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Apple is again facing controversy over an item being sold through iTunes.
The Conference of European Rabbis wants Apple to take down a book known as "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," which is being sold as a 99-cent e-book through iTunes.
The Protocols, which surfaced early in the 20th century, purports to reveal a Jewish conspiracy to take over the world. The book has since been discredited as a fake but has been used by neo-Nazis and other hate groups to justify their anti-Semitism.
The rabbis are concerned that the book's availability in a mobile format will make it easier to be used by "bigots and conspiracy theorists," according to USA Today.
"'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion' can and should be available for academics to study in its proper context, (but) to disseminate such hateful invective as a mobile app is dangerous and inexcusable," conference president Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt said in a statement.
The publisher's description of the book on iTunes does label it as a fraud:
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is the one of the world's most famous conspiracy theories. It is a statement of prejudice and paranoia, a fake historical record... [Read more]
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