Judaism's Strange Gods: Revised and Expanded
Banned
by Amazon —
for sale from the publisher
After selling
thousands of copies of Judaism's
Strange Gods: Revised and Expanded for seven
years, since 2011, Amazon banned it on August 13, 2018.
Softcover.
Illustrated. Glossary. Index. 381 pages.
Banned
by Amazon
on the Kindle and in print—
for sale here
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Judaism
Discovered
Banned
by Amazon on the Kindle and in print —
Buy it here for shipment within the US (only):
After selling thousands of copies of Judaism Discovered for ten years, since 2008, Amazon banned this book from its Kindle device on August 13, 2018. Massive textbook: 1100 pages. Softcover. Illustrated
In America there exists today a ruling class who have joined hands to shut down and impoverish any writer they cannot debate or refute.
AMAZON INFORMS US OF THE BAN:
On August 13,
2018 Amazon banned Michael
Hoffman's Judaism’s
Strange Gods: Revised and Expanded, which
was published
in 2011 and sold by Amazon for the past seven years. Along
with his much larger study, Judaism
Discovered (sold by
Amazon since 2008), this book has had an international
impact both as a softcover volume as well as a digital book
circulating on the Amazon Kindle.
Sales to India, Japan and the Middle East were rapidly
growing. The digital Kindle format is particularly
important for the circulation of books because it bypasses
borders and customs and hurdles over the prohibitive cost
of shipping which the US Postal Service imposed on books
sent to overseas destinations several years ago (the Post
Office eliminated economical surface mail sent by sea; all
books now must be shipped to Canada and overseas by very
costly Priority Air Mail rates).
Suddenly in 2018 our books were banned, with no
documentation of charges and no right of
appeal. This
is tech
tyranny, which not a
single legacy media outlet has reported. The tech tyrants
and their media allies would be the first to decry such
treatment if a Congressional committee were to curb
Amazon's monopoly using similar tactics. By failing to
report Amazon's book banning, the legacy media give
Amazon's censorship of history books a free pass. Mr.
Bezos' Washington
Post states as its
motto, "Democracy dies in darkness," except when that
"darkness" helps to shield Amazon from protest. Is it any
wonder that despite all of their pompous virtue-signaling,
the legacy media are held in increasing disrepute and
contempt?
The banned volumes maintain a high standard of
scholarly excellence, had a majority of favorable reviews
from Amazon customers,
are free of hatred and bigotry and
have sold thousands of copies on Amazon.
Out of the blue the author was told that “Amazon
KDP” had decided that these three history books were
in violation of Amazon’s “content
guidelines.” Asking for documentation of the charge
results in no response. It is enough that the accusation
has been tendered. The accused are guilty until proved
innocent, although how proof of innocence
is presented is anyone’s guess. There is no
appeals process. This is what is known as “Tech
Tyranny.”
There is a nationwide purge underway that amounts to a new
McCarthyism — blacklisting and banning politically
incorrect speech and history books under
the rubric of “hate speech”
accusations, initiated
in part by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the
Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
It’s
a flimsy pretext for censoring controversial, scholarly
books that cannot otherwise be discredited. Therefore,
Amazon’s readers must no longer be allowed to view
them on the Kindle, and Amazon will not sell
them. We
consider this censorship of our books a badge of honor. The
disgrace is on Amazon for submitting to the appeals of
organizations that operate as thought police and to meda
for failing to shine a light on this book-banning. We have
contacted the
Wall Street Journal,
the
Washington Post
and other news outlets concerning this censorship. Thus
far, they have have all meekly acquiesced to it or actively
cooperated with suppressing this news.
The August 7,
2018 New York
Times online
confirmed the remarkable influence which the SPLC exerts on
Amazon. The Times
published a
revealing piece by David French in which he wrote:
"We
live in a world where the Southern Poverty Law Center, a
formerly respected civil-rights organization, abuses its
past trust to label a host of mainstream organizations
(including my former employer, the Alliance Defending
Freedom) and individuals as ‘hate groups,...based
sometimes on...outright misreadings and misrepresentations
of an individual’s beliefs and views...Amazon
recently booted Alliance Defending Freedom from its
AmazonSmile charity program because of the center’s
designation.”
Banning and
censorship were not part of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’
public philosophy when he founded the company in 1994.
