On February 23rd, 2017, the world's media started spreading the news that Israel's government-sponsored Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Center started putting Amazon under pressure to remove any and all material that questions the orthodox Holocaust narrative . Here is a list of items for your perusal:
Interesting in this context is the reference by Yad Vashem and the world's media that one reason to ask for this act of censorship was the recent "unfortunate change in climate with more-visible antisemitism" ( Jerusalem Post , Feb. 23, 2017).
We at Castle Hill Publishers were holding our breaths. Amazon had been criticized by the media many times before for allowing the sale of controversial material on their website, but they never censored anything that was legal. So at first, nothing happened. But then, as if ordered to emphasize the urgency of Yad Vashem’s request, two Jewish cemeteries were vandalized, first one in Philadelphia (Feb. 27), then allegedly another one in New York (Mar. 3). The New York case, however, was later retracted : the