgery. Oh, and this comment on their website:
If, however, 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.
I'm not big on censorship of any kind but, in this case, I think Wal-Mart did the right thing.
