Bezos’ affair was leaked to tabloids in an effort to smear the owner of The Washington Post due to the paper’s unflattering coverage (to the Saudis) of the Khashoggi affair.

By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News

Amazon’s security chief charged Saudi Arabia on Sunday with hacking into Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ phone in an attempt to harm his reputation in retaliation for the Bezos-owned Washington Post‘s relentless coverage of the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey last year.

Writing in The Daily Beast, Gavin de Becker said that after an exhaustive investigation, he could pinpoint the Kingdom as the ultimate source for a National Enquirer story in January about Bezos’ love life that included details found only on his phone.

De Becker wrote that his inquiry included, “extensive discussions with top Middle East experts in the intelligence community, leading cybersecurity experts who have tracked Saudi spyware… Saudi whistleblowers, people who personally know Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman… and other targets of Saudi action.”

His suspicions were also backed up by the behavior of the tabloid’s owner, American Media Inc. (AMI), which was eager that the brother of Bezos’ mistress be blamed for the leak.

De Becker wrote that AMI tried to convince Bezos and himself into stating that his investigation had concluded and that the story had not relied on “any form of electronic eavesdropping or hacking in their news-gathering process” and was not “instigated, dictated or influenced in any manner by external forces, political or otherwise.”

Introducing “external” and “political” forces into the matter was highly unusual, De Becker writes, but Bezos had already publicly drawn a connection between the owner of AMI and Saudi Arabia, and De Becker discovered other links as well.

“Some Americans will be surprised to learn that the Saudi government has been intent on harming Jeff Bezos since last October, when the Post began its relentless coverage of [anti-Saudi royals Jamal] Khashoggi’s murder,” the Amazon security chief writes.

“The Saudi campaign against Bezos has already been reported by CNN International, Bloomberg, The Daily Beast, and others,” he said.

“In October, the Saudi government unleashed its cyberarmy on Bezos (and later me). Their multi-pronged campaign included public calls for boycotts against Amazon.com and its Saudi subsidiary, Souq.com. Just three examples among thousands:

“We as Saudis will never accept to be attacked by the Washington Post in the morning, only to buy products from Amazon and Souq.com by night! Strange that all three companies are owned by the same Jew who attacks us by day, and sells us products by night!”

“Our weapon is to boycott… because the owner of the newspaper is the same as their owner.”

“We’re after you – the Jew, worshipper of money, will go bankrupt by the will of God at the hands of Saudi Arabia… the owner of Amazon and Souq is the owner of the Washington Post is the spiteful Jew who insults us every day.”

Bezos, de Becker pointed out, is not Jewish. But he is interested in getting to the bottom of the breach. His security chief has handed over his files to federal authorities for further investigation.

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Amazon has begun to comply with its own guidelines by removing three Holocaust-denying books. 

Amazon has removed three books that deny the Holocaust ever happened after facing criticism when it was revealed the online retailer sells books promoting Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism.

The three removed titles include: Did Six Million Really Die? by Richard Harwood; The Hoax of the Twentieth Century: The Case Against the Presumed Extermination of European Jewry by Arthur R Butz; and Holocaust: The Greatest Lie Ever Told by Eleanor Wittakers.

Robert Rozett, a senior official at Yad Vashem, Israel’s official memorial to Holocaust victims, wrote to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos last month calling for immediate action specifically regarding the three books. Rozett calls the move a “positive first step” which shows Amazon listens to Jewish groups that protest Amazon’s sale of these offensive materials.

Amazon’s actions, “indicate they are taking this seriously,” he said.

Rozett said the real test will be whether Amazon takes further steps to stop giving anti-Semitism a platform.

World Jewish Congress CEO Robert Singer thanked Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos for his action on Thursday .

“We are also gratified to note Amazon removed numerous other Holocaust-denying items from its website. It is encouraging to know that Amazon is endeavoring to enforce its own standards and guidelines prohibiting the sale of materials that ‘promote or glorify hatred, violence, racial, sexual or religious intolerance.’”

The WJC offered to help Amazon identify further offensive materials for removal.

Many more Holocaust-denying and anti-Semitic materials are still sold on Amazon.

By: World Israel News Staff

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