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Bookstore chain removes leftist book from shelves
Attile Somfalvi
Published: 12.04.10, 01:02
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1. Tsomet Sfarim
Michael ,   Haifa   (04.11.10)
A bookstore that censors ideas, written in books, should be boycotted by all people who support freedom of thought
2. Sounds like demonization, pure and simple
Raymond in DC ,   Washington, USA   (04.11.10)
I have to wonder how anyone sells a "book" for NIS 1. If it's anything more than a pamphlet someone must be subsidizing it. Recognizing these are just excerpts here, they confirm the arrogance of the left. They assign truth and righteousness to themselves, libel and demonize their opponents. Once those opponents are deemed "evil" and illegitimate, they can be attacked and destroyed.
3. Shouldn't be banned, but boy does this book stink!
JPS ,   Efrat   (04.11.10)
Wow. What a bunch of blind, elitist drivel! If I were a leftist I'd be embarrassed by this: "A leftist is a revolutionist. Practical. Leads the way, dares and is victorious." Is that quote really in the book? If so, then wow, what an embarrassing case of leftists-foot-in-mouth disease! The authors obviously haven't noticed that the leftist parties in Israel have been decimated at the polls by the Israeli electorate. Meretz, the flagship party of the "left" is about to be voted out of the Knesset entirely. Why? Because leftists like these dupes are not revolutionaries, are totally impractical, are not leading the way, dared once in 1993, and still can't accept the fact that Oslo was a loss. They should spend their efforts getting Meretz back on track as a responsible social-democratic party concerned with Israeli society. All Meretz does now is blame everybody else for the Oslo peace process failing.
4. tsomit hasfrim
sas ,   israel   (04.11.10)
i certainly will not shop there. i can go to other bookstores and buy what i want to read. this is democracy???????????? the owners of the bookstore should be ashamed of themselves. they are giving into the CANCER of our society.
5. makes no sense
Israel Israeli ,   Tel Aviv   (04.11.10)
The article makes no sense. A book sold for 1 NIS can be more easily given away for free or made available on the Internet. Also, who would bother to start reading the book at the bookstore, find it offensive, and then make an effort to complain? This sounds less like a news article and more like a free advertisement for the book.
6. leftists will be the death of us.
jason white ,   afula,israel   (04.11.10)
7. ZIONISM IS LEFTIST......
FO   (04.11.10)
The biggest nonsense ever heard. In 1919 the General Secretary and future President (how was this possible) of the Zionist Organization, the leftist Nahum Sokolov, published a two volume "History of Zionism from 1600 - 1918". In the Preamble he wrote: "It has been said and is still obstinately repeated by anti-Zionists again and again, that Zionism aims at the creation of an independent Jewish State. But this is wholly fallacious. The Jewish State was never part of the Zionist programme. The Jewish State was the title of Herzl's first pamphlet, which had the supreme merit of forcing people to think." The British Mandatory in Palestine restricted Jewish immigration based on the disowell of the so-called Left-Zionism of Herzl's struggle for a Jewish State, and this in total breach of the resolutions voted unanimously by all the 51 members of the League of Nations. With no protest of the Left-oriented Jewish Agency till than, the British decided in 1939 to close after a last number of 75000 Jewish immigranrs the borders of Palestine to Jewish immigration, and this till "the end of the world". So many thanks to Leftist Zionism (!?) that by disowing Herzl's programme for a Jewish State, allowed the Shoah to happen. A lesson for the readers on Yom Hashoah, who are unaware ot this part of our history.
8. I'd never expect a bookchain to take rightists books...
DkS ,   J'lem, IL   (04.11.10)
...of its shelfs or other stuff which I don't necessarily like and therefore won't buy. An excellent reason for me to boycott Tsomet Sfarim from now on until they will reverse this draconian and stupid decision.
9. Pathetic
Marc Linn ,   Eureka USA   (04.11.10)
How sad to be so unsure of one's position that differing opinions have to be silenced by force. This is no way to live. Get help, grow up, do what it takes but don't stay in such a pathetic mental state. It's just not healthy.
10. Censorhsip test, download booklet here...
Michael Hess ,   Charlotte, NC   (04.11.10)
...I read it. It's humorous and right to the point. It should be required reading for all those who actually care about the future of Israel. http://www.fas.org/irp/dni/osc/israel-left.pdf The authors are making nothing from it. That's why it costs little more than the paper it's printed on. But it's the future of Israel, unless of course the right is allowed to drive Israel over the abyss.
11. response : leftist whining and croc tears for freedom of spe
anoynmous ,   bat-yam israel   (04.11.10)
12. Stalin,Lenin,Mao,dead messiah's of the left
Marcel ,   Florida   (04.11.10)
The pompous left and their dead god's are too arrogant to go sit in a corner and hide after the failure of their land for rockets and jihad agenda. The God of the settlers will have top put these arrogant fools in their place and soon if Israel is to survive.
