This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
Retail mega-giant Amazon has taken action after blatant anti-Semitism was revealed inside its operations.
That's according to a report from the American Center for Law and Justice, which described how a client was attacked and hurt.
The legal team called the actions "a significant victory" against anti-Semitism.
"Our client, an author, received a shocking package from Amazon, as we discussed here previously. Upon opening her order of 10 books (published through Kindle Direct Publishing), our client discovered that the books about her father, a Holocaust survivor, had been blatantly defaced with anti-Semitic hate scrawled in thick black ink across the pages throughout. This deliberate act of harassment was not only personally distressing to our client, but it also represented a direct attack on her faith and Jewish identity. Every copy had been defaced with anti-Semitic slurs and threatening messages like 'Zionism kills Jews' and 'From the River to the Sea Palestine Will be Free.' The statements defaced the personal memoir she had written about her father's experience of the Holocaust," the organization revealed.
The author, not identified in the report, contacted Amazon and originally nothing happened.
But the ACLJ dispatched a demand letter, "calling for accountability and appropriate remedies," the ACLJ said.
"It was apparent that an Amazon employee became aware that the book was a memoir of a Holocaust survivor. They then wrote egregiously offensive, threatening, and outrageous comments with full knowledge of the particular type of customer who would receive these messages. Given this knowledge, no reasonable person would expect our client to endure these racially abusive comments without emotional distress." The ACLJ reported.
Amazon ultimately responded, with acknowledgement of the "unacceptable nature" of the incident, a replacement order, at no cost, of 50 books along with the refund of the original purchase, a promise of an internal investigation, and more.
"The company informed us that if the person involved could be found, Amazon would terminate that individual," the ACLJ reported. "In their February 5 response letter, Amazon explicitly stated that 'Amazon does not tolerate any form of hate speech' and emphasized that 'the actions described in your letter are not representative of Amazon's policies or values.'"