Amazon experienced explosive growth in part because it
functioned as an intrepid gateway to authentic works
of scholarship, however much they were demonized,
reviled or condemned by infuriated political or religious
factions and pressure groups; that libertarian philosophy
of freedom changed beginning in 2017, when Amazon gained a
strong hold over the sale of books in the United States.
In addition to our work being hate-free, we note that
Amazon sells dozens of hateful Zionist and rabbinic volumes
brimming with ferocious bigotry for Palestinians, Germans
and goyim in
general. For example, in 1997, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
wrote and Amzon began to offer, Hitler's
Willing Executioners, one of the
most racist books of the modern era. In it, Prof. Goldhagen
purported to demonstrate that Nazi mass murder stemmed from
an innate
German predisposition to kill Jews.
His book
promulgates a theory of a genetic homicidal trait infecting
the entire German nation. This bigoted
trash has a right to be sold. We uphold that right because
exposure of its thesis is the most effective indictment of
its author. We note that Hitler's
Willing Executioners is proudly sold
by Amazon and, if the current zeitgeist persists,
it will never be banned by Amazon. The target of Mr.
Goldhagen's hatred is the German people who he
collectively
defames as a racially
tainted ethncity. Consequently, his book constitutes a
"righteous" type of hate— the approved hate that does
not offend the Southern Poverty Law Center or the
ADL.
Many dozens of books containing savage attacks on
Christianity are also sold by Amazon. These volumes
seem to be immune from removal and
suppression. Meanwhile, the censors demand for their own media - Mr.
Bezos owns the Washington Post newspaper — freedom of
expression for the writers they employ and the speech of
which they approve. In this
two-tiered ethical system we observe the familiar
hallmark of tyranny: the insiders demand and grant to
themselves and their comrades the freedom they deny to
demonized outsiders, using the phony “hate”
imputation as their excuse.
The Washington
Post has as its
motto, “Democracy dies in darkness.” Yet it is
in that very darkness where Amazon’s book-banning
dwells, due to the apathy of the media and the timidity of
the American Bookseller's Association and the American
Library Association. To ban books by a vulnerable
independent scholar is not exactly a daring move in an age
when “hate speech” is any scholarship which
challenges someone’s sacred traditions or cherished
folklore. The definition is so loose it functions as a
one-size-fits-all inquisitor’s sword. The non-person
writers who are the victims of this new inquisition are
expected to descend quietly into sheol.
Michael
Hoffman's critique of Orthodox Judaism represents a
radical reassessment founded upon the depth of the
documents and arguments he marshals in the course of
advancing his thesis. The
compelling and original scholarship employed in his study
of Orthodox Judaism is never “anti-Semitic” or
hateful. This would be easy to prove if there were an
Amazon “tribunal” fair enough to consider a
little something known as evidence.
In
both Judaism
Discovered (p.
39) and Judaism’s
Strange Gods: Revised and Expanded
there are
statements addressed “To the Judaic
Reader”
(photographically reproduced here:
pp. 18-19,
and here:
p. 25),
expounding our love and concern for their welfare and
liberation. No book of “anti-Semitic hate”
would ever print any such charitable and compassionate
statements, and these are representative of the entire
tenor of the volumes under
consideration.
Enemies
of truth easily turn to their advantage books containing
hatred of “The Jews.” What they have no
credible answer to is a critique predicated, as our books
are, on a sincere foundation of true Christian love.
Boundary-breaking scholarship united to compassionate
concern for the welfare of Judaic people is almost
unprecedented in this field.
This approach makes Michael Hoffman's studies of Judaism
among the most powerful and effective because they are free
of the “hate speech” which is the pivot upon
which turns the machinery of liberal-approved
censorship.
For that reason, making
Judaism’s Strange Gods: Revised and
Expanded, and
Judaism Discovered available
on the Kindle undercut decades of hatred and libel.
Therefore those volumes had to be suppressed.
A Kindle permits anyone connected to the Amazon website to
read approximately the first thirty pages of any Kindle
book free of charge. Consequently, when Hoffman's Judaica
research was on display around the world on the Kindle it
was much harder for the inquistors and thought suppressors
to lie about him and mischaracterize his Talmud and
Kabbalah research.
Moreover,
Judaic people are harmed by this book-banning which creates
a special category of informed theological criticism that
is removed from the Amazon Kindle and thereby obstructs the
advancement of learning. To make an exception for
Orthodox Talmudism — forbidding the sale of the best
scholarship critical of it— does no favors to Judaic
people. Many Judaic
persons don’t approve of this type of suppression and
censorship of books and desire access to our
information. We have
received letters and e-mail from Judaics who were
appreciative of our books and surprised by thee evident
compassion and concern for “Jews" exhibited.
