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[Make sure to read Daniel Greenfield’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
On Oct 7, Sasha Troufanov, an Amazon engineer, was abducted by Hamas and his father was murdered. The massive international tech giant has maintained its silence about him despite urgings from Sasha’s fellow employees and family members to speak out.
Andy Jassy, Amazon’s first Jewish CEO, tweeted briefly on Oct 9 that “the attacks against civilians in Israel are shocking and painful to watch” and claimed that he had “been in touch with our teammates there to make sure we do everything we can to help support their family’s (sic) and their safety, and to assist however we can in this very difficult time.”
He also promised to be “in close contact with our humanitarian relief partners on the ground and will be supporting their efforts. Hoping that peace arrives as soon as possible.”
After that glib message, there have been no further updates.
Amazon has refused to comment because it would be “too controversial” to speak out against the kidnapping of one of its employees. Not only Sasha, but his mother and his 73-year-old grandmother were also kidnapped. They were eventually traded for terrorists, but not Sasha.
The company has made public statements of support for Ukraine, after George Floyd’s death, and on other trending political issues, but avoided making any mention of the attack on Israel.
When Amazon Web Services, which Sasha worked for, held its ‘re:Invent 2023’ conference in Vegas, some of his friends hired billboard trucks to remind AWS of its missing member who should have been there at the product launch, but was instead being held captive by terrorists.
Again there was no corporate response.
“We shouldn’t even have to…ask management to acknowledge that we have an abducted employee,” a fellow worker said.
Internally, Muslim employees at Amazon have expressed support for terrorism and the company has refused to recognize Jews as an “affinity group” alongside black, gay, indigenous, Latinos and “body positive” corporate affinity groups.
After George Floyd’s death, Amazon denounced what it claimed was the “inequitable and brutal treatment of black people”. Founder Jeff Bezos posted a customer’s email complaining about the retail monopoly’s support for Black Lives Matter and sneered, “you’re the kind of customer I’m happy to lose.”
Which kind of employees is he happy to lose? Whose lives don’t matter?
While Amazon has remained silent, the Washington Post, a newspaper owned by its executive chairman, Jeff Bezos, has never stopped attacking Israel or spreading Hamas propaganda.
The Washington Post has spent the Oct 7 war uncritically repeating Hamas propaganda while promoting the false claims that Israel is guilty of “apartheid” and “genocide”.
While media coverage has been terrible in general, the Post still managed to be worse.
On Oct 7, the Washington Post framed the mass murder of Israelis as a response to Israelis provoking Hamas by living in Jerusalem and visiting the Temple Mount: the holiest site in Judaism. In November, the paper used distorted numbers to smear Israel as being engaged in “killing children at a rate unprecedented in 21st-century conflict.” CAMERA senior research analyst Sean Durns accused the paper of contending that “the Hamas-run Health Ministry can sometimes be trusted with casualty counts”.
The Post’s obsessive propaganda left no stone unturned and so when Israel provided free medical care for newborn Arab Muslim babies from Gaza, the paper headlined it as “Israel’s war with Hamas separates Palestinian babies from their mothers.”
When the Post wanted to find an example of “brutal voyeurism” from the war, it did not lead with the Hamas footage of terrorists brutally murdering and kidnapping civilians, but with an Israeli Navy unit shooting Hamas terrorists trying to attack Israel, which the paper described as “using assault rifles and grenades to blast away at people floating in the water.”
When the article finally got around to mentioning the footage of the Hamas atrocities, it depicted it as Israeli propaganda being distributed to “enrage” Americans and American support for Israel was described, in another article, as due to the “decades-long influence of a powerful lobby.”
Earlier in 2023, the Washington Post crossed a line when it ran a story describing how its reporters had embedded with a “branch of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, which is listed as a terrorist group by Israel and the United States.” In exchange for the propaganda, the paper agreed “that full names and specific locations be withheld” meaning that the newspaper was collaborating with an Islamic terrorist group.
