Saturday, March 3, 2007

CAI Book Recos: If It's Against the Jews, That's Good Enough for Us?

CAI has a section for Book Recommendations: here. If one takes a moment to peruse the "reviews", one will notice that three of the first four books recommended and reviewed are critical of Jews: Jesus in The Talmud, Palestine: Peace not Apartheid and The Holocaust Industry.

This in itself is not particularly surprising, of course. However, it is worth noting that Sungenis has apparently put up recommendations for books he didn't feel the need to read first. The first two reviews were copied and pasted from Amazon.com and the last from Barnes and Noble.com. (The first review seems to be no longer on the Amazon site, but Bob at least noted that this was his source on this occasion. The second review appears to have been copied and pasted from here, while the third appears to have been copied and pasted from here but without any attribution.)

Perhaps this is simply the flip-side of what he did to Roy Schoeman: heavily criticizing him and calling his very honesty into question before even reading his book? If so, the question would seem to be: why were three unread books deemed worthy of automatic praise and recommendation while another unread book was deemed automatically worthy of heavy criticism, even going so far as to question the author's very honesty?

It seems a fair question.

Perhaps Bob really can judge a book by its cover.