Booksellers, including Amazon and Barnes & Noble, have sparked outrage for selling a novel written by Hamas leader Yahya Al-Sinwar, the mastermind behind the October 7 massacre. The book, “The Thorn and The Carnation”, is described as a thinly veiled autobiography and was published in English in December 2023, just two months after the atrocities.
The book’s blurb touts Al-Sinwar’s role in the worst antisemitic atrocity since the Holocaust, describing how the book offers a glimpse into the mind of a terrorist leader. The Board of Deputies of British Jews has urged Amazon to remove the listing, arguing that the book can be used to propagate terrorist ideology and raise funds for a proscribed organization.
The novel was written during Al-Sinwar’s 22-year imprisonment in Israeli prisons and has been widely condemned. Booksellers are facing criticism for profiting from the sale of a book written by a terrorist leader.
“This book can be used to propagandize on behalf of a proscribed terrorist organization and also to raise money for it,” said the Board of Deputies of British Jews. “We urge Amazon to take the listing down immediately.”
(YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
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Amazon also sells Mein Kampf, by Adolf Hitler. And has been selling it for decades.
Book was removed by Amazon as soon as they were notified about it.
He likely made much more money by shorting the Israeli stock market
“Micha Koubi, Former IDF Special Forces Member, Lectures on Hamas.”
Ayala Or-El. The ‘Jewish Journal’
February 8, 2024.