But there are larger concerns about the Washington Post that encompass not only the paper, but Bezos, and the state sponsors of Hamas in Qatar. The most vocal pro-Islamist figure at the Post is Karen Attiah. Attiah, the daughter of African immigrants, serves as the paper’s Global Opinions Editor, and its all-around propagandist waging war on the non-Muslim world.
Attiah rocketed to fame during the Jamal Khashoggi hoax in which the old friend of Osama bin Laden was falsely depicted as a journalist and human rights campaigner, when in reality he was an Islamist terrorist supporter who was promoting material created for him by his sponsors in Qatar. Editing has since been halted on her book about the terror supporter for unknown reasons.
But rather than paying a price for her involvement in the Khashoggi hoax, Attiah used it to boost her prominence even while spreading lies to benefit Islamists.
Attiah attacked France for trying to crack down on Muslim terrorism by falsely claiming that President Macron “wants to give Muslim kids ID numbers to go to school.” Rather than suffer any consequences, the Washington Post allowed her to write an article complaining that France was responding to Muslims beheadings of its people with “feverish fragility.” She claimed that Brexit was motivated by “Islamophobia” and so was fighting “honor killings” among Muslims.
So it comes as little surprise that Attiah has spent the Hamas war in a state of endless fury.
Attiah ranted that she would “never forgive” Biden for supporting Israel, and claimed a week after the Hamas attacks that “people are showing themselves to be okay with genocide”.
“This is not a war against Hamas. This is Israel waging a colonial-style, punitive massacre against Palestinians,” she argued. “What Israel and the US are doing in real time to Palestinians activate very recent, unhealed trauma around Western violence against Africans,” she claimed.
Israeli Jews, she contended, were colonists. And she suggested that Jews were perpetrating a Holocaust against Muslims. “Israel’s barbarity knows no bounds,” she shrieked.
By December, Attiah’s desperate hunger for pro-terrorist propaganda had reduced her to attacking Beyonce for not boycotting Israel. “When it comes to speaking out about Israel and Gaza, her silence says a lot about the immense cultural power — and structural powerlessness — of black women.”
Attiah’s presence at the Washington Post and Jeff Bezos remaining silent while one of his employees is in Hamas captivity form part of a pattern. After the Post’s Khashoggi hoax, Bezos claimed that nude photos of him had been hacked by Saudi Arabia; supposedly offended by the paper’s support for the Qatari regime change operation using the Post as a platform.
The bafflingly tawdry story of a billionaire’s peccadillos had larger implications. It wasn’t just a rogue editor who was promoting Qatari interests, it was one of the wealthiest men in the world.
And Qatar stands behind Hamas.
Why won’t Amazon address the kidnapping of one of its employees by Hamas? Is it because of its executive chairman and his paper’s ties to the state sponsor of Hamas?
Jeff Bezos claims to be a humanitarian, but neither he nor his company have anything to say about his own abducted employee. While Bezos’ company has nothing to say about Sasha Troufanov, his paper promotes Hamas propaganda.
The lives of his employees don’t matter to Bezos, those of Hamas do.
Shocking but not surprising.
“ Which kind of employees is he happy to lose? Whose lives don’t matter?”
Those who his investors want dead. The same ones that the UN want dead. The same ones that the islamic Hamas cowards want dead.
Amazon and the giant tech corporations all benefited enormously from the World pHarma Organisation lockdown hysteria.
All of Mr. Greenfield’s articles are clarion calls for good people to take action against bad, influential people in power, and render them powerless.
How do we do this?
My thinking may be naive and way too optimistic, but I believe that Americans as consumers can be a great force for good, driving all the forces for evil into powerless bankruptcy. Collectively, America’s consumers can literally drain the life blood, that is, the money, from business and media.
But, the American consumer has to accept the responsibility to do that.
We have to take action with our own money, while we still have it.
