04-26-2008, 11:10 AM
Quote:The leading US internet retailer Amazon.com has withdrawn T-shirts for children and women emblazoned with I love Hitler from its website following a protest by the World Jewish Congress.
The WJCs secretary-general Michael Schneider had said in a statement: We are shocked and disgusted that Amazon.com is seemingly unwilling to stop the sale of such items, in spite of protests earlier this year. Not only is the slogan in bad taste, but to target children with clothes emblazoned with pro-Nazi slogans is particularly despicable. Companies have a responsibility. To make money with items glorifying the Nazis sets a very bad example. A lack of sensibility will ultimately do them serious damage as customers will rightly go and shop elsewhere....
full press statement: http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/news/...mazon.html
Related IR article:
Quote:Amazon has guidelines for merchants that describe what items can be sold through the Amazon platform, the spokeswoman says, but with millions of items on the site, occasionally items are listed that we feel are inappropriate.
Amazon did not identify the merchant selling the T-shirts. The World Jewish Congress referred to the products as the Direct Collection line...
full article: http://www.internetretailer.com/dailyNews.asp?id=26171