13. Jason
The Last Zionist ,   Eilat   (04.11.10)
The right is the death of our souls.
14. more leftest traitors....
shadoil ,   Jerusalem   (04.11.10)
insighting
15. maybe it was too cheap with 0.27 USD ?
eporue ,   europe   (04.11.10)
what was the shops margin on this ? they have to order, store, sell, print receipts, give bags with it... was there any profit left ? and then comes one after the other, involving the employees in the store into talks and discussions, complaints...?
16. Good for them! They don't have to carry Mein Kampf either!
soludo   (04.11.10)
17. BAND OR BURN TOTAL TOTALITRISM?
HERCULE SAVINIEN ,   EL CAJON SD CA USA   (04.11.10)
Now, in many college courses the Nazis film of Triumph of The Will is shown, for its propaganda ability and art combination effects and in it they burn books, so what is the difference, between the two concepts banning or burning the paper? Where they sell the Grande Grimwa? HERCULE TRIATHLON SAVINIEN
18. To #13 How many dead and wounded
jason white ,   afula,israel   (04.11.10)
from the leftists and their oslo death accords? Look at a leftist like b.o. and how he wants to destroy Israel and the U.S. Look at the leftists and ,oslims in the red green alliances of eurabia. Leftists have no souls. The right worries about our survival and not the survival of our enemies. Leftists are like missionaries, they want to brainwash people and steal their souls for their own nonsensical religions. Did you ever read the "god that failed" by former prominent leftists in the U.S.
19. Taliban!
Michael Steiner ,   Bahrain   (04.11.10)
Israel is fast becoming a totalitarian country in which reich-wing (pun intended) lunatics creepily encorach on the rights of the majority. Not a day passes without another piece of news that would be more suited to Iran or Sa3udiya than a country Israel used to be. It is very, very sad.
20. US bookstores hide rightist books
Sue ,   Los Angeles   (04.11.10)
In Los Angeles, as in many US cities, when a new conservative book is released, you have to ask a store clerk where they are hiding it. They usually bury them somewhere in the back of the store.
21. pressure from the right
So, this book ,   doreen   (04.11.10)
' hurts the feelings of some of our customers'. Zomet Sfarim has just lost me as a faithful customer.
22. #3 and others, this book is NOT banned
soludo   (04.11.10)
That business refuses to sell it. It's their right to do so. That said, we do have banned books. Like writings of the blessed Meir Kahane, which contrary to the popularly disseminated drivel are absolutely not violent or inciting to anything illegal.
23. Our downfall
A Jerusalemite ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (04.11.10)
Yet another reason for us to be ashamed of ourselves. Denying the right of freedom of choice, permitting one section of the population to deny the other the right of free speech, allowing a pressure group to ban another's opinion...all this is the cause of the downfall of a nation.
24. Stop the occupation?
Faruq ,   Ireland   (04.11.10)
Any book that calls for an end to the Jewish ''occupation'' of Jewish land should not be sold in the Jewish state.
25. #20
rick ,   dd   (04.12.10)
you can still order and buy this "hidden conservative books", this shop dont want to sell this left book anymore. important difference
26. Boycot
Ruth Rosenthal ,   Ashkelon, Israel   (04.12.10)
I agree with #1, let's no longer buy at Tzomet Hasfarim. Can't the publishers make it into an e-book?
27. Have we become Iran??
David ,   Israel   (04.12.10)
I'm fed up with the Haredim and ultra-orthodox constantly attacking our secularism, with ultra-nationalists in the government attacking "Leftists" and calling them traitors and enemies, and now with the settler movement attacking a simple book just because they don't agree with it. Are we turning into an intolerant country like Iran or any of the dictatorships we love to distinguish ourselves from (by calling ourselves the only democracy in the Middle East)? What has become of Israel and Zionism? I made aliyah but am becoming truly disappointed with my country.
28. All utopies are gone! dead!
Salomon Mizrahi ,   Sao Paulo / Brazil   (04.12.10)
The Left can not realize that all their utopies are dead, finished in 1990, and now they stink.... The arrogance of the Left, through their prophets of apocalypse, still live in their fantasyland... But very weirdly they are still influential in Israel...
29. Well Spoken Shulamit Aloni
Avi ,   Israel   (04.12.10)
Shulamit Aloni is 100% right and not afraid to speak the truth. They are savages, racists and hate all those who do not support them.This is a racist state in which savages do what they want in the name of G-d and their rabbis."
30. to#24
Jennie ,   US   (04.12.10)
Thank You, Faruq ! You said it all-short and to the point.... All the leftist & liberal Israelis should feel free to leave and practice their ideals in any neighboring country, where they would be beheaded at their first attempt to propogate their ideals....These people are worse, then traitors, I would let them free with Shulamit Aloni and Yosi Beilin together. These miserable people seem to only hate judaism, therefore they need to try critisize islam too, which would make them really true to the ideals....
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