REASON # 2,100 to Keep Your Butts Out of Walmart [View All]

[BlueNomad]

Wal-Mart ends anti-Semitic book sale

No. 1 retailer agrees to take tract off online market after complaints from Jewish leaders.
September 24, 2004: 8:46 AM EDT



LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Bowing to a barrage of complaints from Jewish groups, retail leader Wal-Mart Inc. has stopped selling "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion," an infamous anti-Semitic tract long exposed as fake.

Jewish leaders had complained that the book, which purports to tell of an international Jewish conspiracy to take over the world, was being sold on Walmart.com with a description that suggested it might be genuine instead of a forgery concocted by the Czarist secret police in the early 20th Century.

The description, now withdrawn from the Wal-Mart (WMT: Research, Estimates) Web site, said, "If ...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."

<http://money.cnn.com/2004/09/24/news/fortune500/walmart_judaism.reut/index.htm?cnn=yes>