If we are wrong, show us where we are wrong, don’t
signal through censorship that our facts are too explosive
to be handled by inquiring minds; that type of suppression
will only blowback on the censors.
It’s time that someone, including multi-billionaire
Bezos, had the fortitude to stand-up to the virulent book
banning lobby that continues to engage in one of the lowest
forms of ignorance and superstition known to history:
silencing a writer who can’t be refuted by free and
fair debate.
Furthermore, to be banned by Amazon is not equivalent to
being banned by any other private business. Most publishers
will admit that Amazon has replaced Bowker
Books in Print as the
industry’s authoritative guide to what books in
English have been printed in the past and what is in print
now. Amazon is currently the
reference
source.
For a book
to be forbidden by Amazon renders it largely invisible. It
is equivalent to burning the book. So this is
not a matter of Amazon exercising the prerogative of
private enterprise. Amazon is a monopoly. It has no rival.
If your book doesn’t exist on Amazon, then for most
people who are not research specialists, your book
doesn’t exist. The consequences for the pursuit of
knowledge are ominous.
There is a problem here for Amazon as well. The more Amazon
excludes books that embody facts and ideas that constitute
radical dissent, the more it becomes a narrow
censor’s aperture rather than a reliable bridge to
the entire range of the Republic of Letters.
Apologists for censorship of radicals and authentic
conservatives often claim that no First Amendment rights
are violated when Amazon bans books, therefore it is not a
civil rights issue, merely an inconvenience of the
capitalist system. In the 1950s however, when the
privately-owned movie studios banned certain directors,
actors and screen-writers judged to be Leftists or
Communists, that action on the part of private enterprise
was inscribed in the rolls of the culture wars as the
infamous “Blacklist,” and we are still reading
and weeping over it sixty-five years later. So it depends
on whose ox is being gored.
The public should be informed of the tactics of the
hypocrites who are so fearful of the radical scholarship
for which they have no credible answer, that they pressure
booksellers to ban the books that contain irrefutable
challenges to their sacred dogmas. Human learning is
often advanced by means of suppressed facts and ideas. This
was formerly a truism in America, up until the rise of
the Overlords of social media who seem to be more
like a branch of Antifa than an intellectual class invested
in discovery and enlightenment.
Knowledge is advanced on the basis that “Error has
rights,” for the reason that demonized dissidents
banned for supposedly spreading error, are sometimes in
fact the bearers of rare discoveries that
undercut enshrined dogmas, which appear credible
through repetition by the dominant media empire.
But
the epigram of our time is “Error
has no rights.”
This was the doctrine of the fiery Inquisition, of
the head-chopping French Revolution and of the Bolsheviks,
Nazis and Maoists.
If error has no rights then neither does truth, in that
what is denounced as hateful error by the mob is sometimes
a destabilizing, necessary and even cosmic
truth.
The ban on these three books of ours, particularly the
complete ban (Kindle + printed book) on Judaism’s
Strange Gods: Revised and Expanded, as well
as Judaism
Discovered banned from the
Kindle, represents a signifcant loss to us of revenue. If
we don’t somehow make up for this serious shortfall
it will imperil our entire enterprise.
This is in God’s hands. Our prayer is that He
inspires benefactors to assist us in this our time of need,
as well as in the weeks and months ahead as we search for a
replacement for what was regular monthly sales income upon
which we depended for our Truth Mission.
The greatest loss of course is to minds hungry for
knowledge, whether in India, Japan, the Middle East, Europe
or here at home. Learning is a right which the book-banning
antediluvians have now denied to readers and students
throughout the world. God help us all.
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Our statement, "Jew is a holy word" from page 19 from the
book,
Judaism’s Strange Gods: Revised and
Expanded.
Why was this book banned? Amazon removed it without giving
a reason. It’s a radical critique of Talmudic Judaism
from a compassionate Christian viewpoint. But even this
approach is subject to censorship.
Rigorous evaluation of rabbinic theology is simply not
permitted by the Tech Tyrants.
The legacy media will not report the disgraceful censorship
of books which they despise.
Revisionist
historian Michael Hoffman is one of the most controversial
scholars of the 21st century. The Southern Poverty Law
Center and the ADL seek to shut him down and ban his books
because
they can’t
refute his research.
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