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.
Ethics Alarms 
I’ll start:
I read somewhere that Jeff Bezos is a George Soros protege and that is primarily why his wife left him. I have not been able to positively verify the wife part.
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I am going to say #5. If the media were up in arms about anti-semitism as much as they were about Confederates, Amazon would pull those things so fast it’d make your head spin.
Of course, if the media was consistent about its approach to bigotry, they might be a tad more trusted.
I wonder if they would sell a shirt that said. . .
“From the river to the sea Palestine should cease to be.”
…and yours has a better meter than the original on the t-shirt above.
I’ll let my wife know that Amazon is selling these t-shirts and I will lay odds on her sending an email to them and telling them she will look elsewhere to purchase things at…oh…better than 60-40.
Well, I was mostly right. I told her about Amazon and she said, “Yeah, I read about that Saturday. I’m in the process of finding other vendors for things I need and shutting down the account.” Dang! I was wrong about needing to say anything…woman is WAY more informed than I.
Let me also add that I treat this situation like any need I hear about at church or through the grapevine: I cannot solve every problem, nor can I meet every need…you can’t, either. But I think we are obligated – as we are able – to fix what we can. If that means responding to a “dollar blessing” during a service when it’s announced that someone’s home burned down, I’ll do it. If that means refusing to purchase from Amazon to send a message, I’ll do it. Not everyone can do that, and I won’t judge them for it. I can’t do it all the time, and I won’t judge myself for that.
Joel,
I switched to eBay years ago because the same products are considerably cheaper and nearly everything I purchase includes free shipping without any membership. I only use Amazon to read reviews of products I purchase on eBay. Reviews are the only thing Amazon has over eBay. Why support Jeff Bezos?
Excellent point! On the way home last night, she actually purchased something from eBay that she could have gotten on Amazon. She’s got it figured out.
By the way, the episode with you and Boy Wonder climbing the building only to have Santa open the window is top 5 for me!
Ha. Those scenes when it was obvious that B&R were really “climbing” on a floor were genuinely funny.
Joel,
Amazon has products not found on eBay and the same in reverse. I have managed to reduce my Amazon spending by roughly 95% with eBay receiving 90% of my online shopping and Walmart/others the remaining 5%. I only use Amazon when absolutely necessary and manage just fine without them. Shopping on eBay is user friendly once you get used to it (like anything else) and I like the eBay guarantee. I’ve had great luck with their vendors being honorable and responsible.
Amazon prices have increased dramatically the past few years along with their Prime membership fee. The reason for this is a result of Jeff Bezos’ greed as explained in the video report I link here. What is unknown to the average consumer is that Bezos’ has managed to artificially inflate prices in commerce *unrelated to Amazon* and exactly how Amazon has purposefully engineered this. This dramatically compromises competition and that of course is his goal. I have only watched the first half of the report where it is explained how Bezos manages to prevent competition from having lower prices than Amazon.
Probably all of the above.
I remember when gas prices skyrocketed during COVID, there were several Amazon Marketplace vendors who would sell you “I did this!” stickers (with Biden’s image, on a hand which could point to the price on a gas pump). Some gas station chains (either individually or on orders from corporate) would remove the stickers and ban or press charges against anyone caught “defacing” gas pumps in that manner, but our local (and locally-owned) Amoco station just left the stickers be. I’d go with #4 as to why Confederate flags are verboten, though.
I think it is pretty simple. Left-wing doctrine approves of the slaughter of white people, approves of terrorism against white people, approves of burning white people to death, approves of decapitating white babies, and approves of the rape of white women. Leftwing doctrine dubs Jews as white people, so this is fine.
People should probably pay attention to how acceptable it has become to commit violence against groups labeled white, and take note that having some other protected status does not protect them from this sort of hatred and violence. The left is batcrap crazy.
All other groups need to remember, when there are on white people around, the ‘whitest’ person they can find will have to to do.