PARIS (EJP)--- The director of a bookshop chain in Belgium has given instructions to remove a new version of the anti-Semitic "Protocols of Zion" from the shelves.
"I have asked the distributor to recall the title," Alex Williams, director of "Relay - Belgium Press Shops", said in a letter.
He was responding to a protest from the Paris office of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre against the distribution of the book.
In this novelized version written in French and entitled “Les Protocoles de Sion”, the authors, Patrick Henderick and Patrice de Bruyne, attribute responsibility for 9/11 and the London and Madrid bombings to the Jews who “want to create by violence a new order to dominate the world”.
The “Protocols of Zion”, a Tsarist forgery that inspired the Nazi Holocaust, is banned in most European Union member states.
The Simon Wiesenthal Centre’s director for international relations, Dr Shimon Samuels, commended the action, and said: "Your removal of ’Les Protocoles de Sion’ from the sales outlets sets an example for your industry. It sends a message of social responsibility to your clientele and, especially, to young people."
Samuels added, "I will henceforth look to your Press Shops network as a model for the creation of "hate-free zones" in Europe."