We may not have control of what this administration does with our money, but for everything else, I think we do.
There is no longer a standard, a baseline, an imperative for decency and morality.
Consumers have the power to bring back decency and morality.
We can literally not buy into, use or participate in any system, be it educational, corporate, media or entertainment, that promotes hate and supports terror.
Consumers united can drain the life blood out of a business faster than it takes to say ‘humanitarian’.
Consumer up!
Consuming is voting.
Teach the youngest and soon to be voting consumers of today about the difference between need and want, honest money and money laundering, food, shelter, clothing, barter and buying abstract ideas and supporting terror parading as human rights.
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We, the consumers of the United States, still have the freedom to choose where our money goes and whom it benefits.
We can’t “afford” to wait ‘til Nov. ‘24.
Let’s bds the bds’ers and get a real bang for the good old American buck.
its a good and noble idea. Good to do for our own souls too. But too slow to fix the current problems which may require a more dramatic response
The WO is a Hamas propaganda organ
I hate to admit it, but my wife is addicted to Amazon. Doesn’t give a hot damn about kidnapped employees, just incredible deals. 90% of her Christmas shopping came from there. Kinda makes me sick. I’ve told her, over and over again, to steer clear…but to no avail. Busy woman with a busy life. Amazon answers all her questions.
I’m considering asking her which gifts came from there, so as to return them. She’ll drop a calf…but that might be what it takes.
Tell her to check the actual address of the Amazon suppliers. Most have addresses that appear local but when you check them they are Chinese.
As a UK citizen, I used to live in an area with a big Amazon Fulfilment Centre a couple of miles away. They ran buses to and from the centre, mainly for employees, but they used local public transport infrastructure on the basis that non-Amazon employees could ride too. I got on one of their buses once – and I have just never seen a busful of people looking so completely miserable – like a dental waiting room full of people needing root canal work and only just surviving on multiple painkillers in the meantime. All of them stared ahead with grim zombie-like expressions on their faces – if you told me that Amazon had inserted productivity implants it would have been believable.
BTW, regarding Attiah’s view of Brexit, I and most of those I know had multiple reasons for voting to leave the EU. Yes, I was worried about talk of accession to the EU for Turkey, so Islam played a part, but I was also concerned about the outsourcing of UK production, the limitations imposed on our fisheries in favour of other EU countries and the complete lack of accountability in EU bureaucracy. And I was not at all concerned about Polish and Lithuanian migration, because most are hard working and community spirited (in fact, I think the UK should offer hereditary citizenship to the families of the Polish pilots who helped us in WW2).
OK, “I am exactly the kind of customer that you, dirty scumbag Bezo, is happy to lose”, and be sure I am not the only one.
No worried. You are not alone in that category.
I used to sell in that platform, but Jeffie”s antics to destroy the independents so HE ends up wuth all the trade made me pull the plug. Falsely accused me of selling counterfeit goods, demanded invoices proving I bought from the manufacturer, wbich I did, then ignored them and demanded the same documents again. They violate Minimum Advertised Pricing aggreements with manufacturers, which are binding to everyne but them…. thus underselling the valid pipelines for goods. Once they disappear all the small tme vendors then jack the prices back up. NO more litle guys to bite into their apple. I can find whatever I want elsewhere, and am glad to deny Jeffie my greenbacks. I do not wish ill upin him but WHEN (not if) it comes I will not shed one tear for the rotter.
I used to sell knitting patterns on Amazon. They seemingly spotted the traffic on sites like Craftsy and undercut me and others by offering free patterns. I then read of the way that workers are treated at their Fulfilment Centres, with zero hours contracts and an occasion when Amazon in Italy got the police to intervene in legitimate industrial action. Why outsource to developing countries when you can operate in Europe and still exploit people just as much?
Look, it’s Jeff Bezos. Another reasonable target for the Mossad.
internet anti-Semites fear them but they’re actually quite selective and reserved.
Islam — when 1st cousins marry